Agenda for CSE Department Meeting 11-1-23

Randolph and CSE summer STEM programs (Lorie)

• Summer STEM dates are: June 9-14, July 14-19.
• Sam (Buzzcamp Queen) had this to say:

  My concern is the fact that one of Buzzcamps main focuses is that the kids are in a very controlled environment on campus, supervised and chaperoned at all times. This is the only way we are able to host younger age groups and mix them with older kids.

  Last year we had some trouble with crossover with kids from the summer STEM program because they are able to have control of their own whereabouts, we ran into some issues because of this. I completely understand that the summer STEM group is a group of older kids and I had initially thought it would be good to have some mix but after having had the camps at the same time I think for housing, resources, and just general controlled experiences it would probably be beneficial to keep Buzzcamp more stand-alone...

Spring 2024 scheduling

We've had a bit of trouble with Spring 2024 schedule, and not all of it is the registrar's fault. Registrar errors get fixed quickly. But what do we do about the fact that all senior faculty want to teach TR, to avoid conflicts?

Exploration Day : Saturday November 4th

• Cramer 203 reserved. Cramer 221 for Management.
• alum panel.
  • Panelists: Casey Haynes (Sandia), Andres Quan (LANL), Cindy Veitch (Microsoft).
  • Thank you to Lorie and Hamdy.
  • Last year was: Blaine Gaither, Tyler Beadle, Harley Kozushko. They were great. Do not want to re-ask them.
• CSE sysadmins -- a couple will be available
• Faculty -- if you are willing, please attend and be introduced.

DTRA meetings Nov. 13

Hamdy and Ramyaa volunteered

Definitive position on distance grad studies

• We've been requested by Aly to produce a definitive statement regarding the extent of distance ed possible in the CS MS and/or PhD.
• Previous discussion has been a discussion of two problems: exam proctoring and hybrid being suboptimal.
• Range of possible responses: (yes|no) DE-only (MS|PhD), or some kind of: (MS|PhD) can be DE-except courses X, Y, Z

Linux in the Curriculum

How much do our CS majors get? Some seem wobbly. Do they learn these anywhere? Where? 221? For each of the following topics:

Topic	Teach(Y/N)	Where intro	Where intermediate?
ssh & scp	(n?)
shell CLI	y	101, 113	222
shell scripting	y	222
vi/emacs	n?	101? 113?
gcc	y	113?
gdb	y	122?	221, 222
make	y	113, 122, 222

122 instructors will discuss and vote on whether to add a lab

articulating from 113 to 122 and from 122 to ...

This can include specific C language skills, maths, fundamental programming practices & experience, etc.

Topic	Teach(Y/N)	Where intro	Where intermediate?
linked lists	y	end of 113	122?
n-ary trees	y	122
hash tables	y	122
graphs	n?
tracing (hand-simulation) a program or an algorithm	y	113	122