Newswise — The University of Arkansas, along with four other higher-education institutions, will benefit from a National Science Foundation grant to revitalize undergraduate education in enterprise computing. The project, titled "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education," will help develop a professional community for introducing the principles of enterprise computing technologies into the undergraduate curriculum.
Enterprise computing consists of the hardware and software used by large corporate, government and public organizations. Large retail and financial institutions are examples of corporations that utilize enterprise systems that provide the highest reliability, accessibility and scalability.
The project will bring together representatives from academe, industry and non-profit sectors to develop a new curriculum that will reshape the undergraduate information technology, information systems and computer science education. The project team and academic and corporate partners recognize that the effort must be a cooperative undertaking that will require involvement from a wide range of experts.
The vision is to develop a cost-effective undergraduate curriculum, based on nonproprietary standards, that addresses essential computing technology principles encountered predominantly in large system environments. A primary goal of the project is to address a skill loss that is a risk to national interests.
David Douglas, professor of information systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business and chair of the Enterprise Computing Steering Committee, is a co-principal investigator on the project and received $24,000 as the University of Arkansas portion of the NSF grant. Other participating institutions include Marist College, Illinois State University, North Carolina Central University and Widener University.
For more information on University of Arkansas Enterprise Systems, go to http://enterprise.waltoncollege.uark.edu/.
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