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Industrial Advisory Board Meeting: 11/5/10. Gopal Gupta. IAB Meeting: Agenda. Overview of the Department: Gopal Gupta ABET Accreditation: Cy Cantrell Program Assessment: Neeraj Mittal Discussion How can we make our program better?
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Industrial Advisory Board Meeting: 11/5/10 Gopal Gupta
IAB Meeting: Agenda • Overview of the Department: Gopal Gupta • ABET Accreditation: Cy Cantrell • Program Assessment: Neeraj Mittal • Discussion • How can we make our program better? • What changes are taking place in the computing industry that should be reflected in our programs • Suggestions for generating more support (from community & industry) • Other inputs?
Department Updates • Dr. Mark Spong assumed the position of Dean of Engineering in Fall’08 • Dr. D.T. Huynh stepped down as Dept. head after 12 years of service • Great accomplishments in growing the dept. • School has added two new departments: bio-engg and mechanical engg. • Decline in student enrollment has bottomed out and we are on growth path again • CS Department is doing exceptionally well in every aspect
Enrollment Update • Fall’10 • UTD Enrollment: 17,262 • Increase of 1,493 over F’09 • ECS Enrollment: 3,171 • Increase of 273 over F’09 • CS/SE Enrollment: 1,406 • Increase of 52 over F’09 • Counting half of TE/CE, total = 1,580 • SCH for CS/SE = 13,500 • > 53%of ECS SCH Fall’09 • UTD Enrollment: 15,769 • Increase of 727 over F’08 • ECS Enrollment: 2,898 • Increase of 169 over F’08 • CS/SE Enrollment: 1,352 • Slight decrease • 1,366 in F’08, per DT • SCH for CS/SE: 12,970 # Ph.D.: 138; # MS: 469 #BS: 799
Enrollment Stats (Fall 2010) # Ph.D.: 138; # MS: 469 #BS: 799
Update on Personnel • Four new senior lecturers joining our ranks: • Dr. Linda Morales • Dr. Jey Veerasamy • Dr. Miguel Razo Razo • Dr. Feliks Kluzniak • Promotions: • Newly promoted professors: Jason Jue and Prabha Prabhakaran • Newly appointed chairs: Bhavani (Louis Beecherl Endowed Chair) • Student organizations: • Student Chapter of the ACM President: Dustin Valentine • CSGSA: President to be elected (Chris Davis serves until then) • Retired: Larry King, Nancy van Ness • Departed: Cangussu, Jing Dong, Datta, Ying Liu Currently: 40 T/T faculty & 11 Senior Lecturers Plan to hire: 2 T/T faculty and 1 SL
Faculty Research • Our faculty have been very productive in research • Graduated 28 Ph.D. students in 09-10 AY • Research Expenditure of $9M last year • Two faculty received NSF CAREER Awards • One faculty member received Airforce Young Investigator award • Significant number of new grants obtained in the last 3 months. • 26 faculty members are PI/Co-PI in an NSF grant • 30 faculty PI/Co-PI have extramural funding
Faculty Research Graduated 28 Ph.D. students in ‘09-’10 (2nd-best yr) Enrollment is up, especially graduate Millions of $$s of funding in last few months: Prabha/Xiaohu: $2.5 M grant from NSF Kamil et al: $1.8 M grant from NSF Andras: $500K grant from NSF Murat: $1.0 M grant from NSF Edwin: $300K grant from NSF Eric Wong: $300K grant from NSF Yang Liu: $195K grant from NSF Ovidiu: $280K grant from NSF (CPS) Edwin: $200K from Texas ARP (< 2% success rate) Latifur/Kevin: $500K from airforce Cooper & ATEC: $25K from Microsoft Harris/Gupta: $850K from DHS Guo: $310K from Texas Cancer Research Inst. Venky, Ravi, Neeraj: $1M NSF Total Funding: ~$10M
BS Programs • Goal: • Be the best program at a public univ. in Texas • Achieved: when top N. Texas students prefer to go to UTD rather than elsewhere in the state • Steps to achieve the goal: • Ensure that students can program well by the time they finish the CS 1-2 sequence • Tutoring program significantly expanded • Strengthen the senior design course: • UT Design: Goal is to have all student projects be industry projects • Introduced Entrepreneurship education • Senior Design Day: December 3rd
BS Program: Engaging Students • Strong student organizations: 7 of them • Student Chapter of the ACM • Computer Security Group • Service through Computing • Computer Gaming Group • .NET Group • Codeburners • Graduate Student Association • Introduce a mentoring program
Graduate Programs • Our undergraduates and graduates are branded in the market as having deep technical knowledge • Favored destination of QualComm, Microsoft, VMWare, Ericsson, etc. • Large number of internships offered: excess of 400 • Our reputation is spreading: applications spiked to 1,000+ • We work hard to preserve the brand (both grad and undergrad) • A new Information Assurance track introduced: • $1.8 Million grant from NSF to produce MS/Ph.d. students well-versed in IA • Graduates have to work for the federal government in lieu of the scholarship • Work in progress to introduce an: • Executive MS in Software Engineering for working professionals • Continuing education grad courses (first one on OOAD offered in Fall’10) • Part of effort to establish a “Center for Professional Education”
Encourage Entrepreneurship • North Texas has ingredients similar to Silicon Valley: • Large no. of high-tech companies • A Univ. (UTD) with a large CS dept & large number of graduates • (Now) avenues for raising capital [Texas ETF] • No reason why we can’t be just as successful as Stanford • Need to inculcate a culture of entrepreneurship among our students • SW entrepreneurship education in senior design • Incubation facility opening in Summer’11
Industry Engagement models • UT Design: Companies sponsor industrial projects • Industrial Practice Program: Cos recruit our students • Highly skilled workers at half the price or less • IUCRC: Membership in NSF-sponsored Industry-University Cooperative Research Center: • Jointly run by UTD/UNT/SMU • Access to faculty research • 12+ company members; $30K fee • Faculty Projects: UTD CS can be a company’s R&D lab • Texas Emerging Technology Fund Partnership: • Texas ETF requires a University partner • CS Department can be that partner
Community Outreach • $2.7M NSF GK-12 project: • after-school program at middle schools • develop appreciation for computing • Taught by CS Ph.D. students • Middle School summer camp: • first camp in the summer of 2010; very successful • Spring Computingfest: • High school and undergraduate students project competition • High School Programming competition (Nov 13) • 41 teams expected to participate • Summer Programming Class for High School students: • Offered free by the Department • Taught by Dr. Page • Continuing education courses for professionals • Object-oriented analysis and design offered for the first time
CS@UT: Special Challenges • We are a large department • A large BS program (700 students) • A large (Professional) MS program (450 students) • A large Ph.D. program (140 students) • We have a special location • Surrounded by high-tech industry second only to silicon valley • We have unique challenges • Maintain excellence in all 3 programs • Serve the surrounding high-tech industry • We want to pursue 3 main goals all at once: • Have the best BS/MS programs in TX • Be known for our scholarly research and Ph.D. program • Be the heart of the economic engine of North Texas with respect to the software industry