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The Colleges of Computing, Engineering and Sciences are offering an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in computational science and engineering.
"Computation has become widely accepted as the third mode of discovery, along with theory and experimentation, in the advancement of scientific knowledge," said Richard Fujimoto, Regents professor and chair of the computational science and engineering division in the College of Computing. "Computation, through modeling, simulation, analysis and its other forms, is essential in creating new applications with great impact on the sustainable growth of cities, the design of power-efficient buildings, the creation of new biomedical devices, the eradication of life-threatening diseases and other issues of great social importance.
"Through the study of phenomena as large as the universe, or the engineering of systems as small as nanomaterials, breakthroughs in the CSE field will be the catalyst for future innovations that affect society and culture on a global scale," Fujimoto said.
Tech currently has more than 80 faculty actively engaged in computational science and engineering research. The new doctoral program begins with core computational science and engineering research requirements, along with dedicated components to solidify each student's competency within a variety of computing specializations.
Students must take at least four courses from the following five areas of study: numerical and scientific computing, computational science and engineering algorithms, modeling and simulation, computational data analysis and visualization and high-performance computing.
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