March 4, 2014, Minutes of the Curriculum Committee Meeting

ECE Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes for March 4, 2014

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), Chris Schmitz, Paris Smaragdis, Venu Veeravalli, Daniel Wasserman, Hao Zhu

Attendees: Basar, Chen, Dallesasse, Dominguez-Garcia, Hajek, Kumar, Levinson, Makela, Oelze, Raginsky, Sanders, Schmitz, Veeravalli, Zhu

1. The minutes of February 18 were approved.

2. Information/discussion item.  Bill reported that the College of Engineering has approved the Department's proposed revision of the Computer Engineering Curriculum.  The proposal has moved to the Campus level.

3. Steve Franke presented an overview and update on the proposed Master of Engingeering (ME) program and BS/ME program.   The proposal is now at the College level, and must proceed through the Graduate College and Educational Policy committees, among other things.  The estimated start date for the program is Fall 2015.  The curriculum committee may be asked to discuss the phase-in timeline when the start date has firmed up.   In response to a question posed by Steve, there was a consensus on the curriculum committee that it would be better to give students in the BS/ME program the option to keep their same academic advisor throughout the BS/ME program, rather than automatically switching advisors during the ME phase.

4. Information item:  There is interest among the instructors of the big data course this semester, ECE 398BD, to offer a similar but more focused version of the course in the Fall 2014.   

5. The meeting was adjourned at 3:50 p.m.

These minutes drafted by B. Hajek, March 4, 2014.