COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS, AND SCIENCE

MINUTES - EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING

Tuesday, February 3, 1998 - 3:00 p.m. - Ottensman 149

Members Present: M. Anderson, T. Ceylan, J. Krogman, J. Miller, M. Muslu, A. Richert (proxy for F. Tufte) L. Riedle, R. Shultz, F. Tufte, J. Wilson and P. Young

Minutes of January 27 were approved as distributed.

Announcements

T. Ceylan reported that D. Kunz would be coordinating the laser training tentatively scheduled to begin the fir st week in March. The first training session is open to all interested faculty and staff. Six people have been selected to complete the training, three members each from the Colleges of BILSA and EMS. These six members will be responsible for training additional staff upon completion of the sessions. The members from EMS are F. Domann, C. Holverson and D. Kunz.
J. Krogman announced that the 90^th anniversary of the Wisconsin Mining School will be celebrate d this year. John and Lisa Riedle have been selected by the Chancellor to sit on a committee to coordinate events.
The Dean informed members that the Assessment Activity Fund would be an opportunity to look at assessment processes for ABET through money available during the summer for assessment activities.
The Dean requested a copy of each department's current teaching loads.
The Dean will be meetin g with Jim Valaskey tomorrow morning regarding remodeling projects.

Discussion Topics

J. Wilson distributed a copy of the Academic Advising Survey which will be used as a pilot in April. J. Wilson along with D. Drury, D. Ellestad, T. Salmon and P. Young have volunteered to be part of the survey along with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Any comments or concerns about the su rvey should be directed to J. Wilson. The academic major will probably be removed from the demographic information section, but there's a possibility that Colleges would be identified through color coding, with a fourth color used for Civil. Information from the survey will be used to improve the advising process. M. Anderson suggested that the parenthetical portion of Item 4 be removed. Joanne also distributed copies of pages from the Advising Handbook for revision, including course rotation through 20 02.
The Dean reviewed the situation concerning a new copier. A new copy machine can be leased for three years with a $l.00 buyout at $378/month. This cost could be covered by the $0.35/copy charges and eliminate the need for using capital funds.
The Admissions Office will be identifying application phone calls to be made by faculty around the 20^th of February.
The Council approved the rev ised policy on screen savers/wallpaper/words to be read in all classes.
The DIN and capital priorities were distributed. The Council approved both lists along with the holding back of $25,665 of DIN funds for the potential use of wiring labs next year, and will revisit the base document in March.
Questions used for student evaluations were disseminated. It was felt that the process needs to be reviewed, and the Dean will query the Council f or committee membership.