Computer Science and Engineering Department

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Computer Science and Engineering Department

• The University of Texas
• at
• Arlington

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Key Points of Contact

• Chairperson
• Bill Carroll, 817-272-3787, carroll_at_cse.uta.edu
• Associate Chairperson
• Behrooz Shirazi, 817-272-3605, shirazi_at_cse.uta.edu
  
• Graduate Advisor
• Bob Weems, 817-272-2337, weems_at_cse.uta.edu
• Undergraduate Advisor
• Linda Barasch , 817-272-3619, barasch_at_cse.uta.edu
• Director of SECT
• Pei Hsia, 817-272-3610, carroll_at_cse.uta.edu
• Director of CAESAR
• Lynn Peterson, 817-272-2071, peterson_at_cse.uta.edu

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Our Vision

• To be the DFW region leader in the CS/CSE field
• To be among the top three CS/CSE programs in
  Texas
• To be the state leader in selected areas of
  expertise
• To be ranked among the top fifty Ph.D. programs
  nationally in CS/CSE

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Our Mission

• The mission of the Computer Science and
  Engineering Department is to serve the needs of
  the north Texas region, the state, and the nation
  by providing quality educational and innovative,
  relevant research programs in computer science
  and engineering. The department will strive to
  offer first-rate undergraduate, graduate, and
  continuing education opportunities conduct
  research and develop technology in selected
  areas and facilitate technology transfer for the
  betterment of the quality of life.

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Our Goals

• Attain national and international prominence for
  quality graduate programs and for research in
  selected areas
• Offer innovative, accredited undergraduate
  programs in computer science and engineering
• Be responsive to the needs of industry and
  society, particularly in the north Texas region

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Historical View of CSE at UTA

• 1966 -- First computer science courses offered
  (through IE Department)
• 1973 -- Master of Science in Computer Science
  degree established
• 1974 -- First MS CS degrees awarded
• 1976 -- Undifferentiated Ph.D. program
  established
• 1977 -- Computer Science Section of IE Department
  established
• 1978 -- Bachelor of Science in CSE degree program
  established
• 1979 -- First BS CSE degree awarded
• 1980-- Computer Science and Engineering
  Department established
• 1981 -- First Ph.D. in CS awarded
• 1983 -- CSE undergraduate program accredited by
  ABET, reaccredited in 1989 and 1995 (first
  accredited CS or CSE program in Texas)
• 1989 -- Software Engineering Center for
  Telecommunications established
• 1990 -- Honors Program in Parallel Processing
  (HiPP) established
• 1994 -- Master of Software Engineering program
  established
• 1995 -- CSE undergraduate program accredited by
  CSAB (first dual ABET/CSAB accredited program in
  Texas)
• 1996 -- UTA ranked 20-th in the USA in computer
  science research expenditures figures released
  in 1998
• 1998 -- First offerings of CSE courses at
  distance via the web

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CSE Department Profile

• Faculty/staff (Fall 98)
• Tenure-track faculty ........... 17
• Non tenure-track faculty ..... 15
• GTA/GRA/TA/RA......... 89
• Office staff ........................ 4
• Technical staff...................... 2
• Enrollments (Fall 98)
• Undergraduate ............... 387
• Masters .......................... 301
• Ph.D. ........................... 32
• Degrees Granted (AY97-98)
• Bachelors ....................... 60
• Masters ...................... 116
• Ph.D. ............................. 3

• Research Funding (AY97-98)
• CSE Dept -- 1,401,926
• CAESAR -- 1,307,188
• Total -- 2,709,114
• Publications (1997)
• Journal -- 10
• Books/chapters -- 6
• Conference -- 37
• Total -- 53

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Degree Programs Offered

• BS in Computer Science and Engineering
  ABET/CSAB -- 126 hours
• MS in Computer Science or Computer Science and
  Engineering -- 31 hours (thesis)
• Master of Computer Science -- 37 or 38 hours
  (project optional)
• Master of Engineering -- 37 hours (project)
• Master of Software Engineering -- 37 hours (team
  project)
• Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computer Science and
  Engineering -- Variable (dissertation)

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Special Programs and Centers

• CSE Honors Program
• Bill Carroll, Coordinator
• Diane Cook
• Bob P. Weems
• Software Engineering Center for
  Telecommunications (SECT)
• Pei Hsia, Director
• David C. Kung
• Lonnie Welch
• Center for Advanced Engineering Systems and
  Research (CAESAR)
• Lynn Peterson, Director

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CSE Faculty

• Linda Barasch, Visiting Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1988 programming languages,
  compilers, computer architecture.
• Carl Bruggeman, Assistant Professor Ph.D.,
  Indiana U, 1995 operating systems, programming
  languages.
• Bill Carroll, Professor and Chairperson Ph.D.,
  UTAustin, 1969 fault-tolerant computing, digital
  systems, computer architecture, educational
  applications of computers.
• Diane Cook, Associate Professor Ph.D., Illinois,
  1990 artificial intelligence, machine learning,
  machine planning, robotics, parallel algorithms
  for artificial intelligence.
• Ramez Elmasri, Professor Ph.D., Stanford, 1980
  database design and modeling, query language
  design, data model design, temporal and
  object-oriented database design.

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CSE Faculty (cont)

• Leonidas Fegaras, Assistant Professor Ph.D.,
  UMass, 1993 database systems, human computer
  interface systems, multimedia.
• Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Assistant Professor Ph.D.,
  Michigan, 1992 artificial intelligence,
  multi-agent systems, rational action,
  interaction, and coordination.
• Lawrence Holder, Associate Professor Ph.D.,
  Illinois, 1991 artificial intelligence, machine
  learning, intelligent data analysis, machine
  discovery, intelligent control.
• Pei Hsia, Professor Ph.D., UTAustin, 1972
  software engineering, incremental delivery,
  requirements engineering, distributed debugging,
  concurrent software engineering.
• Farhad Kamangar, Associate Professor Ph.D., UTA,
  1980 visualization, signal and image processing,
  motion detection, machine intelligence, neural
  networks.

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CSE Faculty (cont)

• David C. Kung, Professor Ph.D., Norwegian IT,
  1984software engineering, object-oriented
  software testing automated theorem-proving,
  database systems.
• David Levine, Visiting Assistant Professor M.S.,
  UTA, 1980 operating systems, software
  engineering.
• Lynn M. Peterson, Professor and Associate Dean of
  Engineering Ph.D., UTHSCD, 1978artificial
  intelligence applications in medicine and
  manufacturing, knowledge representation, natural
  language processing, intelligent instructional
  systems.
• Abdulkadir Sajeev, Visiting Associate Professor
  Ph.D. 1990, Monash University, Australia
  distributed systems, software engineering.

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CSE Faculty (cont)

• Behrooz Shirazi, Professor and Associate
  Department Chairperson Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1985
  parallel and distributed systems, parallel
  programming software tools, cache design, task
  partitioning and scheduling.
• L. David Umbaugh, Senior Lecturer Ph.D., Ohio
  State, 1983 computer networks, communication
  network protocols.
• Roger S. Walker, Professor Ph.D., UTAustin,
  1972 real-time systems, microcomputer-based
  systems, applications of computers in
  transportation systems.
• Bob P. Weems, Associate Professor Ph.D.,
  Northwestern, 1985 parallel algorithms, graph
  matching, gossiping in distributed systems,
  inference problems in database security.
• Lonnie G. Welch, Associate Professor Ph.D., Ohio
  State, 1990 software engineering, real-time
  systems.

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CSE Faculty (cont)

• Ramesh Yerraballi, Assistant Professor Ph.D.,
  Old Dominion, 1996 operating systems, computer
  networks, real-time scheduling, multimedia
  systems.
• Hee Yong Youn, Associate Professor Ph.D., UMass,
  1988 fault-tolerant computing, computer
  architecture, parallel and distributed computing,
  interconnection networks, VLSI system design.

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Research Areas of The Tenure-Track Faculty

• Architecture and Systems
• Linda Barasch, Carl Bruggeman, Bill Carroll,
  Behrooz Shirazi, Ramesh Yerraballi, Hee Yong Youn
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Intelligence
• Diane Cook, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Larry Holder,
  Farhad Kamangar, Lynn Peterson
• Database Systems
• Ramez Elmasri, Leo Fegaras
• Software Engineering
• Pei Hsia, Dave Kung, Lonnie Welch
• Other
• Roger Walker, Bob Weems

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Selected Research Projects

• Diane Cook -- Scaling Up Planning Systems Using
  Parallel Hardware and Machine Learning, NSF,
  147,375.
• Ramez Elmasri (w Mills and Liles) -- The Agile
  Aerospace Manufacturing Research Institute, NSF,
  2,756,643.
• Larry Holder and Diane Cook -- Scalable Knowledge
  Discovery from Large Structural Databases, NSF,
  109,440.
• Dave Kung and Dave Levine -- Developing
  Multimedia Courseware for a Graduate Software
  Engineering Course, 27,000.
• Leo Fegaras -- An Effective Framework for
  Processing OODB Languages, NSF/OGI, 84,102.
• Piotr Gmytrasiewicz -- Rational Coordination and
  Communication in Multiagent Environments Through
  Recursive Modeling, ONR, 266,901.
• Behrooz Shirazi -- Research in Multi-threaded
  Dataflow and Hybrid Architecture, NSF, 218,589.
• Lonnie Welch and Behrooz Shirazi -- QoS
  Management Tools for Dynamic, Scalable,
  Dependable, Real-Time Systems, DARPA, 1,017,966.
• Roger Walker -- Development and Implementation of
  a Pavement and Surface Texture Measurement,
  TxDOT, 336,259.

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CSE Classified Staff

• Office Staff
• Margie Kohler, Administrative Assistant
• Pam McBride, Senior Secretary
• Open, Senior Secretary
• Belinda Tarrant, Senior Secretary
• Technical Staff
• Bill Riess, Manager
• Bito Irie, Software specialist

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CSE Fall Enrollment Trends (Headcount)
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CSE Fall Enrollment Trends (Student Credit Hours)
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CSE Degree Production Trends
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CSE External Funding Trends
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CSE Publication Activity
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CSE Teaching Laboratories

• Computer Logic Design Laboratory (121 NH)
• Logic design trainers
• Miscellaneous instruments and tools
• Embedded Systems Laboratory (122 NH)
• Microprocessor trainers
• Windows/Pentium-based systems (12)
• Miscellaneous instruments and tools
• Computer Classroom (123 NH)
• Windows 486-based PCs
• Computer Classroom (124 NH)
• Windows Pentium-based PCs

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CSE Teaching Laboratories (cont)

• Senior Design Laboratory (125 and 126 NH)
• Windows/Pentium and Pentium Pro-based systems
  (15)
• Sun SPARCstation 10
• Mercury parallel processor
• Miscellaneous instruments and tools
• Operating Systems/CROSS (232 NH)
• Pentium-based systems (20)
• DEC Alphas (4)

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CSE Research Laboratories

• Distributed Systems Laboratory (232 NH)
• DEC Alphas, 20 Pentiums
• Database Systems Laboratory (233 NH)
• UNIX workstation network
• Machine Intelligence Laboratory (234 NH)
• UNIX workstation network
• Various PCs and Xterms
• Robotics Laboratory (235 NH)
• Various PCs
• Mobile robots
• Fixed robot

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CSE Research Laboratories (cont)

• Roughness Measurements Laboratory (236 NH)
• Various PCs
• Miscellaneous instruments and tools
• CAESAR Laboratory (243 NH)
• Network of UNIX WSs, PCs, Macs, and Xterms
• SECT Laboratory (246 NH)
• Network of UNIX machines and Xterms
• Real-time Systems Laboratory
• Network of Pentium-based PCs and UNIX workstations

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CSE Computer Centers

• Teaching/Administrative Computing (114 NH)
• Sun UltraSPARC II (cse)
• Sun SPARC 10 (ranger)
• Linux-based PC for student web pages (cseweb)
• Research Computing (115 NH)
• Sun-4/490 SPARCserver
• nCube parallel computer (128 processors)
• Sun-4/390 (nCube front end)
• Sun SPARCServer 3000

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Academic Computing Services (Facilities serving
CSE)

• Nedderman Hall Facilities
• Terminal room (room 231)
• PC lab (room 242)
• Unix lab (room 239)
• Ransom Hall
• PC, Mac, Unix labs (first floor) 24-hours/day
• PC, Mac, Unix classrooms (second, third floors)