From: domik@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu (Gitta Domik)
Subject: Workshop summary - Education in Visualization
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:35:56 GMT

"An Agenda for Education in Scientific Visualization"
  
 Visualization '92 Workshop
 
 October 20, 1992
 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
 
 Report by Gitta Domik
 
 Chair: Gitta Domik (domik@cs.colorado.edu)
 Participants: Jerome Cox (jrc@cs.wustl.edu), Larry Hodges 
 (hodges@cc.gatech.edu), Kurt Lauckner, Robert McDermott 
 (usirjm@red.vis.utah.edu), David McNabb (mcnabb@avl.umd.edu), 
 Chris Olsen (olsen@npsp.physics.nps.navy.mil), Ron Pickett 
 (pickett@cs.ulowell.edu), Allen Schiano (schiano@uic.edu), 
 Hikmet Senay (senay@seas.gwu.edu), Len Zaifman 
 (leonardz@testarossa.cs.uoguelph.ca)
 
 Goal of the workshop:
 
 The workshop was aimed at describing the diversities and commonalities
 of college/university courses in "Scientific Visualization" (SV) and 
 making useful recommendations for educators in this field. The 
 diversity of SV courses is rooted in the diverse audience (e.g. computer 
 science versus science students; students knowledgeable about 
 concepts and algorithms in computer graphics versus students new 
 to computer graphics), diverse goals for such a course (e.g. preparing 
 students for the use of visualization software versus preparing 
 students for research in visualization versus 
 preparing students to work in an interdisciplinary team to find solutions
 for computational science problems through visualization) and 
 the diverse background of the instructors (e.g. computer graphics, 
 sciences, graphical design, perception). 
 
 Agenda, workshop preparations and how far we actually got:
 
 The agenda included introductions, several short presentations of 
 visualization courses, a discussion of the diversity of goals for 
 such courses, identification of "core topics", as well as references, 
 software and public domain data to recommend to instructors. 
 
 The preparations for the workshop included a survey of SV course 
 outlines, textbook recommendations, and some information about 
 visualization software and public domain data. During the workshop 
 the time constraint (less than 3.5 hours) did not allow to follow through 
 with the agenda; diversities became already clear during introductions 
 and discussions about course objectives and outlines. The workshop had a 
 great value in understanding various requirements visualization courses 
 will need to fulfill and hearing about first hand experiences in teaching a 
 visualization course. 
 
 As a result, textbook recommendations got only little attention, public 
 domain data and software were not discussed. "Core" topics were  shortly
 discussed, but no major changes were made to the original list of topics,
 because of time constraints. All this remains for a follow-up workshop
 in the future.
 
 The workshop summary therefore includes a profile of each participant, 
 sample course outlines of participants, and a list of course objectives 
 that we agreed upon during the workshop. The result of the workshop is 
 hoped to benefit educators in Scientific Visualization: for those who 
 currently teach such courses it is a way to compare their topics to 
 other course outlines; for those who are developing new visualization 
 courses it is a means of identifying their objectives with workshop 
 participants and contact workshop members for more information.
 
 The workshop summary report as well as additional information
 is now available in the anonymous ftp account of cs.colorado.edu
 (128.138.243.151) in the following compressed files:

 /pub/cs/vis/vis_workshop92.ascii.Z ... workshop summary
 /pub/cs/vis/vis_workshop92_addresses.ascii.Z ... full list of addresses
        of workshop participants
 /pub/cs/vis/course_outlines.ascii.Z ... course outlines in Scientific 
        Visualization and related topics as submitted by educators
 /pub/cs/vis/vis_data.ascii.Z... visualization data sets as available 
         on the net (list not complete!)
 /pub/cs/vis/vis_references.ascii.Z ... list of books, videos and journals 
 recommended to educators (list not complete!)

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