Faculty Funding
Faculty Support
The WAVE HPC Center supports faculty across Santa Clara University with funding, technical resources, and programmatic support for computational research and curriculum development. These initiatives help faculty integrate high-performance computing into their research and teaching, and give students more opportunities to work with advanced computational tools.
Faculty Course Development Grants
The High Performance Computing Center gives faculty access to advanced computational resources they can build into Santa Clara University's curricula. Initially supported by a grant from the Fletcher Jones Foundation, these programs provide faculty with the resources to advance research and prepare students for data-driven careers.
Through course development initiatives, faculty can redesign existing courses or develop new curriculum components that incorporate high-performance computing tools, data analysis methods, and computational modeling techniques, bringing real-world computational workflows into the classroom.
Catalytic Faculty Project Grants
The WAVE HPC Center established the Catalytic Faculty Project Grant program to support researchers exploring high-risk, high-reward computational work. These awards support interdisciplinary collaboration and give faculty the computing capacity to scale their research from local workstations to national supercomputing environments. The program launched with initial support from the Fletcher Jones Foundation and has since become a regular part of SCU's research funding.
Catalytic Faculty Project Grants fund early-stage or exploratory research that requires significant computational resources, helping faculty develop new ideas, build interdisciplinary collaborations, and position their projects for larger external funding.