Subject: Alejandro Martinez - 3625175 - Linear Algrebra (fwd)
From: Shu-Ching Chen <chens@cs.fiu.edu>
Date: 11/20/2019, 9:42 AM
To: Nagarajan Prabakar <prabakar@cs.fiu.edu>
CC: Sitharama Iyengar <iyengar@cs.fiu.edu>

Prabu,
    This is a very good suggestion to include linear algebra as one of the
electives for our undergradaute degrees, especially for BSCS and BACS. For
example, we can add MAS 3105 linear algebra to be one of the elective
courses for our BSCS Foundations group.
    Please discuss with undergradaute committee to consider to add it as
one of the electives.


Thanks,
---Shu-Ching



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:47:11 -0500
From: Alejandro Martinez <amart334@fiu.edu>
To: "chens@cs.fiu.edu" <chens@cs.fiu.edu>
Subject: Alejandro Martinez - 3625175 - Linear Algrebra

Dr Chen,

I hope this email find you well. 

My name is Alejandro Martinez and I am an alumni from FIU. I graduated as a Civil Engineer and
now I decided to come back to get another degree in Computer Science. I am surprised to see you
also hold degrees in those fields. I first wanted to thank you for making the curriculum way
more flexible and appealing for us as students! Honestly, thank you. The whole degree just
became way more enjoyable.

Now there is a suggestion that I wanted to make. There is a class called linear algebra MAS 3105
that is very useful in machine learning, the focus of my career. This is a very important
subject in AI as we deal with so many different variables. The reason of my email is because I
believe this subject should also count as an elective as it is literally one of the foundation
subjects to be great at machine learning applications, one of the most important industries of
computer science today. 

I know you are very busy but I would love to know your feedback on this. And probably, with sum
luck, make it part of the curriculum. 

I look forward to hear from you!

All the best,

Alejandro