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SUMMARY:Employing Student Retention Strategies for an Introductory GPU Pro
 gramming Course
DESCRIPTION:Julian Gutierrez, David Kaeli, and Fritz Previlon (Northeaster
 n University)\n\nGraphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become a vital hard
 ware resource for the industry and research community due to their high co
 mputing capabilities. Despite this, GPUs have not been introduced into the
  undergraduate curriculum of Computer Engineering and are barely covered i
 n graduate courses.\n\nBreaching the gap between university curriculum and
  industry requirements for GPU expertise is ongoing, but this process take
 s time. Offering an immediate opportunity for students to learn GPU progra
 mming is key for their professional growth.\n\nThe Northeastern University
  Computer Architecture Research Lab offers a free GPU programming course t
 o incentivize students from all disciplines to learn how to efficiently pr
 ogram a GPU. In this paper, we discuss the methods used to keep students e
 ngaged in a course with no academic obligations. By applying these strateg
 ies, we have been able to retain 80% of the students throughout the whole 
 course and obtained positive feedback from students for these strategies.\
 n\nTag: Diversity, Education\n\nRegistration Category: Workshop Reg Pass\n
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