Agenda for CSE Department Meeting 4-10-24

Advisory Board Meeting 4/29/24 11-3pm

• Draft agenda = Dominic D'Onofrio, Raisa Islam, Lily Houghteling, William Garrett, Jason Kern, Jena Peterson
• Ian Baldwin nomination

End of Year Awards

Some Graduating Student Nominees, According to Argos

Matthew Beecher	4.0
Preston Kite	3.84
Aidan Parral	3.82

Who else should be nominated? Who should win?

Overhaul the MS and/or PhD core courses?

• I think last meeting it was mentioned that these need an overhaul.
• Ideally, every tenure track faculty would be teaching one or more core, required graduate courses per year.
• The core of CS changes only slowly, but the NMT CS core has to be a function of its faculty expertise.
• We are at present pretty minimalist: one theory and one programming course. Do we want to stay minimalist?
• Do all tenure track faculty feel represented in our core?
• What other courses should be core?
• Suggested: OS as a core course, 5xx Advanced Programming as a separate core course. Systems Programming? Or is 525 really doing that already.
• Application Area for PhD open to all of CS, but research topics are purely elective.

CAE-R submission deadline soon. CAE-R designations are for the entire institute. There must be at least one program specialized in this area. Map how our curriculum prepares MS/PhD students for cybersecurity careers. Transdisciplinary Cybersecurity programs/degrees for CAE-R.