Introducing the EC/CSE and building assessment into the curriculum

NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Biology Workbench Workshop July 29, 2000 SDSU/LL224G

Introducing the EC/CSEand building assessment into the curriculum

Kris StewartSan Diego State University

NPACI/CSU Ed Center on [email protected]

www.edcenter.sdsu.edu



What is Computational Science?

Science DisciplineBiology, Physics, Chemistry, etc.

Computer ScienceHardware/Software

Applied MathematicsNumerical Analysis, Modeling, Simulation



What is Computational Science?

Science DisciplineBiology, Physics, Chemistry, etc.

Computer ScienceHardware/Software

Applied MathematicsNumerical Analysis, Modeling,

Simulation

Teamwork and Collaboration



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/

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EOT PACI



EducationGoal: Support a national level systemic impact on CS&E education(k-12, undergrad, grad/training, informal science)

www.edcenter.sdsu.edu

www.shodor.orgmvhs1.mbhs.edu

chemviz.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu

www.krellinst.org

whyfiles.news.wisc.edu

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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

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Learning TechnologiesGoal: Develop, apply, and assess computational tools that enhance learning

trurl.npac.syr.edu/tango

Java-based Web collaboratory for distributed learning

www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb/

Environmental hydrology workbench, watershed mapping and modeling tools

www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/index.htmlCourse broadcast over the Web

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www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/

ncsa.webex.com/webex/Juna Snow will give demo



Access & InclusionGoal: Increase participation and success of women, minorities and people with disabilities in CS&E and in PACI

Universal design and disability accesstrace.wisc.edu

CDC Coalition to Diversify Computingwww.npaci.edu/Outreach/CDC

www.cra.org/Activities/craw

GirlTECHwww.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC

Spend a Summer with a Scientist

www.aihec.org

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Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering

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Mission:

Foster the incorporation of high performance research tools for scientific investigation into the undergraduatecurriculum 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.



Computational Science Curricula Evaluation and Assessment

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•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



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/



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



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



SWB as Analysis ToolView Student Comments (text)



SWB as Analysis ToolIsolate on Specific Survey Response



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.



SWB as Analysis ToolExplain the Response on Learning with “enjoy groups”

Don’t like it but learned more



SWB as Analysis ToolExplain learning with “active participation”

Not surprising



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



NPACI Sources of Information

NPACI Partnership ReportenVision 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

NPACI Sources of Information



Subscribe to the Online Magazine and Envision Quarterly



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



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]



Your thoughts?

Your suggestions?

Available: http://www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu/PPT/BW_29july00_kris.ppt

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Introducing the EC/CSE and building assessment into the curriculum