Minutes_MTS

=Minutes of Meetings of MTS/SCI Course Presentations=

Minutes of October 7, 2009

 * 1) QMDM course will have a prereq of Stats & Maths, which will be conducted in summer, and Excel course may have OMDM as prereq.
 * 2) Calculus-I. __ACTION: Dr. Shah to make College Algebra a prereq for Calc-I in the RCO__. Some programming concepts have been incorporated into Cal-I, but without hands on.
 * 3) Business Maths: The existing RCO is tilted towards Stats. __ACTION: Dr. Shah to make Dr. Shahid Qureshi's outline as RCO__.
 * 4) College Algebra remedial exam will continue to be required for BS students.
 * 5) Issue of Crib sheets was discussed at length. It was decided that for the time being to leave what is given on the crib sheet to the discretion of the faculty.
 * 6) Calc-II. Had problems as background from Calc-I was not sufficient.
 * 7) College Algebra needs to be toughened to ensure Calc-I & II are proper. Currently all three are some what below target. __ACTION: Dr. Shah and Dr. Touheed to work on all three RCOs__.
 * SI: We need to have Minitab, SPSS, Matlab and Lindo (not Tora) should be installed on all computers. __ACTION: Yaseen to get costing. Dr. Ghani to create budget for 2010-11.__ __ACTION: Aniqa to make Case studies optional in the RCO__.
 * 1) Linear Algebra: Taught to BBA students (84 students), as well as BS. This was offered late this year, and in the future many sections would exist, including BS students.
 * 2) Intro to Stats: __ACTION: Yaseen to make Time Series and Index Numbers to be optional, time permitting in RCO.__
 * 3) No change required in Stats & Maths for Business, which is prereq for QMDM.

Minutes of August 27, 2009

 * 1) First course in Physics for BS(CS) should be Mechanics (M) (in 3rd semester), and the second course should be Electromagnetism (E) (which requires background in vectors). Assumption in this course is that Calculus-I is a prerequisite. For Physics (E) has Physics (M), as well as Cal-II and Differential equations as prereq. Mr. Raza needs to e-mail the course outline.
 * 2) Syed Inayatullah to communicate Stats & Maths for Business to Dr. Touheed.
 * 3) College Algebra now insures that all students are prepared for Calculus-I. Also linkage of both Calc-I & II to computer science subjects will be introduced in these courses. Remove improper integrals from Calc-II. Laplace equations to be taught in Differential Equations.
 * 4) A lot of discussion took place regarding the QMDM Course. Dr. Shah agreed to include some aspects of LP in the course. The focus of the course was emphasized to be on Decision Making.
 * 5) It was felt that Aniqa's Intro to Stats course was very lengthy and some changes were suggested by Yaseen Meenai.