A MULTIDISCIPLINARY MODEL FOR MS GRADUATE EDUCATION

摘要

Modeling and simulation (M&S) is an increasingly important aspect of scientific investigation in numerous disciplines. In recent years, M&S also has gained considerable acceptance as a discipline in its own right. As a result, there is growing demand for at least two different approaches to M&S graduate education, one path for users of M&S and another path for developers of M&S. For universities, this means that the traditional departmental approach, the one-size-fits-all approach, is no longer adequate for M&S education. The focus of this paper is the development of a new multidisciplinary approach to M&S graduate education being implemented at Old Dominion University. The approach encourages development of a number of M&S programs or tracks, coordinated by university-level oversight, in which all academic colleges participate.