2024-2025 University of Wyoming Catalog
School of Computing
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Engineering Building, Room 4083
Phone: (307)766-5299 Email: uwyo-soc@uwyo.edu
Gabrielle Allen, Director
Website: www.uwyo.edu/soc
The School of Computing is a hub of innovation and knowledge exchange for computing and digital skills.
The school aims to provide University of Wyoming students, faculty and staff, and Wyoming businesses and citizens with the computational tools, skills and approaches to drive transformation and innovation in the state. The School of Computing champions broader efforts to make the University of Wyoming more digital, inclusive, interdisciplinary, and entrepreneurial through computing partnerships across Wyoming.
Vision:
Create a unique and inspirational School of Computing with national impact and global reach, providing Wyoming and the world with agile and ethical computing professionals, empowered to address societal challenges that are inherently interdisciplinary.
Mission:
Position our land grant institution as: a national leader in computational and digital research, education, and engagement; a computational hub for students, faculty, staff, community, and our industry/state/academic partners; a steward, supporter, and developer of digital skills and computational thinking for all.
Values:
- Excellence in research, teaching, and engagement
- Partnership and collaboration
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing
- Context-based experiential learning
- Computing across disciplines, including social sciences, arts, humanities and STEM
Centers:
WyGISC is an interdisciplinary research and education institute at the University of Wyoming. The Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC) is an interdisciplinary academic center focused on education, research and development of geospatial information and technologies and their applications in science, government, business, and other areas.
The Data Science Center provides an academic hub for data science at UW, providing the key academic component in a “UW Data Science Collaboratory” (DSC, Library, ARCC, WyGISC, WNA, Maker Space, Extension along with disciplinary partners including AHC, INBRE Data Core, WYNDD, RMH, 3D Viz, NSF WyACT, etc).
Engagement Programs:
Data Science Center Fellows
The Data Science Center supports two Faculty Fellows each academic year in pursuit of excellence in research, teaching, and engagement in data science at the University of Wyoming.
Faculty Fellows
The Faculty Fellows program supports projects that advance computing research, learning, and engagement across the university, with a focus on aligning with university initiatives, fostering applied computing, impacting student experiences, integrating the School of Computing, and promoting digital for all.
Graduate Computing Scholars
Graduate Computing Scholars are proudly supported for being outstanding graduate students demonstrating immense potential in their computational careers. They are enrolled in Ph.D. or Master’s programs at the University of Wyoming, pursuing research projects where innovative computing and/or the advancement of computing play a crucial role.
UW Derecho Professors
The UW Derecho Professor designation provides named professors in any academic field with up to 5 million core hours of access to both traditional compute nodes and accelerators on the Derecho supercomputer at the NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC). Leveraging and enhancing the UW-NCAR partnership, the initiative contributes to recruiting and retaining UW faculty whose research program in computing will be strengthened through a flexible and guaranteed allocation on this resource.
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars are used to support short-term visiting scholars that are faculty, post-docs, or advanced graduate students (in the final 2 years of studies). The funds may be used to cover travel, lodging, and meal costs as well as a stipend for the visiting scholar.
Personnel:
All personnel affiliated with the School of Computing is listed accordingly at https://www.uwyo.edu/soc/people/index.html.
The People at the School of Computing webpage includes the Administrative Team, Advisory Board, Graduate Students (internal and external to the School), Faculty (Research Scientists, Core, Adjunct, and Post-Doctoral Associates), and UW Derecho Professors.
Accreditation:
All programs at the University of Wyoming are accredited by The Higher Learning Commission, a commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Institutions of Higher Education.
Program Specific Admission Requirements (Undergraduate)
Undergraduate students apply for admission to the University of Wyoming and then declare a major or minor within SoC at any point during their course of study. To declare a major, students must meet with their SoC affiliated academic advisor. Any student wanting to add the SoC minor should consult an SoC affiliated advisor to streamline their program.
All SoC programs will emphasize experiential learning and encourage interdisciplinary courses when possible.
General Policies:
- A minimum 2.00 UW GPA is required to apply for the minor.
- It is the student’s responsibility to monitor requirements for the minor, along with their advisor.
- Additional courses may be required to meet individual course prerequisites.
- All classes in the minor must be passed with a grade of “C” or better.
Program Specific Admission Requirements (Graduate)
Graduate GIST Certificates and Degrees - see https://www.uwyo.edu/wygisc/academics/graduate-programs/index.html
ProgramsBachelor of ScienceGraduate CertificatesMaster of ScienceUndergraduate CertificatesMinorGraduate MinorCoursesGeospatial Information Science Technology
Computing
Software Development
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