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COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE MINOR PROGRAM
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Topics covered here:
- What is the Computational Science Graduate Minor?
- What Courses do Students Need to Take?
- What are the Core Courses?
- What Other Courses can be used for the PhD Minor?
- Who is Currently Enrolled in the Minor?
- How does a Student Apply for the Minor?
If you plan to pursue the Minor, submit your application soon; so we can complete the necessary paperwork. Don't wait until your final semester to apply. If you have additional questions, please contact the graduate advisor in your home department or Prof. Long (email: LNL).
WHAT IS THE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE GRADUATE MINOR?
The minor in Computational Science was created to provide an opportunity for graduate students in all colleges and majors to pursue a focused set of courses that emphasize all aspects of computational science. Computational science involves using computers to study scientific problems and complements the areas of theory and experimentation in traditional scientific investigation. This Minor would be a valuble program for almost any graduate student at Penn State.Official description: The Aerospace Engineering Department administers this interdisciplinary minor. Each student.s program is planned by the student and a designated computational science adviser, in consultation with the graduate adviser in the student's major field. The minor offers an opportunity for students in all colleges and majors to pursue a focused set of courses that emphasize computational science. The minor requires 9 credits in computational science courses for a masters degree and 15 credits for a doctoral minor.
This Grad Minor was approved by the Board of Trustees on July 14, 2006. This new Minor replaces the former Grad Minor in High Performance Computing. Also, on June 29, 2009 the Graduate School allowed us to add three additional Core Courses, and remove the requirement for AERSP 590. This change will be made permanent in 2010.
WHAT COURSES DO STUDENTS NEED TO TAKE ?
| The COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE Graduate Minor requires: |
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(6 credits must be from list of core courses) |
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(6 credits must be from list of core courses) |
| NOTE: These do not have to be additional credits beyond your graduate degree requirements. When appropriate, the same course can be used to satisfy your graduate degree and the COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE Minor. (Note: you cannot get an M.S. Minor with a Ph.D. If you are pursuing a Ph.D. major then you have to do the Ph.D. Minor) |
WHAT ARE THE CORE COURSES ?
| CORE COURSES |
Students must take two of these:
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NOTICE: The following are being removed from the Minor
requirements, but if you already took them you
will get credit for them (i.e. you can follow
the previous requirements for the Minor).
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WHAT OTHER COURSES CAN BE USED FOR THE MINOR ?
To find out when a course is offered, please consult the Penn State Schedule of courses .To suggest additional courses be added to this list, please send the syllabus and outline (or a weblink) to Prof. Long (LNL)
| ADDITIONAL COURSES |
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HOW DOES A STUDENT APPLY FOR THE MINOR?
- Students can apply online by filling out this form.
- Students should sign up for the Minor as soon as possible. There is a fair amount of paperwork, so don't delay applying.
- After the online submission, we will write a letter to the graduate school informing them of your intent to pursue the Minor (once this is done, there will be a "Yes" in the appropriate column in the List of Students)
- When we are notified that the student has been aproved by the Grad School, there will be a "Yes" in the final column in the List of Students
- Once the student has been approved, a note to this effect will appear on their transcript (this must appear on the transcript before graduation, you need to make sure of this!)
- Ph.D. students pursuing the Minor also need to have a CSCI faculty member on their Ph.D. committee (and this person cannot be the Chair of the committee)
- All the students pursuing the Minor should also make sure they are on the CSci-GRAD-MINOR listserver, which is how we communicate with all the students. Instructions for joining the list are at: LIST SERV LINK .
Last modified: Saturday, 26-Sep-2009 19:47:43 EDT
Announcements:
New Core Courses added !
Paper on need for CSci Education
Presentation at APS Conference on Grad Minor