Transcript of FACULTY MEETING January 13 th, 2012. Agenda Announcements Report from the Deans meeting ...
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- FACULTY MEETING January 13 th, 2012
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- Agenda Announcements Report from the Deans meeting
Undergraduate Program issues Status on Faculty Hiring Micro
Teaching Workshops Semester Plans
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- Congratulations Naphtali Rishe The Payoff from the IBM-Google
University Research Cloud, The National Science Foundation awarded
Cluster Exploratory (CluE) program grants to Carnegie-Mellon
University, Florida International University, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Purdue University, University of
California-Irvine, University of California-San Diego, University
of California- Santa Barbara, University of Maryland, University of
Massachusetts, University of Virginia, University of Washington,
University of Wisconsin, University of Utah and Yale University.
http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2011/12/payoff-from-
ibm-google-university.html
http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2011/12/payoff-from-
ibm-google-university.html
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- Citrix Distinguished Lecture Series Jack Dongarra, University
of Tennesesse February 2nd, 2012 Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
February 24 th, 2012 Mary Fanett Wheeler, University of Texas,
Austin March 2 nd, 2012 Vincent McKoy, California Institute of
Technology March 23 rd, 2012 Dr. Ed Sidel, NSF March 28 th, 2012
Thomas Kailath, Stanford University April 20 th,2012
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- 25 th Anniversary Symposium Date: Nov. 9-10, 2012 The Symposium
will feature several Computer Science superstars (as in Turing
Award winners), along with some of our distinguished alumni at all
levels The Committee- Dr. Mark Weiss, Dr. Naphtali Rishe, Dr. Jai
Navlakha, Steve Luis.
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- History 1970 FIU started Airport Control Tower Except for
dreams they had nothing Now we have everything in terms of
buildings, facilities, etc.
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- Trust that we cannot take it for granted We have opportunities
to do something for our community. 25% of graduates of FIU they are
teachers in Dade- County Schools They are decision makers Connect
with the community is the main theme, Connect Eco system. Positive
approach to growth and committed to research
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- Undergraduate Program issues Announcements Enrollment Degrees
Awarded ABET Curricular Proposals Senior Project Discussions
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- Administrative Announcements My.fiu.edu to enter sick leave use
Summer and Fall registration opens late March; schedule is keyed in
and gets harder to make changes every day. Summer budgets unknown.
Please send me Spring 2013 schedule requests now, not later;
schedule is basically set, but not entered Send Summer and Fall
2012 book orders to Maureen now Please do not grant prerequisite
overrides except for exceptional cases; please do grant closed
course overrides up to the room capacity.
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- Spring Undergrad Enrollment Increases Spring 11 to Spring
12Spring 10 to Spring 12Spring 09 to Spring 12 SCIS16%30%40%
FIU5%14%19% CENGR6%11%19% CENGR MINUS SCIS2%3%9% 3000/4000-level
(non service) courses +63%
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- Undergraduate Degrees Awarded All time high number of graduates
(previous high 155) Fall 2008 IT retention is 93%
COMPSC:BSIT:BAIT:BSTotal Spring 2011304 64 Summer 20111712442 Fall
20113115688 Total786110194
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- ABET Update Interim report due July 1, 2012 Assessment process
updated to Be less reliant on senior projects Multiple choice pools
for topics covered in MAD-2104, MAD-3512, COP-3530, COP-4703,
COP-4555 Scoring rubrics for artifacts of topics covered in CGS-
3092, COP-3530, COP-4338, COP-4610 Refined senior project rubrics
for teamwork assessment, etc.
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- CS Curriculum Proposal #1 ADD CNT-4XXX: A new course on
network, security, and mobile computing as a required course. This
course was approved in 2011-2012 Bulletin#1.2011-2012 Bulletin#1
The need for networking and web-server technology as part of the
required curriculum was identified by an SCIS Subject Area
Coordinator report(s), was supported by the Assessments
Coordinator, was recommended by UGC, and later by the Special SCIS
Curriculum Review Committee. Currently, security is present in our
curriculum only by piecing together bits and pieces of several
unrelated courses; hence the need for a new course. The syllabus
incorporates many elements of the ACM recommended Net-Centric
computing knowledge units.
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- CS Curriculum Proposal #2 (IT also) REPLACE CGS-3092 WITH
CGS-3XXX: The 1-credit ethics course has been redesigned as a
3-credit Global Learning course with ethical, social, and cultural
issues with global perspective. This new course was approved in
2011-2012 Bulletin #2 and was accepted as a global learning course
in 2011-2012 Bulletin #3.2011-2012 Bulletin #22011-2012 Bulletin #3
The need for a three-credit replacement as part of the required
curriculum was identified by an SCIS Subject Area Coordinator
report(s), was supported by the Assessments Coordinator, was
recommended by UGC, and later by the Special SCIS Curriculum Review
Committee. Students have repeatedly and consistently complained
that the amount of work contained in the existing one- credit
course has warranted at least one, possibly two additional credits,
and our internal review has concluded that this is the case. The
new course has additional material that warrants a full three
credits. This course will also satisfy a global learning
requirement. As an added benefit, this course will clearly serve as
a W catalog course should FIU adopt the Provosts Writing Initiative
as part of the curriculum.
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- Curriculum Proposal #3 (IT also) REPLACE ENC-3213 WITH
ENC-3XXX: Based on SCIS request, the English department redesigned
ENC 3213. This course was approved in 2011-2012 Bulletin#2
2011-2012 Bulletin#2 Based on course samples it is evident that the
ENC-3213 course as taught contained some elements that could be
improved for our majors. Consequently we asked English to redesign
this course to match the ENC-3246 course that is required for
Computing majors at the University of South Florida. This course
has computing specific writing requirements and presentation
requirements that are appropriate for computing majors. The major
facets of the requested re-design were a) to expand the oral
communication component that already existed in ENC 3213, and b) to
provide other technical writing competencies that were noted by the
Software Engineering Area Coordinator as deficiencies in student
written presentations; these include preparation of bibliographies,
and documentation of sources. As an added benefit, this course will
clearly serve as a W catalog course should FIU adopt the Provosts
Writing Initiative as part of the curriculum.
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- Curriculum Proposal #4 REMOVE COM-3110 COM 3110 has not
delivered the expected oral presentation learning experience for
our students. The online version of the course evidently has no
oral presentation requirement. Further, there is apparent overlap
in the content of the existing COM 3110 and ENC 3213. Thus, like
University of South Florida, we feel that only one integrative
course is needed. The elimination of this course allows the
addition of Net-Centric Computing without new credits.
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- Curriculum Proposal #5 Change of Prerequisite and Co-requisite
for CEN-4010 As CEN-4010 requires web and database technologies to
implement software engineering projects, the following changes are
recommended: Current pre-requisite: COM-3110, CGS-3092, and
COP-3530 Current co-requisite: None New pre-requisite: CGS-3XXX,
COP-3530, and COP-4710 New co-requisite: CNT-4XXX In the early part
of CNT-4XXX, web technologies will be taught so that CEN-4010
students can apply those skills in the second half of the
term.
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- Curriculum Proposal #6 Change of Prerequisite and Co-requisite
for COP- 4710 To accommodate the above changes and not to extend
course dependency chain, the following changes are recommended.
Current pre-requisite: COP-3530 Current co-requisite: None New
pre-requisite: COP-3337 New co-requisite: COP-3530 In the early
part of COP-3530, B-tree and hash will be taught so that COP-4710
students can use that knowledge in the second half of the
term.
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- Curriculum Proposal #7 ADD COP-4520 AND COP-4722 TO SET 1 These
two existing advanced courses are added to Set1 elective list so
that these courses can be counted towards degree requirements.
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- Curriculum Proposal #8 INCREASE ELECTIVE CHOICES FOR CS-TRACK
AND REMOVE TWO MATH ELECTIVES Only 19 Computer Science majors have
taken MAD-4203 or MHF-4302 since Fall 2004. Since Fall 2006 (six
years), no Computer Science major has actually passed MAD-4203 and
only three have passed MHF-4302. These courses are functionally
inactive for Computer Science, and thus need to be removed. With
only two remaining math electives, and some newer CS electives, it
makes sense to combine the two set for CS-track, as many students
are interested in taking a broader array of electives. Since
SDD-Track students are required to take one Set1 course, we list
both sets with the flexibility for CS-track students to take any
three courses.
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- Curriculum Proposal #9 (Internal) CHANGE COP-4338 to cover only
C and Unix There have been recurring problems with COP-4610 due to
lack of C background. We have piloted the change this year with
apparent success. If made permanent, syllabus needs to be changed,
outcomes altered, and likely COP-4604 (Unix) needs to be redesigned
or eliminated. If not we need to revert back to C++ starting Summer
2012.
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- Senior Project Class Recent faculty comments: Reduce the
software engineering requirements in the deliverables Provide more
emphasis on completing the project and working demos Incorporate
more projects that involve an industry partner Discussion
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- Faculty Discussion on Other Items Should COP-2210 and COP-2250
at least be in the same format? Labs for COP-3337 and COP-3804?
Systems Integration and Architecture (SIA) course for IT Program
Requirements/Acquisition and Sourcing/Integration and
Deployment/Project Management/Testing and QA/Orginizational
Context/Architecture Service Courses and Certificate Programs
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- Faculty 2011-2012 Recruitment
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- Hiring Areas Listed on the Ad Bio/medical/health informatics
Computer architecture Computer graphics Large-scale data
management, search, and visualization Human-computer interaction
(HCI) Networking Programming languages Robotics and game theory
Telecommunication
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- Current Research Focuses Areas Data and Information Management
(Multidisciplinary ) Informatics Networking Security Software
Engineering Systems
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- Recruitment Rationale To fulfill the school goals Teaching
needs, research growth To maintain and expand current school
strengths To leverage the college and the University Strategic
Plans
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- Top Priority Areas Networking and Telecommunication
Bio/Medical/Health Informatics Large-scale data management /Social
Media Mining Robotics/Game Theory Computer Graphics, Data
Visualization, and HCI
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- Other Considerations Female candidates Minority especially
Hispanic candidates Senior candidates (especially well-known
established researchers in our focus areas)
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- Logistics Application Deadline: Jan. 16, 2012 Over 200
applications so far But we will evaluate and consider late
applicants as well The committee will start go over the applicant
files after the deadline Christine, Jason, Raju, Tao, Peter,
Xudong
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- Current Statistics Applicants from Top Schools MIT, Stanford,
Berkeley, Cornell, CMU, UCLA, UIUC, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Yale,
Maryland, Purdue, Washington, Wisconsin-Madison, New York,
Columbia, Georgia Institute of Technology, USC
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- FIU Discovery Lab Lab Motto : Future-inspired Innovation
Location : ECS 232 People : Dr. Iyengar, Dr. Kim, and Mr. Penubaku
Generating more patents and starts ups Commercialization of
research Area : Computing/Security/Automation/Intelligent
Robotics
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- Micro Teaching Workshops Formative Assessment by Dr. Leslie
Richardson, Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching
(CAT)
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- Issues and Future Development Enrollment is very important Our
Graduation Rates 42.75% Retention rates: 54.25% Research Funding is
close to 4 million Dollars Revenue Generation Programs MS
Telecommunication and Networking Program MS IT program MS Computer
Science Fund raising Certification of programs (Industry, Student)
Market Rate Program: Self Sustainability
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- Mentorship For Un-tenured Faculty members Academic Mentoring:
How to give it and How to get it? There will be a workshop from the
College of Arts of Sciences on Academic Mentoring soon.
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- Industry Engagement Participate in regional technology industry
meetings and create a presence at these events to raise awareness
about the School Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Miamis Got Tech
Event in March at Marlins Stadium South Florida Technology
Association Refresh Community Industry Day --- April 5th companies
to meet with faculty/students and see demos of research and senior
projects
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- Thank you for participating. Lets make it a great
semester!