Major federal and private foundations have recognized that the lack of undergraduate training in computational studies is due to the lack of educational materials in the field of computational studies. These foundations understand the need to increase the technical skills of the future workforce as well as increase the number of students pursuing graduate studies in this field. Capital has risen to the challenge of developing curricular materials at the undergraduate level by obtaining the following grants:
1 . National Science Foundation (CCLI-EMD)
- Goal: To create educational materials for a computational studies curriculum culminating in an undergraduate interdisciplinary minor.
2 . National Science Foundation (CSEMS)
- Goal: To provide scholarships at the junior and senior years for students pursuing degrees in mathematics, computer science, and pre-engineering, and computational studies. Students are required to conduct undergraduate research projects related to their respective fields.
3. Battelle
- Goal: To construct the Battelle Visualization Laboratory in which students have access to multiple platforms and cutting edge hardware and software so that they can conduct symbolic, numeric, graphical, visualization, and parallel computations.
4. W.M. Keck Foundation
- Goal: To develop the Keck Undergraduate Computational Studies Educational Consortium (KUCSEC) with ten other institutions from across the nation in order to alleviate the dearth of course materials at the undergraduate level and to extend the national repository of undergraduate Computational Studies resources at Capital University.
5. National Science Foundation
- Goal: To construct the Advanced Computational Laboratory (ACL) and create two courses in the areas of Parallel/High Performance Computing and Computer Graphics.
Relationships & Outreach
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Each student in the computational science program participates
in an internship or conducts undergraduate research in a sub-field of
this discipline. To facilitate this, we encourage students to seek opportunities
and conduct their research experience with industry mentors. Benefits
to this model include having the opportunity to engage with real world
problems, working in teams that mirror practices in industry, learning
the tools of the trade, and increasing employment and educational opportunities.
Also, relationships developed with practitioners and scientists afford
the opportunity for guest lectures at Capital University on current topics
for students interested in computational studies.
Click on this link to see a list of our External
Collaborators.
