Building an electronic book on the Internet: “CSEP-an interdisciplinary syllabus for teaching computational science at the graduate level”

The Computational Science Education Project was initiated in September 1991, by the US Department of Energy to develop a syllabus for teaching interdisciplinary computational science. CSEP has two major activites: the writing and maintenance of an electronic book (e-book); and educational outreach to the computational science communities through presentations at professional society meetings, journal articles, and by training educators. The authors describe this project, the interdisciplinary nature of which is intended to contribute to national technological competitiveness by producing a body of graduates with the necessary skills to operate effectively in high performance computing environments