Agenda for CSE Department Meeting 10-11-21

Departmentwide Topics

Tomatoes?

There are tomatoes in the CS office if anyone wants them.

Defense interest?

If you are a US citizen and interested in defense-related research, please drop me a note.

Faculty Advising Load-Balance

A number of students this past year reported difficulty receiving advising from their assigned advisor. Naturally some folks are better at advising than others. According to some Argos report, CSE Advising counts range from 6-32. MGT Advising ranges from 0-11. My intention is to load balance CS. MGT enjoys substantial autonomy so they can decide their own policy, but let me know what the policy should be.

2020-2021 Assessment Status

• MGT Q: are we doing two courses per program per year, or all courses every year?
• A: we have to turn in a report on each program every year. It has to map assessed data to program outcomes. We have a certain latitude as to how to maintain that in a fashion that is professional and current.
• Review: VPAA Assessment page

• Assessment = Learning Outcomes + Methodology + Evaluation + Actions
• Assessment reports page
• If you are GenEd course, or an ABET program, maybe additional requirements
• For the rest, assessments contribute to overall program (and dept., college, and universitywide) assessments
• Sampling vs. every-course-every-semester vs. aggregating -- as far as I am concerned, each program can adopt what it feels is (the minimum) necessary to be statistically valid. But if you have few students and low enrollment, you basically have to collect every data point every semester and aggregate across semesters/years to have numbers that mean anything.
• if low enrollment, many semesters you might just collect and present the data without evaluating it, or provide a rolling assessment.
• Last year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I managed the CS BS F19-S20 assessment in Fall 2020 when expected, but submitted CS grad assessment and IT assessments in Spring 21. MGT eventually submitted (I think) later in 2021 (Summer?)
• F20/S21 assessments that I have
  • CSE/IT 113 F20, S21 - Rita
  • CSE/IT 213 S21 - Rita
  • CSE 241 F20 - Ramyaa
  • CSE/IT 321 - Rita
  • CSE 324 S21 - Hamdy
  • CSE 342 S21 - Ramyaa
  • CSE 344 F20 - Mazumdar
  • CSE 353 F20 - Jun
  • CSE/IT 382 S21 - Chris
  • CSE 525 S21 - Jun
• F20/S21 assessments that I am missing
  • CSE 122 - promised by Dr. Tong
  • CSE 221 - promised by Dr. Tong
  • CSE 222 - promised by Dr. Tong
  • CSE 325 - promised by Dr. Tong
  • CSE/IT 326 - promised by Dr. Shin
  • CSE 331 - promised by Dr. Tong
  • CSE 423 - promised by Dr. Jeffery
  • IT 481/2
  • MGT ?

CSE Program Topics

How to gauge student interest in special topics?

Ramyaa was wondering how to estimate whether her reinforcement learning course would have enough students to make.

Center for Data Science and AI

And minor and grad certificate in data science.

• Need a non-113/122 track.
• Using ML/AI w/out knowing how to build stuff. Dr. Arvin wanting to teach using ML/AI. Danger of hijacking CS brand.
• Math also offering statistical ML, how does it relate? Is it interchangeable?

Python equivalent of 122?

Python freshman data science intro?

Python junior science data science course?

BA in IT

BS in Cybersecurity