SWOT
Strengths:
Strategic plan for growth in teaching which emphasizes teaching collaboration with existing synergistic activities on campus and new faculty ideas .
Faculty & Research
ï‚· Strong faculty qualification, talented and dedicated, knowledgeable and cooperative faculty, great collaboration and good communication among faculty.
ï‚· A critical mass of faculty, quite reasonable size (almost enough to cover a variety of basic courses). High quality faculty having expertise in a broad range of modern CS fields.
ï‚· Strong research potential with proven records of high quality research, relatively good faculty members in research; active faculty publication activities.
Working Environment
ï‚· Strong leadership, good department chair
ï‚· Strong department level support for faculty teaching activities
ï‚· Supportive working environment among department members
ï‚· Excellent administrative support
ï‚· Cohesive department with stability
ï‚· Excellent secretarial work, good secretary
Academic Programs
ï‚· AU-accredited BS CS program
ï‚· Well defined program assessment (including program objectives, course learning outcomes, and instruction assessments).
ï‚· Flexible curriculum management with devoted teachers.
ï‚· Excellent undergraduate curriculum including a well developed BS degree in Computer Science and an innovative BCom degree in Computer Science with an area of a discipline other than CS.
ï‚· Good faculty members in teaching and TA support
Engaging Students in Field Visiting
ï‚· Numerous research/independent study opportunities for students
ï‚· Large number of students associated to department projects and events
ï‚· Easy to involve students in projects via independent study
Weaknesses:
External Grants and Graduate Program Development
ï‚· Inactive in funding. Develop more national/state level grant proposals and increase/establish funds available .
ï‚· Theoretical CS is under-represented in the program as well as in research.
ï‚· Need to involve more graduate students in outside projects and field v .
ï‚· Increase collaborative research/projects among the faculty member.
ï‚· Not many strong publications.
ï‚· Few internal seminars and special presentations.
ï‚· Weak ties and communication with Software Copmanies.
Undergraduate Students
ï‚· Not many CS (graduate and undergraduate) students;
ï‚· Small graduating class each year (low retention and graduation rate); number of BS CS graduates each year.
ï‚· Little student participation in co-op program and internships.
ï‚· Stale promotional materials including CS Web page.
ï‚· Lack of technical support outside of CS labs; tuitoring and collaboration.
ï‚· No full time operator to support CS.
Instructions and Curriculum
ï‚· Poor delivery of capstone software engineering sequence.
ï‚· Senior design course supported by all faculty which provides students flexibilities in choosing a project having their interests and active participation in the research.
ï‚· Little to no sense of what goes on in colleagues classrooms (e.g., their teaching styles and material emphasized).
ï‚· Too much teaching load.
ï‚· No courses in mobile applications.
ï‚· Need to bring graduate and undergraduate curriculum up-to-date.
Outreach
ï‚· Lack of activities between faculty, students and industry
ï‚· Inactive advisory board