ECE Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes for October 22, 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: Dallesasse, Dominguez-Garcia, Hajek, Hanumolu, Krein, Kudeki, Levinson, Lumetta, Makela, Minin, Oelze, Schmitz, Veeravalli
1. The minutes of the meeting of October 15 were approved.
2. Erhan raised the question of how the new CE curriculum would impact continuing students. (Our plan, subject to College/campus approval, is that freshman entering Fall 2014 will follow the new curriculum.) It was decided that students who have 96 hours or more by the end of the Spring 2014 semester will need to complete the old CE curriculum, while continuing students with fewer hours will have the option to complete either the old or new CE curriculum. In particular, those continuing students would need to either take ECE 329 and ECE 340, or satisfy (i) the one of six foundations requirement, (ii) the algorithms requirement, and (iii) the three or more courses from the "Advanced Computing Core" list requirement. In addition, the continuing students would need to satisfy the design requirement of the new curriculum, and the availability for them to do so using ECE 445 will likely be very limited, pending preparations in ECE 445 for the expected jump in CE enrollment.
3. The committee carried on a preliminary discussion of classroom assignments in the new building (ECEB), and was joined in that discussion by Building Committee Chair Phil Krein. Some key points that came out are (1) ECEB has nearly twice the area of classroom space and twice the area of laboratory space as EL, (2) the ECE Department (and presumably the College of Engineering), but not the campus, will have control over classroom assignments in ECEB. This control was granted by campus in exchange for the College funding the building construction. (3) The Curriculum Committee (rather than a subcommittee of the New Building Committee) is the committee charged with oversight of the placement of laboratories and scheduling of classes in the new building, with the suggested assignments being organized primarily by Erhan, Laurie Fisher, and Dan Mast.
4. The meeting was adjourned at 1:50 p.m.
These minutes drafted by B. Hajek, October 22, 2013.