Teaching Monte Carlo codes at university: Development of a Geant4 course for students of schools of physics

Author

Guatelli, Susanna ; Cutajar, Dean ; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. ; Layton, Catherine

Author_Institution

Centre For Med. Radiat. Phys., Univ. of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2012

Abstract

Nowadays, it is important that students of Schools of Physics include the study of Monte Carlo codes in their curriculum as these codes are widely used in research. At the School of Engineering Physics of the University of Wollongong, we designed and set in place a Geant4 course addressed to the Medical Physics domain. In this paper, we illustrate the main features of the course and its development since 2010. The design of this course maybe adopted to teach Geant4 or any other Monte Carlo code, and in general to teach complex software tools to students with limited computing background.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; biomedical education; codes; educational aids; educational courses; further education; physics education; teaching; Geant4 course; Monte Carlo codes; complex software tools; computing background; curriculum; medical physics; physics students; teaching; Communities; Conferences; Data models; Educational institutions; Monte Carlo methods; Physics; Geant4; Monte Carlo code; learning-teaching-research nexus; postgraduate; problem-based learning; undergraduate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2417-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2012.6360300

Filename

6360300