The CDER Center is pleased to announce a new program to help faculty incorporate Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) into courses for students in their first two years of undergraduate study.
Highlights:
$5000 grant to each of 20 participants
Participants attend a one-week training workshop (August 5-9, 2019, at University of Maryland)
Training includes PDC content, and educational evaluation methodology
Funding for up to 10 additional people to attend the training workshop (no grant or obligations)
Focus this year will be on Data Structures, Algorithms, and Systems courses
Participants implement PDC course enhancements or new course(s) in academic year 2019-2020
Participants write and submit a paper describing their course experiment and evaluation
Additional support may be available for attending EduPar or EduHPC to present work
Application Deadline: April 1, 2019
Notification: April 15, 2019
Program Overview:
The $5000 grant is meant to be used in support of curriculum development, and in part to cover travel expenses to the training workshop (airfare, housing, dinners, incidentals). Breakfast and lunch will be provided as part of the workshop each day. There is no fee for the workshop itself.
Training will be a combination of learning to use PDC tools, learning how to design and instrument an experimental course for meaningful evaluation, and pedagogical approaches for engaging a diverse set of students in PDC studies
The expectation is that grant recipients will develop experimental versions of course enhancements, or a new course or courses, to be offered in the academic year following the training. Participants commit to preparing a paper that reports the results of their efforts, based on application of the evaluation methodologies covered in the training, and submitting it for publication. The grant is also intended to help support travel to present the paper. If papers are accepted for publication in either of the EduPar or EduHPC workshops, we may be able to offer travel subsidies to partially offset the cost of conference attendance. Any courseware that is developed will be contributed to the CDER exemplars public repository so that others may benefit from these course development efforts.
Grant Restrictions:
US citizens may receive the grant as a stipend, and will be sent a 1099 miscellaneous income form at the end of the year. Non-citizens may only be reimbursed for actual expenses by submitting receipts to UMass. Reimbursable expenditures would include travel costs for attending the training workshop, equipment, software licensing fees, supplies, guests speaker cost, etc., in support of the course development, and travel costs associated with presenting research results at a conference. Non-citizens may not use the grant money as supplemental income. We regret that we are not able, under NSF rules for disbursement of participant support costs, to route the grant through the participant’s institution. At this time, we also have support for a small number of international participants. Prior recipients may apply for a new project, but priority will be given to those who have not previously received a course development grant.
Application Process:
To apply, submit a brief proposal to the CDER Center using Easy Chair. The proposal should include:
For each course that will be enhanced with new PDC content:
For each entirely new course that will be created to offer PDC content:
Apply through EasyChair using CDER PDC Curriculum New Early Adopter Grant Program 2019:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdersummer2019
Also see https://tcpp.cs.gsu.edu/curriculum/?q=the-early-adopter-program.html for updates.