CPATH CB: Supporting Non-CISE Majors in a Computing Community

这笔CPATH拨款旨在帮助非计算机专业的学生通过提供机会学习计算如何影响他们自己的学科，并在那些学科真正有价值的开源项目中做出贡献，从而为他们的领域内的计算应用程序做出重大贡献。在这笔赠款下将开发的两个项目将是大师研讨会系列和开放源代码解决方案中心。大师研讨会系列以音乐学院艺术大师班为蓝本，允许学生与来自不同领域的专业人士互动，他们在这些领域的贡献促进了计算和技术的使用。访问包括一般听众讲座和演示相结合，以及与选定的适当学科的学生进行更密集的大师班。开放源码解决方案中心(COSS)将为不同学科的合作提供物理空间，并为开发不同学科的开放源码解决方案提供虚拟资源交换中心。不断发展的开源社区为本科生提供了许多机会，让他们为各种领域的问题提供解决方案。然而，学生通常不能评估某一特定贡献的可行性。该中心将帮助学生评估成功的项目贡献的潜力，并将促进与其他各种机构的开放源码项目的交流。该项目将成为如何通过让传统非计算学科的学生和教师在自己的学科内参与计算想法来增加他们对计算的参与的典范。

This CPATH grant addresses the potential of non-computing majors to make significant contributions to computing applications within their fields by offering them opportunities to learn how computing influences their own disciplines and to contribute in open source projects that are authentically valuable with those disciplines.Two programs to be developed under this grant will be a Masters Seminar Series and a Center for Open Source Solutions. The Masters Seminar Series, modeled on conservatory Masters Classes in the arts, allow students to interact with professionals from a wide variety of fields whose contributions in those field have advanced the use of computation and technology. Visits consist of a combination of general audience lectures and demonstrations and more intensive Masters Classes with selected students in the appropriate disciplines. Masters Seminars are planned for a wide variety of disciplines including computational biology and chemistry as well as in the arts and humanities.The Center for Open Source Solutions (COSS) will provide both physical space for collaboration and a virtual clearinghouse of resources for development of open source solutions in various disciplines. The growing open source community offers undergraduates many opportunities to contribute solutions to problems within a variety of fields. However, students are not typically in a position to evaluate the feasibility of a particular contribution. The Center will help students assess the potential for a successful project contribution and will facilitate communication with open source projects at various other institutions.This project will serve as a model of how to increase participation in computing by students and faculty from traditional non-computing disciplines by engaging them in computational ideas within their own disciplines.