Ad-hoc feedback (on a range of items) from some CSE majors

1. (Sp '04) Some students met with Stu to express some concerns about the relation between CSE 360 and ECE 567: The main problem seemed to be that EE 567 assumes material that is not covered in CIS 360, in particular on topics such as interfacing to i/o devices; these are apparently covered in great detail in ECE 265 (which is an alternate prerequisite for ECE 567).
We need to look into this.
This is being addressed. Wayne Heym has made some changes (in Wi '05) to CSE 360 so that students get some exposure to the machine used in ECE 265.

2. (Au '04) A CSE major met with Neelam and expressed some concerns:

• Students get little or no practice in using standard languages such as Java, C, C++ in their courses [the kind of experience they get in 459.xx is very limited]. Moreover, students get very limited experience (until CSE 560) in developing complete programs from scratch. All of this puts them at a big disadvantage when interviewing for jobs and internships.
  Maybe we need to seriously consider adding that extra course between CSE 321 and 560.

• Different sections of the same course often don't cover the same material or are very different from each other in the depth to which they cover the material or in how the students are graded, etc. He mentioned two particular example, CSE 677 and 625.
  Course coordinators should be alerted to this.

• The computing facilities are poor (the machines are too slow etc.)
  The student was asked to get in touch with the Computer Committee and express his concerns.