Department of Computer Science and Engineering at FAU

Department of Computer Science and Engineering at FAU

CSE Department Quick Statistics z Total students: 1, 200 z Graduate students: 300 z Ph. D. students: 50 z Faculty: 30 z Degrees offered: y. B. Sc. , M. Sc, and Ph. D in CS and CE z CS Program offered in: y Boca, Davie, and Port St. Lucie z External research - about $4+ million per year

Vision of the CSE Department Exiting “Big” Changes z Transformation from a two-campus to a multi-campus department Treasure Coast Jupiter Davie Boca Raton Dania Beach Fort Lauderdale Comm. Fort Lauderdale Down. T

Vision of the CSE Department Exiting “Big” Changes z Transformation from a local educational institution to a global school Asia Export programs WORLD Internetbased courses Europe CSE at FAU ? S. America

Vision of the CSE Department Exiting “Big” Changes z FAU is in the midst of the Internet Coast (more than 600 high-tech companies) IBM Siemens Radisys CSE at FAU Motorola Citrix Avocent FAU R&D Park Cyber. Guard

Industry Relationships z Industry Advisory Board – about 25 members z Launched Industry Affiliates Program z First members: Motorola, Citrix, Avocent, and m 2 sys z Two research projects and two service contracts with Motorola (total $2 M per year) z Research projects and initiatives with Avocent, Siemens, Partner Community

Major Research Areas z. Software Engineering z. Networking and Multimedia z. VLSI and Computer Hardware Design z. Distributed and Parallel Systems z. Internet Engineering z. Data and Network Security z. Data, Web, and Multimedia Mining

CSE Research Laboratories z. Telecommunication and Computer Networking Lab z. Empirical Software Engineering Lab z. Distributed System Design Lab z. Center for VLSI and System Integration z. Mobile Systems Lab z. Sensor Networks Lab

Our Objectives z Evolve into a high-quality multi-campus Department with excellent reputation worldwide both in teaching and research z Become a Research-level-1 Department z Become the leading CSE Department in South Florida, and perhaps in Florida z Strengthen and expend the relations with local companies - through Industry Advisory Board, Internet Coast, and Industry Affiliate Program

Recent Success Stories z Motorola, Plantation y. Two research projects in designing future cellular phones ($500 K) y. Two service grants – 35 students working at Motorola in testing their wireless devices ($1 M) z Two federal earmark projects y. Research on secure telecommunication networks ($1 M for 2004 -05) y. Center for Coastline Security Technology ($1. 75 M for 2004 -05 year) z Florida Center of Excellence in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics ($10 M)

Recent Newspapers Clips Boca News, June 2004 Sun Sentinel, July 2004

FAU Team Reaches World Finals in Prestigious Computer Society Competition z Code. Blue - a wireless, Web -enabled health monitoring system z FAU student team: N. Barman, S. Browser, K. Khan, S. Sharif z Dr. O. Marques, team director and Dr. B. Alhalabi, senior project advisor z Only 2 American universities in last ten IEEE Computer, August 2002

Student Success Story yupi. com Carlos Cardona & Craig Perriot

New Weekend MS Program in CS with Specialization in Internet and Web Technologies z Tailored for professional from high-tech industry z Duration: 11 months; one weekend per month z Eleven courses – 33 credits y. Software courses y. Networking courses y. Application courses z First group of 10 students will graduate in March 2005

Our Motto: FINE Science and Engineering (vs Fine Art) Fresh ideas Innovative approaches New programs Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service