Title :
Dutch-Russian double degree master´s program curricula in computational science and high performance computing
Author :
Bilyatdinova, Anna ; Dukhanov, Alexey ; Bochenina, Klavdiya ; Krzhizhanovskaya, Valeria V. ; Boukhanovsky, Alexander V. ; Sloot, Peter M. A.
Author_Institution :
HPC Dept., ITMO Univ., St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract :
From the moment of the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian higher education underwent drastic changes to international standards and enter the European Higher Education Area on equal terms. Joint efforts of Russian and Dutch peers and strong incentives from high-tech industries helped to launch new educational programs in Computational Science. Our international team of educators attempts to pick the best from the curricula and educational methods of post-Soviet programs and adopt the world´s best practices in engineering education. In this paper we describe the curricula of a double-degree Master´s program in Supercomputer Technologies in Interdisciplinary Research of the ITMO University and the University of Amsterdam and newly-developed programs in Big Data and Urban Supercomputing. We comment on the form and content of our programs and give some examples of student research topics.
Keywords :
Big Data; computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational institutions; engineering education; further education; parallel processing; standards; Big Data; Dutch-Russian double degree master program curricula; European higher education area; ITMO University; Russian higher education; Supercomputer Technologies in Interdisciplinary Research; University of Amsterdam; computational science; educational method; educational program; engineering education; high performance computing; high-tech industry; international standard; international team; post-Soviet program; urban supercomputing; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Europe; Region 8; Scientific computing; Standards; Master´s programs; computational science; curriculum design; double degree;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2014.7044195