Utah Valley State College

CNS, PEng, and EARTPlanning Meeting

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Agenda

Welcome and IntroductionBusiness from Dean’s OfficeEART ProgramBusiness ItemsBudget InfoBreakABET Related Issues

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Welcome and Introduction

New Department (EART) in the groupDave Adams (Program Coordinator), Robert

Benson (Lecturer), David Porter (Lab Specialist)

New Faculty MembersDavid Keller (CNS, Lecturer)Robert Benson (EART, Lecturer)

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Dean’s Office

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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

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Important Information

T&C Professional Development FundFiles T&C Procedures #1 Professional

Development Funds

Faculty School AttendanceFiles T&C Practices Practice #1 Faculty

AttendanceShould be in our offices four times a week and

have 10 hours of office hour each week

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Budget Info

CNS Pre Engr EART

Hourly Faculty $45,000.00 $4,219.00 $0.00

Hourly Staff$0.00 $0.00 $5,318.00

Current$19,000.00 $4,500.00 $7,000.00

Faculty Dev$14,000.00 $3,000.00 $2,000.00

Total$82,770.00 $12,166.00 $14,882.00

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MFAT Results -- Individual

Individual Comparison Individual

Mean Individual

Std Dev UVSC (12) 167 13 National* 149.6 15.3

*: 1000 seniors from 76 domestic institutions

Observations:Our students have a higher mean and a tighter distribution.Our average is 1.33 above the national individual average.

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MFAT Results – Institution

Institutional Comparison (76 domestic) Programming Discrete

Structure and Algorithms

Systems: Architecture, OS, Networking, DB

UVSC Mean

79 45 62

National Mean

57.3 35.0 44.2

National Std Dev

11.4 8.9 9.8

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.

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ABET Tasks and Time Line

Changes in ABETEmphasis areas

Tasks for Fall 2007Self Study: Keith OlsonIndividual Faculty Members:

Update CV using the ABET templateCollecting course related informationAssessment work

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Travel Policy

Dean’s office has additional faculty development fund

Faculty could apply if the department has a prioritized list on file

Draft

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Grader Related Issue (Roger)

Can multiple classes share a grader?Should graders also provide limited tutoring

service in the open lab for CS students?

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Mail Related Issues

Should the receptionist/office admin support open faculty’s packages?

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New Python Class

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Outcomes vs. Course Matrix

List all the courses that support each program outcomes

1000 Level Courses

2000 Level Courses

3000 Level Courses

4000 Level Courses

Graduates are able to develop solutions to significant computing problems

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Performance Criteria

How do know/measure if our students achieved our program outcomes?

For each outcome, we need a few performance criteria

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Outcomes we chose

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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

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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.

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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. (?)

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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

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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