UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
Grant: $1,950,568 - National Science Foundation - Jul. 29, 2009
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Award Description: Early stimulation and nurturing of mathematical interest of undergraduate students is a key in improving the overall quality of undergraduate mathematics program, increasing the number of students in successful pursuit of advanced degrees, and strengthening the nations output of talented young generations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Mathematics is the language of science, and the foundation of modern computing. We propose a research experience propram in computational and applied mathematics for lower-division undergraduate students at UC Irvine. Through this experience, we seek to stimulate student interest in mathematics and computer science, and provide positive mentoring to students early in their college education. The intellectual merit of the proposed project is in developing an integrated teaching and research program at the interface of mathematics and computer science for freshman and sophormore students at UCI. Management and evaluation plans are thought out to develop application driven teaching and research projects to stimulate the interest of lower division undergraduate students in mathematics, statistics and computing. The projects are extracted from current research in information sciences and machine learning. The program involve mentoring of postdoc and graduate students, and their particiation in teaching and guiding the undergraduate students via lectures and laboratory experience. Students will develop creative thinking and progamming skills at the early stage of their collge study and prepare them better for success in upper division classes and pursuit of advanced degrees. The program also utilize on-line data resources at UCI and reach out to minority students in the area. The curriculum is portable, the only software platform is Matlab and its toolboxes. Successfully carrying out the proposed project will generate broad impact on undergraduate course and curriculum advances, and undergraduate STEM education in creating sensible and hands-on methods of learning mathematics.
Project Description: Early stimulation and nurturing of mathematical interest of undergraduate students is a key in improving the overall quality of undergraduate mathematics program, increasing the number of students in successful pursuit of advanced degrees, and strengthening the nations output of talented young generations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Mathematics is the language of science, and the foundation of modern computing. We propose a research experience propram in computational and applied mathematics for lower-division undergraduate students at UC Irvine. Through this experience, we seek to stimulate student interest in mathematics and computer science, and provide positive mentoring to students early in their college education. The intellectual merit of the proposed project is in developing an integrated teaching and research program at the interface of mathematics and computer science for freshman and sophormore students at UCI. Management and evaluation plans are thought out to develop application driven teaching and research projects to stimulate the interest of lower division undergraduate students in mathematics, statistics and computing. The projects are extracted from current research in information sciences and machine learning. The program involve mentoring of postdoc and graduate students, and their particiation in teaching and guiding the undergraduate students via lectures and laboratory experience. Students will develop creative thinking and progamming skills at the early stage of their collge study and prepare them better for success in upper division classes and pursuit of advanced degrees. The program also utilize on-line data resources at UCI and reach out to minority students in the area. The curriculum is portable, the only software platform is Matlab and its toolboxes. Successfully carrying out the proposed project will generate broad impact on undergraduate course and curriculum advances, and undergr
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