Background information about CPSWT courseware
In the spring of 1996, NPAC initiated an experimental
international education program involving 6 graduate
students in Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
This program is called
Internet-based Computational Science Education
Program , or ICPSEP
for short.
Various course were delivered and students work were
submitted via Internet. Extensive interactions were
observed via email and ftp, etc., among instructors in
NPAC and students in China. See
ICPSEP archive for
more details on how this program was conducted.
This program lasted for 4 months, all major Chinese newspapers
have had coverage, students gave high score for the success
of the program. Professor Geoffrey Fox, director of NPAC, and
Mr. Don Leskiw, senior project manager of NPAC,
went to China, and presented a certificate to each of those students
upon their successful completion of the program in July, 1996.
Observing there is a tremendous interest in computational
science and web technology in China, professor Fox
decided to reorganize the course materials covered in ICPSEP
and sponsor to have them translated into Chinese, after returning
from China.
The students participating ICPSEP worked hard for 6 months.
A comprehensive courseware package, titled
CPSWT is completed in Chinese and in a web-browsible
form. Then NPAC produced a CD-ROM for this courseware package.
1000 copies of the CD-ROM had been distributed in China, while
professor Fox was invited to give lectures on Internet technologies
for the first annual high-tech summer school for advanced computer
technologies, sponsored by the Commission of Science and Technology
of China, in May, 1997.
What we have here is the
English version of CPSWT courseware.