SELF-STUDY REPORT
Department of Computer Science
University
of Maryland at College
Park
This report is a summary of our
Department's research, education program, and infrastructure – administration,
space and budgets. It provides an assessment of the Department's current
strengths and weaknesses, and suggests plans for the continuing advancement of the
quality of our programs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview,
Goals and Recent History – Contains a summary of the main challenges
facing the department and summarizes how the department has modified its
programs and policies in response to the last external review.
Faculty
Research – Describes the research program of the Department,
including faculty profiles (research interests, honors), external funding, and
hiring and promotion practices and history.
Undergraduate
Program – Discusses the structure of our undergraduate education
program, including important changes currently being implemented, and describes
the challenges we have faced in dealing with a very large undergraduate
population with limited resources.
Graduate
Program – Presents the results of a survey we completed as part of
the review process to measure graduate student opinions about education,
research and department life; profiles our current graduate student population
and our graduate education program; and discusses graduate student placement –
an area of high priority in which we have made significant improvement but one
in which more needs to be accomplished.
Infrastructure – Contains a summary of the Department’s
budget history and how it has dealt with recent budget cuts, overviews the
organization of the administrative staff and describes activities that cannot
be undertaken because of staff shortages, and describes the space available to
the Department, and the severe challenges it faces to support current
activities and grow new ones due to space limitations.
Appendices
Overview
Faculty Research
Undergraduate Program
Graduate Program
Infrastructure