1. Florida International University VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Francisco R. Ortega, Ph.D. Masoud Sadjadi, Ph.D. Mohsen Taheri

2. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Numbers The Institution EnrollmentuGrad: 38,454; Grad: 8,195; other: 4,894 => 51,543 Student bodyFemale: 29,204; Male: 22,325; FG: 9,166 ; I:3,561 DiversityHispanics: 32,797 (63.63%); AA/B: 6,350 (12.32%); White: 5,718 (11.09%) VIP First term students enrolledSpring: 25 (ECE); Number of teams76 most recent term 18 (CS Summer) upcoming term. Fall: TBD Enrollment~18 summer; ~80 (TBD: Fall) Diversity by ethnicity80% Hispanics; 10% African American; 10% others by major70% CS; 20% ECE; 10% School of Construction by yearSophomore: 3, Juniors: 9; Seniors: 57; Grads: 7

3. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Into the wild!

4. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Projects

5. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Success(es) Created Institution courses IDS 4901 (Sophomore), IDS 4902 (Juniors), IDS 4903 (Seniors) Variable credit courses, instructor consent, University wide-courses Students may take up 12 credits. Looking to create zero-credit courses Computer Science approved VIP credits (CS: 6; CS/SE: 9 ; IT: 9) Created Student Survey site and promoted VIP to students. Collected information about Faculty from different departments. Around 150 to 200 faculty We will contact them soon Identified 4 keys VIP projects that can go long-term Use 6-months of students to help gather information. Reached other departments Chairs, deans (and provost)

6. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Key Factors to Success Strong Capstone program in CS implemented by Masoud Sadjadi CS Senior Design group has become the core of VIP This helps to attracts Faculty (e.g., School of Construction, ECE, Architecture) Strong support from School of Computing and Information Sciences Close relationship with Electrical and Computer Engineering And others, such as School of Construction and School of Architecture. Students were hired from different departments Research about their professors and talk to students. Publications and Patents M.Taheri, SM.Sadjadi, “A Comparative Study on Cloud-based Agile Tools” 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE)12-15 October 2015, San Diego, California, USA. Mohsen Taheri, S. Masoud Sadjadi, “A Feature-Based Tool-Selection Classification for Agile Software Development,” International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2015) 6-8 July 2015, Pittsburgh, USA.

7. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Challenges and Possible Strategies Acceptance from departments to validate VIP Courses. Strategies Student interest and getting a few more departments Honors College Try to get validated credits from colleges already involved in projects. Go to different faculty meetings Create a steady-pipeline for a VIP projects from juniors to seniors However, we are working on solving this between fall and spring. Faculty willingness By showing the success we already have Trying to get internal support for faculty buy-out for one course

8. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Opportunities Cross-collaborations with other Florida universities. External support from industries We have a good working relationship in the community and companies A great story is an Italian Company that became interest in our CS Senior Design Project and specific research in our university. They will be providing equipment and additional mentoring for Ortega’s VIP team Additional publications and patents. A possible opportunity will be to create exchange programs across universities for VIP summer programs.