Kris Stewart
San Diego State
University
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
San Diego, CA
92182-0314
stewart@cs.sdsu.edu
Developing Undergraduate Computational Science,
A
Personal QUEST
My participation in curriculum develop in
computational cannot be categorized as an individual project or
program. I have tried to use my position as a numerical analyst within
the Computer Science Group of the Mathematical Sciences Department at
SDSU to established multidisciplinary relationships with fellow SDSU
faculty within the College of Sciences and College of Engineering. I
have also been able to make effective use of the fact that SDSU was an
original consortium member of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, first
as a simple user. Through working with the staff at SDSC, we were able
to obtain NSF/DASC funding to allow me to develop an undergraduate
course in supercomputing at SDSU. This also involved developing summer
faculty workshops called SUE (Supercomputing and Undergraduate
Education), which I gave twice. The SDSU course (CS 575 Supercomputing
for the Sciences) has been taught 3 times as appears in the SDSU
undergraduate catalog now.I have made a concerted effort to be
involved in the rapidly evolving world of undergraduate curriculum
development in high performance computing, and I wouldsuggest reading
through the section on "Educational Activities" below for more
details.
This has paid off in two courses being developed and taught
by myself at SDSU. Through campus committees and being the
administrator of the SDSU Block Grant of time on the Cray C90, I have
also made many faculty contacts on the SDSU campus. I have also been
able to participate at a national level with faculty pursuing similar
development programs.
Last modified: 17 July, 1997
Thomas L. Marchioro
uces_info@krellinst.org