Welcome to the Computer
Science and Engineering Department at Florida Atlantic University. I am
proud to lead this young, energetic, and enthusiastic department, which
is poised to become an "MIT of South Florida". Our department
is one of the fastest growing departments in one of the fastest growing
Universities in the United States. We currently have 1200 students majoring
in computer science and computer engineering; 300 of these are graduate
students. We are annually awarding approximately 250 Bachelor of Science
degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, about 50 Masters
degrees, and 10 Ph.D. degrees. Our Computer Science program is offered
on the Boca Raton, Davie and Port St. Lucie campuses. We have also started
exporting our programs to other countries worldwide.
Our faculty has very active research interests in software
engineering, networking and communications, multimedia, security, wireless
and ad-hoc networks, VLSI design, system integration, computer architecture,
distributed systems, database systems, and Internet engineering. In the
last two years, we generated approximately five million dollars in sponsored
research from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Navy,
Department of Defense, NASA, and several local companies including Motorola
and Avocent. We are in the midst of hundreds of hi-tech companies, some
that are firmly established and others that are getting started - this
area is now referred to as the "Internet Coast". Our Industry
Advisory Board consists of technical leaders from these companies, who
support our efforts both in research and in teaching. Our new Industry
Affiliate Program is designed to strengthen our collaboration with local
companies and provide a number of benefits to local industry.
In summary, our mission is to serve our community by
providing a center for teaching excellence and becoming a major research
department. I am very enthusiastic about leading the department in the
coming years with the strong support of our dynamic faculty, hard working
staff, and ambitious students.