DocumentCode :
1451332
Title :
Front cover
Author :
Zachary, J.L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Volume :
5
Issue :
4
fYear :
1998
Abstract :
The University of Utah´s Department of Computer Science has offered an introductory course on scientific programming, called Engineering Computing, since 1994. Each year, approximately 300 first- and second-year science and engineering majors take the course. They learn how to use a variety of programming techniques to solve the kinds of computational science problems they will encounter in their academic and professional careers. The original impetus for developing Engineering Computing came in 1993 from the dean of the College of Engineering at the time, David Pershing. Dissatisfied with the conventional courses in C and Fortran programming that the engineering students were taking, he wanted to develop a more effective alternative. With the support of a course development grant from the Department of Energy´s Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science (UCES) project, course development began.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; engineering computing; engineering education; programming; Engineering Computing; University of Utah Department of Computer Science; academic careers; computational science problems; engineering majors; introductory scientific programming course; professional careers; science majors; Computer science; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Engineering students; Power engineering and energy; Programming profession;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1070-9924
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/99.735891
Filename :
735891
Link To Document :
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