Each team, including at least one faculty member from mathematics and one from BPA, will write, test and disseminate case studies, based on decision problems from BPA. Teams will initially be recruited from around the country, through the network of contacts of the PIs and through national advertising of the initial team meeting. This meeting will showcase the three existing case studies developed by the co-PIs, and will explore the needs and resources of faculty at other institutions. We will expect true collaboration and significant commitments of institutional support (e.g. course releases) as a condition of acceptance into the project. BPA programs will select the mathematics that they currently want for their students. It will be their job to convince their faculty and students of the usefulness of the new course. This means that they must help develop material and must agree to use the course content in later courses in their field. It will be the job of the mathematics department to show how to teach the mathematical kernel, and to maintain the mathematical integrity of the case studies. Teams satisfying these conditions will be granted subcontracts with funds for summer salary and travel.
After the the initial meeting, the author teams will create new case studies. There will be two meetings each year of the grant, to present and share the new case studies for discussion and revision, and to finalize the case studies and report on what has been learned from class-testing.