MS78 - MS86: Wednesday March 4
Graduate Education in CS&E – Needs, Trends, Risks, and Chances

Abstract

The two sessions of the minisymposium shall address core issues for the future graduate education in CS&E. It continues and concentrates educational minisymposia at the previous SIAM CS\&E and general meetings, but it also widens the perspective to outside the US. The talks of the first session will primarily provide examples as well as an overview of relevant activities in the US and elsewhere; in the second session, there will be presentations dedicated to ingredients of CS\&E graduate curricula, educational aspects, as well as pros and cons of a CS\&E education compared with classical programs. The minisymposium will be closely related to the BGCE student paper prize session and to a panel discussions, which is intended to become the culmination point for all educational activities at the conference.

Organizers

Donald Estep, Colorado State University
Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technische Universität München, Germany

Background materials

·         SIAM Petzold Report on CS&E

·         Talk by Max Gunzburger (FSU) on pros and cons of separate programs given at the annual meeting in 2005

·         2006 List of CS&E Graduate Programs compiled by Estep

Part I

2:00-2:25 CSE Graduate Programs in the US

Donald Estep, Colorado State University

2:30-2:55 Overview of Graduate CSE Education in Europe

Lennart Edsberg , Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

3:00-3:25 Report on International Study of Simulation-based Engineering \& Science, and Preparing the Next Generation in CSE

Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan;; Celeste Sagui, North Carolina State University

3:30-3:55 CSE/CE Programs in Germany

Michael Schäfer, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Part II

4:30-4:55 Pros and Cons of CSE Programs Versus Disciplinary Programs, the “Different Ways” to Approach Training in CSE

Chris Johnson, University of Utah

5:00-5:25 SIAM’s Role in Supporting and Developing CSE

David Keyes, Columbia University and Brookhaven National Laboratory

5:30-5:55 Education Issues in CSE: Student Backgrounds, Instruction Modes, Outcomes

Marek Behr, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

6:00-6:25 Ingredients of a CSE Education Program

Max Gunzburger, Florida State University