Transcript Industrial Advisory Board Meeting: 11/5/10 Gopal Gupta IAB Meeting: Agenda     Overview of the Department: Gopal Gupta ABET Accreditation: Cy Cantrell Program Assessment: Neeraj Mittal Discussion – How.

Industrial Advisory Board
Meeting: 11/5/10
Gopal Gupta
IAB Meeting: Agenda
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Overview of the Department: Gopal Gupta
ABET Accreditation: Cy Cantrell
Program Assessment: Neeraj Mittal
Discussion
– How can we make our program better?
– What changes are taking place in the
computing industry that should be reflected in
our programs
– Suggestions for generating more support (from
community & industry)
– Other inputs?
Department Updates
 Dr. Mark Spong assumed the position of Dean of
Engineering in Fall’08
 Dr. D.T. Huynh stepped down as Dept. head after
12 years of service
– Great accomplishments in growing the dept.
 School has added two new departments: bio-engg
and mechanical engg.
 Decline in student enrollment has bottomed out
and we are on growth path again
 CS Department is doing exceptionally well in
every aspect
Enrollment Update
Fall’10
 UTD Enrollment: 17,262
Fall’09
 UTD Enrollment: 15,769
– Increase of 727 over F’08
– Increase of 1,493 over F’09
 ECS Enrollment: 2,898
 ECS Enrollment: 3,171
– Increase of 273 over F’09
 CS/SE Enrollment: 1,406
– Increase of 169 over F’08
 CS/SE Enrollment: 1,352
– Increase of 52 over F’09
– Slight decrease
– Counting half of TE/CE,
– 1,366 in F’08, per DT
 SCH for CS/SE: 12,970
total = 1,580
 SCH for CS/SE = 13,500
– > 53% of ECS SCH
# Ph.D.: 138;
# MS: 469
#BS: 799
Enrollment Stats (Fall 2010)
ACADEMIC
PLAN
(MAJOR)
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Other
Graduate
Masters
Biomed
CE
84
49
48
47
CE-ND
CS
CS-ND
3
Doctoral
Total
6
5
11
33
14
278
2
137
82
150
189
6
15
2
395
127
1086
15
EEM
37
29
66
EET
36
36
EEM-ND
4
4
EET-ND
1
1
EE
76
67
169
245
EE-ND
11
113
55
68
22
7
45
13
33
61
80
4
58
278
1
39
946
12
13
Mech-ND
SE
158
12
MSN
Mech
220
1
74
11
302
SE-ND
3
3
TE-ND
1
1
TE
5
1
7
12
454
287
503
595
# Ph.D.: 138;
# MS: 469
70
31
15
71
858
404
3,171
#BS: 799
Enrollment Stats (ca. 8/21)
Major
FR
SPH
JR
SR
MS
Ph.D
Total
CE
84
45
42
23
58
11
263
CS
129
83
152
193
412
112
1,081
EE
68
95
154
244
198
118
877
7,162
EE Microelec.
37
27
64
1,071
EE Telecom
44
44
101
MSEN
13
41
372
141
362
28
SCH
1,323
11,382
Mech. Eng.
73
28
23
12
5
SE
46
28
49
64
77
7
271
776
TE
4
6
8
15
36
12
81
302
Total School
404
285
428
551
880
315
2,898
22,887
Total CS/SE
175
111
201
257
489
119
1,352
12,158
Update on Personnel
 Four new senior lecturers joining our ranks:
– Dr. Linda Morales
– Dr. Jey Veerasamy
– Dr. Miguel Razo Razo
– Dr. Feliks Kluzniak
 Promotions:
– Newly promoted professors: Jason Jue and Prabha Prabhakaran
– Newly appointed chairs: Bhavani (Louis Beecherl Endowed Chair)
 Student organizations:
– Student Chapter of the ACM President: Dustin Valentine
– CSGSA: President to be elected (Chris Davis serves until then)
 Retired: Larry King, Nancy van Ness
 Departed: Cangussu, Jing Dong, Datta, Ying Liu
Currently: 40 T/T faculty & 11 Senior Lecturers
Plan to hire: 2 T/T faculty and 1 SL
Faculty Research
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Our faculty have been very productive in research
Graduated 28 Ph.D. students in 09-10 AY
Research Expenditure of $9M last year
Two faculty received NSF CAREER Awards
One faculty member received Airforce Young
Investigator award
 Significant number of new grants obtained in the last 3
months.
 26 faculty members are PI/Co-PI in an NSF grant
 30 faculty PI/Co-PI have extramural funding
Faculty Research
– Graduated 28 Ph.D. students in ‘09-’10 (2nd-best yr)
– Enrollment is up, especially graduate
– Millions of $$s of funding in last few months:
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Prabha/Xiaohu: $2.5 M grant from NSF
Kamil et al: $1.8 M grant from NSF
Andras: $500K grant from NSF
Murat: $1.0 M grant from NSF
Edwin: $300K grant from NSF
Eric Wong: $300K grant from NSF
Yang Liu: $195K grant from NSF
Ovidiu: $280K grant from NSF (CPS)
Edwin: $200K from Texas ARP (< 2% success rate)
Latifur/Kevin: $500K from airforce
Cooper & ATEC: $25K from Microsoft
Harris/Gupta: $850K from DHS
Guo: $310K from Texas Cancer Research Inst.
Venky, Ravi, Neeraj: $1M NSF
Total Funding:
~$10M
BS Programs
 Goal:
– Be the best program at a public univ. in Texas
– Achieved: when top N. Texas students prefer to go to
UTD rather than elsewhere in the state
 Steps to achieve the goal:
– Ensure that students can program well by the time
they finish the CS 1-2 sequence
• Tutoring program significantly expanded
– Strengthen the senior design course:
• UT Design: Goal is to have all student projects be industry
projects
• Introduced Entrepreneurship education
– Senior Design Day: December 3rd
BS Program: Engaging Students
 Strong student organizations: 7 of them
– Student Chapter of the ACM
– Computer Security Group
– Service through Computing
– Computer Gaming Group
– .NET Group
– Codeburners
– Graduate Student Association
 Introduce a mentoring program
Graduate Programs
 Our undergraduates and graduates are branded in
the market as having deep technical knowledge
– Favored destination of QualComm, Microsoft, VMWare,
Ericsson, etc.
– Large number of internships offered: excess of 400
– Our reputation is spreading: applications spiked to 1,000+
– We work hard to preserve the brand (both grad and undergrad)
 A new Information Assurance track introduced:
– $1.8 Million grant from NSF to produce MS/Ph.d. students well-versed in IA
– Graduates have to work for the federal government in lieu of the scholarship
 Work in progress to introduce an:
– Executive MS in Software Engineering for working professionals
– Continuing education grad courses (first one on OOAD offered in Fall’10)
– Part of effort to establish a “Center for Professional Education”
Encourage Entrepreneurship
 North Texas has ingredients similar to Silicon
Valley:
– Large no. of high-tech companies
– A Univ. (UTD) with a large CS dept & large number
of graduates
– (Now) avenues for raising capital [Texas ETF]
 No reason why we can’t be just as successful as
Stanford
 Need to inculcate a culture of entrepreneurship
among our students
– SW entrepreneurship education in senior design
– Incubation facility opening in Summer’11
Industry Engagement models
 UT Design: Companies sponsor industrial projects
 Industrial Practice Program: Cos recruit our students
– Highly skilled workers at half the price or less
 IUCRC: Membership in NSF-sponsored IndustryUniversity Cooperative Research Center:
– Jointly run by UTD/UNT/SMU
– Access to faculty research
– 12+ company members; $30K fee
 Faculty Projects: UTD CS can be a company’s R&D lab
 Texas Emerging Technology Fund Partnership:
– Texas ETF requires a University partner
– CS Department can be that partner
Community Outreach
 $2.7M NSF GK-12 project:
– after-school program at middle schools
– develop appreciation for computing
– Taught by CS Ph.D. students
 Middle School summer camp:
– first camp in the summer of 2010; very successful
 Spring Computingfest:
– High school and undergraduate students project competition
 High School Programming competition (Nov 13)
– 41 teams expected to participate
 Summer Programming Class for High School students:
– Offered free by the Department
– Taught by Dr. Page
 Continuing education courses for professionals
– Object-oriented analysis and design offered for the first time
CS@UT: Special Challenges
 We are a large department
– A large BS program (700 students)
– A large (Professional) MS program (450 students)
– A large Ph.D. program (140 students)
 We have a special location
– Surrounded by high-tech industry second only to silicon valley
 We have unique challenges
– Maintain excellence in all 3 programs
– Serve the surrounding high-tech industry
 We want to pursue 3 main goals all at once:
– Have the best BS/MS programs in TX
– Be known for our scholarly research and Ph.D. program
– Be the heart of the economic engine of North Texas with
respect to the software industry
SWOT
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
-- Distinguished faculty
-- Time to graduate
-- Large faculty size
-- Individual attention to students
-- Large coverage in research/classes
-- Incoming student preparation
-- Large student body
-- Class sizes
-- Well-established brand
-- Location in high-tech corridor
-- Tremendous industry support
Opportunities:
-- stimulate entrepreneurship
-- more interaction with industry
-- mentoring for students
-- engage K-12 students more
-- continuing education needs of the
community
Threats:
-- Budget cuts (5% now, 10% later)
-- Unfunded mandates (1325, CHEC)
-- Space (no new buildings planned)
-- Lack of funding for new
initiatives
-- Dependence on Int’l students for
graduate programs