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Subject: Standards Committee Minutes (preliminary)


Standards Committee
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AY     :  2007-2008
Meeting:  Second
Date   :  Dec 10, 2007
Time   :  11:30-12:30
Place  :  Large Conf Room GITC 441x.
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   Minutes of Standards Commitee Meeting (STC).
                  by
         Alex Gerbessiotis
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1. Meeting started at 11:30am.
2. Present: Vincent Oria
            Andrew Sohn
            Alex Gerbessiotis (chairing the meeting).
3. Agenda Items:
    a. Teaching of graduate courses
    b. Programming in CS courses.

4. Teaching of graduate courses. 
  This is an item that was discussed last meeting and
  brought up informally in the last faculty meeting
  (Wed before Thanksgiving).

  It was decided that in the next faculty meeting
  we bring up two issues separately

  "PhD-level courses (i.e. CS 700-level ones) should
   be taught by Tenured/Tenure-track faculty in CS
   or other full-time faculty with PhD in relevant areas".

  "MS-level courses (i.e. CS 600-level ones) should
   be taught by Tenured/Tenure-track faculty in CS
   or other full-time faculty with PhD in relevant areas.
   Individuals from industry without these qualification can
   be allowed to teach such courses pending an approval
   by the Department/GraduateCommittees".


5. Programming in CS courses.
   Since last meeting several things have occurred.
   1. Kenneth Katzgrau has prepared a report on feedback undergraduate
      students have provided about the CS undergraduate program.
   2. M. Baltrush, Interim Chair, collected information from
      faculty on programming in CS courses. An email with summary
      data was sent to the Standard Committee  Chair[Document 1].
   3. A tabulation of the information of the email in 5.2 was
      done by the Chair of the committee [Document2].
   4. The committee has deliberated on the issue and came up
      with the following generic guidelines discusses in Section 6.

6. Guidelines for Programming Component of CS Courses.
   All members present agreed to the following guidelines.

   Proposal 1.  100-level courses
i. Each course should have 6-7 assignments of 50-100 lines of code each.

   Proposal 2.  200-level courses
i. Each course should have 6-7 assignments of 100-200 lines of code each.
ii.In addition CS 280, CS 288 should also have 1 programming project  of
   at least 500 lines of code.

   Proposal 3.  300- and 400-level courses.

   a/ Programming Oriented courses.
i. Each course should have 5-6 assignments of 100-200 lines of code each.
ii.Each course should have 1 project of 500-1000 lines of code each.

   b/ Non-Programming Oriented courses.
i. Each course can have 5-6 assignments of   100-200 lines of code each.

   Proposal 4. Formal reintroduction of C++ in the curriculum
With 2 of 3 majority the following was also suggested to be brought forward.
The Undergraduate Committee might or should followup.

i. Formal reintroduction of a C/C++ programming course in the curriculum.
 

7.  Other items.
    An idea was floated to introduce a 300-level
    independent programming course. No decision was taken.

8.  Meeting was adjourned at 12:30.

Attachments:
 [Document1] Email from M. Baltrush
 [Document2] Excel Spreadsheet by Alex Gerbessiotis based on
             [Document1] information.

Minutes compiled by
Alex. Gerbessiotis.