Agenda for CSE Department Meeting 11-8-23

Exploration Day Report

• about 10 students in the first session, like 3 in second, 2 in third.
• Thank you to Hamdy, Subhasish, Lorie, Sana, and sysadmin Garrett Wood for helping out
• alum panelists: Casey Haynes (Sandia), Andres Quan (LANL), Cindy Veitch (Microsoft) were great

DTRA meetings Nov. 13

We get about 7 minutes to present department AI/ML and image processing capabilities

Christmas Party ideas

Kim and I are planning the Christmas party, and we need your help. We need to know what NMT CSE christmas traditions to preserve, and what new ideas that you have that we might try.

Christmas "Tradition"	Keep?	Toss?	Comments
food	X		Costs $500+
White Elephant Gifts	?	?	Might cost $500+
Movies/game room	?	?
Ugly Sweater contest	?	?
Luminarias	?	?	Might cost $???
Hot Chocolate	?	?
Your Idea Here	?	?

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
• Draft statement:

  The NMT CSE faculty offers great flexibility regarding remote attendance, including several explicit DE courses and courses with DE sections. However, the MS and PhD programs in Computer Science at NMT are primarily synchronous in-person programs in which relationships between faculty and students are important. We are not a correspondence school. Some courses with remote attendance options may require in-person attendance of mid-term and final examinations; other courses may require in-person attendance the whole semester.