Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: Broadening Adoption of Parallel and Distributed Computing in Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Curricula

这个合作项目代表一个多方面的努力,计算机科学和工程教育转向确保21世纪学生可以使用平台,普遍将并行和分布式计算(PDC)。20世纪的计算机大多是围绕单个处理器设计的，执行一系列操作。但本世纪的特点是多核、图形和AI张量处理器的广泛部署，以及向云服务器和物联网的转变，所有这些都依赖于不同的PDC方法来解决问题和编程。金融、技术、科学、工程和医疗公司、政府实验室、国防部、情报界和许多其他部门都在拼命寻找能够利用PDC系统的员工，因为现有的劳动力严重沉浸在旧模式中。然而，由于学术界的严重惰性，大多数学生继续学习旧的方法。为了将PDC引入计算机科学和工程教育的早期阶段，该项目将指导课程和认证标准，培养教师，并建立一个强大的PDC教育社区。因此，它将战略性地服务于国家利益，正如NSF的使命所述：促进科学进步；促进国家健康、繁荣和福利；并确保国防安全。这将是使新兴劳动力现代化的重要一步，使他们拥有美国在所有这些领域保持领导地位所需的计算技能。并行和分布式计算课程开发和教育资源中心（CDER）正在准备其2013年课程指南的2020年更新，以将并行和分布式计算（PDC）引入早期本科课程。该项目将涉及四个领域的活动，以促进课程的采用，并扩展它，目标是使计算机科学和工程劳动力发展现代化。一项主要工作是为教师举办夏季培训讲习班，以学习PDC概念和实验课程评价方法。关于PDC教育方法，该学科仍处于探索阶段，必须鼓励各种精心设计的实验来测试和评估广泛的教学假设。研讨会的参与者将从不同的教育工作者中挑选，并给予课程开发资助，以支持实验课程的提供和评估，从而导致会议或期刊出版物，以及为CDER在线课程材料库提供范例。第二项工作是帮助ABET/CSAB制定核心PDC要求，并告知/培训ABET/CSAB评估人员（CSAB是ABET内部负责计算机科学学位课程认证的主要协会）。第三项努力是扩展课程指南，明确将PDC添加到计算机工程课程中，这提供了新的课程机会。最后，CDER将继续在以下方面取得成功：与大型会议一起组织PDC教育研讨会，出版PDC教育书籍和期刊特刊，维护和管理PDC教育资源的在线存储库，并提供免费访问公开可用的PDC教育集群系统。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This collaborative project represents a multi-faceted effort to shift computer science and engineering education toward ensuring that students can use 21st century platforms that pervasively incorporate parallel and distributed computing (PDC). Twentieth century computers were mostly designed around a single processor, executing a sequence of operations. But this century is characterized by widespread deployment of multi-core, graphics, and AI tensor processors, as well as a shift to cloud servers, and the internet of things, all of which depend on the much different PDC approach to problem solving and programming. Financial, technical, scientific, engineering and medical companies, government labs, the department of defense, the intelligence community, and many other sectors are desperately seeking employees who can exploit PDC systems, because the existing workforce was heavily steeped in the old model. Yet most students continue to learn the old approach due to significant inertia in academia. To turn the tide toward infusing PDC into the early stages of computer science and engineering education, this project will guide curricula and accreditation standards, prepare teachers, and foster a strong PDC education community. It will thus strategically serve the national interest, as stated by NSF's mission: to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and to secure the national defense. It will be a significant step toward modernizing the emerging workforce to have the computing skills needed for the United States to maintain leadership in all of these areas.The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER) is preparing the 2020 update of their 2013 curriculum guidelines for introducing parallel and distributed computing (PDC) into early undergraduate courses. This project will engage in four areas of activity to foster adoption of the curriculum, and extend it, with the goal of modernizing computer science and engineering workforce development.One major thrust is running summer training workshops for teachers, to learn both PDC concepts and experimental course evaluation methodology. The discipline is still in a phase of discovery with respect to PDC education approaches, and must encourage a diverse set of well-designed experiments to test and evaluate a broad range of pedagogical hypotheses. The workshop participants will be drawn from a diverse pool of educators, and given curriculum development grants in support of experimental course offerings and evaluation, leading to conference or journal publications, as well as contributions of exemplars to the CDER online course materials repository. A second effort is to help ABET/CSAB to formulate core PDC requirements and to inform/train ABET/CSAB evaluators (CSAB is the lead society within ABET for accreditation of degree programs in computer science). A third effort is expanding the curriculum guidelines to explicitly address adding PDC to computer engineering programs, which present novel curricular opportunities. Lastly, it will continue CDER's successes in organizing PDC education workshops in conjunction with major conferences, publishing PDC education books and journal special issues, maintaining and curating an online repository of PDC education resources, and providing free access to a publicly available PDC education cluster system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.