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CSE Volunteers -- Computer Science and
Engineering students to assist Hillsborough
County Information Technology Division
Ken Christensen Dewey Rundus Department of
Computer Science and Engineering University of
South Florida Tampa, FL 33620 Email christen,
rundus_at_csee.usf.edu
Hillsborough County K-12 proposal July 22, 2004
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Who we are (department)

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• A department in the College of Engineering
• Founded in 1980
• 22 faculty
• Over 400 undergraduate students
• About 150 graduate students
• Many of our graduates are employed in the Tampa
  Bay area
• Employed by major high tech firms and government
  agencies
• Honeywell, IBM, Raytheon, and others
• Hillsborough country and others

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Who we are (people)

• Ken Christensen
• Joined USF in 1995
• PhD from North Carolina State University
• Licensed Professional Engineer in the state of
  Florida
• Industry experience at IBM and NASA-KSC
• Teach and research in computer networks
• Dewey Rundus
• Joined USF in 1972
• PhD from Stanford University
• Associate chair
• Teach and research in user interface design

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Goals

• Our goals in this project are to
• 1) Provide a community service opportunity for
  our students
• 2) Give our student meaningful real world
  experience

Providing technical assistance to Hillsborough
County K-12 Information Technology Division can
satisfy both of these goals!
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Project plan

• USF student pairs to be assigned to IT projects
• Serve as assistants to IT support
  representatives
• Be assigned to schools as needed
• Time commitment
• Four hours per week for academic semester
• Skills
• Our students have a range of skills
• Basic Wintel PC skills (Windows administration)
• Sophisticated data base, server, and network
  administration
• Web site development
• Other
• Academic credit
• Students receive 1 credit hour of independent
  study
• This is service-based learning

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Project plan continued

• Supervision
• Ken Christensen to supervise students on USF side
• Weekly status
• Some site visits
• Periodic on-campus meetings
• End of semester awards banquet (pizza?)
• Evaluation
• Fall is our guinea pig semester
• Will evaluate for continuation into Spring
• Long term plan is to get corporate support
• Limited support for students (e.g., for
  transportation costs)
• Funds for technology supplies for Hillsborough
  County

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Project plan continued

• Fall 2004
• 17 students have expressed an interest so far
• More will come in, but some will drop out too
• It is reasonable to expect 5 to 8 student pairs
• Need a kick-off meeting with IT staff
• Should occur before Hillsborough County school
  year starts

We look forward to getting to work!