Normalizing computing in the undergraduate curriculum

The IUPUI Physics Department is in the fourth year of a project to transform its undergraduate curriculum by adding computing in every course of the major. The overall goal of the project is to normalize computing in the study of physics, by which we mean that students should come to view computing as a normal way of doing physics, just as they think of analytical methods as a normal way to do physics. An additional goal is that as students progress through the major, they will develop the judgment and intuition to use a judicious mix of analytical and computational methods to study ad understand physics. This talk will share some details on the implementation of the project, including the department change process we used to get all faculty members on board, the assessment and evaluation instrument we have developed and used, the data to date, and lessons learned.