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Student-Faculty Conference 2007

Student-Faculty Conference 2007. EE/CS Committee. Juice and cookies outside. Please help yourself. We will start in a few minutes. Chair: Yi-Nan Zhang, 2007, EE Undergraduate Members: Vamsi Chavakula, 2008, EE Jay Conrod, 2008, CS Issac Garcia-Munoz, 2007, EE

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Student-Faculty Conference 2007

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  1. Student-Faculty Conference 2007 EE/CS Committee Juice and cookies outside. Please help yourself. We will start in a few minutes.

  2. Chair: Yi-Nan Zhang, 2007, EE Undergraduate Members: Vamsi Chavakula, 2008, EE Jay Conrod, 2008, CS Issac Garcia-Munoz, 2007, EE Aditya Khosla, 2009, EE/CS Cheng William Hong, 2009, CS Vibha Laljani, 2009, CS Matthew Lew, 2008, EE Daniel Lo, 2009, EE Radhika Marathe, 2009, EE/CS Jennifer Yim, 2008, EE Faculty Members: Babak Hassibi: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Jason Hickey: Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Rutledge: Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science; Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering Yu-Chong Tai: Professor of Electrical Engineering; Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering Chris Umans: Assistant Professor of Computer Science Committee Members

  3. Outline • Background on CS and EE majors and committee • How our research was done • Results of research • Recommendations

  4. CS: Offered as a major starting with Class of 2004. Currently 60 undergraduates in this major. EE: Currently 54 undergraduates in this major. Background: Options

  5. Background: Committee • Committee selected from signups on Olive Walk during 1st term. • Held 1 meeting 1st term to discuss troublesome areas within the majors. • Held 2 meetings 2nd term to discuss questions and responses to put on survey.

  6. Research • 2 surveys on http://www.surveymonkey.com, one for CS and one for EE • Each survey broken into three parts: 1) Curriculum in general 2) Student-Faculty interaction 3) Thoughts on required classes • 22 responses for CS (36%) 21 responses for EE (38%)

  7. Responses: CS • Number of requirements just right (75%). • Would like to see more classes on different topics (cryptography, AI, architecture, networking). • 80% choose to do project rather than thesis, primary reason: project seems easier. • CS1: material should be updated • Ma6a: too hard • CS2: too easy

  8. Recommendations: CS • Add more classes on topics that are not currently offered. • More structure for project courses.

  9. Responses: EE • 50% say number of requirements just right, others say too many. • 84% say EE20 needs change. • 75% say EE90 needs change (more lectures, several small projects instead of one big project). • 81% say APh9 labs should be updated. • 68% say ACM95 requirement should be changed (replaced with classes more focused on EE math). • EE5x too hard, under-unitted.

  10. Recommendations: EE • Make changes to EE20, EE90, APh9 labs. • Have EE track for ACM95 or replace requirement with classes in discrete math and probability. • Make EE5x easier?

  11. Recommendations: General • Have anonymous forms on website which students can submit anytime to provide feedback. • Have once-a-term meetings between students and faculty (provide pizza). • Recommend advisors to take advisees out to lunch once a term.

  12. Questions? Comments?

  13. Acknowledgements • EE dept. (esp. Prof. Tai & Linda), for helping coordinate meetings and providing food. • John Xia, for taking notes. • Dan Lo, for acting as ARC liaison. • All the committee members. • Everyone who came. Thanks!

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