JOINT M. S. PROGRAM IN EC- UMBC/Rutgers

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JOINT M. S. PROGRAM IN EC- UMBC/Rutgers

• Nabil R. Adam
• Rutgers University
• CIMIC
• Center for Information Management, Integration,
  and Connectivity
• http//cimic.rutgers.edu/
• October 1998

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Outline

• The Joint M.S. program
• Overview
• Administration structure
• Students
• Courses
• Core
• Tracks A and B
• CIMIC - Background

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JOINT M. S. PROGRAM IN EC

• Between
• UMBC
• College of Engineering and Division of Continuing
  Ed
• Rutgers University
• CIMIC (Center for Information Management,
  Integration and Connectivity) and GRADUATE SCHOOL
  -NEWARK
• Proposed Starting Date Sept. 1999

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The Program

• Credits for graduation - 33
• 12 credit required core,
• Followed by two specialization tracks A B (15
  credits)
• Track A - focuses on technical aspects of EC
  drawing from the fields of CS, IS, Eng.
• Track B- focuses on the management, business, and
  legal aspects of EC drawing from the fields of
  economics, policy science, and law.

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The Program (Contd)

• An internship (6 credits) - theses/projects
• May involve international placement. Students
  will typically work in teams of 3-4 on real-world
  projects in which at least one member of the team
  works as an intern in a research lab or
  private/public enterprise such as GSA and other
  federal government agencies.

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Administrative Structure

• 1. Two co-directors.
• 2. An Industrial Advisory board
• Representatives of companies and government
  agencies, to advise the co-directors.

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Administrative Structure (Contd)

• 3. An executive committee
• Composed of the program co-directors, as rotating
  chairs, and additional faculty representatives
  from UMBC and Rutgers.
• Serves as an advisory body to the program
  co-directors on academic and administrative
  matters.
• Subcommittees Admissions and curriculum
• Members of the executive committee will be
  appointed to those sub-committees jointly by the
  co-directors.

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Students

• Talented undergraduates majoring in engineering,
  computer science, and business, and graduate
  students in MBA, Law, computer science, and
  engineering.
• When the program is fully operational, the
  program will produce at least 15 graduates/yr

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Educational Facilities at UMBC and Rutgers

• UMBC
• is connected to the University of Marylands
  Interactive Video Network (IVN), a two-way video
  system, which allows videoconferencing with
  virtually all campuses as well as several other
  laboratory and commercial sites.

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Educational Facilities at UMBC and Rutgers
(Contd)

• Rutgers
• Interactive TV is available through ISDN and
  through the NJ IDLS (Interactive Distance
  Learning System). The campus has three ITV
  classrooms. These classrooms currently deliver
  various courses to each site and also to other
  facilities throughout the state.

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Preparatory Courses

• Problem Solving and Computer Programming -- UMBC
  (3 credits).
• OR
• Computer Technology -- Rutgers-Newark (3 credits)
• AND
• Software and Hardware -- UMBC (3 credits).
• OR
• Database Systems -- Rutgers-Newark (3 credits)

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Core Courses

• Electronic Commerce I and II (Overview and
  Integration)
• Electronic Commerce Technology
• Electronic Commerce Business (Business Core)
• Electronic Commerce Policy (Policy Core)

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Track A Courses

• Networking for Electronic Commerce
• Security for Electronic Commerce
• Case Studies in Electronic Commerce
• Databases, Data Warehousing, and Data Mining
• Electronic Payment Systems
• Workflow Management and Computer-Supported
  Cooperative Work
• Tele-manufacturing

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Track B Courses

• Business Law and EC
• Economics I - Markets and Corporate Strategy in
  EC
• Economics II - Market Failure and Public Policy
  toward EC
• Electronic Marketing
• International Economics in EC
• Political Institutions and EC
• Selling through the Internet
• Electronic Networks in Corporate Management

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Relevant Programs

• No similar programs, yet, that we were able to
  identify.
• The Owen Graduate School of Management at the
  Vanderbilt - MBA with EC major
• the IC2 Institute of Innovation, Creativity, and
  Capital at the University of Texas at Austin -
  M.S. and Commercialization degree

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CIMIC - Research Strength

• Electronic Commerce/Digital libraries
• Information extraction and content-based search
• Security
• Workflow
• Integration and interoperability
• Data warehousing
• Universal access
• Internet technologies

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Collaborations (Partial list)

• Global Electronic Commerce
• UMBC, IBM, European Universities
• International Institute of EC
• In partnership with Concurrent Technologies Corp.
  (CTC)
• MFG Name Professor in EC
• Regional Applications Center (RAC)
• NASA and State of NJ HMDC
• Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute - NJ
  HMDC

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CIMIC Faculty/Students

• Funding
• Over 4 million
• NSF, NSA, NASA, HMDC, LLNL, IBM, CTC, GSA, MFG
• Faculty
• One FT Research Professor
• Recruiting three FT Research Prof. to start 1/99
• Six faculty associates from various departments
  across Rutgers
• Student (supported)
• 4 Ph.D. , 3 Masters, 3 Undergrad.

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CIMIC (Contd)

• Education - MS and Certificate Programs in EC
• Outreach
• MUSIC, Science Park High School, National Urban
  League, NY
• Collaboration
• Lucent Tech., Sarnoff Corp., LoC, Bellcore,
  SJHMC, Simon Fraser, NJIT, JHU, UMBC, GSA, CTC,
  IBM
• Visitors - Professors from U. of Milano, Hankuk
  U., Korea, Ben-Gurion U., Israel, Erciyes U.
  Turkey, GMD-IPSI, Germany