1 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science Department Industry Advisory Council Friday, May 12, 2006 Building 14 room 232B, Cal Poly

2 Agenda 8:45 – 9:00Gather 9:00 – 9:10 Welcome. Introduction of members and guests. Agenda and objectives – IAC Chair Ray Stratton. 9:10 – 9:45 Visit from Dean Mohammad Noori (tentative) Department news - Liu 9:45-10:00Break 10:00 – 11:30Student project presentations 11:40 – 12:00Break 12:00 - 1:15Lunch (we will be joining the WEP IAB) 1:15 – 1:30Women in Engineering Program (WEP) outreach - Franklin 1:30 – 3:00Feedback from IAC on student projects 3:00 - 3:30Wrap-up; Plan for Fall Meeting; Feedback

3 Department News New Administrative Analyst Faculty search Department chair search Admissions Enrollments Retention and graduation Department actions for enhancing student diversity; how you can help Highlights of the year

4 Fall 06 Admissions – CENG majors Source: Cal Poly Admissions Statistics; compiled by Women Engineering Program

5 Fall 06 Admissions – CSC/SE

6 Fall 2006 Confirmed Accommodated Students Compiled by Women Engineering Program

7 Cal Poly Engineering Fall 05 Enrollment statistics by gender and major Source: Compiled by Women Engineering Program based on Cal Poly Quarterly Enrollment Reports.

8 Computer Science female student percentage Source: Compiled by Women Engineering Program based on Cal Poly Quarterly Enrollment Reports. Notes: 1.Yearly enrollment statistics are for Fall quarter each year. 2.Yearly degrees statistics are based on degrees conferred during a calendar year.

9 CAL POLY First-Time Freshman Graduation, Retention, and Attrition Analysis report Six-year Graduation rates by college, p. 6 4,5,6-year graduation rates by college, p. 10 CAL POLY RETENTION/GRADUATION RATES - by Program –Table 2: Six-Year Graduation Rates P. 15 –Table 3: Six-Year Drop-Out Rates p. 18 –Table 4: Detailed Analysis of Six-Year Drop-Outs from the Fall 1999 Cohort p.20 –Table 8: Four-Year Graduation Rates p. 27

10 First-Time Freshman Graduation, Retention, and Attrition Analysis Report -- College of Engineering Summarized from: CAL POLY First-Time Freshman Graduation, Retention, and Attrition Analysis by Cal Poly Institutional Planning and Analysis (IPA) 6-year graduation rates -- Based on 1999 incoming students. CPE 71.6% compared to CSC 63.7% and EE 53.8% CPE is the highest among CENG disciplines (excluding General Engineering) 6-year drop-out rate -- Based on 1999 incoming students. CPE 24.3% compared to CSC 35.3% and EE 39.6%. IE is the lowest among CENG disciplines (excluding General Engineering) MATE is the highest 4-year graduation rates -- based on1999 cohorts: CPE 13.5%; CSC 19.4%, EE 4.3% CSC is the highest 4-year graduation rates -- based on 2001 cohorts CPE 13%; CSC 14.2%, EE 3% MATE is the highest at 22%.

11 Graduate data Graduate Status Report from Career ServicesGraduate Status Report

12 Department actions for enhancing student diversity - 1 We are a charter member of CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association, We are an academic affiliate of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Academic Scholarship (subject to CSC faculty approval)

13 Department actions for enhancing student diversity - 2 We are supporting a project proposal by UCSB: Transitions: Transforming the Computer Science Image to Broaden Participation and Advancement, in submittal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program. We support the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) outreach efforts, including activities for Building an Engineer Day and the summer camp (now slated for summer 2007.)

14 How you can help Provide support towards an endowment for scholarships to attract high- quality incoming students (ME has an endowment that allows them to provide scholarships to two new students at $1,200/year, renewable for up to 3 years.) Support the CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association, Be a corporate affiliate of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Academic Scholarship (subject to CSC faculty approval) Support our outreach efforts

15 Department Highlights - 1 New courses offered: –CSC Introduction to Computer Organization (Dr. Diana Franklin) –CPE Autonomous Mobile Robotics (Dr. John Seng) – CSC Advanced topics in computer graphics (Dr. Zoe Wood) Our students placed 3 rd in ACM Southern California regional programming contest (coached by Professors Aaron Keen and Phil Nico) Southern California Regional Detailed Results

16 Department Highlights - 2 Several Computer science students (James Skorupski, Mark Gobel, etc.) have been admitted to Ph.D. programs at UCs. CPE students Michael Brown and Jennifer Mankin received fellowships to attend UC Santa Cruz. Jennifer Mankin also gained acceptance to Northeastern and Cornell. Dana Schaa was accepted to both UCSC and Northeastern.

17 Department Highlights - 3 Computer Science student Christopher Brigham has been admitted to the Masters degree program in Computer Science at Stanford University. Michael Curtis McThrow, a first year CSC major from Sacramento, received a NSF REU award for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). New faculty David Janzen placed in the top three of the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals.

18 Student Project Presentations Room 1 (14-232B) Students Project TitleTimeAdvisorProject Type Brian Lavonius, Meshaal Al Rushaid Software Engineering Capstone Project 10:00StearnsSoftware Engineering 406 Thomas Bouldin,Software Engineering Capstone Simulator 10:20StearnsSoftware Engineering 406 Harleigh MarshTheory tutorial10:40KurfessSenior Project Michael WagnerClock Synchronization in a Mobile Network 11:00LiuMaster Thesis Jonathan Joson, Nic Jang Automatic Speech Recognition in the Household 11:20KurfessSenior Project Gigi Choy, Rachelle Hom, Seth Marinello, Jimson Xu Bulk File Transfer Applications for High Performance Networks 11:40KurfessSenior Project

19 Student Project Presentations Room 2 (14-257) Students Project TitleTimeAdvisorProject Type Tawa White, Ryan Murphy Software Engineering Capstone Project 10:00StearnsSoftware Engineering 406 TheDanh Tran, PhucDanh Tran, Helen Nong Study Abroad Portal10:20KurfessSenior Project Ian Sizto, TheDanh Tran, PhucDanh Tran, Helen Nong, Robert Chan, Lea Mak, Liem Truong Senior Project Repository10:40Kurfess/ Chirica 366/486 Steven Eberling, John Vu, Paul Morales Software Engineering Project 11:00DalbeySoftware Engineering 308 Joshua J. BerryMetaFS – Beyond Hierarchies 11:20NicoSenior Project