Front cover

Author

Zachary, J.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Volume

5

Issue

4

fYear

1998

Abstract

The University of Utah´s Department of Computer Science has offered an introductory course on scientific programming, called Engineering Computing, since 1994. Each year, approximately 300 first- and second-year science and engineering majors take the course. They learn how to use a variety of programming techniques to solve the kinds of computational science problems they will encounter in their academic and professional careers. The original impetus for developing Engineering Computing came in 1993 from the dean of the College of Engineering at the time, David Pershing. Dissatisfied with the conventional courses in C and Fortran programming that the engineering students were taking, he wanted to develop a more effective alternative. With the support of a course development grant from the Department of Energy´s Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science (UCES) project, course development began.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; engineering computing; engineering education; programming; Engineering Computing; University of Utah Department of Computer Science; academic careers; computational science problems; engineering majors; introductory scientific programming course; professional careers; science majors; Computer science; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Engineering students; Power engineering and energy; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9924

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/99.735891

Filename

735891