CNS, PEng, and EART Planning Meeting

1. Utah Valley State College CNS, PEng, and EART Planning Meeting

2. Agenda • Welcome and Introduction • Business from Dean’s Office • EART Program • Business Items • Budget Info • Break • ABET Related Issues Fall Planning Meeting

3. Welcome and Introduction • New Department (EART) in the group • Dave Adams (Program Coordinator), Robert Benson (Lecturer), David Porter (Lab Specialist) • New Faculty Members • David Keller (CNS, Lecturer) • Robert Benson (EART, Lecturer) Fall Planning Meeting

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5. Business • Department Meetings • CNS on Mondays (3:00 to 4:00) • Pre Eng and EART (TBA) • T&C Group on UV Link • Login to UV Link • Click “groups” icon • Click on “School of T&C” Link • Info available • Calendar Items, School Practices, School Procedures Fall Planning Meeting

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9. Important Information • T&C Professional Development Fund • Files  T&C Procedures  #1 Professional Development Funds • Faculty School Attendance • Files T&C Practices  Practice #1 Faculty Attendance • Should be in our offices four times a week and have 10 hours of office hour each week Fall Planning Meeting

10. Budget Info Fall Planning Meeting

11. MFAT Results -- Individual • Individual Comparison • Observations: • Our students have a higher mean and a tighter distribution. • Our average is 1.33  above the national individual average. Fall Planning Meeting

12. MFAT Results – Institution • Institutional Comparison (76 domestic) • Observations: • All three areas are better than the national average • Programming and Systems are 2 above the national average. • Discrete structure is only 1 above the national average. Fall Planning Meeting

13. ABET Tasks and Time Line • Changes in ABET • Emphasis areas • Tasks for Fall 2007 • Self Study: Keith Olson • Individual Faculty Members: • Update CV using the ABET template • Collecting course related information • Assessment work Fall Planning Meeting

14. Travel Policy • Dean’s office has additional faculty development fund • Faculty could apply if the department has a prioritized list on file • Draft Fall Planning Meeting

15. Grader Related Issue (Roger) • Can multiple classes share a grader? • Should graders also provide limited tutoring service in the open lab for CS students? Fall Planning Meeting

16. Mail Related Issues • Should the receptionist/office admin support open faculty’s packages? Fall Planning Meeting

17. New Python Class Fall Planning Meeting

18. Outcomes vs. Course Matrix • List all the courses that support each program outcomes Fall Planning Meeting

19. Performance Criteria • How do know/measure if our students achieved our program outcomes? • For each outcome, we need a few performance criteria Fall Planning Meeting

20. Outcomes we chose Fall Planning Meeting

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22. Program Objectives • Describe the attributes of our graduates • Meets ABET requirements and guides our curriculum content • Thanks to Dave, Neil, Afsaneh, Reza, Chuck, and Keith • Develop an umbrella objective for the BS CS degree. • Each specialization areas can develop more objectives Fall Planning Meeting

23. Program Objectives • Draft Objectives: Graduates will be • Qualified and capable of functioning as professional computer scientists in the workplace. • Prepared to enter appropriate graduate programs. • Committed to lifelong learning. Fall Planning Meeting

24. Program Objectives -- cntnd • Draft Objectives • Broadly educated through appreciation of fields outside of their discipline such as the arts, humanities and wellness. • Able to communicate orally and in writing, function as citizens, and contribute to society. (?) • Empowered with the intellectual and ethical foundation necessary to make responsible choices. (?) Fall Planning Meeting

25. Program Outcomes • Outcomes describe what our graduates will know and be able to do. • Graduates are able to develop solutions to significant computing problems (ABET IV-5, IV-7)(UVSC Objectives 1,2) • Graduates are proficient in using data structures and algorithms. They understand how to implement them, when to apply them, and the abstractions associated with their use (ABET IV-6) (UVSC Objectives 1,2). Fall Planning Meeting

26. Program Outcomes • Graduates understand the basic constructs of programming languages and are proficient in at least two programming languages (ABET IV-6, IV-8) (UVSC Objectives 1, 2). • Graduates understand and are able to apply basic theory of automata and formal languages (ABET IV-5, IV-7) (UVSC Objectives 1, 2). • Graduates understand the foundations of computer architecture (ABET IV-6)(UVSC Objectives 1, 2). • Graduates understand the principles of operating systems. They are able to develop software on at least two operating system environments (ABET IV-5??)(UVSC Objectives 1, 2). Fall Planning Meeting

27. Program Outcomes • Graduates have completed courses in discrete mathematics, differential and integral calculus, probability, and statistics (ABET IV-10, IV-11) (UVSC Objectives 1, 2). • Graduates have developed a depth of understanding in at least one advanced computer science area (ABET IV-9) (UVSC Objectives 1, 2). • Graduates have practical experience in applying the scientific method. (ABET IV-12, IV-13, IV-14) (UVSC Objectives 1, 2, 3, 4). • Graduates have the ability to effectively express their ideas orally and in writing (ABET IV-15, IV-16) (UVSC Objectives 1, 2, 3, 5). Fall Planning Meeting

28. Program Outcomes • Graduates understand the social and ethical implications of computing and are prepared to use their computing skills to make a positive contribution to society (IV-17) (UVSC Objectives 1, 5, 6). • Listen • Graduates Fall Planning Meeting

29. Assessments • Identify the outcomes that we want to assess during 07-08 • Identify the courses that are relevant to the chosen outcomes • Identify the courses that would conduct the assessment in 07-08 Fall Planning Meeting