Organization Plan
The Center should be lean and efficient. We foresee the need for two directors, office space, secretarial support, and funds for publicity, speakers, and travel.
Responsibilities for planning and implementation of Center activities will be shared by:
Executive Director: Ignatios Vakalis
- Sets the agenda and determines future plans and priorities for the Center
Reports to the Dean of A&S
- Oversees the efforts for improving the computational studies curriculum
Increases the visibility of the computational studies program at the local, state, and national level
- Oversees the development and delivery of non-traditional courses (e.g., certificate program)
- Collaborates with the faculty grants officer and the director for corporate and foundation relations in actively seeking funding opportunities and submitting grant proposals
- Oversees the successful completing of all awarded grants
- Creates, sustains, and expands relations with industry, corporate, and research sectors
- Cultivates relations for internships and undergraduate research projects with industry partners and research laboratories
- Establishes relations with community colleges
Initiates and participates in the publicity efforts in high schools
- Develops and maintains relations with graduate schools that offer advanced degrees in computational studies
- Organizes workshops for in-service teachers and university colleagues
- Organizes lecture series (local and national speakers)
- Collaborates with the academic units
- Reviews graduation audits of students that pursue computational studies
Associate Director: Terry Lahm
- Reports to the executive director
- Serves as the budget manager for the center
- Assists the executive director in increasing the visibility of the center
- Works with the executive director to coordinate all offerings of the computational studies courses
- Assists in promoting computational studies in high schools and community colleges
- Assists in the delivery of workshops to in-service teachers
The organizational plan of the Center for Computational Studies also includes:
Board of Advisors: Necessary to promote ongoing development of the curriculum, to maintain contact with market trends, to raise funds, to nourish internship and employment opportunities and to facilitate connections with graduate schools.
External Collaborators: To promote the development of curricular materials relationships with organizations, such as the Ohio Supercomputer Center, the Keck Undergraduate Computational Science Educational Consortium, and Companies with research projects/internships have been established. These collaborations allow undergraduate research experiences / internships and opportunities for graduate studies to occur for students interested in computation science.
Departments and Offices at Capital University: Capital University Academic Units, Capital University Admissions, and Capital University Career Services.
