Executive Advisory Board on Curriculum (EABC)
November 27, 2007
Meeting Summary
Attendance:
Carl Adams, IDSc, MISRC
Gedas Adomavicius, IDSc
Scott Ammon, Target
Mick Atton, Thomson West
Mark Baltes, Securian
Nomuun Batbold, Club MIS President
Steve Brown, Carlson Companies
Troy Cardinal, KPMG
Chip Council, Target
John Curtin, MISRC
Kevin Daly, Club MIS
Alok Gupta, IDSc
Vandy Johnson, Medtronic
Mike Kirst, General Mills
Janet Lerch, US Bank
Mike McFarlane, Cargill
Brent Murray, IBM
Tim Olson, IDSc
Tamara Rath, Northwest Airlines
Yuqing (Ching) Ren, IDSc
Donna Sarppo, MISRC
Bonnie Saxe, Target
Shirl Stroeing, SUPERVALU
Mary Texer, Target
1) A significant amount of discussion on Management Information Systems Curriculum
document presented by Gedas Adomavicius, IDSc. For example, the changes in the MIS
Curriculum. The document is posted on the web.
Changes in MIS curriculum (as of Fall 2008)
Starting in Fall 2008 semester, there will be the following major changes in MIS curriculum:
• IDSC 3201 – Introduction to Programming for Systems Development (4 credits) will be split into the
following two courses:
o IDSC 3101 – Introduction to Programming (2 cr.)
o IDSC 3102 – Intermediate Programming (2 cr.)
• IDSC 4203 – Information Technology Infrastructure (4 cr.) will be split into the following two courses:
o IDSC 3103 – Introduction to Databases (2 cr.)
o IDSC 3104 – Business Communication Technologies (2 cr.)
• IDSC 4204 – Information Services Management (4 cr.) will be a writing-intensive course (IDSC 4204W).
• A new required 2-credit course – the MIS capstone course – will be added to the MIS curriculum
(tentative
course number: IDSC 4301).
2) Wiki information from Tim Olson
- Document is posted on the web.
3) Discussion around how to further market MIS careers. Ideas suggested
-Two Sub committees were formed- Pre College and Existing College students
Posted on the web.
4) Letter to Dean Davis-Blake and Associate Dean Robert Ruekert
- Mike McFarlane