| 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM | Welcome and Introductions (Jeff Zingsheim, Chair)
Update on program information (Eric Durant)
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| 8:50 AM | Review of Events
- Recent
- JCI-sponsored CE Student Event (3/30/2015)
- Upcoming
- Open Houses (7/18/2015; 9/19/2015; 10/17/2015; 12/5/2015; 4/23/2016)
- FedEx-sponsored CE Student Event (Monday, 9/28/2015 [tentative])
- Tentative: Fifth EECS Industry Forum for Students (likely October-December, Friday, 12 PM, followed by panel lunch; optional tour before? field/parking structure and/or Grohmann Museum)
- IEEEXtreme 9.0 (October 24, 2015 UTC, MSOE's 7th year, Dr. Livingston)
- Fall IAC Meeting: TBD: Volunteer to host: morning meeting followed by tour?
- Op Computer Competition (Friday, 11/20/2015, Dr. Durant)
- Rockwell Collins-sponsored EECS Student Event (Monday, 12/7/2015 [tentative])
- Ongoing
- Senior project collaboration
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| 9:20 AM | Student feedback: Senior debriefing summary |
| 9:35 AM | Break and IAC Member Survey |
| 9:50 AM | Recent Developments
- Popular electives this year:
- CE-4940 VLSI Design (Dr. Meier)
- CS-493 Advanced Digital Design (Prof Barnekow)
- CS-4920 Information Security (Dr. Durant)
- Many other options, including: databases, opamp design, neural networks, mobile app development (Android and iOS), computer vision, C#, control systems applications, data mining, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and mobile networks and simulation
- Some elective options for next year:
- CE-4930 Computer Architecture II (Dr. Meier)
- CE-498/EE-4980: Circuit/System Fabrication (Dr. Rothe)
- CE-498B Digital Image Processing (Dr. Livingston)
- CS-386 Databases (Dr. Urbain)
- CS-4230 Distributed and Cloud Computing (Dr. Urbain)
- EE-484 Neural Networks (Dr. Ross)
- EE-4980C Radar/SDR Systems (Dr. Prust)
- SE-4910 Mobile Application Development (Android) (Dr. Urbain)
- SE-4910i Mobile Application Development (iOS) (Dr. Sebern)
- Czech Tech. (Prague) spring semester exchange option for sophomores: fifth group (2 CEs, +AEs) completing. Had Skype video conference with them at freshman recruiting meeting in March.
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| 10:00 AM | Curriculum
- Approved version of new CE 4.0 Curriculum, effective for F'15 freshmen
- Embedded platform updates proceeding
- Embedded Systems I-III: Students use the Altera DE0 laboratory board that they purchased for $65 in their 2nd digital logic class freshman year
- Fully implemented in all 3 classes this year: using Quartus NIOS II (soft processor on FPGA) Development tools
- I (CE2800) introduces assembly and several subsystems
- II (CE2811) moves to C and covers additional subsystems now introduces round-robin scheduling using the timer interrupt
- IV (CE4920) uses a Cypress Semiconductor PSoC device with an ARM5 core and is not changing
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| 10:25 AM | General Discussion
- Student representative comments and input
- Industry representative comments and input
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| 10:45 AM | Meeting Wrap-up
- Agenda items for the next IAC meeting
- Action items
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| 10:50 AM | IAC Group Picture
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| 11:00 AM | Adjourn to Senior Design Show |