Gopal Gupta

Industrial Advisory Board Meeting: 11/5/10

IAB Meeting: Agenda Overview of the Department: Gopal Gupta ABET Accreditation: Cy Cantrell Program Assessment: Neeraj Mittal Discussion

– How can we make our program better?– What changes are taking place in the

computing industry that should be reflected in our programs

– Suggestions for generating more support (from community & industry)

– Other inputs?

Department Updates Dr. Mark Spong assumed the position of Dean of

Engineering in Fall’08 Dr. D.T. Huynh stepped down as Dept. head after

12 years of service– Great accomplishments in growing the dept.

School has added two new departments: bio-engg and mechanical engg.

Decline in student enrollment has bottomed out and we are on growth path again

CS Department is doing exceptionally well in every aspect

Enrollment Update Fall’09 UTD Enrollment: 15,769

– Increase of 727 over F’08

ECS Enrollment: 2,898– Increase of 169 over F’08

CS/SE Enrollment: 1,352 – Slight decrease – 1,366 in F’08, per DT

SCH for CS/SE: 12,970

Fall’10 UTD Enrollment: 17,262

– Increase of 1,493 over F’09

ECS Enrollment: 3,171– Increase of 273 over F’09

CS/SE Enrollment: 1,406– Increase of 52 over F’09– Counting half of TE/CE,

total = 1,580

SCH for CS/SE = 13,500– > 53% of ECS SCH

# Ph.D.: 138; # MS: 469 #BS: 799

Enrollment Stats (Fall 2010) ACADEMIC

PLAN (MAJOR)

Freshman Sophomore Junior SeniorOther

GraduateMasters Doctoral Total

Biomed           6 5 11

CE 84 49 48 47 3 33 14 278

CE-ND       2 2

CS 137 82 150 189 6 395 127 1086CS-ND       15     15

EEM       37 29 66

EET     36   36

EEM-ND     4     4

EET-ND     1   1

EE 76 67 169 245 11 220 158 946

EE-ND       12     12

MSN     13 45 58

Mech 113 55 68 22 7 13 278

Mech-ND     1 1

SE 39 33 61 80 4 74 11 302

SE-ND     3     3

TE-ND       1     1

TE 5 1 7 12 31 15 71

  454 287 503 595 70 858 404 3,171

# Ph.D.: 138; # MS: 469 #BS: 799

Enrollment Stats (ca. 8/21)

Major FR SPH JR SR MS Ph.D Total SCH

CE 84 45 42 23 58 11 263 1,323

CS 129 83 152 193 412 112 1,081 11,382

EE 68 95 154 244 198 118 877 7,162

EE Microelec.         37 27 64 1,071

EE Telecom         44   44 101

MSEN         13 28 41 372

Mech. Eng. 73 28 23 12 5   141 362

SE 46 28 49 64 77 7 271 776

TE 4 6 8 15 36 12 81 302

Total School 404 285 428 551 880 315 2,898 22,887

Total CS/SE 175 111 201 257 489 119 1,352 12,158

Update on Personnel Four new senior lecturers joining our ranks:

– Dr. Linda Morales– Dr. Jey Veerasamy– Dr. Miguel Razo Razo– Dr. Feliks Kluzniak

Promotions:– Newly promoted professors: Jason Jue and Prabha Prabhakaran– Newly appointed chairs: Bhavani (Louis Beecherl Endowed Chair)

Student organizations:– Student Chapter of the ACM President: Dustin Valentine– CSGSA: President to be elected (Chris Davis serves until then)

Retired: Larry King, Nancy van Ness Departed: Cangussu, Jing Dong, Datta, Ying Liu

Currently: 40 T/T faculty & 11 Senior Lecturers Plan to hire: 2 T/T faculty and 1 SL

Faculty Research Our faculty have been very productive in research Graduated 28 Ph.D. students in 09-10 AY Research Expenditure of $9M last year Two faculty received NSF CAREER Awards One faculty member received Airforce Young

Investigator award Significant number of new grants obtained in the last 3

months. 26 faculty members are PI/Co-PI in an NSF grant 30 faculty PI/Co-PI have extramural funding

Faculty Research– Graduated 28 Ph.D. students in ‘09-’10 (2nd-best yr)– Enrollment is up, especially graduate – Millions of $$s of funding in last few months:

• Prabha/Xiaohu: $2.5 M grant from NSF

• Kamil et al: $1.8 M grant from NSF

• Andras: $500K grant from NSF

• Murat: $1.0 M grant from NSF

• Edwin: $300K grant from NSF

• Eric Wong: $300K grant from NSF

• Yang Liu: $195K grant from NSF

• Ovidiu: $280K grant from NSF (CPS)

• Edwin: $200K from Texas ARP (< 2% success rate)

• Latifur/Kevin: $500K from airforce

• Cooper & ATEC: $25K from Microsoft

• Harris/Gupta: $850K from DHS

• Guo: $310K from Texas Cancer Research Inst.

• Venky, Ravi, Neeraj: $1M NSF

Total Funding: ~$10M

BS Programs Goal:

– Be the best program at a public univ. in Texas– Achieved: when top N. Texas students prefer to go to

UTD rather than elsewhere in the state

Steps to achieve the goal:– Ensure that students can program well by the time

they finish the CS 1-2 sequence• Tutoring program significantly expanded

– Strengthen the senior design course:• UT Design: Goal is to have all student projects be industry

projects

• Introduced Entrepreneurship education

– Senior Design Day: December 3rd

BS Program: Engaging Students Strong student organizations: 7 of them

– Student Chapter of the ACM– Computer Security Group– Service through Computing– Computer Gaming Group– .NET Group– Codeburners– Graduate Student Association

Introduce a mentoring program

Graduate Programs Our undergraduates and graduates are branded in

the market as having deep technical knowledge– Favored destination of QualComm, Microsoft, VMWare,

Ericsson, etc.– Large number of internships offered: excess of 400– Our reputation is spreading: applications spiked to 1,000+– We work hard to preserve the brand (both grad and undergrad)

A new Information Assurance track introduced:– $1.8 Million grant from NSF to produce MS/Ph.d. students well-versed in IA– Graduates have to work for the federal government in lieu of the scholarship

Work in progress to introduce an:– Executive MS in Software Engineering for working professionals– Continuing education grad courses (first one on OOAD offered in Fall’10)– Part of effort to establish a “Center for Professional Education”

Encourage Entrepreneurship North Texas has ingredients similar to Silicon

Valley:– Large no. of high-tech companies– A Univ. (UTD) with a large CS dept & large number

of graduates– (Now) avenues for raising capital [Texas ETF]

No reason why we can’t be just as successful as Stanford

Need to inculcate a culture of entrepreneurship among our students– SW entrepreneurship education in senior design– Incubation facility opening in Summer’11

Industry Engagement models UT Design: Companies sponsor industrial projects Industrial Practice Program: Cos recruit our students

– Highly skilled workers at half the price or less

IUCRC: Membership in NSF-sponsored Industry-University Cooperative Research Center:– Jointly run by UTD/UNT/SMU– Access to faculty research – 12+ company members; $30K fee

Faculty Projects: UTD CS can be a company’s R&D lab Texas Emerging Technology Fund Partnership:

– Texas ETF requires a University partner– CS Department can be that partner

Community Outreach $2.7M NSF GK-12 project:

– after-school program at middle schools – develop appreciation for computing– Taught by CS Ph.D. students

Middle School summer camp: – first camp in the summer of 2010; very successful

Spring Computingfest: – High school and undergraduate students project competition

High School Programming competition (Nov 13) – 41 teams expected to participate

Summer Programming Class for High School students:– Offered free by the Department– Taught by Dr. Page

Continuing education courses for professionals– Object-oriented analysis and design offered for the first time

CS@UT: Special Challenges We are a large department

– A large BS program (700 students)– A large (Professional) MS program (450 students)– A large Ph.D. program (140 students)

We have a special location– Surrounded by high-tech industry second only to silicon valley

We have unique challenges– Maintain excellence in all 3 programs– Serve the surrounding high-tech industry

We want to pursue 3 main goals all at once:– Have the best BS/MS programs in TX– Be known for our scholarly research and Ph.D. program– Be the heart of the economic engine of North Texas with

respect to the software industry

SWOTStrengths: -- Distinguished faculty -- Large faculty size -- Large coverage in research/classes -- Large student body -- Well-established brand -- Location in high-tech corridor -- Tremendous industry support

Weaknesses: -- Time to graduate -- Individual attention to students -- Incoming student preparation -- Class sizes

Opportunities: -- stimulate entrepreneurship -- more interaction with industry -- mentoring for students -- engage K-12 students more -- continuing education needs of the community

Threats: -- Budget cuts (5% now, 10% later) -- Unfunded mandates (1325, CHEC) -- Space (no new buildings planned) -- Lack of funding for new initiatives -- Dependence on Int’l students for graduate programs