Agenda for CSE Department Meeting 9-27-21
Departmentwide Topics
- department office staffing
- In addition to searching for an admin, I am starting a new student team,
the webadmin team, to assist with web and front office functions.
- Department Promotional Video
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| CS+IT | MGT+IT
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- theme/direction:
- 2 faculty interviews - nominations?
- 2 student interviews - nominated: Summer, Alan F.
- compelling imagery - videogame? cyberattack stuff?
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- theme/direction:
- 2 faculty interviews - Frank, Haoying
- 2? student interviews - ? and ?
- compelling imagery - Santa Fe competition
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- Improving preparation for our tougher courses
- I was recently visited by a student who sailed through lower-division
courses and then felt un-prepared for their upper-division course. The
student did not want the upper-division course to be easier, they felt that
certain lower-division course(s) need to be more rigorous.
IT Program Topics
- NASA competition - Frank
- details here
- 2nd semester Python course
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Dr. Kuo showed me a plan recently; any update?
- IT BA
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By definition, this would be an IT degree without calc 2 and without the year
of calculus based physics and the year of chemistry.
- should we do an IT BA? I'm still hearing reasonable arguments to maybe
not do this, did we vote on it yet?
- arguments not to do an IT BA
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- it will weaken our department's brand
- it will weaken our department's curriculum
- we have too many programs already
- arguments to do an IT BA
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- if we don't grow it, the IT remains an albatross we can't get rid of
- if grow it carefully, it will serve students and add resources without
significantly weakening our department's curriculum
- Resolving the 382 prerequisites
- Last year we failed to achieve consensus on exactly which fix to apply.
It is not really OK to leave this unfixed.
- Fix #1 is to reduce IT 382 prerequisites to make it easier to take
- Fix #2 is to reduce IT 481-482 prerequisites to not need 382 first.
- Implicit MGT 472 requirement
- IT 466 requires MGT 472. Nothing new; first appeared in 2016 catalog.
IT 466 appears on requirement list but MGT 472 does not appear
in sample curriculum. How should the catalog be changed to
account for this?
IT 466, 466D, Project Management, 3 cr, 3 cl hrs
Prerequisite: MATH 2350, MGT 472 each with a grade of
C or higher, or consent of instructor and advisor
Development of work breakdown structures and multifactor project simulations
to be used in dynamic resource allocations. Assessment and evaluation of
project models over time. (Same as MGT 476.)
MGT 472 Production and Operations Management I
Prerequisites: MATH 2350 and upper-class standing or
consent of instructor and advisor.
Application of quantitative methods to problems
encountered in management. Problem solving emphasis
with extensive use of applications software. Topics
include linear and integer programming, forecasting,
queueing theory and simulation