Partnerships for our Future

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Partnerships for our Future

• Without computing, theres no economy

Betty H.C. Cheng
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High Assurance Systems Activities

• Quality Fund Concept Program
• Undergraduate research assistantships
• Curriculum development
• Educational infrastructure
• 8 URA 4 GA
• 9 faculty members CSE, ECE, Accounting,
  Environmental Science
• NSF IGERT Proposal
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research
  Training
• Inter-disciplinary education and research
  training
• Supports 30 doctoral students for 5 years
• 25 faculty members CSE, ECE, Acct, Env.
  Science, Medical School, Criminal Justice,
  Telecomm., Civil Eng., Educational Admin.
• MSU Risk Management Initiative
• Multiple interdisciplinary research efforts
• Ecosystem monitoring
• Digital enterprise
• Etc.

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High Assurance Systems
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Sample HAS Program
Year Fall Spring Summer
Year 1 3cr-Math/Stats 3cr-Core 1cr-Research Training (RT) 1cr-Research Seminar (RS) 3cr-Core 3cr-Domain-Specific 3cr-Indep. Study 1cr-RS Industrial Internship 1
Year 2 3cr-Core 3cr-DS 3cr-MS Thesis 1cr-HAS RS 3cr-Core 3cr-Enabling Tech (ET) 3cr-MS Thesis 1cr-HAS RS Research Internship 1
Year 3 3cr-ET/DS/Core 6cr-Diss Research 3cr-ET/DS/Core 6cr-Diss Research Research Internship 2
Year 4 1cr-HAS RS 1cr-RT (career dev) 6cr-Diss Research 1cr-HAS RS 1cr-RT (teaching prep) 6cr-Diss Research Industrial Internship 2
Year 5 1cr-HAS RS 6cr-Diss Research 1cr-HAS RS 6cr-Diss Research Research
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Sample HAS Program
Year Fall Spring Summer
Year 1 3cr-Math/Stats 3cr-Core 1cr-Research Training (RT) 1cr-Research Seminar (RS) 3cr-Core 3cr-Domain-Specific 3cr-Indep. Study 1cr-RS Industrial Internship 1
Year 2 3cr-Core 3cr-DS 3cr-MS Thesis 1cr-HAS RS 3cr-Core 3cr-Enabling Tech (ET) 3cr-MS Thesis 1cr-HAS RS Research Internship 1
Year 3 3cr-ET/DS/Core 6cr-Diss Research 3cr-ET/DS/Core 6cr-Diss Research Research Internship 2
Year 4 1cr-HAS RS 1cr-RT (career dev) 6cr-Diss Research 1cr-HAS RS 1cr-RT (teaching prep) 6cr-Diss Research Industrial Internship 2
Year 5 1cr-HAS RS 6cr-Diss Research 1cr-HAS RS 6cr-Diss Research Research
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Partnership Levels

• Bronze level
• Provide a letter of support for our research and
  educational efforts.
• Silver level
• Provide sanitized project data for
  research/courses
• Be a customer for the project provide feedback
• Gold level
• Silver-level activities
• Provide summer internships (entry and advanced)
• Platinum level
• Gold-level activities
• Provide funds to support faculty efforts (in form
  of gifts tax write-off in many cases).

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Requirements Engineering

• New 4XX-level course
• Target audience Junior/senior and graduate
  students
• Objectives
• Give students exposure to the key tasks
  associated with requirements engineering
• Answer WHAT questions problem, data,
  computation, properties
• Elicitation, specification, modeling, validation
• Non-functional issues NFR, cost estimation,
  schedules
• Hands-on, team project develop requirements
  documents
• Partnership opportunities
• Identification of industrial-strength RE tools
• Industrial-strength projects to perform RE tasks.
  
• Be a customer

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Partnerships for OUR Future

• Future looks promising for Computing
• Where theres computing, there should be
  assurance.
• Need to give our students advantages to enable
  them to be leaders
• today and tomorrow
• here in the US and worldwide
• Let MSU/CSE be a remote research/incubation lab
  for your company.
• Watch your investments grow and impact OUR
  future.