Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences (UCES) Award Program
Submission Deadline – July 31, 2012
The UCES Award program was created to promote and enhance undergraduate education in computational engineering and science (CES). The program encourages development of innovative educational resources and programs, recognizes the achievements of CES undergraduate educators, and serves to disseminate educational material and ideas to the broad scientific and engineering undergraduate community. Awarded annually, UCES is funded by the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program administered by the Krell Institute.
The purpose of the UCES Award program is to recognize undergraduate faculty who have recently developed courses, programs, and/or curricular material. Such contributions need not be broad in scope, but should be innovative and transferable to other institutions or programs. Faculty at any stage of their careers are encouraged to apply, particularly those who attended any of the several computational science education workshops (e.g., National Computational Science Institutes, Supercomputing Conference (SC) Education Program) along with graduates of computational science programs who have taken academic positions.
2012 Award
Up to four finalists will be selected for recognition in 2012 and invited to present their work at a national conference, with a maximum of two entries ultimately chosen to receive the UCES Award and cash prize. All finalists will receive travel support and a certificate.
For information on eligibility and submission guidelines, please visit https://www.krellinst.org/csgf/awards-contests/uces-award-program/uces-award-program-eligibility.
2011 Winners & Finalists
Charles Peck (Earlham College) along with collaborators Tom Murphy (Contra Costa College) and Andrew Fitz Gibbon, were presented with the 2011 UCES Award for their work on the Little Fe project. A complete, six-node Beowulf-style portable computing cluster, Little Fe provides computational science educators with an affordable platform for parallel and distributed computing. Peck, Murphy and Fitz Gibbon received their award during the Education Program Awards Ceremony at SC11 in Seattle, Wash.
The following award finalists were also recognized at SC11:
- Shawn Douglas, Harvard University
Biomolecular Design Competition - Rahul Simha, The George Washington University
Continuous Algorithms Course - Jan Tobochnik, Kalamazoo College
Statistical and Thermal Physics: With Computer Applications Textbook - Barry Wilkinson, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Clayton Ferner, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Grid Computing Course
Learn more about past winners.
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