UT Austin establishes Computational and Applied Mathematics program

The University of Texas (UT) at Austin has entered the computational science and engineering (CSE) education arena with its own academic and research program in computational and applied mathematics. Drawing faculty together from the natural sciences and from engineering, the Computational and Applied Mathematics program, or CAM, provides an important new opportunity for instruction and research in this rapidly growing area. The decision at the University of Texas to launch academic and research programs in CAM was not the result of proposals from a single academic department or college; it was part of an in-depth strategic plan for the university, developed over a three-year period and involving several departments within both the Natural Sciences and Engineering Colleges. In these plans, CAM emerged as a principal scientific and academic discipline to be developed by the university over the next decade. Momentum for creating CAM programs also came from commitments of resources from the University, private foundations and industry. CAM also met the requirements of the long-term strategic plan of the entire UT system and of both the colleges involved