Building a Faculty Community to Support Computational Science and Engineering

SIAM Annual Meeting, May 14, 1999
Atlanta GA
10:30 AM-12:30 PM Room: Georgia 1

Dr. Kris Stewart (stewart@sdsu.edu)
San Diego State University
Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering

Challenges and strategies

• building community of HPC users
• undergraduate faculty and students
• minority-serving institution, based on
• exploration of faculty attitudes to computing in the classroom

Curriculum changes build on scientific and technological trends

but require careful consideration

• goals
• capabilities

of educational institution

Role of institutions and institutional infrastructure

• curriculum transformation
• especially important in the most demanding in terms of
  • efforts
  • time
  • and other resources
  high performance computing and networking

University faculty system of rewards does not encourage investing much effort in teaching innovations(Boyer Report)

Stakeholders

College Deans

Specific support

Faculty

Compensation, and acknowledgement, of the value of the faculty members contribution

Benefits

College

Department (Faculty Fellows as discipline-specific spokespersons for EC/CSE)

Faculty (as individuals)

Ed Center on Computational Science and Engineering

Leveraging NSF required matching funds providex focus for buy-in from campus infrastructure

Our own examples
• CS 575 Supercomputing
• SIAM 98
• InfoOverload Lab