Compelling Challenges and Recommended Solutions: Developing a Continuity of MS Education from Public School to Graduate Studies

摘要

Modeling and Simulation education is fast becoming a recognized discipline within academe (as teachers of M&S) and industry (as users of M&S). And as a discipline it has experienced a top-down approach with regard to academic programs that have their origins at the graduate level. There is now a need to develop an education continuum that reaches back to the undergraduate level and into the public schools. This can only be done with input from educators and administrators at all levels of the education pipeline: public schools, community colleges I undergraduate institutions, and universities. In the fall of 2007 a workshop was convened that brought together this diverse group to focus on sorting through the challenges of developing the M&S education continuum and recommending solutions. This paper is a brief review of the Partners in M&S Education Workshop hosted by the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center of Old Dominion University.