College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science

Executive Council Minutes

April 6, 2006

 

Members Present:    M. Anderson, J. Clifton,  C. Cornett, M. Gill, P. Jinkins, A. Masoom, M. Muslu, S. Owusu-Ababio, K. Rolle, R. Shultz, D. St.John, S. Wills

 

Absent:  L. Riedle

 

Visitor:  T. Salmon-Stephens

 

Minutes from March 2, 2006 and March 23, 2006 were approved.

 

Announcements:

 

  1. Doyle said that Wei Li received a NSF Grant for $108,000 for a two-year period.
  2. Abulkhair shared with members that Pioneer Preview went well last Friday.  There were approximately 111 students for the College of EMS.
  3. Max said that CEE has a number of closed classes with waiting lists.  He would like to offer more sections.  Rich said that Max could discuss this with him later.
  4. Tammy mentioned that the Career EXPO was held yesterday.
  5. Tammy shared with everyone that the first annual Durrant Women in Engineering Banquet will be held on April 20th.  She would like to encourage one representative from each program to attend.  Please R.S.V.P. by the first part of next week.
  6. Electrical Engineering has extended two job offers.
  7. Chuck announced that there will be an EMS Alumni Chapter Meeting on Saturday, April 8th in 45 Ottensman, the Mentoring Center.  Tammy is the new elected president.

 

Agenda:

 

  1. Recap from EXPO – Tammy Salmon-Stephens

Tammy said that there were quite a few middle and high school age students participating.  The group is still looking at numbers for attendance.  The Committee would also like to focus on different marketing avenues for getting more students on-campus.  Awards will be announced on Friday, April 7th, 12:00 noon, 140 Ottensman Hall.

 

  1. EMS Support Specialist Work Request – Lisa Riedle

Lisa was absent and will send an email out regarding this item.

 

  1. On-Line Undergraduate Checklists – Lisa Riedle

Rich said that Helen Reynolds, who has been maintaining the on-line undergraduate checklists in a special area, has decided to discontinue this because the lists have not been updated.  Each Department will be responsible for maintaining these checklists on their webpage.

 

  1. Senior Design Funding – Rich Shultz

Rich said that the Senior Design DIN account is given $7,000 each year for projects.  This account is typically used to cover travel, copies, and small purchases.  The account is very low in monies at this time.  Discussion was made on how to handle the account, i.e. give additional monies from each Department DIN account, put this money back into each Department DIN, or have each Senior Design faculty member monitor the situation on their end.  After some discussion it was decided that each Senior Design faculty member was to monitor everything at their end.  They should not be allowing several students to travel to the same site and teams should talk to sponsors for monies for projects.   One suggestion is that each student team prepare a budget at the beginning of each semester and these budgets are to be submitted to the Dean’s Office.  The teams would include travel, copies, and items needed to be purchased along with their cost.  Also, final copies of projects are limited to one copy to the Department and copies to the clients.  The students do not receive printed copies, but can requests CD’s and burn their own copies.

 

Other:

 

  1. Joe said that the mail delivery to Ullrich is extremely slow.  Rich suggested that if Joe or anyone else wanted to report this problem, they should email Nancy Bockhop in the Duplicating/Mailroom.

 

  1. Abulkhair said that on April 27th there will be five groups of general engineering students going to the General Electric Medical Facilities in Milwaukee to give final presentations in the General Electric Competition.  The bus will leave at 7:00 a.m. and return around 7:00 p.m.

 

The meeting adjourned at 10:35 a.m.