CISE Educational Innovation: Introducing Fundamental Concepts and Evaluation Methods for Distributed Systems and Applications in the Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum

The University Of Central Florida Board Of Trustees, Orlando FL

Investigators

Abstract

EIA-0086251 Guha University of Central Florida Guha, Ratan K. CISE Educational Program: Introducing Fundamental Concepts and Evaluation Methods for Distributed Systems and Applications in the Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum This CISE Educational Innovation award supports the development of innovative curricula for teaching contemporary concepts of distributed computer systems, computer network technologies, and principles of distributed applications to undergraduate students at the University of Central Florida and three collaborating institutions. The focus of the project is on the development of modules, course materials, courses, a delivery infrastructure, faculty enhancement workshops, and web-based data collection. Module topics include: networks and the Internet, mobile and wireless computing, network management, concepts of distributed systems, network security, performance evaluation, distributed applications, and parallel and distributed simulation. This project provides a web and CD-ROM based mechanism for distribution of modules, courses, support-software and evaluation instruments. A one-week workshop for faculty, government, and industry covering these topics will be conducted in 2002 and 2003. In addition to transferring current research in distributed systems into the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Central Florida, the project also enables three partner institutions with underrepresented student populations (Grambling State University, Florida A&M University, and the University of Houston) to actively participate in the project. The collaborating institutions are involved in development and evaluation of the instructional modules and use them in their programs either as new courses or thread the modules through existing undergraduate courses.