\noindent {\bf IX. ASSESSMENT OF APPLICABLE ACCREDITATION STANDARDS}

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This is a graduate degree program with no corresponding
undergraduate program (There is only one
undergraduate degree program within the United States in
this field, at SUNY-Brockport). Since this field is growing
rapidly, we fully expect that accreditation standards will
emerge and we will seek accreditation at that time.

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At least two professional groups have expressed interest in establishing
guidelines for some aspects of computational science and information
technology graduate and undergraduate education, the IEEE Technical
Committee on Parallel Processing (a subcommittee of the IEEE Computer
Society) and the Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics.  Neither group has published definitive
standards.
