Student-Faculty Conference 2007 EE/CS Committee Juice and cookies outside. Please help yourself. We will start in a few minutes.

2 Committee Members Chair: Yi-Nan Zhang, 2007, EE Undergraduate Members: Vamsi Chavakula, 2008, EE Jay Conrod, 2008, CS Issac Garcia-Munoz, 2007, EE Aditya Khosla, 2009, EE/CS Cheng William Hong, 2009, CS Vibha Laljani, 2009, CS Matthew Lew, 2008, EE Daniel Lo, 2009, EE Radhika Marathe, 2009, EE/CS Jennifer Yim, 2008, EE Faculty Members: Babak Hassibi: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Jason Hickey: Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Rutledge: Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science; Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering Yu-Chong Tai: Professor of Electrical Engineering; Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering Chris Umans: Assistant Professor of Computer Science

3 Outline Background on CS and EE majors and committee How our research was done Results of research Recommendations

4 Background: Options CS: Offered as a major starting with Class of Currently 60 undergraduates in this major. EE: Currently 54 undergraduates in this major.

5 Background: Committee Committee selected from signups on Olive Walk during 1st term. Held 1 meeting 1st term to discuss troublesome areas within the majors. Held 2 meetings 2nd term to discuss questions and responses to put on survey.

6 Research 2 surveys on one for CS and one for EEhttp:// Each survey broken into three parts: 1) Curriculum in general 2) Student-Faculty interaction 3) Thoughts on required classes 22 responses for CS (36%) 21 responses for EE (38%)

7 Responses: CS Number of requirements just right (75%). Would like to see more classes on different topics (cryptography, AI, architecture, networking). 80% choose to do project rather than thesis, primary reason: project seems easier. CS1: material should be updated Ma6a: too hard CS2: too easy

8 Recommendations: CS Add more classes on topics that are not currently offered. More structure for project courses.

9 Responses: EE 50% say number of requirements just right, others say too many. 84% say EE20 needs change. 75% say EE90 needs change (more lectures, several small projects instead of one big project). 81% say APh9 labs should be updated. 68% say ACM95 requirement should be changed (replaced with classes more focused on EE math). EE5x too hard, under-unitted.

10 Recommendations: EE Make changes to EE20, EE90, APh9 labs. Have EE track for ACM95 or replace requirement with classes in discrete math and probability. Make EE5x easier?

11 Recommendations: General Have anonymous forms on website which students can submit anytime to provide feedback. Have once-a-term meetings between students and faculty (provide pizza). Recommend advisors to take advisees out to lunch once a term.

12 Questions? Comments?

13 Acknowledgements EE dept. (esp. Prof. Tai & Linda), for helping coordinate meetings and providing food. John Xia, for taking notes. Dan Lo, for acting as ARC liaison. All the committee members. Everyone who came. Thanks!