Grid Project II
  The Grid Computing Science Project is focused on establishing a computing course which encourages the creation of real scientific Grid applications. Grid computing portals are now commonplace, but are not utilized because there is a lack of understanding of real applications that would make Grid useful. The Grid course develops educational materials demonstrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) applications that have potential for Grid computing solutions. The course uses a recently developed Grid computing workflow editor called GridNexus (gridnexus.org) to facilitate constructing and executing geographically distributed computations that are the basis of Grid computing. The project is a collaboration involving students from UNC-Wilmington, UNC- Charlotte, and NC A&T State University. The course is currently targeted towards junior and senior level undergraduate computer science and engineering students, but could be assimilated by students in all STEM disciplines.