1. Undergrad (UG)s committee
David Feil-Seifer (also on college committee)
Monica Nicolescu
Ming Li
Lei Yang
Dongfang Zhao
Sushil Louis (Chair)

2. Including these slides
Undergrad committee
Including these slides

3. Items
New “C or better” in all required courses needs “gradual” updates to course descriptions (DFS)
David has prepared a plan, will be executed.
In Curriculog
Minor in Unmanned Autonomous Systems
Sent to Indira to ask about what is happening (10/20/16)
Manufacturing Quality/Product Excellence
We have a new list from CSE submitted.

4. Items Big Data/Data science minor CS 1 for engineers (some discussion)
Who (faculty) has expertise and is interested in this area?
Lei, Fred, Feng (for now)
Meeting Oct 21, 2016 at noon
CS 1 for engineers (some discussion)
Pros: Globally competitive engineers, more resources
Cons: No resources
No objection, but need resources and data
What does engineering (ME, EBME, CE?, CME?) want? Can we and do we want to deliver? Are resources available?
CSE chair to bring this up in Chair’s meeting?

5. Items Course Frequencies
Done
FYI: SCM 352 has been agreed to be an unrestricted technical elective
We do have to put this in catalog since it is already in the engineering section of the catalog (I have not checked)
Math 301 / CS 365
Too much overlap, Disallow after 2016?
Affects math minor (now needs two extra math classes)
Undergrad committee unanimously passed this on Nov 4, 2016

6. CS 0 for all (committee has not finished discussion)
Possible Pros:
More TAs, More Lecturers, More research time, 2+1  1 + 1
Cons
No TAs, No Lecturers
Consider morphing CS105 into CS 0. But need data
What computing should UNR under-graduates know when they graduate?
Programming (scratch?), Simple databases like Access or Google’s tables, Spreadsheets and Macros, Security essentials, material from current CS105 … ?
Can we do a survey of faculty, alumni, students, … ?
Should this be part of Silver Core, required for all?

7. CS105: Half and half course CS0
Current core objectives plus core science
CS0
Must be part of the core curriculum
Design, group design, design thinking
Large multi-week project versus smaller projects
Careers: Computing in Art, in X
Survey of how embedded computing is in the modern world
Ethics, law, policy
Implications: How does computing relate to the modern world ?
Privacy, Big data, security, AI, networks, …
Future predictions
Algorithms/Programming/Software/Scratch/Mobile
Computing concepts
Architecture
Number systems
Logic