Computational science and engineering (CSE) and high performance computing (HPC) have now become an integral part of several engineering and science disciplines. However, there is still a very small participation from minority and under-represented population within US. To attract minorities to these critical technical areas and to the field of CSE and HPC, we have followed a complementary approach by exposing and training the faculty members from several under-represented and minority

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... ies in the areas of CSE and HPC through a one-week annual workshop conducted at the campus of North Carolina A&T State University (a major historically black college and university (HBCU)) with a strong computational science and engineering graduate program. This workshop enabled the participant faculty members from under-represented and minority serving institutions who are generally involved with minority undergraduate students at their institutions to be educated and exposed about various aspects of the CSE and HPC techniques and opportunities in these areas. This paper highlights the development of this educating the educator annual workshop on computational science and engineering and high performance computing for the past three years (2006 -2008). The experiences and feedback from the participating minority university, and the impact of expanding CSE and HPC education outreach to the community of faculty members and students at the under-represented and minority serving institutions are discussed. This educating the educator workshop has enabled the participating faculty members to not only get trained and exposed in these areas, but is also enabling to act as a catalyst to propagate their knowledge to their students. This is potentially serving a larger minority population and providing future work force needs of qualified minorities in these critical areas.