ECE Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes for Oct 6, 2014
Members AY 2014-15: Jont Allen, Michael Bailey, Can Bayram, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, Deming Chen, Weng Cho Chew, Peter Dragic, John Dallesasse, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Gary Eden, Bruce Hajek , Kiruba Haran, Pavan Kumar Hanumolu, Erhan Kudeki (Ex-Officio), Rakesh Kumar, Stephen Levinson, Yi Lu, Steven Lumetta, Olgica Milenkovic, Sayan Mitra, Michael Oelze, Maxim Raginsky, William Sanders (Ex-Officio), Chris Schmitz, Paris Smaragdis, Lav Varshney, Venu Veeravalli (chair), Lara Waldrop, Hao Zhu, Wenjuan Zhu
Present: Jont Allen, Michael Bailey, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, Weng Cho Chew, Peter Dragic, John Dallesasse, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Kiruba Haran, Pavan Hanumolu, Erhan Kudeki, Sayan Mitra, Michael Oelze, Chris Schmitz, Venu Veeravalli (chair), Lara Waldrop, Hao Zhu, Wejnuan Zhu.
- The meeting was called to order at 3 pm.
- The minutes of the Sep 29, 2014 meeting was approved.
- Romit Roy Choudhury's ECE 498 course on Smartphone Computing and Applications was discussed. The committee voted unanimously to approve the course with a suggestion that the title could be modified to reflect the fact the course considers topics that go beyond just smart phone applications.
- The cross-listing of CS 374 with ECE was discussed. The committee felt positively about cross-listing, but would like more input from Nitin Vaidya and/or Jeff Erickson. The CC chair will invite Vaidya and Erickson to discuss the course with the CC at a future meeting.
- The 300-level Big Data permanent course proposal, submitted by Pramod Viswanath and discussed at length at the September 29 CC meeting, was discussed further and the CC voted unanimously to approve the course.
- Weng Chew reported back from the College committee on computing requirements. There was some discussion about whether ECE 220 should be tailored to meet the variety of computing needs of the department.
- The meeting was adjourned at 3:50 PM.
These minutes drafted by V. Veeravalli, Oct 6, 2014.