Important information for ITCD students, staff and faculty http://itcd.csumb.edu/publications/newsletter.php As the School of ITCD and CSUMB begin their 13th year, the increase in size and level of complexity has made it progressively more difficult to communicate with the multitude of stake holders: students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, sponsors, prospective employers, prospective students, university administration, sister campuses and counselors of feeder schools. In order to address this issue ITCD has designed two newsletters: ITCD Weekly and ITCD Quarterly. When School is in session, the Weekly will be published every Monday and directed towards ITCD’s current students, faculty members, and staff. Its focus will be on more immediate news that has a direct impact on ITCD’s teaching and learning curriculum. The Quarterly will focus on more long-term issues and will have a wider distribution to all stakeholders in both electronic and printed form. http://itcd.csumb.edu/publications/newsletter.php ITCD has submitted a formal name change request to the university in order to change the degree name from TMAC (Telecommunication, Multimedia and Applied Computing) to ITCD (Information Technology and Communication Design). It will take the University and the CSU system up to a year to approve the name change. The title of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and Communication Design will better represent the current interdisciplinary degree program that combines technology and design for four reasons: • The term “telecommunications” is an umbrella term that does not adequately reflect our curriculum. The more appropriate terminology is LAN/WAN networking, computer networking or networking. • “Information Technology” best represents the technology side of our interdisciplinary program. The discipline of Information Technology incorporates the applied side of Computer Science including software programming, networking, database design, etc. • “Multimedia” is no longer used in digital program descriptions and does not accurately reflect the design side of our interdisciplinary program. “Communication Design” would be interpreted to include visual design, animation, game design, and instructional design. All of these disciplines are now a part of our current curriculum. • The outdated TMAC title costs our department prospective students who are looking for a technology and/or design focused degree program. http://itcd.csumb.edu/ Starting this Friday, March 2nd, the CST 401 students will be presenting on the status of their capstone projects. ITCD invites all students, advisors, and interested faculty to attend this presentation. The presentations will be taking place on March 2nd, 9th, and 16th between 10am to 12 noon in Bldg 18 room 118. This is the best and last public opportunity to make comments and suggestions about student projects before they are completed in April. We look forward to seeing you there. http://itcd.csumb.edu Michael Machado graduated June 2004 with a B.S. in Telecommunications, Multimedia and Applied Computing and in December 2006 graduated with a MS in Management and Information Technology from CSU Monterey Bay. He passed the CCNA certification exam in June of 2002. Michael has been working as the ITCD Lab Coordinator since February of 2004. He is responsible for all Information Technology used by ITCD and is the System Administrator for all ITCD servers; both Windows and Linux. In addition to his staff duties, he has taught the CST334: Unix and Xwindows course for the past two semesters. Michael is married with two children has two cats and four computers. His current hobbies include learning to play the violin and learning to program in Python and Assembly. http://itcd.csumb.edu/publications/newsletter0107.pdf