Title :
Project ACCESS: Advanced computational curriculum for engineering and science students
Author_Institution :
New Hampshire Univ., Durham, NH, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1993. Twenty-Third Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1482-4
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1993.405542
