10/1/07 Meeting Agenda ABET preperation - I would really appreciate it if everyone would spend an hour or so and read this slowly. This indicates precisely what we have to do to be ready for the ABET evaluation. To complete this requires a book of about 500 pages. Happily we have already done this so most of our task will be updating sections of what we have already done. I would very much like to see us complete a draft of any writing we need to do by the end of this semester and then we can send the Spring gradually updating and completing the rest of the book. Our agenda for Monday's meeting is: a. Review this doucment and assign sections to people b. Discuss followup work from our evaluations done in the Spring c. Discuss what we will do for evaluations in the fall --- personally I think we might want to suspend our evaluation process this year in preparation for ABET, I think we have a strong story to tell about our process and how we have used it every year since ABET certified us.

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Catalog updates approved

• Computational Structures minor. The current Bulletin still lists MATH 471 as one of the courses for this minor. However, last year MATH 471 was replaced by MATH 350. Please make a note of this when you’re advising and evaluating students as well as for the next revision of the bulletin
• delete cs106, cs200, cs403, cs406, cs412
• remove cs351 pre-req for cs440
• CS450 prereqs see attached
• cs445 prereq - Require pre-req to CS445, this will now have a pre-req of (CS331 or CS401) and CS441
• CS330/331/350/351 hours/credit hours - two 75 minute lectures and one 50 minute lab/recitation
• cs350/cs351 course description CS350 PROPOSED UPDATE (Michael Lee Fall 03) - Introduction to the internal architecture of computer systems. Focuses on the relationship between a computer's hardware, its native instruction set, and the implementation of high-level languages on that machine. Lab exercises focused on assembly language programming and simple processor design explore and analyze computer architecture. Prerequisite: CS 106 or CS 200. (2-2-3) (C)
• add version control to Data Structures, investigate courses with projects that we could update to have more s/w engineering issues, reinvent CS487

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review alumni feedback

review detailed course materials cs487 materials

do ACM session work/co op feedback - Review Co-Op/Employer Survey (Step B4) - no longer available from Career Development Center. Will need to develop our own survey and method to get to employers.

cs advisory feedback - CS Advisory Committee Feedback (Step C4) - no meeting held in 2007

look at ABET for updates to objectives, etc

pick a course for fall 2007 collection - CS441

• CS441 Futures - The CS Undergraduate Studies committee is interested in starting a conversation in regards to future directions for CS441. As Course Manager (Dr. Elrad) and Instructor (Prof. Koutsogiannakis) we value your insights into what a class named "Current Topics in Programming Languages" should strive to teach. We believe the current course description is outdated and needs updating "New topics in programming language design such as concepts of concurrent and distributed programming, communicating sequential processes, and functional programming. System development tools and language features for programming. An introduction to programming language semantics. Prerequisite: CS 331 or CS 401 or CS 403. (3-0-3) (T)" Part of our interest is since we have changed our intro to programming course sequence to java a couple years ago (fall 2004), how can CS441 move beyond being a java course. One idea was suggested to use CS441 as a survey of the most current programming language implementations of various methodologies and the "why choose this language for this problem" type of class. Now we know Prof. Koutsogiannakis has just undertaken helping us with CS115, so we are not looking for immediate changes, just a discussion about plans.
• Elrad - My report about CS 441 dated 10/7/2003 (yes, 2003) says: " With respect to this goal- the book used for the course and the topics covered, as much as they might be important are not in general “current topics” but rather the main stream for one language; Java. I am not saying the course is not good, or important. What I am saying that we either need to change the course title and the course catalog description or modify the course to better reflect the title and the catalog description. " I would like to see the course on really CURRENT TOPICS. The topics covered aim to inspire good students to look at novel attempts to tackle current technologies requirements. (Most undergraduate classes are mainly on well established state of the art). A possible book that comes to my mind is Generative Programming - Methods, Tools, and Applications. By Krzysztof Czarnecki. Addison Wesley. Some of the topic covered: Generic Programming, Aspect Oriented Programming, generators, Intentional programming. Part II is about implementation Technologies. Because of the nature of the course it should be revised more often then other classes to make sure the topics are still current. I am glad you raised the issue - Please look at the book and let me know what you think.