Agenda for CSE Department Meeting 3-3-21

Renovation of Cramer 117-118 has begun.

If anyone has a use for some cabinets in a lab or office, please let me know.

Upgrade of Cramer 235 has begun.

More power, more cooling, then more compute, GPU, and network hardware

Campuswide SRS Deadline is now March 10.

Encourage your research students to submit something! And also submit to our department showcase by March 27.

Graduate Student / TA Applicants Review

WebAdmit not behaving great today, but help me grok whether we have any more TA offers we should make.

Faculty Senate Report

• Our removing the CSE 101 prerequisite from 241 was approved.
• Our Minor in Cybersecurity was punted back to us: fix 461 reference, and change it to have no hidden prereqs. We seem to have three options: drop cybersecurity minor, resubmit it with no hidden prerequisites (likely to be rejected), or drop the 101 prerequisites from 221-222.

  Ideas Cybersecurity:

  • tell Corey this is a technical minor...unless we want to broaden it
  • (1 credit?) "leveling courses" or "mini-courses" for folks in other majors. Usually for grad program applicants, but would it work for Cybersecurity Minor?
  • low "Physics Minor" 18 credit hours includes 10 bonus required hours

  CSE 461, Foundations of Information Security, 3 cr, 3 cl hrs
  Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor

  This course will explore the ideas, literature, and worked examples that established the foundations of information security. The course introduces the concept of the Information Domain as the fundamental primitive that is the axis for introducing the policy requirements of Confidentially, Integrity and Availability that motivate the need for Information Security. The concept of the reference monitor is the organizing principle for the course. The examination of foundational literature starts with appears and ideas that first appeared in the mid 1960's and spans the time of tremendous creativity up through the following four decades. Shares lectures with CSE 561.

  Option A	Option B
  Minor in Cybersecurity credit hours required: 24-28. The following courses are required: CSE 101 (2), CSE 113 (4), CSE 122 (3), CSE 221 (3), CSE 222 (3), CSE 353 (3), CSE 363 (3), and one of (CSE 241+CSE 441) (6), CSE 461 (3), or CSE 561 (3)	Remove CSE 101 prerequisite from CSE 221 and CSE 222

Beyond this line are Optional Items

Council of Chairs Followup

Previously we discussed, and did not have consensus, on whether to drop CSE 382's prerequisite of CSE 326.