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- The meeting was called to order at 2:05pm.
- Minutes from October 14, 2015 were approved.
- The revised syllabus provided to the curriculum committee for ECE 481: Nanotechnology, which was discussed and approved over email in a prior week, was brought to the attention of the committee as a point of information. No concerns were raised.
- Makela initiated a discussion of ECE 398BD: Making Sense of Big Data.
- The course is currently under consideration at the College level for addition to the permanent course roster.
- The proposed syllabus has reduced the number of topics (and faculty members involved) to three from five. Makela stated that the understanding was that all students would take all three parts and receive three credit hours. That is, the idea to give students the ability to only take a subset of the sections was not under consideration in the current proposal.
- The course proposal was approved.
- Goddard joined the meeting to discuss the status of ECE 446: Principles of Experimental Research.
- This course was proposed and approved for consideration as a permanent course by the ECE Curriculum Committee and the ECE Graduate Committee in 2013. However, concerns were raised at the college level, and the College did not approve the course. Instead, the College requested one of three actions:
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