COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS, AND SCIENCE

MINUTES - EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING

Friday, November 21, 1997 - 12:00 noon - Ottensman 149

Members Present: M. Anderson, T. Ceyl an, J. Clough, J. Krogman, M. Muslu, L. Riedle, R. Shultz, F. Tufte, J. Wilson and P. Young

Minutes of November 14 were approved as distributed.

Announcements

J. Wilson indicated that there would be a Distance Education meeting, and a question would be raised about the courses each college would be offering. This issue will be discussed at a later date.

Discussion Topics

Four case studies are needed by each college that people can adopt when called by the Alumni Office for the Capital Campaign. These case studies can be concepts or ideas of a half page in length. The Dean would like to receive these by December 4.
Departments should be checking enrollment figures for the Spring of 1998 to make sure that the closed classes that have not exceeded the room size should remain closed.
B. Karrmann has indicated that she would again like to see faculty making phone calls to prospective students. The Admissions Office felt that this helped last year. Notification of student information needs to be kept to a close time line since their status changes continuously. It was determined that February 2 would be the best time to start.
Summer session budgets were discussed. Courses from each department will go into the schedule to see what develops. The Dean proposed a plan for the administrative portion of the summer budget whic h would not increase the portion of the DIN funds used.
ABET preparations were reviewed by the Council. J. Wilson indicated that the co-op evaluation by supervisors would be a useful tool. She was asked to purchase a publication on how to use the FE results in assessment. It was felt that the two new program would benefit greatly by being presented with four mature programs rather than as individual submissions.

Electrical Engineering - Distributed educationa l goals and objectives; lab committee working on three-year plan.

Mechanical Engineering - Accreditation committee preparing an assessment plan along with a curriculum and design plan. Lab development committee will prepare a three-year plan. Mission statement will be revised with five broad goals. Working on development of criteria for each program objective.

General Engineering - Revising goals with an intense review of course curriculum tailored to professional depa rtments. Working on a three-year lab plan.

Industrial Engineering - Developing mission statement and goals, revisiting lab plans, and assigning the development of an assessment plan to a senior design group.

Budgets for the 1998-99 fiscal year have been disseminated to the Deans. The allocations are slightly less than the current year's budget. The Dean will be allocating travel/supply/student help budgets to individual departments. Departments will be responsi ble for submitting capital equipment requests only.