CI-Team: Leveraging Cyberinfrastructure to Scale-Up a Computational Science Undergraduate Curriculum

该项目将鼓励更多的教师和学生使用网络基础设施，为改进中间件和网格计算应用程序做出贡献，以便更广泛的受众使用它们，增加本科生的课程选择，并促进少数族裔和传统学生劳动力的发展，以满足美国商业、工业和教育日益增长的需求。与俄亥俄州董事会和俄亥俄州8所学院和大学的教职员工合作，来自俄亥俄州超级计算机中心、首都大学、俄亥俄州学习网络将通过跨院校的计算科学本科教育和研究计划，将网络基础设施注入更广泛的机构。具体而言，该项目将：1)将网络基础设施(即中间件、高性能计算、网络、海量存储和可视化工具和资源)整合到计算科学课程中；2)开发可共享的教材(模块)，部署现有的网络基础设施；3)开发一套示范计算科学本科课程的指导方针；4)制定机构间合作的指导方针(例如，学费分担、授予学分等)；5)增加计算科学教育中学生的多样性。结果还将包括在社区学院、本科文科和综合学院、少数族裔服务机构和研究型大学宣传计算科学学科的课程指导方针和机构间协议。该项目将为来自不同背景的不同学生群体提供教育利益，并将纳入一个严肃的评估和评估部分，以帮助了解如何将这项活动广泛扩展到俄亥俄州以外的地区，并在K-20教育计划中扩展到更深的教育领域。该项目还将纳入外部产业顾问，以确保课程和教育培训与现代劳动力的相关性。

This project will encourage the use of the cyberinfrastructure by a wide range of faculty and students, make contributions to improve middleware and grid computing applications so that they can be used by that wider audience, enhance the curricular choices for undergraduate students, and promote the development of a workforce of both minority and traditional students to serve the increasing needs of US business, industry, and education.Working with the Ohio Board of Regents and the faculty at eight Ohio colleges and universities, the Principal Investigators from the Ohio Supercomputer Center, Capital University, and the Ohio Learning Network will infuse cyberinfrastructure into a broader spectrum of institutions through an inter-institutional computational science undergraduate education and research program.Specifically this project will: 1) integrate the cyberinfrastructure (i.e., middleware, high performance computing, networking, mass storage and visualization tools and resources) into the computational science curriculum; 2) develop sharable educational materials (modules) deploying existing cyberinfrastructure; 3) develop a set of guidelines for a model computational science undergraduate program; 4) develop guidelines for inter-institutional cooperation (i.e., tuition sharing, awarding credits etc); 5) increase the diversity of students in computational science education.The outcomes will also include curriculum guidelines and inter-institutional agreements to propagate the computational science discipline at community colleges, undergraduate liberal arts and comprehensive colleges, minority serving institutions, and Research I universities. This project will provide educational benefits to a diverse group of students from a variety of backgrounds and will incorporate a serious evaluation and assessment component to help understand how to scale this activity widely beyond Ohio and into further educational areas in the in the K-20 educational pipeline. The project will also incorporate external industrial advisors to assure relevance of the curriculum and education training for the modern workforce.