MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD DATE: January 12, 2016 Prepared by: Dr. David A. Gaitros Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Department of Computer Science RE: ABET Course Reports for COP4530 Course number: COP4530 Course name: Data Structures Course review committee members: Chris Lacher, Ashok Srinivasan, Zhenhai Duan Report submitted date: 12/11/2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Were there any problems with the coruse last year? If Yes, describe the problems. Students were better prepared for programming this semester than they had been the past two years. It appears that the programming preparation depends a lot on the instructor teaching COP 3330. There needs to be some standardization to ensure that COP 3330 preparation is adequate independent of the instructor. I provide additional training in theoretical analysis than that required. It will be good to consider making this a part of the requirement so that students will be better prepared for Algorithms. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Course committee recommendations to the current/future instructors. Recommend the department create a uniform schema for Blackboard to calculate ABET scores and simultaneously enforce the policy that the programming side of a class must be passed in order to pass the course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Course committee recommendations to department/UCC regarding this course. NA.