Members Present: J. Clifton, J. Krogman, M. Muslu, S. Owusu-Ababio, L. Riedle, K. Rolle, R. Shultz, R. Tufte, and P. Young

Visitor Present: T. Salmon

• Minutes of December 1, 1999, were approved as distributed.



• Announcements
• R. Shultz has finalized the trip to Frankfurt, Germany and Shannon, Ireland for the cooperative design projects. D. Ellestad, K. Buttry, and R. Shultz will be traveling from February 5-12, 2000. D. Wang and L. Lee are working on a cooperative project with Taiwan.
• R. Shultz said he would be going to Neenah on Thursday to discuss the Fox Valley Innovative with UW-Platteville, and to receive the needs assessment report. He will know then if we will be moving forward to seek funds to do this.
• Executive Council members were asked to get their spring 2000 schedules in to the Dean's Office as soon as possible.
• L. Riedle asked that when setting up the fall 2000 schedule for the senior design classes to have a common time of 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. This allow for speakers, etc.



• Discussion Topics
• R. Shultz reminded the faculty that Fall 2000 schedules are due to the Dean's Office today.
• L. Riedle resubmitted the ME 6800 - Introduction to Finite Element Method course proposal for final approval from the faculty. A motion was made to approve ME 6800 - Introduction to Finite Element Method as a web-base 6000 course and was seconded. Discussion followed. The motion passed.
• R. Shultz mentioned that he will let the Departments know when the summer school class schedules are due to the Dean's Office. (Due to Registrar's Office by January 12, 2000.)



• Other Business

There was none and no meeting until the next year, 2000.