CPATH T: Campus Wide Computation Initiative - A New Model For Computing Education

这个项目的目标是为校园范围内的计算计划开发一个模型，这将改变大学和学术环境中的本科计算教育。构成这种模式的活动将吸引典型计算社区之外的计算专业学生和教师。这种转变是通过以下两方面的参与实现的：(1)计算机社区内的教师领导与计算机社区外的教师和学生进行教学和研究合作；(2)教师和工业合作伙伴开发的项目突出了计算在各自行业中日益重要的作用。这两所学院已经开发并将实施一项计算计划的协调模式，该计划将(1)吸引非传统计算机科学学生参加计算入门课程（不是计算机素养课程），(2)鼓励非计算机科学院系的教师开发基于计算入门课程的学科特定课程，并结合更高水平的计算技能。该模型基于计算方法课程的框架，其中包括解决跨学科计算的常见应用的核心课程，随后是其他部门专注于这些领域的计算活动的额外学科特定课程。为改变本科计算机教育而制定和实施的策略，特别是促进学生和教师态度的改变和提高计算的可见性，将作为在其他机构实施类似变革的蓝图。推广校园范围内的计算倡议模型，连同实施战略，将使这些改变有可能在其他机构复制。这将最终提高所有毕业生对计算机技能的能力和熟悉程度，特别是在科学领域，并使计算机在学院中发挥更明显的作用和存在。

The goal of this project is to develop a model for a campus wide computation initiative that will transform undergraduate computing education in the institution and academic environment. The activities that make up this model will engage in computation students and faculty who are outside the typical computing community. The transformation is achieved through the involvement of (1) faculty leaders inside the computing community in teaching and research collaborations with faculty and students from outside the computing community, and (2) faculty and industrial partners who develop programs that highlight the increasingly important role of computation in their respective industries. The two colleges have developed and will implement a coordinated model for a computation initiative that will (1) attract non-traditional CS students to take introductory computing courses (not computer literacy courses) and (2) encourage faculty from non-CS departments to develop discipline specific courses that build on the introductory computation courses and incorporate higher level computation skills. The model is based on the framework of a curriculum in computational methods that includes a core of courses that addresses common applications of computation across disciplines, followed by additional discipline specific courses within other departments that focus on computation activities in those fields. The strategies that will be developed and implemented for transforming undergraduate computing education, specifically fostering change in the attitudes of students and faculty and increasing the visibility of computation, will serve as a blueprint for implementing similar changes at other institutions. Dissemination of the model for a campus wide computation initiative, along with strategies for implementation, will make it possible for the changes to be replicated at other institutions. This will ultimately result in increased competence and familiarity with computing skills amongst all graduates, particularly in the sciences, and a more visible role and presence for computing in the academy.