Minutes+Oct+03

=Reference Course Outlines Meeting=

The following course were discussed:
 * Introduction to Computer Applications
 * Introduction to Computer Administration
 * Business Process Modeling and Simulation
 * Datawarehousing
 * Social Computing
 * Decision Support Systems

Introduction to Computer Applications

Mr. Waseem Arian presented the RCO.

Objectives: To give students hands on experience of MS personal productivity applications along with some other packages, e.g. Microsoft Office IBM lotus Notes Front Page etc, Tidley spaces, Google Docs, wiki technology etc

The course is entirely lab based, its exams would also be lab based, except for quizzes. In the current semester there were lab problems, there are still lot of problems, most of the PCs dont work, some have keyboards stuck, some have mouses stuck, some keep rebooting, some take a long time processing a single request.

Introduction to Computer Administration

The main discussion was is it different from system administration? The conclusion was that system administration is more technical, includes topics such as queueing theory, optimization, linux internals, system architecture etc. on the other hand computer administration is less technical, and meant for business or MIS students. eg control panel, seting up firewall, overlap with MIS 102, maybe the issue of overlap between MIS 102 and ICA has been resolved. Faisal will look into the CO of MIS as well as ICap. The objectives should be dovetailed.

CSE 443 Modelimg & Simulation what to teach MIS and what to teach CS, there are actually 2, there is MIS 304 as well, so there should be two for 2 audience. Dr. W tried but there were handicaps, some didn't have programming skills,

have added queuing theory, modeling of production sys, tutorial of matlab.

diff between OR and BPM, Dr W clarified that the app of OR is BPM, should not be OR in disguise, basicallly menat to allow students to take an org and model it, model a large org, improve processes, need to know about OR and simulation, UML and DFD is ? tool like imagine it, also documentum by EMC, or datum, workflow design, Dr. W will make 2 RCo's

database concepts very weak,

Social Computing presnted Sco Comp web quest

DSS there was a suggestion to add a modeling tool, it has been done, have a combined guest speaker session, erum requested to record th electures,