Education Chair Job Description

SIGCOMM Education Director: Position Description

The role of the Sigcomm Education Director is to provide leadership and initiative in post-secondary (university) education-related activities for the networking community broadly defined. Examples of activities that could be undertaken are listed below. It is not expected that the Director leads all such efforts and he or she is encouraged to pursue additional education-related issues of interest, in coordination with the ACM SIGCOMM executive committee. The Director is appointed by the elected SIG officers and participates ex-officio in the SIGCOMM executive committee meetings, serving for the term of the elected SIG officers.

• Creating and maintaining community resources regarding networking education, e.g., a mailing list, web pages, wiki, pointers to documents of interest, or teaching pearls. (For one somewhat outdated example, see http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/sigcomm/education/).
• Leading (or getting others to lead) discussions on topics of interest to the community, perhaps including graduate core networking course curriculum, lab-based courses, and recommended undergraduate curricula/topics. These discussions might take place via mailing lists or Wikis, or at a workshop dedicated to networking education. SIGCOMM sponsored two past workshops on networking education in 2002 and 2003.
• Representing SIGCOMM on the ACM Education Committee. Meetings are twice a year, and generally focus on much broader issues than networking education (e.g., introductory course sequences, pipeline issues including post-secondary education, diversity, CS image and PR, professional education). The SIGCOMM organization will provide travel funding.
  
• Interacting with IEEE and ACM curricula recommendation committee. The ACM and IEEE jointly publish computing curricula recommendations, see, e.g., http://www.acm.org/education/curricula-recommendations. The next version will likely appear in late 2011. The Director should help represent the perspectives of the networking community to this ad hoc committee, and to other education-related ad hoc committees that form.
  

Desirable Qualifications:

• Passionate, motivated, with a desire to work hard to impact networking and (more generally) computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering post-secondary education;
• Experience in teaching a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses in networking (e.g., topics, style – theory, systems/implementation);
• An international perspective on education, reflecting SIGCOMM’s standing as an international organization;
  
• General interest in CS, CSE, EE education issues beyond networking.