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School of IT&E, IT Programs Office BSIT Program February, 2004 Anne Marchant amarchan@gmu

School of IT&E, IT Programs Office BSIT Program February, 2004 Anne Marchant amarchan@gmu.edu Asst. Dean, IT Undergraduate Education George Mason University. IT Minor (Introduced Fall 1998) ~560 enrolled (Fall 2003) BS-IT Major (Introduced Fall 2002)

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School of IT&E, IT Programs Office BSIT Program February, 2004 Anne Marchant amarchan@gmu

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  1. School of IT&E, IT Programs Office BSIT Program February, 2004 Anne Marchant amarchan@gmu.edu Asst. Dean, IT Undergraduate Education George Mason University

  2. IT Minor (Introduced Fall 1998) ~560 enrolled (Fall 2003) BS-IT Major (Introduced Fall 2002) ~600 students (Spring 2004) Prince Wm IT Certificate (negligible enrollment) IT General Education IT 103 (Intro to Computing) >1,000 students each term Broadly-Based IT Programs

  3. The BS-IT Degree Technical degrees (CS, IS) (IS emphasizes ‘I’ – Information) BS-IT (IT emphasizes ‘T’ – Technology) Liberal arts degree (Psych, Eng, etc.)

  4. The BS-IT Graduate • Possesses strong soft skills: • Oral communication • Written communication • Hypertext communication • HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) principles • Durable knowledge skills • Underlying concepts • Technical terminology and language (Not specific certificate skills training) • Problem solvers and team players

  5. Some BS-IT Career Paths • Web Developer • Database Administrator • Network Engineer • Information Security Engineer • Telecommunications Specialist • Software Testing • Technical Writer • IT Manager

  6. The BS-IT Curriculum • General education requirements • 12 credits of Math • 11 credits of Natural Science • IT Foundation Courses (basics) • Core Courses in all IT areas • Capstone Design Project • Concentration Courses -Web Design and Graphics -Security and Networking

  7. 80% of BSIT majors $300,000 Critical Infrastructure Grant (NIST) Develop undergraduate security curriculum Joint Cyberdefense Exercises modeled after USMA course. Collaboration with: James Madison University George Washington University Internship opportunity with DOJ High Technology Crimes Unit-forensics BS-IT: Information Security BS-IT Security/Networking concentration

  8. IT&E Fall 2003 Enrollments

  9. BS-IT Diversity

  10. Prince William BS-IT Seat Count 1000? 816 606 272 151

  11. IT Degree Pipeline PhD-IT MS IS/ISA MS TCOM BS-IT NOVA IST/IT Other Majors New Students

  12. Articulation agreements with VCCS AAS in IST (done) AS in General Studies (done) AS in IT (pending final approvals) Accelerated BSIT -> MS TCOM (approved) Accelerated BSIT -> MS IS and MS ISA (under development) ABET/SIGITE IT accreditation (under development) International Programs (under development) Proposal to Export BSIT to UAE Develop exchange programs BS-IT Academic Initiatives

  13. Need additional full-time faculty 5 term-faculty instructors (4 courses each) 30+ adjunct faculty 7-8 courses covered by full time faculty from other depts in IT&E Expansion of Weekend offerings Increased ITU support Need to expand lab facilities/support in Bull Run Hall BS-IT Academic Challenges

  14. At the end of last term, I emailed my instructors to ask for the names of top students so that I could send them a congratulatory email. I was delighted to get this email from an IT 213 instructor :> One of my students that deserves recognition is XXXX > He earned an A+ in the class by consistently handing in high quality > work and scoring high marks on all exams. He demonstrated > discipline and study habits that are key to academic excellence.This student is a very typical BSIT success story.  He started in one Engineering major, got bogged down in Math and Physics and went from Probation in F02 to the Dean's List in Sp03 after switching to the BSIT.  He had always done well in his Gen Ed courses and his GPAs now are: Current    3.751         Cumulative  2.97  He is not alone. The BSIT is enrolling many such students whose academic careers have been resuscitated by the BSIT major. These are students who are bright and have a strong technical aptitude, but don’t have the math aptitude to succeed in Computer Science, Electrical, or Computer Engineering. The less quantitative side…

  15. Services: In many ways, we can simply expand on existing models for student support services at PW. Short term Food service later in the evenings Shuttle service on Fridays and Saturdays ITU support on Saturdays (being implemented) Long term Housing and related student services Student Life: nascent IT Student Organization University Life at the PW Campus

  16. The success of the BSIT can be attributed to several factors: We are meeting both academic and work force needs. The VCCS IST program acts as a feeder. We built upon the success of the IT minor. The fact that students can do some of their coursework at Fairfax makes this major very attractive. Lessons Learned

  17. Questions?

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