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DISCOVERY DAY

Dr. Wayne Summers

TSYS School of Computer Science

Columbus State University

23 March 2013

****CODING: What most schools don't teach****

Computing / IT in Georgia • 54% of projected job openings could be filled by

computing degrees.

• AP Computer Science Test-takers 2009: 743

• Degrees Earned in Computer and Information Sciences 2007-2008 Academic Year Associate's: 818

Bachelor's: 1168 TOTAL: 2511 Master's: 467 Doctoral: 58

• Projected Workforce Indicators (2006-2016)

Average Annual Computing Job Openings: 4660 10-year Percent Change in Computing Jobs: 24.8% 10-year Change in Number of Computing Jobs: 24,050

http://www.ncwit.org/edjobsmap

Employment for CS/IT Graduates 2011-2012

UNDERGRAD

DEGREES EMPLOYED %

CS - Systems 4 4 100%

Applied CS 12 12 100%

CS - Games 10 10 100%

IT 9 7* 78%

35 33 94%

GRAD SCHOOL

GaTech 2

CSU 9

total 11

percentage 31%

EMPLOYMENT

CSU (UITS) 7

TSYS 9

AFLAC 3

OmegaFi 2

Gentiva Health Services 1

CACI 1

WTVM 1

Eyes Wide games (ATL) 1

Progress (ATL) 1

Consilium1 (ATL) 1

Defense contractor (Augusta) 1

Intelligent Automation (MD) 1

Planned Systems Intl (DC) 1

Dean Evans (CO) 1

Graduate Assistant 2

interviewing 2

Challenge

• Professionals in computing say

that you should like:

•Problem solving

•Working with others in a team

•Problem solving

•Being creative

•Problem solving

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Computer Science

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Computer Science

Some Quick Facts about CS Students

• Approximately 300 undergraduates

• Approximately 90 graduate students

• Increasing student research opportunities

• Variety of internship and coop opportunities

• Study-abroad opportunities

• ACM Student Chapter

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Academic Programs in Computer Science

• BS Computer Science - Applied Track

• BS Computer Science - Games Track

• BS Computer Science - Systems Track

• BS Information Technology

• BS Information Technology (online)

• Combined BS/MS Computer Science

• Computer Science Teaching Endorsement

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Computer Science

Academic Programs in

Computer Science • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

– Systems • designed for students who plan on continuing to a graduate

program in Computer Science or who want a more traditional and theoretical degree

– Applied • less theoretical with a focus on mainframe programming and

web programming

– Games • designed for students who plan on continuing to a graduate

program in Computer Science or who want to work in the gaming, modeling, and simulation industry

• Minor Computer Science (18 semester hours)

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Collaboration with Industry

Internships for students

Collaborative Research in: o Security / CyberForensics

oMobile App Development

oWireless Networking / Pervasive Computing

oModeling and Simulations (Serious Games)

o Software Development

oData Visualization

oData Warehousing / Data Mining / Data Analytics

o Legacy Code Translation

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Computers in the 1940s

How many

computers in

this picture?

TSYS School of

Computer Science

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The PC of tomorrow

• Sixth Sense (wearable technology) 4:41

• Oblong (mezzanine) 4:55

• Oblong (g-speak) 3:06

• A Day Made of Glass (5:33)

• A Day Made of Glass2: Unpacked (11:25)

• CES 2013: Mind-controlled helicopters,

games for kids with ADHD (3 min)

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TSYS School of Computer

Science PREVIEW

• Mobile Apps

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle & Robots

• Games and Simulations

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QUESTIONS?

Wayne Summers

TSYS School of Computer Science – CSU

http://cs.ColumbusState.edu

[email protected]

(706) 507-8170

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