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Program Review Department of Computer Science PROGRAM REVIEW DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL JANUARY 13-15, 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction............................................................................................................................. 1 2 Program Overview.................................................................................................................. 2 2.1 Mission........................................................................................................................... 2 2.2 Demand.......................................................................................................................... 3 2.3 Interdisciplinary activities and outreach ........................................................................ 5 2.4 Inter-institutional perspective ........................................................................................ 6 2.5 Previous evaluations ...................................................................................................... 6 3 Curricula ................................................................................................................................. 8 3.1 Undergraduate Curriculum ............................................................................................ 8 3.1.1 Bachelor of Science ................................................................................................. 10 3.1.2 Bachelor of Arts (proposed) .................................................................................... 11 3.1.3 Computer Science Minor......................................................................................... 12 3.1.4 Industrial Internship Program.................................................................................. 13 3.1.5 Non-major Service Courses..................................................................................... 14 3.2 Graduate Curriculum.................................................................................................... 15 3.2.1 The M.S. program.................................................................................................... 16 3.2.2 The Ph.D. program .................................................................................................. 16 3.3 Changes under consideration ....................................................................................... 20 4 Faculty .................................................................................................................................. 23 4.1 Overall assessment of the faculty................................................................................. 25 4.2 Teaching....................................................................................................................... 28 4.3 Service.......................................................................................................................... 31 5 Department research ............................................................................................................. 33 5.1 Research areas.............................................................................................................. 33 5.2 Research productivity .................................................................................................. 36 5.3 Faculty honors and awards in the last five years.......................................................... 38 6 Students ................................................................................................................................ 40 6.1 Environment................................................................................................................. 40 6.2 Underrepresented populations...................................................................................... 40 6.3 Admissions process...................................................................................................... 42 6.4 Funding ........................................................................................................................ 43 6.5 Evaluation of student progress..................................................................................... 44 6.6 Student teaching........................................................................................................... 46 7 Departmental Support and Facilities..................................................................................... 47 7.1 Leadership.................................................................................................................... 47 7.2 Administrative support................................................................................................. 47 7.3 Facilities and equipment .............................................................................................. 48 7.3.1 Laboratories............................................................................................................. 48 7.3.2 Space in Sitterson and Brooks buildings ................................................................. 50 7.4 Institutional relationships............................................................................................. 50 8 The Future............................................................................................................................. 53 8.1 Teaching mission ......................................................................................................... 53 8.2 Research mission ......................................................................................................... 54 9 Appendices ........................................................................................................................... 55 9.1 Appendix A: Department organizational chart ........................................................... 55 9.2 Appendix B: Undergraduate starting salaries ............................................................. 56 9.3 Appendix C: Minority scholarship support................................................................. 57 9.4 Appendix D: Alumni initial placement....................................................................... 59 9.5 Appendix E: Alumni distinctions................................................................................ 67 9.6 Appendix F: Graduate student fellowships................................................................. 75 9.7 Appendix G: Contracts and grants .............................................................................. 78 9.8 Appendix H: Course descriptions ............................................................................... 87 9.9 Appendix I: Graduate program evaluation by alumni................................................. 96 9.10 Appendix J: Graduate program evaluation by current students ................................ 114 9.11 Appendix K: Undergraduate program evaluation by alumni.................................... 132 9.12 Appendix L: Undergraduate program evaluation by current students ...................... 142 9.13 Appendix M: Faculty 5-year CVs............................................................................. 151 1 1 Introduction This report is the result of a self-study conducted over the last year of our department and its undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The larger questions we were asked to answer were: • What do you do? • Why do you do it? • How well do you do it? • What difference does it make whether you do it or not? • How well does what you do relate to why you say you do it? The format of our response largely follows the structure suggested by the Office of the Provost and the Graduate School. The report consists of the following sections, in this order: • Program Overview • Curricula • Faculty • Research • Students • Leadership, Administrative Support, Facilities and Equipment, Institutional Relationships • The Future In addition, several appendices provide detailed information and data to support the main document. Four of the appendices provide the results of a survey we sent to our current and past undergraduate and graduate students. Throughout the rest of this document, we refer to it as simply the survey. Comments representative of the majority of students have been included in various sections of the document. In addition, comments representing minority views that indicate specific problems are also discussed. 2 2 Program Overview 2.1 Mission The Department of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill is the second oldest free-standing Ph.D. granting CS department. Since its founding in 1964 by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., we have pursued the dual missions of research and education. We see our research mission as pushing forward the state of the art in a few areas of computer science. Historically we have limited our research coverage in order to achieve critical mass in our research clusters and to promote peaks of excellence with a relatively small faculty size. Our research tends to be applied but includes a substantial theoretical component in support of the application. We focus on solving real problems, and this has led to extensive collaboration with researchers outside computer science. Recently we have somewhat diversified our areas of research, adding bioinformatics, computer security, computer vision, and robotics as new areas closely allied with existing strengths. Our teaching mission has historically concentrated on graduate education, but we now also offer an undergraduate
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