Your challenges and how we can help

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Your challengesand how we can help

• Sudhir Aggarwal
• Chair, Department of Computer Science
• Florida State University
• August 22, 2003

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How do I finish my program?

• MS students Work very hard! Try to finish in 2
  years
• PhD students Work harder than MS students!! Try
  to finish in 4 years
• Get advice and get financial support

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Advice

• Your advisor
• Lois Hawkes, director of graduate studies
• David Gaitros, associate chair
• Your peers
• faculty
• Department and university staff
• Department chair
• Use our grad students lounge Love 151
• Always go for free food!

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Changes in faculty

• Recruiting 6 new faculty this year
• Andy Wang, Assistant Professor
• Kartik Gopalan, Assistant Professr
• Zhenhai Duan, Assistant Professor
• Gary Tyson, Associate Professor
• Daniel Chang, Assistant in CS
• Ann Ford, Associate in CS

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Changes in the Academic Programs

• MS Graduate Program revised
• 10 course option streamlined core requirement
• PhD Program
• Qualifying (portfolio based)
• Preliminary (area exam)
• PhD requirements modified
• Introduction to Research
• Colloquium

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New courses

• Special Topics Courses (5930)
• 600 Level courses
• More offerings of courses

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Grants annual expenditures
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Good luck and happy sailing!!