Summer PDC Education Training Workshop 2024

PIs Weems, Thota, and Sussman conducted a 4.5-day training workshop at UMass, focusing on unplugged activities and programming topics that can be introduced in early Computer Science and Computer Engineering courses. The workshop had 14 participants from a diverse set of institutions, including MSIs, HBCUs, and small and large universities/colleges. Morning sessions, presented by PIs Weems and Sussman, focused on concurrency and parallelism topics that include event handling (implicit thread parallelism), data parallelism (Java collections and C/C++OpenMP), and message passing (MPI). Afternoon sessions, led by PI Thota, targeted education research methodology to enable participants to develop research studies related to their course updates on PDC topics that can be published at CS education venues (including the EduPar and EduHPC workshops organized as part of this project). While this training was funded by a different Cyber Training award, it is relevant to this project because two participants in this workshop are members of the testing teams for this project, so they now have additional training in incorporating PDC topics into the courses at their institutions. The list of participants appears below. Each received a $3K stipend.

	Name	Institute
1	Xingguo Xiong	University of Bridgeport
2	Jing-Chiou Liou	Kean University
3	Jiayin Wang	Montclair State University
4	Hoda El Sayed	Bowie State University
5	Julius Dichter	University of Bridgeport
6	Ahmed Imteaj	Southern Illinois University
7	G G Md Nawaz Ali	Bradley University
8	Md Kamruzzaman Sarker	Bowie State University
9	Amir Kamil	University of Michigan
10	Yili Tseng	Ferrum College
11	Probir Roy	University of Michigan
12	Sabrina Chowdhury	Purdue University Indianapolis
13	Peter Maher	Webster University
14	Thomas Yeh	University of California, Irvine