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Faculty Meeting

Faculty Meeting. Andrea Fumagalli andreaf@utdallas.edu September 24, 2007. Agenda. Committees and Other Activities Prepare for the ABET visit Updates and Latest Developments New Initiatives in TE Next Faculty Meeting. Committees and Other Activities. UG Committee (Dr. Tamil)

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Faculty Meeting

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  1. Faculty Meeting Andrea Fumagalli andreaf@utdallas.edu September 24, 2007

  2. Agenda • Committees and Other Activities • Prepare for the ABET visit • Updates and Latest Developments • New Initiatives in TE • Next Faculty Meeting

  3. Committees and Other Activities • UG Committee (Dr. Tamil) • G Committee (Dr. Cobb) • QE Committee (Dr. Saquib) • Outreach Committee (Dr. Prakash) • Admission Committee (Dr. Zheng) • Industrial Advisory AB (Dr. Fumagalli) • Course Owners (TE only courses) • TE 3307 Disc. Math (Dr. Farago) • TE 3346 Comp. Algo (Dr. Zheng)

  4. ABET Visit (10/29/2007) • Questions received from ABET Program Evaluators so far in EE and SE • Official answers to ABET PE’s in writing • Focal points: • Professional development of Senior Lecturers • Industrial participation • SDP • State of the art equipment (TE Program only)

  5. Updates and Latest Developments • TE Graduate Program Review (Jan. 2008) • IAB (few extra slides) • SDP (few extra slides) • Constituents’ activities webpage: http://www.te.utdallas.edu/constituents-activities.html

  6. Mission of IAB on TE • Serving Telecom Industry needs • Accreditation activities for TE Program • Common goal: make sure that UTD products (e.g, graduating students, research outcome) best serve Industry

  7. IAB Members • 22 Total • 14 from Industry (10 Companies) • 8 from UTD • 3 Co-Chairs • Core Networks (Lorne Hinz) • Wireless (Bill Krenik) • UTD (Andrea Fumagalli)

  8. IAB Meetings • February 8, 2007: School Wide Meeting • May 11, 2007: Quarterly Meeting • July 27, 2007: ABET Coordination Meeting • September 28, 2007: Quarterly Meeting • October 26, 2007: School Wide Meeting • Senior Design Days (May, July, November)

  9. IAB Discussion and Tasks (TE Specific) • For engineering practice student’s curriculum must culminate in a Major Design Experience • Demonstrating utilization of knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work • Incorporating engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints • With evaluation mechanism in place (April 23 – students’ presentations, posters) Examples of design experience: Your feedback in evaluation form?:

  10. IAB Discussion and Tasks (TE Specific) • A program in TE requires considerable resources and continuing commitment from Institution and local Industry to provide modern equipment and facility to keep up with explosive pace of the field Would your company explore/negotiate ways to help with • Equipment contribution? • Technical support and assistance? • Other?

  11. Senior Design Projects • Update on current new structure • Two consecutive semesters (Fall+Spring) • Proposal submitted by group of students (early Fall) • Proposal reviewed by instructors • Feedback given to students • Students carry out project under instructor’s supervision • Senior Design Day: presentation to and evaluation provided by IAB members (end of semester)

  12. Senior Design Projects - Changes • Define mechanism to have company provide list of preferred topics • Define mechanism to have company provide feedback on students’ proposals • Mechanism to have company to Champion some projects: Champion from company provides students’ supervision • How selection process is made • How if two or more companies want to champion the same project

  13. Figure 1 Senior Design Projects Procedures Work FlowSummary Semester 1/2 Industry Initiated Student Initiated Industry Topic Students’ Proposal Semester 1 Students’ Activities Sr. Design Day Students’ Proposal Semester 2 Students’ Activities Sr. Design Day

  14. New Initiatives in TE • Industrial Affiliate Programs • Testbed Facility • Space • Funding • Equipment • Structure and Organization • Focus (wireless, core network) • Faculty feedback • Industry feedback (IAB)

  15. Next Faculty Meeting • November 26, 2007 (11am – 1pm) (third Monday of every other month, about 2 meetings each long semester)

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