1 “CSE Volunteers” -- Computer Science and Engineering students to assist Hillsborough County Information & Technology Division Hillsborough County K-12 proposal – July 22, 2004 Ken Christensen Dewey Rundus Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida Tampa, FL {christen,

2 Who we are (department)  Department of Computer Science and Engineering  A department in the College of Engineering  Founded in 1980  22 faculty  Over 400 undergraduate students  About 150 graduate students  Many of our graduates are employed in the Tampa Bay area  Employed by major high tech firms and government agencies Honeywell, IBM, Raytheon, and others Hillsborough country and others

3 Who we are (people)  Ken Christensen  Joined USF in 1995  PhD from North Carolina State University  Licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Florida  Industry experience at IBM and NASA-KSC  Teach and research in computer networks  Dewey Rundus  Joined USF in 1972  PhD from Stanford University  Associate chair  Teach and research in user interface design

4 Goals  Our goals in this project are to: 1) Provide a community service opportunity for our students 2) Give our student meaningful “real world” experience Providing technical assistance to Hillsborough County K-12 Information & Technology Division can satisfy both of these goals!

5 Project plan  USF student pairs to be assigned to I&T projects  Serve as assistants to I&T support representatives  Be assigned to schools as needed  Time commitment:  Four hours per week for academic semester  Skills:  Our students have a range of skills Basic Wintel PC skills (Windows administration) Sophisticated data base, server, and network administration Web site development Other  Academic credit:  Students receive 1 credit hour of independent study  This is service-based learning

6 Project plan continued  Supervision  Ken Christensen to supervise students on USF side Weekly status Some site visits Periodic on-campus meetings End of semester “awards banquet” (pizza?)  Evaluation  Fall is our “guinea pig” semester  Will evaluate for continuation into Spring  Long term plan is to get corporate support Limited support for students (e.g., for transportation costs) Funds for technology supplies for Hillsborough County

7 Project plan continued  Fall 2004…  17 students have expressed an interest so far  More will come in, but some will drop out too  It is reasonable to expect 5 to 8 student pairs  Need a kick-off meeting with I&T staff  Should occur before Hillsborough County school year starts We look forward to getting to work!