National Computational Science Institute

跨学科（99）该项目建立在成功的区域Shodor计算科学研究所（SCSI）的基础上，创建了一个国家计算科学研究所（NCSI）。NCSI每年有超过1000名本科教师，为期三年，提供经过验证的模块化面对面，视频会议和网络可访问的研讨会，研讨会和支持活动，在本科课程中介绍计算科学，数值模型和数据可视化工具的实际使用。该项目代表了与高级计算基础设施教育、推广和培训伙伴关系、国家计算科学教育联盟、巴勒斯威康基金以及二十多个本科院校、高性能计算中心和供应商的合作伙伴关系。NCSI的目标受众是主要来自本科院校、少数民族服务机构和社区学院的教师团队，他们的学生要么是下一代科学家和工程师，要么是下一代K-12教师，或者两者兼而有之。NCSI的参与者然后在他们自己的校园和邻近机构帮助其他教师在他们自己的课堂上介绍计算科学。NCSI的主要工作是通过三个协同但不同的努力来完成的，这些努力可以建模为PULL， PUSH和PERMEATE。区域分布的研讨会将教师拉到合理的旅行距离内，进行为期一周的密集跨学科培训、合作和计算科学课程开发。参与者探索在现有课程中使用建模和可视化工具，同时促进新课程的创建，促进本科研究的新模式。NCSI的工作人员和参与者通过提供研讨会、指导教程、发表论文和海报，以及在项目委员会任职，积极地将计算科学教育推向众多专业和学科协会的年度会议议程。为了维持这些努力，NCSI渗透了正在进行的和拟议的本科课程工作，提供跨学科和学科特定的网络课程，以提高教师的能力，以及交互式探索的资源，包括课程，基于问题的建模模块，工具和教程，利用shodor屡获殊荣的计算科学教育参考台。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project builds upon the successful regional Shodor Computational Science Institute(SCSI) to create a National Computational Science Institute (NCSI). Reaching more than1000 undergraduate faculty per year for three years, NCSI offers a proven, modular setof in-person, video-conferenced, and web-accessible workshops, seminars, and supportactivities to introduce the hands-on use of computational science, numerical models anddata visualization tools across the undergraduate curriculum. This project represents a partnership with the Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for AdvancedComputational Infrastructure, the National Computational Science Education Consortium,the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and more than two dozen undergraduate institutions, highperformance computing centers and vendors. The target audience for NCSI is teams of faculty from predominantly undergraduateinstitutions, minority serving institutions, and community colleges whose students areeither the next generation of scientists and engineers, the next generation of K-12 teachers,or both. NCSI participants then assist other faculty on their own campuses and at neighboringinstitutions to introduce computational science in their own classes. The main work of NCSI is accomplished through three synergistic but distinct efforts thatcan be modeled as PULL, PUSH, and PERMEATE. Regionally distributed workshops PULL faculty within a reasonable travel distance for a week of intense interdisciplinary training,collaboration, and curriculum development in computational science. Participants explorethe use of modeling and visualization tools in existing courses, while stimulating creationof new courses and promoting new modes of undergraduate research. NCSI staff andparticipants proactively PUSH computational science education onto the agendas ofnumerous annual meetings of professional and discipline-specific societies, by offeringworkshops, conducting tutorials, presenting papers and posters, and serving on programcommittees. To sustain these efforts, NCSI PERMEATEs on-going and proposedundergraduate curriculum efforts providing interdisciplinary and discipline specificweb-accessible courses for faculty enhancement, and resources for interactive explorationincluding curriculum, problem-based modeling modules, tools, and tutorials, leveragingShodor's award-winning Computational Science Education Reference Desk.