BOARD OF ADVOCATES October 9, 2015

UPDATES ABET Accredited until 2021 Passed with only 1 concern Must be addressed by next visit “[Students will have] an understanding of professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and responsibilities” Only 1 hour course to cover Now three hour ethics course offered by Philosophy ECS wants coordinate all 3 (ME, ECE and CS) into one visit

UPDATES Ph.D. Proposal Passed Graduate Curriculum Meeting (9/30) Passed Graduate Council (10/2) Council of Deans (November?) Provost Board of Regents (Early spring?)

UPDATES Moving to Hankamer Remodel Third Floor Offices Second Floor Labs (Cashion) Classrooms (Cashion) Research Labs ICPC Lab Communication with ECS

UPDATES Dr. Young-Rae Cho promoted to Associate Professor & Tenured ICPC World Finals in Morocco (2015) & Thailand (2016) Dr. Michael Poor NSF grant award gesture computing Computer Science Industrial Board meeting 10/23 New courses Security – Dr. Jeff Donahoo Embedded Systems – Dr. Paul Grabow Game Design – Dr. Matthew Fendt

DATA SCIENCE Undergraduate degree, graduate degree or not worth it?

OVERVIEW What is Data Science? Why an undergraduate degree? How can we implement it? Where – Baylor! When – Fall 2017

WHAT IS DATA SCIENCE? “Simply put, Data Science is where computer science and statistics come together to shape the future through data. ” – Paul Anderson, Director Data Science, College of Charleston “Data Science is the study of the generalizable extraction of knowledge from data.” – Vasant Dhar, CACM December 2013 New paradigm of knowledge discovery Experimental Theoretical Computational

WHY? - VITALLY IMPORTANT Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets. – The Fourth Paradigm, Hay et al % of midmarket companies are using big data or planning to start in the near future – Dell survey 2014 “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” - Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner Research. "The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight." – Carly Fiorina, former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Company “Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers.” - Pat Gelsinger, the Chief Executive Officer of VMware, Inc.

WHY? - HEAVY DEMAND “In recent years, our graduates have enjoyed a 100% placement success rate, and Department of Labor statistics project a 25% growth rate in employment through the year 2018.” – University of Iowa Business Analytics “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” – Harvard Business Review McKinsey & Company projects that by 2018 there will be a shortage of anywhere from 140,000 to 180,000 [of] data scientists -- SMU Average salary $91K

WHY? - COMPETITION University of Michigan $100M data science initiative “New educational opportunities for students” Hire 35 new faculty 100+ graduate programs worldwide Stanford, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Columbia, CMU, SMU, A&M, etc. Seven undergraduate programs Iowa (Business Analytics), Ohio State

HOW? - OHIO STATE MODEL General Education Requirements (13 courses) Core Requirements Cal II + Linear Algebra Eight CS courses Advanced Database Data Mining Visualization Seven Stats courses Specialization Biomedical Informatics (9 biology/bioinformatics courses) Business Analytics (7 business courses) Computational Analytics (4 courses) Capstone

HOW? - INFORMATICS MODEL Bioinformatics Balance Computer Science-Statistics 33 Hours CS 23 Hours Stats Stats major 27 hours + Cal III 12 Hours Data Science Courses CSI 4352 – Data Mining CSI 4xxx – Big Data Analytics Others?

HOW? - COMPUTER SCIENCE TRACK MODEL Software Engineering & Gaming Concentrations Computer Science Degree + Extra Stats 55 Hours CS 15 Hours Stats Stats minor 18 hours

NEED HELP What? Something else? Why? Missing something? How? Preference? Alternative?