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Present: Jont Allen, Michael  Bailey, Can Bayram, Weng Cho Chew,  Peter Dragic, John Dallesasse, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Gary Eden, Bruce Hajek, Kiruba Haran, Olgica Milenkovic, Michael Oelze, Chris Schmitz, Lav Varshney, Venu Veeravalli (chair), Lara Waldrop, Hao Zhu, Wejnuan Zhu.

1. The meeting was called to order at 3 pm.
2. The minutes of the October 13, 2014 meeting were approved.Jeff Erickson and Nitin
3. Vaidya attended the meeting to discuss CS 374. Erickson described the content of the course in detail and explained the relationship to CS 373 and CS 473.  There were some questions from the committee regarding whether Computer Engineering students need such an extensive coverage of topics such as Turing machines, NP completeness, and undecidability. Erickson explained that there was some flexibility in the topics, and that in the initial semesters after cross-listing with ECE, one CS and one ECE instructor would co-teach the course to ensure that the topics covered were relevant to both CS and ECE studentsThere was some more discussion on the cross listing of CS 374 in ECE, particularly regarding the extra hour that would get added to the CompE curriculum. Kudeki asked if we should consider having our own algorithms course. At the end of the discussion, the committee voted to approve the cross-listing  of CS 374 in ECE.
4. The course proposal from Pramod Viswanath for ECE398BD (Making Sense of Big Data) to be taught in Spring 2015 was approved.
5. The course proposal from Pramod Viswanath for ECE398PL ( Probability in Engineering Lab) to be taught in Spring 2015 was discussed by the committee. Hajek mentioned that, from his experience teaching this course this Fall, many students appear to be deficient in Python, the programming language used for the lab. There was a general discussion on ways to improve programming proficiency for this and other courses such as 210. At the end of the discussion, the committee voted to approve the course for Spring 2015.
6. The meeting was adjourned at 3:50 PM.

These minutes drafted by V. Veeravalli, Oct 1320, 2014.