ISTeC Educational Advisory Committee Minutes February 13, 2004 Committee Members and Guests Present: (*) Michael A. De Miranda, Co-Chair College of Applied Human Sciences School of Education mdemira@cahs.colostate.edu *Pete Seel, Co-Chair Liberal Arts Department of Journalism and Technical Communications Pete.Seel@ColoState.EDU *Ray Whalen College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Department of Biomedical Science Lawrence.Whalen@ColoState.EDU Sanjay Rajopadhye College of Natural Sciences Department of Computer Science Sanjay.Rajopadhye@ColoState.EDU David Theobald College of Natural Resources Department of Natural Resource Recreation & Tourism David.Theobald@ColoState.EDU *Ed Chong College of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Edwin.Chong@ColoState.EDU *Susan Athey College of Business Department of Computer Information Systems Susan.Athey@ColoState.EDU *Raj Khosla College of Agricultural Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Science Raj.Khosla@ColoState.EDU Guests:* HJ Siegel, ISTeC Director, hj@colostate.edu, Joan L. Mitchell, Ph.D. IBM, Bradford O. Brooks, Ph.D. IBM, Jim Buck, IT Program Manager CSU Denver Center Meeting Date: February 13, 2004 Meeting Called to Order: 2:00PM Meeting Adjourned 3:00PM Location: JTC Conference Room, Clark C-256 Old Business 1) Approval of minutes from last meeting. Minutes approved by committee. Susan Athey moved for approval. Second by Michael De Miranda 2) Talented IT high school students and counselor ISTeC day at CSU. This recruitment strategy is designed to recruit the brightest and most promising high school students by inviting them and their counselors/parents to an IS&T day at CSU. Discussion was held on engaging our industry partners with this effort as well. The event will engage students through guest speakers, tours of CSU IS&T related programs, meeting with students and faculty and having some activities for our student guests. Talk surrounded also having a culminating activity ending in a nice dinner with faculty, industry representatives, counselors, students and possibly their parents. Discussion of the planning progress of the high school student and counselor event at CSU was discussed. Michael reported that the leadership of the Colorado School Counselors Association and several faculty members at CSU who are active members have been contacted to serve on the task force to plan this event. Professor Rich Feller is discussing the potential to link our ISTeC activity with a professional development project for counselors he is working on. Scott Webb has volunteered to work with industry involved in this event and planning. The committee felt that enough synergy has developed around this project that a task force could continue the work and report to the EAC. The formation of a task force was approved. ISTeC High School and Counselor Day at CSU Task Force Members: Michael A. De Miranda - SOE Rich Feller - SOE Scott Webb – University Advancement Laurie Carlson - SOE Raj Khosla – College of Agriculture Ray Whalen - CVMBS Cindy Skinner – Colorado School Counselors Association (or representative) Representative from the Center for Life Sciences Michael De Miranda will be sending emails to the task force members for a planning meeting. 3) Members were updated on the Occupational Therapy workshop on Adaptive Technology scheduled for April, 5, 2004. The workshop is on schedule and logistics are being coordinated through faculty in the Department of Occupational therapy. 4) Members were reminded that if they will not be attending the EAC meeting, they are asked to identify a member from their College to represent that College at each EAC meeting. New Business (50 minutes) Joan Mitchell and Brad Brooks (IBM) lead a discussion with the committee on the need for expanding educational opportunities to practicing professionals in the IT field. Specifically, Drs. Mitchell and Brooks engaged the committee in discussing innovative ways to bring educational opportunities to the IBM workforce. Discussion on models that break down barriers and bring needed educational focus to issues of program management skills, performance management, communication, and other related areas of study as identified in the future. Task Force Members. The committee agreed to form a task force co-chaired by Dr. Mitchell and the EAC. Michael De Miranda will contact Dr. Mitchell and set up a meeting for task force. Members will include members from ISTeC EAC, Scott Webb and the IBM team. 2) Michael updated the committee on a meeting with representatives from Cisco Systems. ISTeC and Cisco Systems held an informative meeting open to the university community on January 26, 2004. The presentation lead by Cisco Systems representatives was designed to provide an overview of the Cisco Networking Academy Program. http://www.cisco.com/ Representatives from a wide university audience were present as well as Keith Boggs from Front Range Community College. The EAC discussed the potential collaboration with Cisco Systems and their leading edge course offerings i.e. network security module. Michael will bring more details after contacting Cisco about how we can proceed and assess how we can work together. The item was moved to further information for next meeting. 3) Pete Seel discussed the need for establishing a curricular forum for issues related to IS&T. Pete cited as an example the need to establish some common guidelines for web development courses across campus and discuss ways to meet growing demand across all colleges. The committee agreed that the need to have a task force examine this issue and report back to committee was needed. Task Force Members. Pete Seel – JTC Susan Athey – CIS Scott Webb – University Advancement 4) Pete reported on the progress of the fall, 2004 conference to be held at CSU in cooperation with Hewlett Packard. The theme of the conference is Computer Security in the 21st Century. Plan schedule for spring EAC meetings . 3 p.m. -- Adjourn Submitted; Michael A. De Miranda