CPATH CDP: Integrating Sustainability Into Undergraduate Computing Education

这个概念发展和规划项目将可持续性概念整合到整个本科计算机教育中。一个由来自工程、计算机科学和认知科学的教师组成的跨学科团队计划测试、开发、实施和评估将可持续性整合到课程中的教育模式。该团队计划为初级和高级学生开发模型、项目和课程，包括绿色计算的新课程。该小组设想将重点放在大型数据中心电力消耗的可持续性方面。目标是培养学生的计算能力，多学科知识和计算思维方法，以创造一个可持续的未来。该项目的智力价值在于该主题的重要性和流行性，以及计算机教育中对这种变化的明确需求，以准备下一代计算机专业人员。跨学科项目团队包括在实施和教育创新基础上的计算学科研究方面具有重要专业知识的研究人员。该项目有可能在一个新兴领域提供新的研究模型，对后代和当前的人都至关重要。该项目更广泛的影响在于有可能满足计算机专业人员不断变化的需求，并吸引不同的学生群体。这个项目有潜力为改变计算机教育提供创新模式，对全国其他学院和大学都有价值。

This Conceptual Development and Planning project integrates sustainability concepts throughout undergraduate computing education. An interdisciplinary team of faculty from engineering, computer science, and cognitive science plans to test, develop, implement, and evaluate an educational model for sustainability integration into the curriculum. The team plans to develop models, projects and courses for beginning and upper level students, including a new course in green computing. The group envisions a focus on the power consumption of large data centers aspects of sustainability. The goal is to prepare students with the computing competencies, multi-disciplinary knowledge, and computational thinking methodologies to create a sustainable future. The intellectual merit of the project lies in the importance and currency of the topic and clear need for such changes in computing education to prepare the upcoming generation of computing professionals. The cross-disciplinary project team includes researchers with significant expertise in both the computing discipline research that underlies the implementation and in educational innovation. The project has the potential for providing new research models in an emerging field critical for future generations as well as the current one.The broader impacts of the project lie in the potential to address changing demands on computing professionals and to attract a diverse audience of students. The project has the potential to provide innovative models for transforming computing education that are of value to other colleges and universities across the nation.