Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science Department Industry Advisory Council

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Cal Poly San Luis ObispoComputer Science
DepartmentIndustry Advisory Council

• Friday, May 12, 2006Building 14 room 232B, Cal
  Poly

http//www.csc.calpoly.edu/mliu/chair/docs/iac_s0
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Agenda

• 845 900 Gather
• 900 910 Welcome. Introduction of members
  and guests.
• Agenda and objectives IAC Chair
  Ray Stratton.
• 910 945 Visit from Dean Mohammad Noori
  (tentative)
• Department news - Liu
• 945-1000 Break
• 1000 1130 Student project presentations
• 1140 1200 Break
• 1200 - 115 Lunch (we will be joining the WEP
  IAB)
• 115 130 Women in Engineering Program (WEP)
• outreach - Franklin
• 130 300 Feedback from IAC on student
  projects
• 300 - 330 Wrap-up Plan for Fall Meeting
  Feedback

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Department News

• New Administrative Analyst
• Faculty search
• Department chair search
• Admissions
• Enrollments
• Retention and graduation
• Department actions for enhancing student
  diversity how you can help
• Highlights of the year

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Fall 06 Admissions CENG majors
Source Cal Poly Admissions Statistics compiled
by Women Engineering Program
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Fall 06 Admissions CSC/SE
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Fall 2006 Confirmed Accommodated Students
Compiled by Women Engineering Program
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Cal Poly Engineering Fall 05 Enrollment
statistics by gender and major
Source Compiled by Women Engineering Program
based on Cal Poly Quarterly Enrollment Reports.
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Computer Science female student percentage

• Source Compiled by Women Engineering Program
  based on Cal Poly Quarterly Enrollment Reports.
• Notes
• Yearly enrollment statistics are for Fall quarter
  each year.
• Yearly degrees statistics are based on degrees
  conferred during a calendar year.

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CAL POLY First-Time Freshman Graduation,
Retention, and Attrition Analysis report
http//www.calpoly.edu/inststdy/ret_grad/Persist
ence.pdf

• Six-year Graduation rates by college, p. 6
• 4,5,6-year graduation rates by college, p. 10
• CAL POLY RETENTION/GRADUATION RATES - by Program
• Table 2 Six-Year Graduation Rates P. 15
• Table 3 Six-Year Drop-Out Rates p. 18
• Table 4 Detailed Analysis of Six-Year Drop-Outs
  from the Fall 1999 Cohort p.20
• Table 8 Four-Year Graduation Rates p. 27

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First-Time Freshman Graduation, Retention, and
Attrition Analysis Report -- College of
Engineering

• Summarized from
• CAL POLY First-Time Freshman Graduation,
  Retention, and Attrition Analysis
• by Cal Poly Institutional Planning and Analysis
  (IPA)
• 6-year graduation rates -- Based on 1999 incoming
  students.
• CPE 71.6 compared to CSC 63.7 and EE 53.8
• CPE is the highest among CENG disciplines
  (excluding General Engineering)
• 6-year drop-out rate -- Based on 1999 incoming
  students.
• CPE 24.3 compared to CSC 35.3 and EE
  39.6.
• IE is the lowest among CENG disciplines
  (excluding General Engineering)
• MATE is the highest
• 4-year graduation rates -- based on1999 cohorts
• CPE 13.5 CSC 19.4, EE 4.3
• CSC is the highest
• 4-year graduation rates -- based on 2001 cohorts
• CPE 13 CSC 14.2, EE 3
• MATE is the highest at 22.

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Graduate data

• Graduate Status Report from Career Services

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Department actions for enhancing student
diversity - 1

• We are a charter member of CSTA (Computer Science
  Teachers Association, http//www.csta.acm.org/)
• We are an academic affiliate of the Grace Hopper
  Celebration of Women in Computing Academic
  Scholarship (subject to CSC faculty approval)
• http//gracehopper.org/sponsorship/current-sponso
  rs/

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Department actions for enhancing student
diversity - 2

• We are supporting a project proposal by UCSB
  Transitions Transforming the Computer Science
  Image to Broaden Participation and Advancement,
  in submittal to the National Science Foundation
  (NSF) Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
  program.
• We support the Women in Engineering Program (WEP)
  outreach efforts, including activities for
  Building an Engineer Day and the summer camp (now
  slated for summer 2007.)

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How you can help

• Provide support towards an endowment for
  scholarships to attract high-quality incoming
  students
• (ME has an endowment that allows them to provide
  scholarships to two new students at 1,200/year,
  renewable for up to 3 years.)
• Support the CSTA (Computer Science Teachers
  Association, http//www.csta.acm.org/)
• Be a corporate affiliate of the Grace Hopper
  Celebration of Women in Computing Academic
  Scholarship (subject to CSC faculty
  approval)http//gracehopper.org/sponsorship/curren
  t-sponsors/
• Support our outreach efforts

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Department Highlights - 1

• New courses offered
• CSC 225 - Introduction to Computer Organization
  (Dr. Diana Franklin)
• CPE 482 - Autonomous Mobile Robotics (Dr. John
  Seng)
• CSC 572 - Advanced topics in computer graphics
  (Dr. Zoe Wood)
• Our students placed 3rd in ACM Southern
  California regional programming contest (coached
  by Professors Aaron Keen and Phil Nico)
• Southern California Regional -- 2005-06 Detailed
  Results

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Department Highlights - 2

• Several Computer science students (James
  Skorupski, Mark Gobel, etc.) have been admitted
  to Ph.D. programs at UCs.
• CPE students Michael Brown and Jennifer Mankin
  received fellowships to attend UC Santa Cruz.
  Jennifer Mankin also gained acceptance to
  Northeastern and Cornell. Dana Schaa was
  accepted to both UCSC and Northeastern.

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Department Highlights - 3

• Computer Science student Christopher Brigham has
  been admitted to the Masters degree program in
  Computer Science at Stanford University.
• Michael Curtis McThrow, a first year CSC major
  from Sacramento, received a NSF REU award for
  Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in
  Information Technology at University of
  California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).
• New faculty David Janzen placed in the top three
  of the ACM Student Research Competition Grand
  Finals.

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Student Project Presentations
Room 1 (14-232B)
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Student Project Presentations
Room 2 (14-257)