CSE Curriculum Updates

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CSE Curriculum Updates

• Bruce W. Weide
• Neelam Soundarajan

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Overview

• Enrollment update
• Course and program updates
• For more information
• http//www.cse.ohio-state.edu/courses
• Bruce Weide, weide.1_at_osu.edu
• Specific question for you about BSCSE program
  objectives (ABET)
• For more information
• http//www.cse.ohio-state.edu/ugrad
• Neelam Soundarajan, neelam_at_cse.ohio-state.edu

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Enrollment Update
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Course Updates Now Permanent

• New permanent courses this year
• CSE 105 Computer-Assisted Problem Solving for
  Construction Management (service course for
  Construction Systems Management majors)
• CSE 733 Foundations of Spoken Language
  Processing
• CSE 735 Machine Learning and Statistical Pattern
  Recognition

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Course Updates Now Permanent

• CSE/ECE 769 Applied Enterprise Distributed
  Computing for Engineers and Scientists
• CSE 786 Game Design and Development Project

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Course Updates Piloted This Year

• New courses piloted this year
• CSE 421 Software Development in Java (new course
  on software technology to tie principles taught
  in the intro major course sequence to modern
  software practice)
• CSE 459.24 Programming in C
• CSE 683 Computer Animation Algorithms and
  Techniques
• CSE 694X Applied Information Security Projects

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Course Updates Piloted This Year

• CSE 794J Applied Enterprise IT Architectures
• CSE 794K Applied Enterprise IT Architectures II
• CSE/ECE 894G Computer Communication Networks I
• CSE/ECE 894J Computer Communication Networks II

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Course Updates Piloted Next Year

• New courses to be piloted next year
• CSE 294P Computational Thinking in Context
  Science and Engineering (intro service course in
  proposed Computational Science minor)
• CSE 694L Introduction to Data and Information
  Visualization
• CSE 794A Advanced Algorithms
• CSE 794Q Introduction to Cryptography

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Program Updates

• All programs in ASC reduced to 181 cr-hrs by OSU
  Board of Trustees in 6/07
• BA in CIS reduced GEC requirements by 10 cr-hrs
  (now 181 cr-hrs)
• BS in CIS reduced GEC requirements by 15 cr-hrs
  added CSE 601 and capstone design course (now 181
  cr-hrs)
• BS in CSE reduced GEC requirements by 5 cr-hrs
  slightly revised tech options added tracks in
  individualized option (now 191 cr-hrs)

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BS in CSE Program Objectives

• Program accredited by Engineering Accreditation
  Commission and Computing Accreditation Commission
  (both of ABET)
• Accreditation criteria require program to have
  published Program Objectives and Program Outcomes

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ABETs Definitions

• Program Objectives
• Broad statements that describe career and
  professional accomplishments that program is
  preparing graduates to achieve in the years
  following graduation
• Program Outcomes
• Statements that describe what students are
  expected to know and be able to do by time of
  graduation

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Criteria Requirements

• Program Objectives
• Must be established/revised based on the needs
  of constituencies (such as alumni, employers)
• Input from External Advisory Board especially
  recommended
• Program Outcomes
• Must be formulated to foster attainment of
  objectives
• Must include ABET specified outcomes
• Extent of student achievement of outcomes must be
  assessed and results used to improve program

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Current Objectives

• Graduates will have thorough grounding in key
  principles and practices of computing and will
  have applied their software development skills
  and knowledge of foundational principles to the
  design and implementation of practical systems of
  software and/or hardware components to meet
  customer requirements.
• Graduates will have an understanding of
  additional engineering principles, and the
  mathematical and scientific concepts that
  underlie them, and will have applied this
  understanding, as appropriate, in analyzing
  real-world problems and designing suitable
  solutions.

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Current Objectives

• Graduates will have an understanding of human and
  social issues, and will be in the process of
  becoming informed and involved members of their
  communities, and will be responsible engineering
  and computing professionals.
• Graduates will have appropriate interaction and
  organizational skills, and will be routinely
  using and further developing these skills in
  their professional careers.

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Current Objectives

• Graduates will be successfully employed in the
  computing profession, and will be actively
  engaged in learning, understanding, applying new
  ideas/technologies as the field evolves or will
  have successfully completed, or be actively
  pursuing, graduate studies in computing.

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But ...

• Are too long and involved
• Include things that belong in the outcomes
  (awkwardly restated ?)

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Proposed Objectives

• Graduates of the program will be employed in the
  computing profession, and will be engaged in
  learning, understanding, and applying new ideas
  and technologies as the field evolves.
• Graduates with an interest in, and aptitude for,
  advanced studies in computing will have
  completed, or will be actively pursuing, graduate
  studies in computing.

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Process

• Discussed in Undergraduate Studies Committee
• Currently seeking comments from
• External Advisory Board
• Alumni (via biannual Alumni Survey end of May)
• Will use comments to fine-tune proposed
  objectives over summer, early fall then present
  to faculty for approval
• Also in the process of revising outcomes to
  account for new CAC outcomes