SCS, the only international society that is dedicated to Modeling and Simulation, has sustained interest in topics of education of simulation and aims to lead efforts in education in M&S. One of the essential issues of our community is to move towards making a transition from a field of Modeling and Simulation to a discipline and to a profession. An attempt to formulate the Modeling and Simulation Body of Knowledge that is necessary for modeling & simulation professionals has been initiated by SCS members Tuncer Ören, Bill Tucker, Hessam Sarjoughian and Bill Waite who started the initiative SimSummit, "a forum - kept relatively informal by mutual agreement - of organizations with broad interest in M&S technology, professional development, industry and market".
Information about the Body of Knowledge (BoK) can be found at any of these sites:
By recognizing the role of education in supporting the vitality of the M&S profession and its discipline, SCS appreciates development of strong comprehensive educational programs based on core foundations to facilitate growth and continuity of the discipline. SCS will lead and support initiatives that aim at creating a standard curriculum for the undergraduate and graduate degrees in M&S. To this end, we organized a panel at the SummerSim 2010 that addressed experiences from successfully established programs at ODU, NPS and UCF as well as formulated ideas about requirements and conditions for development of successful M&S programs.
Materials of the panel include:
Simulation-Course-Share:
SCS is going to establish a database with courses in simulation that can be available for instructors. We encourage members of SCS to contribute to that project and to offer their courses for share. The pioneers of the Simulation-Course-Share are:
To get the course materials please send an email to the course provider.
SCS will continue to:
SCS Education Committee Board members:
- A. Tolk, ODU
- J. Sokolowski, ODU
- B. Waite, AEgisTG
- W. Tucker, Boeing
- R. Crosbie, CSU Chico
- A. Bruzzone, University fo Genova
- P. Kropf, University of Neuchatel
- H. Vakilzadian, University of Nebraska
- M. Obaidat, Monmouth University
- F. Longo, University of Calabria
- M. Itmi, INSA-Rouen
- JL. Sevillano, University of Sevilla
- T.Ören, University of Ottawa
- Mamadou Seck, University of Delft
- S. Strassburger, TU Ilmenau
- F. Breitenecker, TU Wien
- M. Kölsch, NPS
- B. Goldiez, UCF
If you are interested in being active in these education activities and future ones being planned, such as curriculum models and accreditation criteria, please contact the SCS VP for Education Prof. Helena Szczerbicka, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
