Department of Information and Computer Science Academic Plan For the Academic Year 2005 2006

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Department of Information and Computer
ScienceAcademic PlanFor the Academic Year
2005 - 2006

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Main Dimensions of the ICS Plan

• Revision of Academic Programs
• Research
• Continuing Education
• Accreditation

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Revision of Academic Programs

• Completing the revision process of Computer
  Science program
• Submission to the academic Committee before the
  end of 051
• Preparation for implementation in 052
• Implementation of revised approved program from
  061
• Revision of Software Engineering program
• Revision should be according to CC2005
  recommendations for SWE education
• SWE and CS program should be well aligned
• Revised SWE program should be submitted to the
  ICS Council by the end of March 2006
• Revised SWE program should be submitted to the
  CCSE Council by the end of April 2006

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Revision of Academic Programs

• Technical electives list is not very flexible.
  The list should be made as flexible as possible
• Rather than calling technical electives, it
  should be named as general electives
• Updating the ICS Labs
• Publicizing the CS and SWE programs

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Research

• Every faculty member should publish at least two
  papers
• Department should try to get 3 or 4 distinguished
  professors/associate professors during the year
  2005-06
• No more hiring of lecturers

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Continuing Education

• Three reasons for weak continuing education in
  the College of Computer Sciences and Engineering
• Incentives for faculty to offer short courses are
  insufficient
• Current course marketing strategies are not
  effective
• Many good faculty of the college got busy with
  other university wide activities
• These factors should be improved to revive the
  continuing education in the college

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Accreditation

• The department should be ready for any
  accreditation
• International (ABET/CSAB)
• Local (Self assessment)
• Since the college has online course files, it
  should be ensured that all course files should be
  up-to-date

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Questions, Concerns, and Discussion