Agenda for CSE Department Meeting 9-13-23

Jeffery Out of Town 9-14/15-2023

I can answer e-mail and sign forms electronically. If Kim needs immediate assistance with something in person...

AI Teaching and Research in CS

President Lopez asked Mike Jackson to ask us to draft a short report of whatever we've got going on that's AI related. "Short report" equals "throw together in a week or so". I went ahead and created a google doc for this, and shared it. If you have any AI-related teaching or research, please add to that doc within 7 days.

New PC's?

A sysadmin has reminded me that we should dispose of old computers and upgrade to new computers, and this includes faculty.

• If you have an older computer, especially if it is older than 3 years, please consider whether you would like to retire it and get a new one, and let me know.
• Along with a new PC we can buy a USB switch (or a KVM switch) if it would help you to run both old and new PC for awhile, in order to smooth the transition.
• If you know of a TA or RA who needs a computer or monitor, please let me know.

CS Graduate Applications to Review

• If we are going to offer any funding for Spring24 to an international student we probably need to do so ASAP.
• we need to know how many current TAs will be graduating to see how many slots we will have open.
• This fall we were short at least one whole TA slot (two half-TA's who were previously funded, one of which is continuing in Spring I think)
• So, please list for me who-all you think is finishing this Fall:
• We have one PhD applicant who was admitted and recommended for funding Spring 2024. Can we fund him?
• We have two admitted but unfunded Fall 23 applicants who deferred their admission to Spring 2024. I have kicked their applications back to faculty review so additional person(s) can weigh in on whether to fund them if TA resources are available. One faculty has expressed interest in one of them receiving a funding offer. The other has higher GRE's, but a weirder transcript.
• Aly also wants creative proposals for graduate recruiting. Do we have any?

CSE 101 Distance?? or is it there to make us transfer-hostile?

SJC requested that we offer CSE 101 to them via distance.

Are the CS grad programs distance programs?

• If 525 is not DE, it might push some students into 423.
• Is it a burden to (continue to) offer 544/546 DE?
• It is a slight pain to offer 585 and 423 as DE, but bearable.
• When I reported the proctoring as an issue, Mike Jackson suggested that we do it like Math does, which is department-level with help from the admin.

What would Department-level DE Proctoring Look Like?

1. DE Sections' syllabi state that students must choose, by say, the drop deadline, either:
   • (a) travel to Socorro for exams, or
   • (b) establish an approved proctor agreement
2. Proctor agreement is a form by which a proctor (usually an employer or a local education institution) agrees to receive and administer the exams, guarantee identity, enforce rules and timing, return promptly, etc.
3. CSE only approves proctor agreements from legitimate providers
4. For each exam:
   1. say, 2 days before exam, instructor delivers exam to CSE admin
   2. CSE admin delivers exam to proctor
   3. Proctor administers exam
   4. Proctor returns exam to CSE admin
   5. CSE admin delivers exam to instructor

Please tell me whether this will work, and if not, what its deficiencies are.

Assessment

• It is September 13. Have you completed your assessments?
• Have Committees Scheduled their Meetings Yet? Let's do so now.

  Analyze a complex computing problem and to apply principles of computing and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions

  Courses: 324, 325, 331, 353, 423 Committee Members: chair Hamdy, Jun, Clint, John

  Design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the program's discipline;

  Courses: 113, 122, 213, 221, 222, 324, 353, 423 Committee Members: chair Jun, Ely, Sana, John, Hamdy, Clint

  Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts;

  Courses: 326, 331, 382 Committee Members: chair Dongwan, Jun, Chris

  Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in computing practice based on legal and ethical principles;

  Courses: 382 Committee Members: Chris (outcome 4 will meet with outcome 3)

  Function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the program’s discipline; and

  Courses: 325, 326 Committee Members: chair Clint, Jun, John, Dongwan

  Apply computer science theory and software development fundamentals to produce computing-based solutions.

  Courses: 241, 326, 342, 344, 423 Committee Members: chair Subhasish, Ramyaa, Dongwan, Clint

• Recommendations can include: changes in course content. Or: changes in how courses are assessed.
• Committees should also recommend additions and removals to the course learning outcomes and the amounts and quality of data used to assess them.
• What have I received already?
  • In Fall 22 I have CSE 113, CSE 122, CSE 221, CSE 241, CSE 325, CSE 353, CSE 585
  • In Spring 23 I have CSE 113, CSE 222, CSE 324, CSE 326, CSE 331, CSE 342, CSE 363, CSE 382, CSE 423, CSE 525
• What do I still need?
  • In Fall 22 I need CSE 344
  • In Spring 23 I need CSE 122
• Google drive was shared with you-all
• This year, our IT, MGMT programs will be especially assessed by internal NMT admin. If you teach IT or MGMT classes, expect I'll need more help than usual