COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS, AND SCIENCE
MINUTES - EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING
Wednesday, April 21, 1999 - 3 p.m. - Ottensman 149
Members Present: M. Anderson, T. Ceylan, J. Clough, J. Krogman, J. Miller, M.
Muslu S. Owusu-Ababio, L. Riedle, R. Shultz, F. Tufte and P.Young
Visitor Present: T. Salmon
1. The minutes of April 15, 1999 were approved as corrected.
2. Announcements:
a. Any changes in the department submissions for the new catalog
must be done by April 22. They should be sent to Lisa.
b. Rick Tufte was elected to the Board of Governors o f the
Mathematical Association of America.
c. Keep an eye on under-enrolled courses (under-enrolled courses
in a department may mean that the number of courses offered and faculty
assigned need to be evaluated).
d. If students are going to sign up for summer school classes,
they should do it soon. A final decision as to summer school offerings should
be made by April 30.
3. Discussion Topics:
a. A membership list of the various EMS standing committees was
attached to the April 14 minutes. Owusu-Ababio commented that one of the
duties of the Awards Committee was to establish criteria which would serve as
the basis for awards given to college alumni for outstanding accomplishments.
As far as is known, this has not yet been done.
b. Barb Daus would like all chairs and program directors to
contact the Alumni Office whenever a Department or Program has an alumnus on
campus. The Alumni Office has various complementary gifts (pencils, note pads,
key-chains, etc.) with University insignia that they would like to give the
visitor. It was suggested that this was not always possible. Sometimes alumni
drop in with no warning, and stay a very short time. Chairs and Program
Directors might contact the Alumni Office and obtain a small supply o f these
gifts to be kept in the Department Office that could be used in these
circumstances.
c. Carol Sue Butts would like to visit Departments during one of
their Department Meetings. Chairs should extend an invitation.
d. Final reports for the last round of SAIF grants are due in the
Office of Sponsored Programs by August 31. It was noted that a requirement
for future SAIF grants and sabbaticals may be the p resentation of a colloquium
or some type of oral report on the activities that were undertaken or the work
that was accomplished. It was suggested that if the University does not
require such an activity maybe the college might wish to consider such a
requirement.
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Minutes - April 21, 1999
e. Initiatives for Academic Year 1999-2000.
1) ABET preparation.
2) Masters of Engineering (Regent approval).
3) Implementation of the Software Engineering Program.
4) Possible restructuring of the College Advisory
Board.
5) Increase participation by under-represented groups,
including the recruitment of minority students, faculty and
staff.
6) Space Utilization and Planning (Classrooms and
Labs).
7) Increase the level of professional development and
grant application activities.
f. The Dean will be calling a College Meeting before the end of
the semester. Main items on the agenda will include:
1) Textbook Rental
2) Possible changes in RST procedures
2. Other Business:
a. John Krogman mentioned that the General Engineering Department
was establishing a list of objectives for each of their courses, along with
methods that would be used to accomplish each of the objectives. These will be
made available for each course as they are completed.
b. Non-resident students taking summer-fall or spring-summer
co-ops must currently pay out-of-state tuition for the summer session. There
has been some complaint about this. Is the procedure fair?
Submitted by F. Tufte