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Introducing the EC/CSE and building assessment into the curriculum

Introducing the EC/CSE and building assessment into the curriculum. Kris Stewart San Diego State University NPACI/CSU Ed Center on CSE stewart@sdsu.edu www.edcenter.sdsu.edu. What is Computational Science?. Science Discipline Biology, Physics, Chemistry, etc. Applied Mathematics

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Introducing the EC/CSE and building assessment into the curriculum

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  1. Introducing the EC/CSEand building assessment into the curriculum Kris Stewart San Diego State University NPACI/CSU Ed Center on CSE stewart@sdsu.edu www.edcenter.sdsu.edu

  2. What is Computational Science? Science Discipline Biology, Physics, Chemistry, etc. Applied Mathematics Numerical Analysis, Modeling, Simulation Computer Science Hardware/Software

  3. What is Computational Science? Teamwork and Collaboration Science Discipline Biology, Physics, Chemistry, etc. Computer Science Hardware/Software Applied Mathematics Numerical Analysis, Modeling, Simulation

  4. 4 EOT PACI • The mission of EOT-PACI is to develop human resources through the innovative use of emerging information technologies in order to understand and solve problems in education, science, business, government, and society. Please take a Button. • http://www.eot.org/

  5. Education www.edcenter.sdsu.edu mvhs1.mbhs.edu www.shodor.org biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu www.krellinst.org chemviz.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ whyfiles.news.wisc.edu 5 Goal: Support a national level systemic impact on CS&E education (k-12, undergrad, grad/training, informal science)

  6. 6 Education: some remarkable projects • Chickscope chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/ • students watch embryo maturing using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) over the Web • Chemviz chemviz.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ • visualization tools and curriculum for computational chemistry (quantum chemistry computations, web crystallographic databases, etc.) • The Why Files whyfiles.news.wisc.edu • explanation of science behind the news (NISE) • Biology Workbench workbench.sdsc.edu • collection of computational biology tools and databases • Maryland Virtual High School mvhs1.mbhs.edu • Core models in the K12 classroom • Sociology Workbench edcenter.sdsu.edu • Online tools for survey data analysis, e.g. student evaluations

  7. Learning Technologies trurl.npac.syr.edu/tango Java-based Web collaboratory for distributed learning Environmental hydrology workbench, watershed mapping and modeling tools www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb/ Course broadcast over the Web www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/index.html 7 Goal: Develop, apply, and assess computational tools that enhance learning www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/ ncsa.webex.com/webex/ Juna Snow will give demo

  8. Access & Inclusion GirlTECH trace.wisc.edu Universal design and disability access www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC CDC Spend a Summer with a Scientist Coalition to Diversify Computing www.npaci.edu/Outreach/CDC www.aihec.org www.cra.org/Activities/craw 8 Goal: Increase participation and success of women, minorities and people with disabilities in CS&E and in PACI

  9. 9 Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering Mission: • Foster the incorporation of high performance research • tools for scientific investigation into the undergraduate • curriculum to better prepare learners for post-Baccalaureate • activities where: • Collaborative, interdisciplinary teams, • Sophisticated computer tools and • Effective communication among the team members and with others • are used in research and problem solving.

  10. 10 Computational Science Curricula Evaluation and Assessment • User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation: Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education, NSF 93-152 www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/EVAL/handbook/handbook.htm • Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation and Dissemination, U. Wisconsin NPACI partner • “Template for a Group-Work Paradigm in an Undergraduate Supercomputing Course”,www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/projects/hpcu/kris_hpcu.pdf

  11. Updates for CS 575 SupercomputingSpring 2001 Based on Blue Horizon Workshop, will incorporate MPI and OpenMP into curriculum http://www.npaci.edu/enVision/v16.1/

  12. Evaluation and Assessment of Classroom Practice • Student Surveys - Need a compatible tool for instructor to examine results with • Sociology WorkBench (SWB) developed by team of undergraduate computer science majors employed by the EC/CSE

  13. SWB Convenient Tool to Learn from Student Survey Data • Online tool for “standard public data sets” or your own data set http://edcenter.sdsu.edu • Small Sample, therefore only useful as feedback for the instructor • Can be used with “forms” interface directly into SWB format

  14. SWB as Analysis ToolView Student Comments (text)

  15. SWB as Analysis ToolIsolate on Specific Survey Response

  16. What do I want to Explain with SWB? Course had an initial, individual computational experimentand a group computational experiment later in the semester. More than half the students indicated they learned more in the laterproject. I wanted to explore the characteristics (If “A”) of thosewho recognized they learned more in a group.

  17. SWB as Analysis ToolExplain the Response on Learning with “enjoy groups” Don’t like it but learned more

  18. SWB as Analysis ToolExplain learning with “active participation” Not surprising

  19. Advancing the Computational Infrastructure • Resources -- Today’s Digital Laboratory • High-performance computing available today to the academic community • Develop and Deploy • Technology and application collaborations to push the capabilities of tomorrow’s digital laboratory • Use and Apply • Computational scientists applying enhanced capabilities to achieve new scientific results • Disseminate and Incorporate • Incorporating technologies into the digital laboratory and disseminating them for use in new communities

  20. NPACI Sources of Information NPACI Sources of Information • NPACI Partnership Report • enVision quarterly science magazine, especially June2000“Why the Future May Very Well Need Us” • www.npaci.edu/enVision/v16.2/director.html • “Online” biweekly electronic publication,www.npaci.edu/online/ • www.npaci.edu

  21. Subscribe to the Online Magazine and Envision Quarterly

  22. San Diego Supercomputer Ctr (SDSC)& NPACI Biological Resources • Biological Data Representation and QueryResearch and software for analyzing structural biology data. Phil Bourne NPACI Molec. Sci.http://www.sdsc.edu/pb • NBCR http://nbcr.sdsc.edu/ The National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) makes software tools available to the biomedical community • Molecular Interactive Collaboration Environmenthttp://mice.sdsc.edu

  23. What’s Next? • For CSU Faculty, the Ed Center will sponsor a Computational Science Olympics competition encouraging and rewarding undergraduate projects which demonstrate “clever uses of computing” in computational science. Deadline March 2001 and we request faculty involvement and encourage of your students. • For the national Computational Science community, SIAM’s CSE 2000 (Washington D.C.) and SC2000 (Dallas, TX) [Sept and Nov resp]

  24. Your thoughts?Your suggestions? Available: http://www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu/PPT/BW_29july00_kris.ppt

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