1. Industry Advisory Board
October 20th, 2017

2. 9.30AM – 11.00AM : College Presentation
11.00AM – 12.30PM : Department Presentation
Undergraduate Curriculum
Senior Design
ABET and Assessment
Graduate Curriculum
12.30PM – 1.30PM: Feedback and Working lunch

3. Students Undergraduate Incoming students – Increase
Continuing students – Bulge
Input # : Output #
130 seniors in
Graduate students - Drop
Term
First Time Freshman
First Time Transfer
Cont'd Undergrad
New Grad
Cont'd Grad
Total
 Input Undergrad
Output Undergrad #  #
Fall 2012 92 25
223 22 60
422
117
Fall 2013 84 55
269 48 71
527
 139 35
Fall 2014
133 65
328
144
106
776
 168 40
Fall 2015
167 74
436 89
181
947
 241
Fall 2016
185 73
504 56
126
944
258
Fall 2017
191 
90 
41 
281 
115

4. BS CS MS CS ABET accreditation (6 year cycle) 2006-2012, 2012-2018
Spring 2018 – Submit Self Study Report
Summer Preliminary meeting in Washington D.C
Fall 2018 – Site visit, Queries/Responses
Spring/Summer Result
MS CS
Program review (5 year cycle)
Internal/External
….2009….2019

5. ABET Course Objectives Student Learning Outcomes
Broader skills within a few years of graduation
Program Educational Objectives
Student Learning Outcomes
Specific skills on completion of the program
Course Objectives

6. ABET vocabulary – Pre 2018 PEO – we defined 1..3
SLO – we defined 1..10
Assess each Outcome
Measures, Data, Graphs, Threshold
Program Criteria – ABET defined “a”..”k”
Not Outcomes – look like Outcomes
How enabled in the curriculum
Map to “a”..”k”
Many changed their SLOs to “a”..”k”
Curriculum - guidelines
Math, Physics, CS

7. ABET vocabulary – Post 2018 Replace Program Criteria “a”..”k”
ABET defined Outcomes 1..6 (repackaging “a”..”k”)
SLO’s have to be ABET defined ?
Curriculum changes
Additions: Networks/Communication/Security, Distributed Computing
Changes: Physics/Science/Math
What Math/Physics is required?
30units down to 21 units

8. BS Curriculum General Education (with certain waivers) CS Core
CS Electives
120 units

9. BS curriculum:
= 120 units (Univ.)
= 120 units (CS)

10. CS4961-CS4962 Senior Design Projects
Projects sponsored by
Businesses: large and small, local and global
Government: city, county, state, federal (e.g., Govt. printing office, DoD)
The university: other departments, colleges, etc.
Public-service organizations: Engagement, Service, and the Public good (e.g., hospitals, libraries)
Year long group projects: typically five students and one or two faculty advisors

11. Senior Design Projects - Benefits
Generate and strengthen connections between sponsors and faculty
Get to know potential employees over an extended period—like a hassle-free year-long internship
Enhance students’ appreciation of life-long learning by challenging them to become productive using unfamiliar technologies and areas of specialization
Improve students’ resumes and job prospects
Provide funding for student projects and the Expo

12. Russ Abbott <rabbott@calstatela.edu>
Mohammad Pourhomayoun
Zilong Ye
Ted Nye
Project Title: Project Sponsor: (include ) Brief description of project: a brief list of goals/requirements
Funding: $30K, $20K, $10K, $5K, other amount, public good
The call for project proposals is available here:

13. Program Assessment (MFT – ETS):
Programming/Algorithms-Theory/Systems
Nation wide comparison : (5th /10 to 7th /10) & Median student (56th Perc.)
Group of 10 with 6 other CSU’s: 4th /10

14. Program Assessment (Internal):
Scale : 1(weak) to 5 (Strong)
Theory, Programming, Algorithms, Systems
Students scoring >=3: Better than 80%

15. Graduate curriculum
(I) Breadth Requirement (9 units) Select one course each from three of the following five areas of study.
Algorithms
Network Systems
Web Systems
Advanced Programming
Software Engineering
(II) Chose Electives (18 units)
CS4000/CS5000 level courses
Wide range of areas
Suits individual student career interests

16. Graduate Curriculum (III) Culminating Experience Thesis Sponsored
Publications
Comprehensive Exam
2 Extra courses
Exam

17. Blended/Integrated program
BS + MS
5 yrs (4+1)
Up to 9 unit overlap BS MS30
10 students

18. IAB Goals Curricular feedback/guidance Industry sponsorships
Undergraduate & Graduate projects
EXPO 2018 (May 4th ?) - Undergraduate
Student internships
Industry experts as part-time faculty
Outreach
Talk to Freshmen
Talk to Seniors