Topic (Person Responsible) | Discussion/Action | Status |
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Courses | ||
CIS/EE 694T: "Applied Component-Based Programming for Engineers and Scientists" -> CIS/EE 768 (Weide) | 9/30/02: Discussed by CC; approved by CC with provision that
concurrence from CIS should include a statement that explains rationale
for cross-listing with EE.
10/7/02: Discussed by Fac; approved by Fac as recommended. (Will have to be offered as 694T again in Wi03, because paperwork is too late to get it on the books for next quarter.) |
Approved |
New pilot course on computer vision (Davis) | 10/7/02: CIS 694I: "Computer Vision for HCI" was approved last year; information item only. | Approved |
New pilot course on embedded systems design (Baumgartner) | 10/7/02: CIS 694P: "Design of Embedded Systems" for Wi03, discussed
by CC; minor revisions suggested.
10/14/02: Discussed by CC; approved by CC. No Fac approval required. 11/6/02 NOTE: Baumgartner and Keyhani (EE) have withdrawn this pilot for Wi03 because of difficulties encountered with the EE Curriculum Committee. They plan to be back with a new proposal in the future. 6/5/03: EE (Chuck Klein) has requested that neither course in this sequence be taught again, as CIS had originally planned for 03-04, until Baumgartner and Keyhani return with a plan for the entire two-course sequence. |
Approved (but later withdrawn) |
CIS 694J: "Object-Oriented Programming for Engineers and Scientists" -> CIS 502 (Bucci) | 10/14/02: Discussed by CC; minor revisions made; approved by
CC.
10/21/02: Discussed by Fac; approved by Fac as recommended, with amendment to add exclusion for CIS 321, to help prevent majors from counting it for credit. |
Approved |
CIS 694E: "Object-Oriented Systems Analysis" -> CIS 616 (Lohse) | Weide has contacted Lohse about appearing before CC (10/17/02); will
be on the 10/28/02 CC agenda (10/18/02).
10/28/02: Discussed by CC; minor revisions made; approved by CC. 11/04/02: Discussed by Fac; approved by Fac as recommended. |
Paperwork at Engineering CCAA as of 11/19/02; approved pending concurrence from EE, IWSE (received), and ME (received) because of the term "systems analysis" in the title; awaiting concurrence from these units as of 3/4/03 (Reeves) |
CIS 694G: "Introduction to Computer Graphics" -> CIS 581 (Parent/Shen) | Weide has contacted Parent (10/16/02).
Parent says Shen found that CIS 581 was approved by Fac and CCAA (contingent on concurrences) in May 2002 (10/28/02). |
Paperwork at Engineering CCAA as of last year; approved pending concurrence from ACCAD (received), EG, and EE (received); still awaiting concurrence from EG as of 2/27/03 (Reeves) |
New pilot course on scientific visualization (Crawfis) | 2/10/03: Crawfis unable to appear because of illness; will be
considered at 2/17/03 meeting.
2/17/03 (scheduled meeting cancelled because snowstorm closed OSU): CIS 694L: "Scientific Visualization" for Sp03 approved without CC discussion by Weide, based on need to get paperwork done immediately; e-mail approval by CC will be requested ASAP. No Fac approval required. |
Approved |
CIS 694F: "Computer Animation" -> CIS 682 (Parent) | Parent has taught twice as a 694; will appear before CC on 4/25/03
to proposed making permanent (4/15/03)
4/25/03: Discussed by CC and approved with minor suggestions. 4/28/03: Approved by Fac as recommended. |
Approved |
Various graphics course changes other than CIS 581 | Weide has contacted graphics group about appearing before CC (10/16/02);
Parent says graphics faculty still working on various updates (10/28/02)
2/24/03: Crawfis and Machiraju will be back with updated syllabi for planned changes as follows: CIS 681 (title "Computer Graphics: 3D Image Generation I", prerequisites "581; Math 568 or Math 571; or grad standing"), CIS 781 (title "Computer Graphics: 3D Image Generation II", prerequisite "681"), and CIS 782 (title "Advanced 3D Computer Graphics", prerequisite "681; Stat 428 or Stat 520"). |
In progress (Crawfis, Machiraju) |
New pilot courses on security (Xuan) | 11/25/02: Discussed by CC; Xuan, Arora, Durresi,
and Bob West (Bank One) invited to return in January with updated proposal
for Sp03 pilot.
Group will reappear before CC on 2/10/03 (1/28/03). 2/10/03: CIS 294I, "Introduction to Information Assurance", discussed and approved by CC for proposed Sp03 offering. No Fac approval required. Second proposed pilot course still needs to be discussed. 3/10/03: Update: CIS 294I, retitled "Introduction to Information Security", is being repositioned for a pilot offering in Au03, with the second course to be offered in Wi04. Xuan and Arora will be back to CC in April for continued discussion. |
In progress (Xuan, Arora) |
New pilot course on data mining (Pathasarathy) | Parthasarathy will appear before CC on 1/13/03 for initial presentaion
(12/20/02)
1/13/02: Discussed by CC and approved for offering in Sp03 as CIS 694Z. No Fac approval required. |
Approved |
Second pilot offering of third course in applied software engineering sequence (Khan/Weide) | 2/4/03: CIS/EE 894U: "Applied Use Case Driven Object-Oriented Analysis and Design" for Sp03, which is a successor to new CIS/EE 768, recommended with standard caveat about cross-listed courses having substantial content from the other department. No Fac approval required. | Approved |
CIS 745: "Biomedical Informatics I" (proposed cross-listing of existing BMI/IBGP 730) (Lauria) | 2/10/03: Discussed by CC, and recommended on academic grounds
(although budgetary and other details, and concurrence from BMI and IBGP,
remain to be worked out)
2/24/03: Discussed by Fac with no conclusion. Suggestions included better title and "or" prerequisites, with CIS 680 required for CS-side students. Questions about a possible CIS policy on cross-listing were discussed. |
Suggested that Lauria and Zweben work with BMI to iron out possible course changes (e.g., more descriptive title, "or"-style of prerequisites with CIS 680 listed), along with budgetary and related details, and come back when an agreement is reached. |
CIS 102: "Introduction to the Internet and World-Wide Web" description change (Bair) | Weide will contact Bair about appearing before CC | |
CIS 294R: "Programming in Perl" -> CIS 459.51 (Baumgartner?) | Weide will contact Baumgartner about appearing before CC; was piloted once in Sp02 and will be repeated in Sp03. | Approved (Sp03 294R only) |
Revisit CIS 459.22 and 459.23 with respect to OOP concepts (Baumgartner) | Spring | |
General course review (service courses, 459s, numerical methods courses, capstone design courses, possible withdrawals) | 2/24/03: Discussed by CC. Weide will ask faculty
to recommend minor changes that they wish to make, and will prepare paperwork
for discussion at 3/10/03 meeting.
3/10/03: Suggestions for course changes and withdrawals discussed by CC; faculty fedback will be requested before CC vote on specifics. |
In progress (Weide) |
Course Groups and Curricula | ||
Review BMI curriculum questions and "pre-proposal" (Saltz) | Weide has contacted Saltz about appearing before CC (10/16/02).
Saltz will be on the 12/5/02 CC agenda (10/25/02). Saltz can't make 12/5/02 meeting and will reschedule (11/27/02). Saltz will be on the 1/27/03 CC agenda (12/11/02). Saltz can't make 1/27/03 meeting and will come to the 2/3/03 meeting (1/22/03) 2/3/03: Two existing BMI courses, plans for two-course undergraduate sequence that couold be taken by engineering students, and ways of accommodating BMI students' computing needs (e.g., in Applied Software Engineering courses) discussed by CC and BMI faculty. |
In progress (Weide) |
Review MIS-related courses: 516/616, 670, perhaps even 201/214/314 (Lohse, Ramnath) | Lohse and Ramnath have discussed CIS 516/616 with Jim Nelson of AMIS, and will appear before CC on 4/4/03; Kerr has also talked with Nelson about 670; Nelson has suggested some possible changes to the CIS portion of the MIS curriculum (3/20/03) | In progress (Ramnath) |
Architecture course group report (Sadayappan) | Weide has contacted Systems Group about appearing before CC in Wi03/Sp03 (10/16/02); Sadayappan will be in charge (10/18/02); Weide has asked all three groups to pick a week in Sp03 for appearance before CC (3/10/03); report will be given in early Au03. | In progress (Sadayappan) |
Database course group report (Ferhatosmanoglu, Parthasarathy) | Weide has contacted Systems Group about appearing before CC in Wi03/Sp03
(10/16/02); separate note sent to Ferhatosmanoglu and Parthasarathy (11/6/02);
Ferhatosmanoglu and Parthasarathy will work with Kerr and report in Sp03
(12/20/02); Weide has asked all three groups to pick a week in Sp03 for
appearance before CC (3/10/03); this report will be given on 5/16/03 (3/11/03)
5/16/03: Course group report draft is complete; no significant changes to curriculum in this area are currently called for. Ferhatosmanoglu and Parthasarathy will clean it up and make it available. |
Completed |
Operating systems course group report (Agrawal) | Weide has contacted Systems Group about appearing before CC in Wi03/Sp03 (10/16/02); Agrawal will be in charge, and will report in Sp03 (10/18/02); Weide has asked all three groups to pick a week in Sp03 for appearance before CC (3/10/03); because group members are too busy now, this report will be deferred until Au03 (3/12/03) | In progress (Agrawal) |
Policies and Miscellaneous | ||
Adding personal integrity statement to CIS syllabi, in course objectives (Reeves) | 11/18/02: CC recommends further study; Reeves has done preliminary
work already; Weide will discuss with Zweben possible appointment of ad
hoc committee.
Ad hoc committee will meet with new scretary of COAM on 2/17/03 (1/24/03). 2/27/03: Ad hoc committee met with Pete Pappas; Zweben summarized this meeting in e-mail to the CIS faculty the next day. Recommendation: CC should not do anything at this time, except to monitor the sanctions imposed by COAM on CIS cheaters to see whether more serious consequences become the norm, as Pappas has suggested. |
Completed |
Reconsider policy on enforcing prerequisites (Steele) | 11/18/02: CC recommends no changes in current policy. | Completed |
General paperwork review (syllabus form and content, including consistent wording of objectives, update of course lab loads) | 2003-04 | |
Review course lab loads (Steele) | Spring | In progress (Weide) |
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~weide/cc/2002-2003/syllabi/768.html
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~weide/cc/
694J -> CIS 502 (OOP for Engineers and Scientists)
694E -> CIS 616 (OO Systems Analysis) *
694G -> CIS 581 (Survey of Computer Graphics) *
694H (Computer Vision for HCI, to be offered in Wi03) *
Bucci will present the 694J -> CIS 502 proposal next week. Reeves will check on the status of paperwork for those marked with *, since considerable work was already completed last year on these.
Weide will schedule a discussion regarding CIS concurrence on a proposed set of Biomedical Informatics courses that has come over from that department.
Weide will construct a list of other agenda items and post it on the web with a note that it's ready for comments and edits.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gb/eecis694p/
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~weide/cc/2002-2003/syllabi/694P.pdf
The committee unanimously voted to recommend approval. See:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~weide/cc/2002-2003/syllabi/502.html
Two additional suggestions were made: to re-open the dialog with the Business College about 616 vs 516 and about whether CIS 616 should be a prerequisite to Accounting/MIS 651: "Analysis and Design of Management Information Systems" (which currently lists CIS 516 as a prerequisite); and to continue pursuing possible closer ties between CIS 616 and CIS 758.
Weide will make sure that courses listing CIS 516 as a prerequisite are changed so that CIS 616 is an alternate prerequisite. This can be done without CC discussion as a "clean-up" item.
The committee unanimously voted to recommend approval. See:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~weide/cc/2002-2003/syllabi/616.html
One suggestion for addressing the problem was that we could add to all CIS syllabi another course objective, something like: "Demonstrate understanding of ethical and professional behavior". The rationale for failing a student who COAM found to have cheated would then be rather simple: the student failed to achieve this important objective of the course.
After considerable discussion (which has continued by e-mail), the committee felt that the issue should be studied further by an ad hoc department committee of interested parties. Reeves would be willing to serve on this body; in fact, she has already done a lot of homework, finding OSU rules, honor codes and codes of conduct at other universities, etc. The conclusion was that Weide should recommend this to the department chair.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~xuan/courses/newThe committee was satisfied with the basic ideas involved in the "Network Security" course. Details about the proposed pilot in Au03 should come before the committee again in early Sp03.
The committee had several suggestions regarding the "Introduction to Information Assurance" course. Most importantly, the intended audience should be clearly identified and the prerequisites should carefully considered. Based on the proposed content and level of the course, it does not look like a CIS/CSE technical elective (unlike the other proposed course). One possibility is to try to position this as an elective for Business Information Systems majors with a prerequisite of CIS 314, for example. The group proposing the course should identify the appropriate contacts in Business to see whether they would be interested in our offering such a course as an elective for IS majors; perhaps they even would wish to cross-list it. The material truly seems to be a cross between CIS-related issues involving information security threats and basic technological responses, and Business-oriented issues involving organizational policies and operational aspects. Details about the proposed pilot in Sp03 should come before the committee again in January with audience and prerequisite issues worked out.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~srini/CIS694.htm
The proposed undergraduate course (later, a two-course sequence) in "Fundamentals of Biotechnology" would be targeted for junior/senior students in pre-med and biological sciences. The course would have no computing prerequisites nor would it teach programming, but would rather use software packages in the BMI area. Janies mentioned students "automating" some of their work by doing some shell programming, and was cautioned against being too optimistic about what most students would be able to do without any programming prerequisite; similarly with regard to doing database design or queries without a database course as a prerequisite. The difficulty with requiring a programming or database prerequisite is that many of the students in the intended audience ordinarily would not have it.
Their existing courses are:
The entire group discussed possible ways to collaborate on joint programs in a more "official" way. There are two directions in terms of curriculum: courses in computing that BMI students could get into for an introduction to specific areas such as data structures and algorithms, and courses (not yet offered) in biomedical informatics that CIS/CSE and other engineering students could take for an introduction to biomedical informatics. A big problem, as always with interdisciplinary courses, is that most students do not have any advanced prerequisites in the other area. Yuan mentioned that in BMI 730, he expects students to have a good background in either biochemistry or computing and then to gain an appreciation for the other area as a result of the course. On exams, he gives two questions on each idea -- one from the biology/chemistry/genomics angle, one from the computing angle -- and students may choose to answer one or the other. Perhaps it would be possible to structure course prerequisites around the same idea: "or" rather than "and".
We agreed that further meetings were in order (e.g., Yuan should meet with Rafe Wenger about joint graduate program issues), but we did not set a specific time for the next meeting regarding curriculum issues alone.
Updated information is reflected in the table at the top of this page.Update on paperwork status, including pending concurrences (Reeves)
Xuan presented the updated syllabus and explained that the expected audience for the proposed pilot in Sp03 on "Information Assurance" was half information systems majors and half CIS/CSE majors. The proposal was approved following discussion of prerequisites, description, etc. The proposed syllabus for CIS 294I is at:Proposed security pilot in Sp03 (Xuan)
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~weide/cc/2002-2003/syllabi/694L.html
http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/courses/Spring/book3/B117.htm
A summary of the withdrawals being considered:CIS 230: Insert "... for those with previous programming experience in a language other than C++ ..." into the description; remove 202 as a prerequisite. (Rationale: CIS 215 is the appropriate second course for those who have taken a first course using C++.) CIS 360: Change "assembler" to "assembly" in the description; rewrite prerequisite statement so it is not ambiguous. CIS 459: Change so that all are S/U and are not repeatable; remove 459.21 (C) as a prerequisite to 459.22 (C++), leaving just 321 as a prerequisite; change "JAVA" to "Java" in 459.23; change "LISP" to "Lisp" in 459.31 and remove 314 as an alternate prerequisite, leaving just 321 as a prerequisite. (Rationale: 459.22 really should be the "missing link" course for students who wish to learn regular C++ programming after 321; Steele will check to see whether any MIS students are taking 459.31 -- subsequent checking revealed that one student took CIS 459.21 in the last year with the 314 prerequisite; who knows whether the name of the language is LISP or Lisp?) CIS 541: Add "iterative solution of linear systems" to description. (Rationale: That's how it is currently being taught.) CIS 560: Change "systems" to "system" in title and description; rewrite prerequisite statement so it is not ambiguous. CIS 625: Remove "introduction to the halting problem" from description. (Weide will check with the faculty who proposed this regarding why this has been suggested, because the committee was concerned that this was not a good idea; subsequent courses are expecting students to have heard of the halting problem, at least.) CIS 725 and CIS 780: Change descriptions to move "NP-completeness" from 780 to 725. (Rationale: That's how they are currently being taught.) CIS 756: Remove 625 as a prerequisite, because it is a prerequisite to 655 and that is already listed here. CIS 768: Change prerequisite to include 502. (Rationale: CIS 502 is a new course that has been approved now, and it was intended as the permanent prerequisite, not the pilot CIS 694J.)
http://www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/courses/Spring/book3/B117.htm
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~weide/cc/2002-2003/syllabi/682.html
A current draft of the database course group report is at:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~hakan/DB/report.2003.html