The new Computational and Data Sciences Undergraduate Program at George Mason University
Abstract
We present the new undergraduate program in Computational and Data Sciences at George Mason University. The goals of the program are to train the next-generation scientists in the tools and techniques of cyber-enabled science. New courses include Introduction to Computational and Data Sciences, Scientific Data and Databases, Scientific Data and Information Visualization, Scientific Data Mining, and Scientific Modeling and Simulation. This is an interdisciplinary program, drawing examples, classroom materials, and student activities from a broad range of physical and biological sciences, including Space Physics (and Space Weather), Solar Physics, Astronomy, Geosciences, Geoinformatics, Materials Science, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, and Physics. We will describe some of the motivations and early results from the program.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008AGUFMED13A0602B
- Keywords:
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- 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation;
- 0525 Data management;
- 0530 Data presentation and visualization;
- 0810 Post-secondary education;
- 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design