College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science

Executive Council Minutes

February 9, 2006

 

Members Present:    M. Anderson, J. Clifton,  C. Cornett, M. Gill, A. Masoom, M. Muslu, S. Owuso-Ababio, L. Riedle, K. Rolle, R. Shultz, S. Wills

 

Visitors:  David Nevins, Cathy Lauinger, Kim Schmelz

 

Minutes from January 26, 2006, were approved.

 

Announcements:

 

1.                  Sheryl mentioned that the Math colloquium on Nano Technology will be held this evening.

2.                  Mohan said that the International Master’s in Computer Science was approved at APC.  It will go to Faculty Senate on 14th and Graduate Council on 16th.

 

Discussion Topics:

 

1.                  Honorary Lifetime Pioneer & Distinguished Alumni Awards – Kim Schmelz, Alumni Office

Kim spoke on behalf of the two awards and mentioned that the deadline for the Honorary Lifetime Pioneer Award is March 1st and the deadline for the Distinguished Alumni Awards is February 24th.  These awards will be presented at the May commencement.  She encouraged everyone to have their faculty recommend students for the alumnus award.

 

2.                  Annual Leadership Awards - Cathy Lauinger, SUFAC Advisor

Cathy spoke on behalf of the Leadership Awards.  She said the nomination forms are online.  There are seven different awards.  David Nevins asked that each program submit to his office pictures of their students involved in activities.  The deadline is March 3rd.  They would like to do a slide presentation at the April 28th ceremony showing recognition of the different student organizations and what they have accomplished.

 

3.                  GE 2130 Engineering Mechanics-Statics – Prerequisite Change – Abulkhair Masoom

Discussion was held and a motion was passed to approve.

 

4.                  CS 6130 – Real-Time Embedded Systems Programming – Prerequisite Change – Mohan Gill

Discussion was held and a motion was passed to approve.

 

5.                  Comments to Incoming International Students – Lisa Riedle

Lisa mentioned that faculty need to be more sensitive to incoming international students who do not have exact matches for prerequisites for our courses.  We need to work with these students.  If a student doesn’t have the skills required, then we should work with that student and assist them in finding a course that would be more beneficial.  This should be done in a positive way.  Please share this with your department faculty.

 

OTHER:

 

1.                  Lisa mentioned that the College of EMS Assessment Breakfast is next Wednesday.  There is a small list.  She will have Jean email each of the Department Chairs and Program Coordinators the list of companies attending.  Lisa also mentioned that if each Department wanted to contact companies directly and invite them to let Jean know by Monday the 13th.

2.                  Chuck asked about assessment reports for posting on the University Assessment web page.  The web page lists all plans, the reports showing results, and changes due to these results. 

 

3.                  Max asked about the deadline for DIN budgets for next year. It was set for March 1st. 

 

4.                  Rich mentioned that the 10-day teaching loads are due to him.

 

Meeting adjourned at 10:50 a.m.