Ames
Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa Ames
Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa
Ames, Iowa -- The United States Department of Energy (DOE) announces the 1996 winners of the Undergraduate Computational Science Education Awards, a national initiative to recognize excellence in computational science teaching.
The awards program, now in its third year, is part of the Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science (UCES) project, which is administered by the Ames Laboratory's Applied Mathematical Sciences (AMS) Program for the DOE's Division of Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences. Ames Lab is a DOE research facility located on the Iowa State University (ISU) campus. The awards recognize outstanding instructional projects that incorporate computer technology, especially in problem-solving activities in science and engineering.
Seven honorees will receive $1000 cash awards, and one member from each project will be a guest of the DOE at an awards exposition and luncheon at the Holiday Inn Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 20, 1996, where they will present their work through electronic and oral presentations. David Nelson, associate director of Energy Research for the Office of Computational and Technology Research at the DOE, will be the keynote speaker at the luncheon. The event is open to the public, and those interested in attending may contact the UCES project at (515)296-6720 for more information.
In addition to the seven winning entries, two other projects were cited for honorable mention. The winning entries varied from individual classroom demonstrations to full undergraduate curricular reforms.
"Collectively, these projects represent an approach to computational science education that emphasizes the intellectual journey from physical problem to computational solution using interactivity and visualization to assess results," says Tom Marchioro, Ames Lab's project coordinator for the UCES program.
1996 was the first year in which the awards program received corporate sponsorship from companies interested in supporting computational science education. These sponsors -- Jones and Bartlett, Publishers; TELOS/Springer-Verlag; John Wiley and Sons; and the IEEE Computer Society -- provided additional prizes for the winning entries.
"We are very grateful for this support," says Jim Corones, director for Ames Lab's Informatics and Math/Computer Education Program. "We look forward to working with these and other organizations that value the future of this rapidly advancing field.''
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