The TCC includes staff and faculty from Engineering, Science, Agriculture, ECN, PUCC and the Calumet campus. The committee has technical responsibility for the PACE project. Its members are appointed by the Deans of Engineering, Science and Agriculture and the executive vice presidents. The new Purdue Academic Computing Environment is being realized through collaborative design, implementation and testing of each of its several component parts or tasks. Subject-area discussions become active and inactive as needed by Alpha teams.
Discussions are concurrent and as numerous as the number of defined tasks and subject areas.
On-line discussions are the collaboration forum of choice for PACE development. They will explore implementation ideas, build consensus and construct evaluation results. In general, a discussion forum, similar to a netnews group, is associated with each project task. In addition, forums will be established for subject areas which have general relevance to several project tasks. The PACE project will progress in incremental steps through implementing elemental tasks.