Interdisciplinary Systems and Simulation Studies for an Innovative Undergraduate Program

摘要

To improve student critical and systems thinking abilities, we propose a simulation-based approach to teach and to conduct interdisciplinary systems studies as a part of an innovative undergraduate program. In this paper, we propose a sequence of simulation courses, discuss their goals and structure. To demonstrate the improved problem-solving ability of our students we briefly describe their systems simulation research projects in several areas. Some of our undergraduate student simulation projects were nationally recognized at the Student Research Contests at ACM-affiliated conferences.