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Current Operational Applications

Teaching Schedule Information

Contains live teaching schedule and enrollment data for each semester, including course number, course title, section number, date, time, room, instructor, credit hours, enrollment, etc. Starting from Spring 2006, the teaching schedules are retrieved and updated from SIS database on a daily basis. Department secretaries are responsible for 1) verifying this information and correct any mistakes with Registrar's Office, 2)maintain FTE information. Sub-modules include Faculty Teaching Schedules, FTE Information and Teaching Schedule Reports.

Human Resource Management

Manages faculty/staff information, including contact information, job title, education, expertise, important dates, working status, etc. The full time faculty/staff database is maintained by the school's Human Resource Coordinator and the part time faculty database is maintained by department secretaries. The database serves as a repository providing faculty/staff information to other applications such as Student Course Evaluations, Electronical Faculty Annual Summary Report, Teaching Schedule Information, Committee Information Management, etc.

Student Information Management

A comprehensive student information tracking system maintained by the recorders office. It has four components - Transfers and Re-admits & New-admits, Graduation Information, Probation Information, Prospective students and Awards Information. Many crucial school activities such as Commencement, Awards and Honors are based on information from this database.

Electronical Faculty Annual Summary Report (eFASR)

A web application allowing faculty members to submit annual summary reports online. Faculty members can edit and view currents reports, or import reports from the previous year. Department chairs can add reviews to their faculty members once the reports are submitted. School administrators can view reports for all faculty members. CNC also hosts this service for Herron School of Art, School of Social Work, School of Informatics, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Student Life and Diversity.

Online Student Course Evaluations

The online course evaluation system has removed paper format to evaluate courses offered by School of Engineering and Technology. The evaluation is completely anonymous. The system is usually open two weeks before the final exam week. The school administrators can view grouped results any time from the administrator's site. Results from previous semesters are also available from the administrator's site. Currently only Lecture courses are eligible for evaluation, however, departments can request other types of courses to be included before the system is turned on. Students can vote for "Outstanding Faculty" from the evaluation site.

Committee Information Management

Hosting member information for school committees, such as Budgetary Affairs Committee, Student Affairs Committee, Unit Promotion & Tenure Board, Computing Resources Committee, ect. Information includes descriptions of membership, terms, duties and members who have served or are serving on the committees. The web site provides tools for the nomination committee to nominate candidates and for faculty memebers to vote for committee members.

Computing Resources Management

An in-house intentory tracking and control system for maintaining computing resources owned by the school, such as desktop computers, laptops, printers, software, ect. It provides the whole life cycle management to resources from purchase date to salvage date. Information includes the hardware configuration and the services applied to the machines, and about software such as name, type and the rooms where it is installed . The reporting tool provides maintenance records to CNC managers.

Online Job Application System

An internet-based job application system for recruiting faculty members in the School of Engineering and Technology. The system provides an easy and friendly interface for users to enter contact information and upload application documents. The applications are grouped in a structured way in a centralized information pool, where the Search and Screen Committees can retrieve and review applications.