Project ACCESS: Advanced computational curriculum for engineering and science students

Author

Zia, Lee L.

Author_Institution

New Hampshire Univ., Durham, NH, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

6-9 Nov 1993

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

173

Abstract

An upper division, computational laboratory-based course in scientific computing is being developed. The project includes three important components: (1) a case-study method in which topics are taught with an example from the “real” world of science and engineering; (2) the various case-studies are developed by an interdisciplinary team of faculty in order to emphasize all parts of scientific computation: basic science, analytic methods, numerical methods, and visualization; and (3) the students develop solutions on a variety of computational platforms including personal computers, RISC (reduced instruction set computer) workstations, and supercomputers. A case-study description is presented

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; engineering computing; engineering education; project engineering; ACCESS project; CAI; RISC; USA; analytic methods; basic science; case-studies; computational curriculum; education; engineering; numerical methods; personal computers; reduced instruction set computer; science; scientific computing; students; supercomputers; visualization; workstations; Educational programs; Hardware; High performance computing; Mathematical model; Mathematics; Modems; Reduced instruction set computing; Software algorithms; Visualization; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1993. Twenty-Third Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1482-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1993.405542

Filename

405542