Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: CDL: Preparing Instructors to Offer Experimental Courses in an Updated PDC Curriculum, and Broadening Participation

协作研究：网络培训：CDL：准备教师在更新的 PDC 课程中提供实验课程，并扩大参与范围

• 批准号: 1730527
• 负责人: Charles Weems
• 金额: $ 36.73万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1730527&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CyberTraining; CDL; Preparing

This effort will develop a cadre of college faculty to pioneer a shift in the computer science curriculum to ensure students are educated in the use of 21st century platforms that pervasively incorporate parallel and distributed computing (PDC). Twentieth century computers were mostly built on the principle of a single processor, executing a sequence of operations. That model is tightly bound into curricula, even though the last decade has seen widespread deployment of multi-core processors, graphics processors, online servers, and the internet of things, all of which depend on the much different PDC mindset for problem solving and programming. Financial, technical, scientific, engineering and medical companies, government laboratories, the department of defense, the intelligence community, and many other sectors are desperately seeking employees who can exploit PDC systems, because the existing workforce was heavily steeped in the older sequential model. Even new graduates continue to learn the old approach because of the considerable inertia in the educational system. Thus, by turning the tide toward incorporation of PDC into the early stages of computer science education, through teaching the teachers, this project will strategically serve the national interest, as stated by NSF's mission: to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and to secure the national defense. It will be a significant step toward modernizing the emerging workforce to have the computing skills needed for the United States to maintain leadership in all of these areas.The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER) with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, developed curriculum guidelines for parallel and distributed computing (PDC) that guided PDC aspects of the ACM Computer Science Curricula 2013. The guideline sought to shift courses in the first two years from the sequential model toward the PDC paradigm. In the modern world, students must see PDC as an aspect of computational problem solving from the very beginning. This project will update the curriculum guideline, with special foci on big data, energy, distributed computing, and exemplars. It will offer grants (encouraging participation by institutions serving underrepresented groups) for faculty to work on course development and attend a workshop where they will be trained in the use of PDC, and in experimental course design and evaluation. The workshops, offered each summer of the grant period, will also support attendance by industrial and government stakeholders to help build a network of relationships. Additional instructors will be offered travel support to attend the workshops, beyond the course development grants.

这项努力将建立大学教师的干部，以开创计算机科学课程的转变，以确保在使用21世纪平台上对学生进行教育，这些平台在21世纪的平台上遍布平行和分布式计算（PDC）。二十世纪的计算机主要是基于单个处理器的原理，执行了一系列操作。该模型被紧密地绑定到课程中，即使过去十年已经看到了多核处理器，图形处理器，在线服务器和物联网的广泛部署，所有这些都取决于解决问题和编程的PDC心态。财务，技术，科学，工程和医疗公司，政府实验室，国防部，情报界和许多其他部门都在拼命寻找可以利用PDC系统的员工，因为现有的劳动力在较旧的顺序模型中很大。甚至新毕业生也继续学习旧方法，因为教育系统中有相当大的惯性。因此，通过将潮流朝向计算机科学教育的早期阶段，通过教师教师的早期阶段，该项目将战略性地服务于国家利益，如NSF的使命：促进科学进步；促进民族健康，繁荣和福利；并确保国防。 It will be a significant step toward modernizing the emerging workforce to have the computing skills needed for the United States to maintain leadership in all of these areas.The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER) with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, developed curriculum guidelines for parallel and distributed computing (PDC) that guided PDC aspects of the ACM Computer Science Curricula 2013. The guideline试图在头两年中将课程从顺序模型转移到PDC范式。在现代世界中，从一开始，学生必须将PDC视为计算问题解决的一个方面。该项目将以大数据，能源，分布式计算和示例的特殊重点更新课程指南。它将提供赠款（鼓励服务不足的团体的机构参与），以便教师从事课程开发并参加研讨会，在那里他们将接受PDC的使用以及实验课程的设计和评估。赠款期间的每个夏天提供的讲习班还将支持工业和政府利益相关者的出席，以帮助建立关系网络。除课程发展赠款之外，还将向其他教师提供旅行支持，以参加研讨会。