Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association
2006 Annual Meeting Open Forum Questions
- Do you have junior/senior level courses in your curriculum that require students to write computer programs (like C or FORTRAN)? (Posed by Ali M. Reza of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- Regarding the position of chair or department head
(Posed by Ali Golbazi of New Haven)
- Is there an extra compensation for chair/head in your department? If so, how much?
- Is your chair/head position full time, half time, or some other fraction of a full time load? That is, what fraction of your time is allocated for the administrative duties of the chair/head?
- Besides the chair/head, is there a coordinator for each of your programs (graduate or undergraduate) in your department?
- Have you historically used MOSIS extensively in your educational or research programs? If so, how do the new policies announced in December affect you? (Posed by Ken Connor of RPI)
- What microcontrollers do you use in your lab and design courses? (Posed by Ken Connor of RPI)
- How is tuition remission for graduate research assistants charged to grants at your institution?
(Steve Phillips of ASU)
- direct cost (subject to overhead?)
- fringe benefit or employee related expense (what % of stipend?)
- other
- What is the typical full cost (stipend, tuition, fringe, overhead etc..) to a research grant for one fully funded graduate research assistant? (Steve Phillips of ASU)
- Community College Articulation Agreements
- Do you have close effective articulation agreements?
- Is close effective articulation encouraged by state & local governments?
Please submit any questions you would like to see included in the forum to Ken Connor ( connor at rpi dot edu)
Also, if you will not be attending the annual meeting, you can also submit your responses to Ken Connor. The additional data will be useful. You can also send your responses to the person who posed the question, especially if you have extensive comments.
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