Workshop 1
Time: 11:30-2:00, January 25, 2008
Place: Room 3436, College of Textiles, Centennial Campus, NCSU
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The purpose of the panel is to discuss your views on computing education within engineering disciplines, identify any shortcomings, and propose strategies for improvement to ensure that our graduates possess appropriate skills for problem solving and decision making in the workplace.
The panel is organized by a team of faculty from across the College of Engineering at NC State University who are collaborating on a project funded by the National Science Foundation's Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) program. The ultimate goal of our project is to develop strategies to enable students to perform high-level computing tasks within the context of a discipline, through the creation of a "computational thinking thread" in the engineering curriculum that spans from the freshman to upper-level courses.
An integral part of our effort is the establishment of an academe-industry dialogue in which faculty and industry leaders from a range of disciplines convene to discuss the challenges and opportunities inherent in transforming undergraduate computing education, and to identify and implement creative strategies within our engineering curriculum.