Department of Computer Science College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science Annual Report for Calendar Year 2006 March 1, 2007 Kenneth L. Modesitt Interim Department Chair
Department Mission and Vision
Unit Section
A-Mission
No.
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Statement Current The Department strives to offer students excellent instruction and educational opportunities in Computer Science, Information Systems, and Applied Computer Science. It endeavors to provide its students a durable technical foundation in an environment of rapid technical change, to enable and promote their professional growth through contact with best professional practice, and to play a role of resource and technical leadership in the regional communities. Under Consideration The mission of the Department is to: 1. Make a positive difference in the lives of people around us. 2. Challenge and nurture the minds of students and our community of scholars. 3. Produce sustainable growth in the number of graduates who are highly valued contributors by society, local and global employers and graduate schools. The graduates are respected for their technical competence in computing, motivation, communication skills, individual and team pride, and enthusiasm for life-long learning from people and computing resources worldwide. 4. Monitor continuously the needs of our society -- undergraduate, graduate and professional students, industry and alumni -- and respond by meeting or exceeding society’s needs 5. Be consistent with the mission of the College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science, and Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne. A vision is a vivid description of what it will be like to accomplish the bold goal, translating it into a picture. The vision should be specific. There is a culture of quality within the department. Improvements have been made on every front including department communications, facilities, course design, advising and cooperative education. Everyone is aware that the department is focused on quality and continuous improvement. Everyone feels like they are on the same team, pulling in the same direction. The Core Theory of Success is realized on a daily basis with all stakeholders: students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni and industry. The department has made improvements to programs and operations by soliciting feedback from all of them
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Mission and Vision
The Department and the College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science have strengthened the relationship with professional partners in the area: business, industry, other universities, entrepreneurs, etc.. The Professional Advisory Board (PAB) has grown to represent over 100 such members. The PAB has provided input on a variety of areas including: skills desired in graduates, curriculum planning, student competitions, university/professional partner research projects, and student cooperative education opportunities. As a result of such input, many positive changes have occurred: IPFW computing graduates have a distinctive reputation of excellence. This is due to IPFW's response to a calling from our partners for an emphasis on technical and professional skills (teamwork, communication). Our graduates are contributing members of the profession and to society in general. Donations from our partners have increased significantly as they continue to play an important role in defining the direction of the department Rather than an environment of divided interests where students collect credits, faculty teach classes, administrators regulate, and the professional community stands on the sidelines, the Department now operates with a new personality--a personality of synergy among students, faculty, administration and community. The Department has unified--it has become a whole entity greater than the sum of its parts.
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Mission and Vision
Department Goals and Accomplishments Calendar Year 2006
University Strategic Goals
Provide innovative, relevant, and rigorous academic programs
Unit
Section
B-Goals
No.
1
Department Goals
List of 2006 Activities and Accomplishments
Bottom Line Metrics (Show at least 2 yrs' of data)
Offer excellent instructional and education opportunities
Renew ABET accreditation in CS
CAC/ABET accreditation obtained summer 2004, with interim response required. Approval received in August, 2006 until 2010. Board meets quarterly at industry sites; has 25 professionals representing a variety of area industries. http://www.cs.ipfw.edu/pab/pab.php Courses CS 360 (Software Engineering) and CS 460 (Capstone Design and Professional Practice) are now regular courses required of CS majors. Both of these involve real projects for real clients: Five different clients/projects for local industry have been completed in 2006. There were four in 2005. Already four are underway in the Spring of 2007. CS 368 Human-Computer interaction taught for first time in Spring, 2006. CS 590 Design of Embedded Systems also taught for first time in Spring, 2006. Inclusion of a specialized
Continue CS Professional Advisory Board
Grow the senior Design/project course
Revitalize the CS Curriculum
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laboratory anticipated for 2007. Create Informatics Minor Professor Robert Barrett has set up a university-wide committee, with approval of all Deans. Awaiting final review by Faculty Senate. Final report submitted to Dean in 2006; awaiting response
Develop plan for Information Technology Degree with ECET Department Develop thesis option for M.S. degree in Applied Computer Science
Visited Purdue Graduate School; developed first draft that was approved. Second draft now in review. First student took three hours in thesis course in Fall, 2006. Will complete in Spring, 2007.
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Department Goals and Accomplishments
Unit
Section
B-Goals
No.
2
University Strategic Goals
Create an exceptional campus environment for a diverse community of learners
Department Goals
List of 2006 Activities and Accomplishments
Bottom Line Metrics (Show at least 2 yrs' of data)
Enable student professional growth
Continue CS Student Advisory Board Support student organizations for CS and IS
Board is operational and meets each semester.
http://www.ipfw.edu/cssab/public/homepage.htm
UPE - Upsilon Pi Epsilon – Computer and Information Science Honorary Society held third induction ceremony – now has 23 members.http://www.student.ipfw.edu/~upe Computer Information Association (CIA) held three meetings and sponsored a trip to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ACM Student chapter held three meetings. Display case set up across from CS labs for all three student organizations: UPE, ACM, and Computer Information Association
Developed awards for student performance
Outstanding A.S. and B.S. degrees awarded for the first time: names and dates on plaques outside CS department office
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Department Goals and Accomplishments
Provide access to a wide variety of students
Grow the number of distance learning students and off-site locations for CS students
Collaborate with other departments/schools
Improve laboratories
Make desktops clearer for student work Provide state-of-the-art software and hardware
A total of 467 students enrolled in distance learning sections of CS 106, 160, 161, and 306 during 2006 – a new record. A total of 90 students were enrolled at off-site locations or on the weekends. [next year, we will be doing a graph for trending] Facilitated special-focus section of CS 306, Computers and Society, with School of Education for CS teacher certification at IPFW (Sedlmeyer) Added chassis hangers for both ET 109 and ET 111 so students have much more free space on their work areas: 42 workstations SQL server (Sanders): $8K Telelogic System Architect and DOORS (Barrett): $182.5K grant MS Developers Academic Alliance (Sanders): $18K grant
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Department Goals and Accomplishments
Unit
Section
B-Goals
No.
3
University Strategic Goals
Promote the scholarly and creative achievements of faculty, students, and staff
Department Goals
List of 2006 Activities and Accomplishments
Bottom Line Metrics (Show at least 2 yrs' of data)
Increase faculty and student research activity
Continue Faculty research room with visualization and usability faculty/graduate foci now in ET 116. research lab Dr. Qiang Zhu, “Developing Indexing Techniques for Continue Similarity Queries in Multidimensional Non-ordered research Discrete Data Spaces,” University of Michigan – seminar Dearborn spoke on January 20, 2006. Dr. Attila Sali, “Keys and Armstrong Databases in Trees with Restructuring,” University of South Carolina spoke on November 17, 2006. Increase faculty and student attendance at research conferences Students of CIA chapter attended CES in Las Vegas One faculty attended out-of-country conferences: Erbach Nine faculty attended conferences: Barrett. Erbach, Kim, Liu, Modesitt, Sedlmeyer, Stanchev, Toscos, Udoh Increase faculty publications and presentations Professor Sedlmeyer was co-author of a book. Five faculty made eight presentations at conferences, with published proceedings: Kim (2), Modesitt, Sedlmeyer, Toscos, Udoh (3) Four faculty had seven publications: Kim (4), Petruska, Toscos, Udoh
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Department Goals and Accomplishments
Promote the visibility of faculty and student achievements
Use hallways to improve visibility Use media to advertise
Three posters put up in 2006; three more planned for 2007. Display case installed to display sample faculty publications Article in October 18th, 2006 issue of IPFW Communicator about research of CS 460 team with Northrop Grumman in robotic communication. Article also appeared in Fall, 2006 issue of CETCS/OLS TechTalk Press releases done with University Relations about CS 360 Software Engineering projects with four different clients.
Use website to market faculty expertise
http://www.etcs.ipfw.edu/dean/expertise/index.php under CS faculty (by name and by expertise)
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Department Goals and Accomplishments
Unit
Section
B-Goals
No.
4
University Strategic Goals
Advance economic development and the quality of life in Fort Wayne and the surrounding region
Department Goals
List of 2006 Activities and Accomplishments
Bottom Line Metrics (Show at least 2 yrs' of data)
Play a role of resource and technical leadership
Continued SPICE program for talented middle and high school students
First offered in 2003 with 6 students. Again offered in 2004 with 14. Expanded to two sections on summer 2005 with 20 and 8 in 2006 (E. Udoh) “The Secret Language of Computers” 16 times on two days (Sedlmeyer) R. Sedlmeyer with Raytheon on C3I Knowledge Capture and Representation ($40K). R. Sedlmeyer with Raytheon on Undergraduate Research Experience in Cognitive Systems, Raytheon, $5K
Middle School Career Day
Engage in consulting / research activity
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R. Sedlmeyer with Dept. of Nursing on mobile clinical data gathering, D. Erbach and D. Liu work with Northrop Grumman on Sensor web simulations. Develop community outside immediate confines of CETCS. Started the Advocates for a Global Future, involving multiple schools. Held two sessions in November, 2006 with over 175 attendees. (Modesitt) Developed reference site for “Indoor Model Aircraft” that received a favorable review (Erbach)
Expand expertise outside CS
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Department Goals and Accomplishments
Unit
Section
B-Goals
No.
5
University Strategic Goals
Pursue the continuous improvement of university operations
Department Goals
List of 2006 Activities and Accomplishments
Bottom Line Metrics (Show at least 2 yrs' of data)
Improve feedback about the CS, IS, and ACS programs Conduct Extensive Program Review
Department assessment surveys converted to on-line form
Continuing efforts to improve our understanding of process and programs Required every seven years by IPFW.
Developed first draft of self-study (92 pages) for further consideration in 1H2007. Retreat planned on March 16, 2007 including faculty, staff, students and professional advisory board members.
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Scholarly/Creative Activity Performed, Published, or Presented During Calendar Year 2006
Unit Section
CResearch
No.
1
Bibliography of faculty publications, performances, shows, etc. {Bibliography of faculty publications, performances, shows, etc.+ a. Books b. Book chapters c. Volume editing d. Journal publications e. Exhibitions and performances f. Proceedings, manuals, supplementary materials, and book reviews + Note: All accomplishments published or presented during 2006 should be included, even if listed as "in press" in a previous year.} Book chapter:
Robert Sedlmeyer, L. Kuznar and W. Frederick, “The Effect Of Nepotism On The Evolution Of Social Inequality,”, in Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris’ Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy, , L. Kuznar and S. Sanderson, eds., Paradigm Press, 2006.
Journal publications
Beomjin Kim, Philip Johnson, “Graphical Interface for Visual Exploration of Online Discussion Forums,” Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, (Accepted for publication, 2007) Beomjin Kim, Philip Johnson, Jason Baker, “Empirical Evaluation of a Visual Interface for Exploring Message Boards,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Vol. 4291, pp. 293-302, (2006). Gyorgy Petruska and L. Hars (Seagate Research), “Pseudorandom Recursions – Small, Fast, PR Generators and Ciphers for Embedded Applications,”Accepted for publication in the EURASIP Journal for Embedded Applications (European Associations for Signal Processing). Lubomir Stanchev and Grant Weddell, “Programming Embedded Computing Systems using Static SQL,” submitted to ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems in July of 2006 (in review) Emmanuel Udoh and P. Bingi, “Web-based simulator for supply chain management,” Journal of Business and Information Technology, vol. 6. 13
Scholarly/Creative Activity
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K. Connelly, A. Faber, Y.Rogers, K. Siek, and Tammy Toscos, “Designing In-The-Large for the Small: Combining Aesthetics with Usability for a Mobile Learning Application,” Springer E&I.
Proceedings, manuals, supplementary materials, and book reviews
Beomjin Kim, “Automated Blood Volume Quantification from Color Doppler Images while Tracking the Conduit Motion,” Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, pp. 177-181, (2006). Chris Dunn, Beomjin Kim, Philip Johnson, “Geometrical Thumbnails for Web Searching,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, (In review). Robert Sedlmeyer and L. Meyer, “The Impact of Web Technology on Nurse Education: A Case Study”, Proceedings of the 2006 ASCUE Conference, June, 2006. Robert Sedlmeyer and Nathan Yergler, “Extending the Architecture of the Essential Clinical Behaviors Application to Support Mobile Platforms” (Abstract), Proceedings of the 2006 IPFW Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium. Tammy Toscos, A. Faber, S. An, and M. Gandhi, “Chick Clique: Persuasive Technology to Motivate Teenage Girls to Exercise,” ACM Conference on Human Interaction (SIG CHI), Montreal, Canada, 2006. Tammy Toscos, “Impact of Collaboration and Communication on Learning in CS1,” Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX, 2006. Emmanuel Udoh, “Teaching database in an integrated Oracle environment,” ACM Inroads - SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 38, no. 4: 71-74. 2006. Emmanuel Udoh, “Mining email content for a small enterprise,” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, University of BridgePort, SCS2006, 5pp. Emmanuel Udoh, and S. Bhuiyan, “C-MICRA: A tool for clustering microarray data,” Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, vol.1, 8 pp, 2nd Edition, Idea Group Publishing. 2006. Emmanuel Udoh, (2006). “Open source database technologies,” Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, vol. 1, 7 pp, 2nd Edition, Idea Group Publishing. 2006.
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Scholarly/Creative Activity
Unit
Section
CResearch
No.
2
Summary numbers of presentations
David Erbach, “Is Artificial Intelligence Better than Natural Stupidity?” Guest Lecturer, Wells County Library summer lecture series, Bluffton, IN, June 14, 2007 Beomjin Kim presented a paper at the 2006 International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, NV, November 6-8, 2006. Beomjin Kim presented a paper at the 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Las Vegas, NV, June 26-29, 2006. Ken Modesitt, D. Klappholz and V. Alstrum, Workshop on Real Projects for Real-Clients Courses. 19th Conference on Software Engineering and Training (CSEET 2006), Oahu, HI, April 19-21, 2006. Ken Modesitt, A Practical Assessment Guide to the Use of Professional Advisory Boards. Best Assessment Processes VIII of ABET, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, February 27-28, 2006. Robert Sedlmeyer, The Impact of Web Technology on Nurse Education: A Case Study, 2006 ASCUE Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, June 2006.
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Scholarly/Creative Activity
Unit
Section
CResearch
No.
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Listing of grants/contracts awarded in 2006
Beomjin, Kim, Project for a pilot study, “RFID System for Analyzing Moving Objects,” Office of Research & External Support, IPFW, 2006, ($6,000). David Liu, Simulation Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks, “ IPFW Summer Faculty Research Grant, Summer, 2006, ($6,000) Lubomir Stanchev, Using Database Technology to Develop Real-Time Applications, IPFW Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2006 ($7,000) Lubomir Stanchev and Damian Yerrick, Implementing the Data Structures for the RECS-DB Project, IPFW undergraduate student summer research grant, 2006 ($1,250) Emmanuel Udoh, Database grant, Rochester Medical Implants ($5,000)
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Scholarly/Creative Activity
Unit
Section
CResearch
No.
4
Bibliography of notable student accomplishments
Beomjin Kim, Philip Johnson, “Graphical Interface for Visual Exploration of Online Discussion Forums,” Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, (Accepted for publication, 2007) Beomjin Kim, Philip Johnson, Jason Baker, “Empirical Evaluation of a Visual Interface for Exploring Message Boards,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Vol. 4291, pp. 293-302, (2006). Robert Sedlmeyer and Nathan Yergler, “Extending the Architecture of the Essential Clinical Behaviors Application to Support Mobile Platforms” (Abstract), Proceedings of the 2006 IPFW Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium. Chris Dunn, Beomjin Kim, Philip Johnson, “Geometrical Thumbnails for Web Searching,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, (In review). Lubomir Stanchev and Grant Weddell, “Programming Embedded Computing Systems using Static SQL,” submitted to ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems in July of 2006 (in review) Ben Aeschliman and Jason Baker, “A Visualization Technique for Categorizing Text Documents in Vector Space,” Proceedings of the 2006 Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium, (2006). This paper was awarded the first place at the Sigma Xi Club Student Research Competition, $100 and Sigma Xi Annual Banquet invitation, IPFW, (2006). Joshua Stir and Thomas White, “Virtually Simulated Multi-user Cyberspace,” Proceedings of the 2006 Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium, (2006). Nathan Yergler, Brian Michel, Erik Beesley, and Hap Fiandt, the team of students in CS 460- Capstone Design and Professional Practice, had their project with Northrop Grumman on robotics appear in the October 18, 2006 issue of the IPFW Communicator. Nathan Yergler, “Mobile Web Development,” Proceedings of the 2006 IPFW Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium. Lubomir Stanchev and Damian Yerrick, Implementing the Data Structures for the RECS-DB Project, IPFW undergraduate student summer research grant, 2006 ($1250) Emmanuel Udoh, and Salim Bhuiyan, “C-MICRA: A tool for clustering microarray data,” Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, vol.1, 8pp, 2nd Edition, Idea Group Publishing. 2006. John Bryan, Reusable Agent Library, First semester of M.S. thesis in Applied Computer Science, Advisor: Robert Sedlmeyer, Fall, 2006. (Will complete in Spring, 2007)
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Scholarly/Creative Activity
Community Involvement/Economic Development/Engagement Activities For Calendar Year 2006
Unit Section DCommunity No. 1 Category Ongoing Partnerships Community Partner Activity Metrics/Impact
PLATO Learning, Inc.
Collaborated with School of Education to bring PLATO ® to the IPFW campus. Will be used for various types of testing procedure with prospective teachers. (Modesitt)
First use will occur in 2007.
Raytheon Network Centric Systems
Presented the Service Oriented Architecture Seminar Series through Continuing Studies. The Series consisted of three five-week seminars: Introduction to J2EE, Fundamentals of Service Oriented Architecture, and Java Web Services. This has been an on-going activity for several years, with different topics. (Sedlmeyer).
Two groups of Raytheon software engineers (54 total) attended.
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Community Involvement
As consultant, served as System Architect for the Cognitive Capabilities IR&D project. Part of the team for a follow-on project. IR&D project aimed at exposing capabilities of current system as web service. (Sedlmeyer)
Successfully demonstrated prototype system to enhance performance of field artillery targeting officer. Funded at $500K, that will begin mid-January, 2007
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Community Involvement
Unit
Section DCommunity
No. 2
Category Short-Term Projects
Community Partner
Activity
Metrics/Impact
Northrop-Grumman
Sensor network miniaturization: (Erbach and Liu). No formal agreement has been signed. Dr. Erbach was on sabbatical in Fall, 2006. Client in CS 460 – Capstone Design and Professional Practice (Modesitt) “Autonomous Robotic Demonstration Platform” Real project for real client Creative Commons: “Digital Asset Manager” Identity Alliance: “Smart Card Enabled Webmail Client” Raytheon: “Duty Log Generator/ Mission Monitor” Raytheon: “Situation Awareness Display” All are real projects for real clients
Raytheon (two projects), Identity Alliance, Creative Commons
Clients in CS 360 – Software Engineering (Sedlmeyer)
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Community Involvement
Unit
Section DCommunity
No. 2
Category Short-Term Projects
Community Partner
Activity
Metrics/Impact
Vantage Career School, Van Wert, OH Intel Corporation, Seattle, WA
Mentored student for team’s senior project (Kim) Participated in design and implementation of mobile phone application. (Toscos) Made Mrs. Toscos even better candidate for tenure-track faculty in a few years!
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Community Involvement
Unit
Section DCommunity
No. 3
Category Faculty Civic Involvement
Community Partner
Activity
Metrics/Impact
Rotary Club of Fort Wayne
International Youth Exchange Committee (Erbach)
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
Grand Judge for Mathematics section, Indianapolis, IN, May 910, 2006 (Erbach)
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Community Involvement
Unit
Section DCommunity
No. 4
Category Academic Organizations
Community Partner
Activity
Metrics/Impact
Association of Information Systems Journal of Informatics Education and Research 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Application: Theory and Practice 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer- based Medical System
Special Interest Group on CS Education (Erbach) Associate Editor (Erbach)
Workshop Program Committee and reviewed two papers(Kim) Program Committee of Special Track on Intelligent Analysis of Text and Multimedia Data and reviewed five papers (Kim) Conference Program Committee (Kim) Program Evaluator for visit in Fall, 2006 (Modesitt) Program committee, Massey University, Auckland, NZ for February, 2007 (Erbach)
17th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference Computing Accreditation Commission/ABET Conference on Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications
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Community Involvement
Unit
Section DCommunity
No. 4
Category Academic Organizations
Community Partner
Activity
Metrics/Impact
Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Periodica Mathematica of the Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society
Served as judge for Senior Thesis competition. Reviewed 27 applications via telecom with five other members across U.S. and Mexico, and selected top three. (Modesitt) Editor, Analysis Section and reviewed one paper (Petruska)
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
Reviewed three papers (Temte)
Encyclopedia of Grid Computing Editor in chief (Udoh) Technologies and Applications IEEE/International Conference Reviewed five on Systems, Computing Sciences manuscripts (Udoh) and Software Engineering, 2006
Fifth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (China) Eighteenth Information Resource Management Association International Conference (Canada) Reviewed four papers (Stanchev) Reviewed five papers (Stanchev)
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Accomplishments of Diversity Goals, Initiatives, and Metrics During Calendar Year 2006 New Goal for IPFW?
Unit Section
EDiversity
No.
1
Strategic Theme
Student Recruitment and Retention
Unit Goals
Accomplishment(s)
Metrics
Have never been formulated! Was not aware that we were to have such goals. Apparently CS missed something along the line…
Freshman Females: 14 Minorities: 7 Sophomore Females: 5 Minorities: 4 Juniors Females: 3 Minorities: 4 Seniors Females: 3 Minorities: 0 Graduate Females: 6 Minorities: 16 Degrees awarded Females: 9 Minorities: 12 Put CS 112, Introduction to Computer Science, in place in 2004 to attract more majors, and to increase retention in CS 160. Retention in CS 160 for CS 112 students exceeds 50%, vs. about 40% for non-CS 112 students. Consistent enrollments annually are about 70 students.
Accomplishments of Diversity
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Plan to submit NSF BPC grant in May, 2007 that targets more women and minorities at the middle and high school level (Modesitt)
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Accomplishments of Diversity
Unit
Section
EDiversity
No.
2
Strategic Theme
Faculty & Staff Recruitment and Retention
Unit Goals
Accomplishment(s)
Metrics
Have never been formulated! Was not aware that we were to have such goals. Apparently CS missed something along the line… Instituted a formal Faculty Mentoring Program in 2006
Male White, born in U.S.: 6 White, not born in U.S.: 2 Asian: 2 B/AfrA: 1 Female: 2 Two assistant professors have selected a senior CS faculty member as their mentor. Hope to have at least one be female.
Plan to hire two assistant professors for 2007-08,
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Accomplishments of Diversity
Unit
Section
EDiversity
No.
3
Strategic Theme
Campus Climate
Unit Goals
Accomplishment(s)
Metrics
Have never been formulated! Was not aware that we were to have such goals. Apparently CS missed something along the line
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Accomplishments of Diversity
Unit
Section
EDiversity
No.
4
Strategic Theme
Curriculum (including requirements from accrediting agencies, if applicable)
Unit Goals
Accomplishment(s)
Metrics
Have never been formulated! Was not aware that we were to have such goals. Apparently CS missed something along the line… Plan to submit NSF CCLI Phase 3 grant on January 7, 2007 on “Real Projects for Real Client Courses,” that targets more women and minorities (Modesitt) Submitted grant in excess of $1.3M along with four other universities for a three year period, beginning on January 1, 2008.
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Accomplishments of Diversity
Unit
Section
EDiversity
No.
5
Strategic Theme
Community Outreach
Unit Goals
Accomplishment(s)
Metrics
Have never been formulated! Was not aware that we were to have such goals. Apparently CS missed something along the line…
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Accomplishments of Diversity
Goals and Objectives for Academic Year 2007-08
University Strategic Goals
Provide innovative, relevant, and rigorous academic programs
Unit
Section
F-Next Year
No.
1
Department Goals for 2007-08
Specific Tasks & Objectives for 2007-08
Bottom Line Targets (as compared to this year)
Offer excellent instructional and education opportunities
Re-evaluate the undergraduate program objectives on a biannual basis, beginning in 2007-08, to ensure that they are fully aligned with current trends of the computing industry and include objectives for preparing for future changes. [As a side note, this date would occur two years prior to the next visit of the CAC/ABET team in the fall of 2009, thus allowing the department to have additional experience with the new set.] Develop a procedure whereby CS faculty are consistently provided opportunities to stay abreast of computing trends.
This may result in a reduction in the number of program objectives as well as the associated learning outcomes.
This could include sabbaticals in industry, volunteer to serve on ACM/IEEE-CS boards/ committees, volunteer to become trained as a Program Evaluator (PEV) for CAC/ABET, conference program chairs and attendance,
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Goals and Objectives
PAB input, faculty seminars (brown bag lunches), interdisciplinary activities with sister departments, guest lecturers from other campuses, etc. The associate chair for assessment should have this task added to her/his portfolio to ensure such continual information is made readily available to the faculty and other stakeholders in a timely manner. Translate current and emerging The results may include: trends into curricular o 1. adding new degrees and/or manifestations. removing degrees no longer deemed in demand 2. providing additional options in existing degrees and/or new courses and/or “archiving” older courses no longer in demand 3. reducing the number of core courses and consequent increase in electives 4. teaching the discrete structures course within the department, given the new emphasis on the topic in the CAC/ABET standards to become effective in 2009 5. increasing the role of Real
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Goals and Objectives
Embed assessment instruments within our courses, rather than as an afterthought. Provide a direct link between a project, for example, and what learning outcomes of the various program objectives are being addressed.
Projects for Real Clients Courses. These are courses in which students work in teams for real clients (for example, industry, government or notfor-profit representatives, or university faculty or staff) to produce real software. 6. Expand such projects into long-term ones, perhaps from Freshmen to Senior, in conjunction with local community. Investigate RoboCup proposal as a seedbed. The course coordinators should assist the course instructors. Make use of the Office of Assessment (Dr. Erin Frew) to assist in this, as well as attending relevant assessment conferences. Some initial efforts were made here as a result of the February 28, 2007 IPFW Workshop on “Assessment: Clear and Simple”
Consider additional direct assessment measure (CS 460 is only one now)
Major Field Test of ETS will be investigated for graduating seniors; own exam; portfolio
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Goals and Objectives
Update and adhere to the course offering timetable to assist the students in planning their schedule while considering other factors such as faculty expertise, availability of adjunct faculty, and undergraduate course cycle. Publish draft schedules on the department website a year in advance, and solicit feedback from students. Use this feedback to alter schedules, within other constraints. Increase the use of distance learning courses or parts of courses, where desired and feasible. The department should make an effort to offer more elective courses in current and demanding areas. The faculty must understand the trend of disciplines and expand their expertise to demanding areas.
Develop this for Spring, 2008
Develop this by Fall, 2007 for 2007-2008
Continue to solicit input from current and prospective students during 2007-2008 Continue to solicit input from current and prospective students about desired courses.
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Goals and Objectives
Unit
Section
F-Next Year
No.
1
University Strategic Goals
Provide innovative, relevant, and rigorous academic programs
Department Goals for 2007-08
Specific Tasks & Objectives for 2007-08
Bottom Line Targets (as compared to this year)
Finish the creation of the Informatics Minor, using input from all colleges and schools obtained during 2006, and courses published in 2006-08 Undergraduate Bulletin.
Finish development of Information Technology degree (s), in collaboration with sister department(s).
Emphasize the graduate program in Applied Computer Science
Complete proposal currently under consideration by VCAA. Offer first Informatics courses in Spring, 2008. Mrs. Tammy Toscos will assume responsibility for this upon her return to IPFW campus in Fall, 2007 (while completing her Ph.D. thesis in Informatics from IUB). Determine the administration of the IT program. Implement the program, as given in the 38 page report completed in December, 2006. This may include combining the IS and IT programs. Re-evaluate the M.S. program objectives to ensure that they are fully aligned with current trends of the computing industry and include objectives for preparing for future changes. Develop a marketing plan, perhaps in conjunction with other graduate programs. Reevaluate the GRE exam requirement while considering the backgrounds of candidates. Also evaluate the new GRE to take
Goals and Objectives
Work on M.S. Curricular issues
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effect in September, 2007. Develop a course offering timetable to assist the students in planning their schedule while considering other factors such as faculty expertise, availability of adjunct faculty, and undergraduate course cycle. Revise and submit the proposal for adding the thesis option to the graduate program to the Purdue Graduate School for the final approval. Use ACS 698 :Thesis
Research by Fall, 2007
Offer more elective courses in current and demanding areas. Develop a graduate certification and other special programs. After acquiring the certification, students can expand their study to a M.S. degree. Quicker response to service community More agile curriculum model to meet needs of current and prospective students
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Unit
Section
F-Next Year
No.
2
University Strategic Goals
Create an exceptional campus environment for a diverse community of learners
Department Goals for 2007-08
Specific Tasks & Objectives for 2007-08
Bottom Line Targets (as compared to this year)
Enable student professional growth
Implement the new CS courses Continue roll-out of the new CS curriculum in Fall 2007
Several qualifying undergraduate students in the department will have made presentations comparable to IPFW ones previously, e.g., Sigma Xi. Some will have presented at national or international conferences and/or had a (probably jointauthored) publication. Encourage more student/faculty interaction during advising process. Expand the roles of graduate assistants in teaching.
At least 10 presentations locally; At least five at national level
Improve the sense of community among majors.
Have faculty assume advising responsibility upon student’s completion of a milestone course, e.g., CS 160, 161, 260. Build upon the Spring, 2007 experience of a GTA teaching an introductory course; and current practice of having a GTA in the CS 160/161 labs. Initiate informal meetings with students: Chat with the Chair on an every term basis, using “forum” format as Engineering
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Goals and Objectives
currently does. Potlucks at homes of faculty who invite small numbers of students Provide space and food for some ACM, UPE, CIA activities Invite officers of the organizations to the home of the chair for pizza. Etc.
Improve the sense of community among faculty.
Encourage participation in the FYE (Learning Communities) program of IPFW. Build on the following activities to foster such a community: Potlucks at homes of faculty Celebrate birthdays by month Chair invites individuals out to a meal (full-time faculty, LTLs, staff, student office assistants, lab technicians, etc.) Spontaneous luncheons Etc.
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Goals and Objectives
Unit
Section
F-Next Year
No.
2
University Strategic Goals
Create an exceptional campus environment for a diverse community of learners
Department Goals for 2007-08
Specific Tasks & Objectives for 2007-08
Bottom Line Targets (as compared to this year)
Improve the sense of community among computing professionals.
Initiate informal meetings with Professional Advisory Board members: Potlucks at homes of faculty Potlucks at homes of PAB members Spontaneous meals: breakfast, lunch on an individual basis Etc.
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Goals and Objectives
Unit
Section
F-Next Year
No.
3
University Strategic Goals
Promote the scholarly and creative achievements of faculty, students, and staff
Department Goals for 2007-08
Specific Tasks & Objectives for 2007-08
Bottom Line Targets (as compared to this year)
Increase faculty and Increase national/international student research peer-reviewed publication and activity conference article submissions Increase external sponsored research submissions. Increase internal sponsored research submissions The CS Department should recruit new faculty. It will help us meet the needs for both the undergraduate and graduate programs while at the same time lessening the dependence on LTLs for courses taken by majors. Fulltime faculty are also required to perform research and scholarly activity which bring prominence, and often external funding to IPFW. Collaborate more with fellow faculty members in the department, sister departments and schools/colleges.
By 200% within the next two years, during AY 2007 and AY 2008. By 200% within the next two years, during AY 2007 to AY 2008 By 300% within the next two years, during AY 2007 to AY 2008. Fill two faculty positions for 200708 to fill the vacancy of one leaving and two half-time retirees. At least one should be female.
Form small research groups within the department and beyond.
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Goals and Objectives
Unit
Section
F-Next Year
No.
4
University Strategic Goals
Advance the economic development and quality of life in Fort Wayne and the surrounding region
Department Goals for 2007-08
Specific Tasks & Objectives for 2007-08
Bottom Line Targets (as compared to this year)
Play a role of resource and technical leadership
Expand SPICE, perhaps by using both Java and Alice or other graphical language. Improve interaction with local high school computing teachers
Bring to steady state of 15-20 students for first course Expand second course to steady state of 10 students. Develop agreements with at least one high school in at least two Allen county area systems
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Goals and Objectives
Unit
Section
F-Next Year
No.
5
University Strategic Goals
Pursue the continuous improvement of university operations
Department Goals for 2007-08
Specific Tasks & Objectives for 2007-08
Bottom Line Targets (as compared to this year)
Continue to communicate excellence
Increase use of College and University Relations publications to tell story of successful student efforts, faculty, alumni, staff, etc.
Continue to use the annual fourpages in the semi-annual TechTalk College magazine to highlight success stories Double the number of press releases advertising student success in project courses. Use all six poster slots in the CS hallways. Redesign home page of CS website to highlight these.
Post more marketing material in our ET hallways about successes Update our CS website to include the above
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Resource Requests for 2007-08 and Beyond
Unit Section
G-Resource Requests
No.
1
Category
New Position Requests
Item (List in priority order)
Cost and Sources of Funds
Rationale
The CS Department should be allowed to immediately recruit two faculty positions for AY 2007-08 to fill the vacancy of one who left and the two half-time retirees. At least one should be female.
$80K for each position, as of 2007 CUPA salary data for assistant professor rank. Funding for one position from Professor Udoh departure Partial funding for other position from two halftime early retirements (Temte and Sanders)
It will help us meet the needs for both the undergraduate and graduate programs while at the same time lessening the dependence on LTLs for courses taken by majors. Full-time faculty are also required to perform research and scholarly activity which bring prominence, and often external funding, to IPFW. Such requirements are not expected of part-time faculty. This is in line with our 2007 SelfStudy for the IPFW-mandated Program Review
By 2014, there should be 25 fulltime faculty members in the department. At least 40% of these should be female. A wide array of ethnicities should be evident. At least one-third of the 25 FTF will be receiving a quarter2006Annual Report for Department of Computer Science
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time release from externally-funded grants. Hire Tammy Toscos as Visiting Instructor in AY 2007, until her Ph.D. degree is granted. Then she would be offered a position as Assistant Professor Hire Michelle Parker as Continuing Lecturer in 2008, in conjunction with some funding from Continuing Studies
$80-85K
Is currently completing her final semester of course work at IUBloomington in only Informatics Doctoral program in the United States.
$50K Partial funding from Continuing Studies
Will be completing her M.S. degree in Business Technology at DePaul University. Currently is visiting instructor.
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Resource Requests
Unit
Section
G-Resource Requests
No.
2
Category
Equipment Requests
Item (List in priority order)
Cost and Sources of Funds
Rationale
Install motion sensitive cameras in three laboratories.
$2,000 Source = Capital equipment request from Dean New funding
SUN Server
$10K New funding
3-D equipment: projector, scanner, rendering software Expert System software
$25K New funding $5K New funding
Because of the limited amount of budget for teaching assistants (TAs) and lab consultants, we cannot open the labs during the weekends. There have been many requests from students to use the labs during the weekend. Six cameras in ET 109, 111, 118 Support teaching activities (e.g., put course websites, create course newsgroups, put programs students can interact with) Install server side software not available anywhere else to support both teaching and research Use for computationally intensive research experiments Visualization projects in Informatics would require such equipment The current single copy of XpertRule is outdated, and has been the source of numerous complaints from students in CS 380, Artificial Intelligence. The only way to access this old copy
Resource Requests
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Mobile Computing Equipment
$5K New funding
was using VNC to link to a departmental server – could not be available in a general lab to more than one user at a time. From Tammy Toscos
Tools for Software Engineering, embedded systems, wireless, AI
$??K
From Jacques Chansavang
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Resource Requests
Unit
Section
G-Resource Requests
No.
3
Category
Space/Remodeling Requests
Item (List in priority order)
Cost and Sources of Funds
Rationale
Office space for new faculty
Designated research laboratory for graduate students.
$20K New funding
Hiring an additional new faculty will necessitate an additional office. In the interim, sharing will be required during the Fall, 2007. The CS department doesn’t have dedicated research space for graduate students. Such space is necessary to promote their participation in research and to support their creative activities. As space becomes more available on campus, with the construction of new facilities, the department must be part of the process for reallocation of space.
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Resource Requests
Unit
Section
G-Resource Requests
No.
4
Category
Other new funding requests, including, lab materials, S&E, etc.
Item (List in priority order)
Cost and Sources of Funds
Rationale
Four additional graduate T.A. and R.A. positions
$8K * 4 = $32K (plus tuition) New Funding
Granting more T.A. and R.A. positions will be an effective approach to enhance the quality of education for our majors, to recruit higher quality students, and to enhance their career development through research and teaching, especially for the students who are planning to develop their career at academic institutions. This will be an excellent marketing tool for full-time students!
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Resource Requests