ECE Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes for October 18, 2013
Members AY 2013-14: Tangul Basar, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, Deming Chen, John Dallesasse, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Bruce Hajek (Chair), Pavan Kumar Hanumolu, Erhan Kudeki (Ex-Officio), Rakesh Kumar, Stephen Levinson, Daniel Liberzon, Yi Lu, Steven Lumetta, Jonathan Makela, Sayan Mitra, Michael Oelze, Maxim Raginsky, Elyse Rosenbaum, William Sanders (Ex-Officio), Paris Smaragdis, Venu Veeravalli, Daniel Wasserman
Attendees: Ali Belabbas Basar, DellasasseChen, Dominguez-Garcia, Hajek, Hanumolu, Kudeki, Lumetta, Liberzon Makela, LumettaMitra, OelzeOelze, Raginsky, Sanders, Schmitz, Veeravalli Veeravalli, Wasserman
1. The minutes of the meeting of September 24 October 1 were approved.
2. The committee examined this draft of the official paperwork to be forwarded to the College/campus to get approval for revision in the CE curriculum approved in Spring 2013. The CC voted to include ECE 340 on the one of n list, and approved the paperwork with the understanding that further minor edits are needed. Also, see item 3.
3. The committee continued examination of the proposed new courses ECE 120 and ECE 220. These courses will replace the current courses ECE 190 and ECE 290. The committee voted to approve the proposals for ECE 120 and ECE 220 and, moreover, to attach them to the proposed revision for the Computer Engineering curriculum already approved (see item 2 above). Since ECE 120 and ECE 220 have one more total hour than the courses they are replacing, these two courses result in a one hour increase in required hours for the EE curriculum. The committee voted to compensate for the one hour increase in required course credit by a one hour reduction in the technical elective credit in order to maintain the total number of hours for graduation in the EE curriculum at 128 hours.
With the above approvals, all the courses for both curricula as we envision them a year or two from now will be in place, though further adjustments in numbers of hours are anticipated. In particular, we will be considering (1) a new version of ECE 110 with hours decreasing from 4 to 3 through reduction in material covered in ECE 120/220, (2) a new version of ECE 385 with proposed hours increasing from 2 to 3--a prototype for that course is 298DemingChen, and (3) for the CE curriculum, the exact numbers of hours in CS 225 plus CS/ECE 374 remains to be determined. Of course, in addition, the CC can consider numbers of hours for any required courses at any time and push for revisions down the roadBill Sanders reported very positive informal feedback from the ABET review team, and he and the committee applauded the efforts of Erhan Kudeki in leading the report team.
3. This proposal for ECE 298DC for Spring 2014 was approved with the minor revision of changing the prerequisite to "Either ECE 290 or ECE 198KL"
4. The committee voted to recommend to the ECE faculty that the EE curriculum be revised to replace required courses ECE 110 (4 hour version), ECE 190 (3 hours), ECE 290 (4hours), ECE 385 (2 hours) with
ECE 110 (new 3 hour version), ECE 120 (4 hours), ECE 220 (4 hours), ECE 385 (new 3 hour version). The
increase of one hour would come from reducing the total number of technical electives hours by one.
5. The committee discussed charges to the committee. Committee members John Dallesasse and Daniel Wasserman, along with Joe Lyding, were asked to report back at some point about the charge to "Consider creating new course on electronic and photonic device fundamentals."
6. Preliminary discussion ensued about classroom assignments in the new building (in committee charge) and laboratory space assignments (this may be more the responsibility of the new building committee). We will begin by getting a list of classroom capacities in the new building (which may still be slightly in flux until furniture is ordered).
4. The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
These minutes drafted by B. Hajek, October 18, 2013.