Agenda for CSE Department Meeting 8-16-23

Welcome Back!
Welcome to our admin, Kim! Welcome to Socorro, Suraj!
Thursday: Fall Welcome BBQ
Friday: New Student Luncheon
Kim, do we need to RSVP?
Monday 8/21: our first CS Research Seminar
Dr. Sana Algaraibeh will reprise her talk, "Techniques for Enhancing Compiler Error Messages".
next Monday 8/28
special guest Dr. Vakhtang Poutkaradze will speak on "Lie-Poisson Neural Networks".
CS Research Talks
Who wants to give a talk to the CSE 585 Grad Seminar?
  • Can you nominate 1 or more colleagues to give talks this fall?
  • Seminars are M 5:30-6:45, W 3-4?, or F 3-4.
  • The Monday timeslot matches UIdaho's grad seminar for joint talks.
  • I've invited folks from UNM, NMSU, CUBoulder, others; not sure who will say yes.
  • Would like (at least) a LANL, maybe also a Sandia
Responsible Conduct of Research
If you have done the NMT PI's CITI training, they are planning to require pretty much exactly that content next year for all grad students and student researcher employees.
  • I am going through it in CSE 585 and plan to make all graduate students take it there.
  • NMT says "first semester at NMT", while some of our grad students don't take 585 during their first semester.
Assessment
  • We need all assessments for last academic year by September 1 in order to convene committees to discuss assessments during September.
  • What courses? All courses required for degrees.
  • What have I received already? Time to do a better job of tracking it. I will create a google drive.
  • This year, our IT, MGMT programs will be espsecially assessed by internal NMT admin. If you teach IT or MGMT classes, expect I'll need more help than usual
Buzzcamp vs. Summer STEM
Buzzcamp had ~50 this year. It is Dr. Liebrock's and instructor Knowles' baby, but if it is to grow, it will probably morph into a partnership with Summer STEM, which is being run by Admissions. There will likely be a need for instructional faculty and/or students to run this.
SJC Visit
Contingent of faculty requested to go to Farmington in October.
Technical Electives Form
Do we all know where the form is? Do we all advise students to fill it out prior to taking their technical electives? Or is it just another mostly-rhetorical part of the intent to graduate process?
  • Recommendation is that you ask students to start filling it out before they start taking technical electives, since they must be approved.
State CS Common Numbering System
I spent two wonderful days last week meeting with colleagues from around the state. Work was driven largely by 2 year schools with vocational technical mindset, but we ended up with 5 courses that should transfer for CS majors. Prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.
What, no Retreat?
Maybe. What do we really want, professionally, in this department?