1. CSE Strategic Planning Background
Hank Walker

2. CSE Strategic Plan Last strategic plan done ~2001-2002
Faculty do not remember details
Half were not here
APR Committee recommends a new plan
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CSE Faculty Retreat

3. CSE Mission
Our mission is to develop the human and intellectual resources needed to meet the future technological challenges in the field of computing. This includes developing computer scientists and computer engineers for positions of leadership in industry, government, and academia.
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CSE Faculty Retreat

4. APR Self-Study Department Goals
Increase ranking of computer engineering to be in the top 10 and computer science to be in the top 15, among public universities, by 2020
Increase multi-disciplinary collaborations
Increase faculty development
Increase programs for undergraduate and graduate student development
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CSE Faculty Retreat

5. CSE Quality Enhancement Plan
Adopted September 2003
Intended outcomes for each degree:
Preparing our students to be competitive in the job market – industry or academia
Ensuring that our students make adequate progress toward graduating
Ensuring that our students have the skills and background to be valued employees
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CSE Faculty Retreat

6. Department Strengths Faculty Staff Students From top schools
Good success – CAREER awards
Collegiality
Staff
Very skilled and dedicated
Students
Graduate admissions from tier 1 schools
Increasingly selective undergraduate admissions
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CSE Faculty Retreat

7. Department Weaknesses
CS ranking
Hurts faculty and student recruiting
Undergraduate student-faculty ratio ~double top-36 CS departments – a factor?
Research funding per faculty
Few large grants
~half vs. top-12 departments
Relatively young former students
Limited development opportunities
5/29/2012
CSE Faculty Retreat

8. Department Opportunities
Large multi-PI, multi-disciplinary grants
Made it to ERC site visit
Build on many collaborations
Move CS ranking with PR
Not that expensive
Former students entering giving years
Some promising discussions
Increasing capacity
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CSE Faculty Retreat

9. Department Threats Federal budget State budget
CSE depends on NSF more than any engineering discipline
Primarily dependent on federal funding
State budget
Already cut lecturer, GATs
Increasing threat of faculty/staff turnover
Challenge recruiting good US PhD students
Good job market, lower ranking
Becoming true for India, maybe China
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CSE Faculty Retreat

10. Relationship to Strategic Plans
Vision 2020
Action 2015: Education First
COE Strategic Plan
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CSE Faculty Retreat

11. Vision 2020
Elevate our faculty and their teaching, research, and scholarship (1)
Strengthen our graduate programs (2)
Enhance the undergraduate academic experience (3)
Build on the tradition of professional education (5)
Diversify the A&M community (6)
Increase access to intellectual resources (7)
Enrich our campus (8)
Build community (9)
Demand enlightened government and leadership (10)
Attain resource parity with the best public universities (11)
Meet our commitment to Texas (12)
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CSE Faculty Retreat

12. Action 2015 Education First
Fulfill our flagship mission
Maintain enrollment and reduce time to graduation
Elevate the impact of our scholarship
Diversify the TAMU resource base
Practice intelligent stewardship of resources
Recognize and strengthen the contributions and value of faculty, staff and administrators
Create clear processes and effective resource utilization
Open accountability
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CSE Faculty Retreat

13. COE Strategic Plan (1) Undergraduate Academic Experience
Experiential learning
Institute for Engineering Innovation
Demonstrate TAMU engineering graduates have distinguishing world-class capabilities
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CSE Faculty Retreat

14. COE Strategic Plan (2) Graduate Academic Experience
Attract top students to graduate programs
Nurture diversity of perspective
Enhance quality of graduate education
Create nationally recognized forum for conversation on new paradigms in graduate education and engineering research
5/29/2012
CSE Faculty Retreat

15. COE Strategic Plan (3) Research Portfolio
Establish multidisciplinary research institutes across the college and university to address significant technology challenges
Incentivize faculty to pursue dilemma-based vs. discpline-based research
Portfolio management approach to strategically grow research in the signature research areas
5/29/2012
CSE Faculty Retreat

16. COE Strategic Plan (4) Faculty and Staff Development
Achieve 30 NAE members by 2020
Retain and accelerate careers of faculty hired during the reinvestment
By 2020, increase underrepresented T/TT faculty from 32% to 40%
Create uniform standards of staff support
Create sense of shared commitment to COE mission among admin and professional staff
5/29/2012
CSE Faculty Retreat

17. COE Strategic Plan K-14 Engagement
Be viewed nationally as a resource for model K-14 programs that address strategic workforce needs of the engineering profession
Influence engineering high school courses
Develop targeted strategic K-14 partnerships to recruit quality prospective engineering students.
Align enrollment with demographics, including focus on national student designations of excellence
5/29/2012
CSE Faculty Retreat

18. COE Research Portfolio
Sustainable Advanced Energy Systems (Energy, Water, and Environment)
National Security: Defense Against Terrorism, Asymmetric Threats and WMD
Engineering Improved Quality of Life (Health Care)
Infrastructure and Transportation: Ensuring Capacity, Resiliency, Safety, Sustainability
Providing Tools to Transform Research and Society: Informatics and Knowledge Economy
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19. Informatics Key Pillars
Reliable communication networks
Cybersecurity
Management of data and its conversion to information
Visualization and human interfaces
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20. Summary Meeting goal Initiate creation of a new CSE strategic plan
Start of a process – similar to COE plan
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CSE Faculty Retreat