Educating the Next Generation of Computational Physicists

Many “senior” Computational Physics researchers began their careers perched on of the other vertices of the Landau triangle as either theorists or experimentalists. It is now 25 plus years since the first textbooks on Simulational or Computational Physics appeared. Has the phase transition into the reality where Computational Physics is an integrated part of Physics Education occurred? Results from surveys of student knowledge at the start of the courses and from final course projects in Israel from 1994 to 2013 will be presented.