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Tiêu đề

Operations research: Broadening computer science in a liberal arts college

Tác giả

Anthony B.M.

Năm xuất bản

2012

Source title

SIGCSE'12 - Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1145/2157136.2157271

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84858986609&doi=10.1145%2f2157136.2157271&partnerID=40&md5=c321b4a84cbb52f4eceecac2b638392f

Tóm tắt

Operations research, while not traditionally taught at many small or liberal arts colleges, can be a significant asset to the offerings of a computer science department. Often seen as a discipline at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, business, and engineering, it has great interdisciplinary potential and practical appeal, allowing for recruitment of students who may not consider taking a CS0 or CS1 course. A special topics course in operations research was offered by the computer science department at Southwestern University as an upper-level elective, and it was also cross-listed as a business and mathematics elective. Not only did the course benefit computer science majors who appreciated the applications and different perspectives, but it provided a means for the department to serve a wider population, increased interdisciplinary education, and resulted in a filled-to-capacity upper-level course in computer science for the first time in recent memory. This course is now being considered as a permanent elective that will interest computer science majors and minors as well as draw in students from disciplines across campus. For departments with limited faculty resources for teaching non-major courses, offering an operations research course provides an alternative that simultaneously serves the department and the campus as a whole. © 2012 ACM.

Từ khóa

computer science education; interdisciplinary; liberal arts; non-majors; operations research; outreach

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