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Appendix A: Surveying the ECSE Community
Appendix A: Surveying the ECSE Community
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community. One survey was sent to the approximately 180 chairs of departments on the Forsythe list (i.e., all chairs of Ph.D.-granting departments in the United States and Canada in computer science and engineering (CS&E)
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Ideally, the committee would have conducted an ethnographic study of all institutions in which ECSE research is pursued and an analysis to distill common themes. Lacking the resources and the expertise to conduct a project of such dimensions, committee members decided on an approach that would yield as much information as possible.
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Thus, although the committee believes that the surveys returned cover a considerable portion of the academic community of experimental computer scientists and engineers, both tenure-track faculty and graduate students, it must point out that they do not constitute a complete or necessarily even a representative sample of the community, and biases are undoubtedly present in the responses. Perhaps the most serious bias is the fact that respondents may have been ~ The total number of faculty in Ph.D.-granting computer science and engineering departments in 1989 was 2,660 (Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.
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As an inspection of the surveys indicates, questions that would result in both quantitative and qualitative data were asked. No clear interpretations emerged from a consideration of the quantitative data, and, in the end, the committee found that the richest data were found in the qualitative answers that respondents provided.
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in your department? Please indicate the extent to which it is an important departmental goal to maintain a presence in experimental computer science or engineering research.
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. o obtaining graduate students interested 1 2 3 4 0 other (specify)
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Please use the following scale to indicate the relative importance of the factors below. I = important to most or all of the cases in question 2 = important to some of the cases in question 3 = important only to a few or none of the cases in question If you feel it is necessary, please include a note about the decree of impact of these factors on the decisions in question.
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space time (before tenure decision is made or before student is "taking too long") supply of qualified graduate students (only for faculty)
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. B4- Peers/Mentors and Collaboration among Experimental Computer Scientists and Engineers Using this scale, 1 = adequate or better for most ECSE faculty 2 = adequate or better for some ECSE faculty please give us your assessment of: -- the mentoring support provided by your department for its junior experimental computer scientists and engineers .....
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students to fulfill some type of experimental computer science or engineering (e.g., work on a system, build a piece of hardware, take a course in experimental methods in ECSE)
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Sincerely, John Rice Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University Board Chair, Computing Research Association
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graduate students for whom you have been the advisor of record and who have received their doctorates in the last 10 years. (Using your best memory on the subject will be adequate, though if you can check records without too much trouble, we encourage you to do so.)
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better environment in industry (specify how, e.g., research money, equipment, colleagues) _ couldn't get or unlikely to get tenure _ unable to find suitable academic job unable to find any academic job other (specify)
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impact on industry other (specify) 3.b- Faculty Arrivals: please consider as an "arrival" a person hired into a tenured or tenure-track in experimental computer science or engineering (ECSE)
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Cases for Experimental Computer Scientists and Engineers Please include both regular faculty and research-only faculty eligible for tenure. NOTE: If YOU have been in your department for less than 10 years, please answer for the number of
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Indicate their relative importance according to the following scale: 1 = important to most or all of the cases in question 2 = important to some of the cases in question 3 = important to only a few or none of the cases in question lack of publications lack of research funding lack of Ph.D. students classroom teaching problems problems with advising students difficulty in evaluating "artifacts" or contributions other than publications personal relationships between candidate and department lack of appropriate mentoring from senior faculty lack of students to perform research difficulty of evaluating interdisciplinary or cross-departmental research lack of knowledge to pursue some research opportunity poor handling of tenure case by department mismatch between faculty members' goals and metrics commonly used for evaluation lack of a relationship with industry too much industrial interaction inadequate equipment infrastructure lack of staff support (e.g., programmers, technicians)
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4.d- For your #1 choice above, why is that your most preferred dissemination channel? 4.e- What advice would you give an incoming assistant professor who expresses an interest in doing experimental computer science?
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Your cooperation is very much appreciated. Sincerely, John Rice Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University Board Chair, Computing Research Association Larry Snyder Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington Chair, NRC Committee on Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists Do you consider yourself an experimental computer scientist?
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other (specify) What do you see as the primary pluses FOR YOU of seeking or taking academic positions in experimental computer science or engineering?
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opportunity to supervise graduate student research i. greater professional stature at university j.
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