GLCPC Education, Outreach and Training

Undergraduate education

The Blue Waters project is collaborating with Shodor to provide an Undergraduate Petascale Education Program that works with faculty and students at a diverse range of institutions across the country, including two- and four-year colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, EPSCoR institutions, and research universities.

The Undergraduate Petascale Education Program will focus on:

• Offering professional development workshops for faculty to provide them with in-depth computational science and petascale knowledge and expertise. The faculty will engage their students in learning computational science principles and skills spanning the continuum from desktop to petascale computing systems.
• Supporting faculty development of curriculum modules that will engage students in hands-on scientific discovery using models, simulations and scientific visualizations. The learning modules will be integrated into undergraduate courses and disseminated through the Computational Science Education Reference Desk for use by other faculty and students.
• Providing undergraduate internships that offer students the opportunity to work directly in research and development areas of the Blue Waters project. The students will have a faculty mentor, work with research and development teams, and regularly communicate with other student interns, thereby gaining a rich and rewarding petascale experience.

For more information on undergraduate programs, see http://www.computationalscience.org/ or contact Robert M. Panoff, rpanoff@shodor.org.

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The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) facilitates the widespread and effective use of petascale computing to address frontier research questions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at research, educational, and industrial organizations across the United States. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, on behalf of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the lead institution for organizing and managing the GLCPC. © 2009 Board of Trustees University of Illinois.