College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science

Executive Council Minutes

February 18, 2008

 

Members Present:      M. Anderson, J. Clifton, M. Gill, P. Jinkins, D. Kunz, W. Li, A. Masoom, M. Meyers, M. Muslu, L. Riedle, R. Shultz, S. Wills

 

Absent:  C. Cornett

 

Minutes from February 4, 2008 were not available so are tabled until next meeting.

 

Announcements

  1. University Woman of the Year Award applications will be due March 7, 2008.  Information will be forthcoming.
  2. Rich asked Sheryl and Chuck (not at meeting) to contact Liz Schaal for obtaining information about the group ad for hiring part-time teaching academic staff as soon as possible.
  3. Rich asked everyone to make sure that their faculty are doing the Service Learning Forms (due every semester).
  4. Dave Van Buren would like a representative from our College to attend the Academic Standards meeting concerning Project Lead the Way.  Rich asked Abulkhair to be that representative and attend the next meeting on February 27th.
  5. Lisa said that the Project Management Program is having a guest faculty from the University Technology in Sydney, Australia visit on April 24th and 25th.  If anyone in the civil, industrial, and mechanical engineering area is interested in having this person speak in a class, please contact Lisa.
  6. Rich has a request from Chuck to purchase textbooks next year.   We will need to look at what we need to purchase in other areas.  Lisa mentioned that she had set up a three-year rotation last year with General Engineering, Mathematics, and Chemistry/Engineering Physics.

 

Agenda

  1. CIF Grants– Rich Shultz

Rich passed out the five proposals to each chair and program coordinator excluding Max and Wei because they had submitted a CIF.  (Executive Council is the EMS Curriculum Committee.)  He asked everyone to rate them 1 to 5 and submit their ratings by the early part of next week to him.

  1. Curriculum Integration for International Education – Rich Shultz

Rich asked everyone to encourage their faculty to participate in this on Thursday, March 6, 2008.

 

Other

  1.  Lisa asked for approval of the UUCC document she had presented at a previous meeting.  This is a new course, EMS 4800 – EMS Special Topics, 1-8 credits.  Mesut made a motion to approve this course and Abulkhair seconded the motion.  The motion was approved.
  2. Lisa presented the “Policy and Procedures for Extraordinary Withdrawals” information.  This Committee consists of the Associate Vice Chancellor, Chair of the Admission and Academic Appeals Committee (or Vice Chair, in the absence of the Chair), the Dean of Students, and the three Deans (or Assistant/Associate Dean).  Discussion followed and Rich is going to check into this Committee and bring the information to the next meeting.

 

The meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m.