2017-03-06 Meeting Notes

Date

March 06, 2017

Attendees

AY 2016-2017 Members: Michael Bailey, Can Bayram, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, Subhonmesh Bose, Weng Chew, John Dallesasse, Peter Dragic, James Eden, Liang Gao, Bruce Hajek, Pavan Kumar Hanumolu, Kiruba Haran, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Yih-Chun Hu, Seth Hutchinson, Raluca Ilie, Ravishankar Iyer, Erhan Kudeki (Ex-Officio), Minjoo Lee, Stephen Levinson, Steven Lumetta, Jonathan Makela (Chair), Sanjay Patel, Maxim Raginsky, William Sanders (Ex-Officio), Christopher Schmitz, Jose Schutt-Aine, David Varodayan, Lara Waldrop, Jin Zhao, Zhizhen Zhao, Hao Zhu, Wenjuan Zhu

Guest: Andrew Miller

Discussion Items

Minutes

• The meeting was called to order at 3:05pm.
• The minutes were approved with the stipulation that they would be modified to strengthen the committee's decision that the title ("Audio Engineering") was not appropriate given the content of the course.
• It was decided that the content of the proposed revisions to ECE 403 were significant enough that they should be examined and approved by the relevant area committees (Signal Processing and BIBA).
• Miller discussed the proposed ECE 498: Applied Cryptography course.
  • A prior course on applied cryptography had been offered 5+ years ago, but was actually quite theoretical in nature. The proposed course is applied and has significant MPs for students to work and apply what is being taught.
  • ECE 422 briefly covers cryptography, but focuses on current (broken) technologies. The proposed course would cover how to develop new (working) cryptography.
  • Students would have a project plus midterm exam (which would focus on proofs).
  • It is appropriate for seniors and graduate students.
  • The committee pointed out that a catalog description needs to be supplied. The number of contact hours was also too little for 4 credits. Miller will revise the credit to be 3 credits plus 1 credit for a substantial final project. The project will be removed from the 3 credit version and replaced by a final exam. The "or consent of instructor" prerequisite is implied and can be removed.
• Miller will make the required changes and submit a revised proposal which the committee will take action on. He will also submit to the grad committee for their approval, given the request for graduate credit.
• Hajek pointed the committee to gradescope.com
  • Facilitates grading and rubric development. Hajek has heard positive reviews from colleagues and was wondering if anyone in ECE was using this.
  • Is it FERPA compliant?
• Lumetta discussed his analysis of the DMI data that was provided on student course selection [ppt] and probabilities [xls]. The later may be useful for advising students who have liked a certain course and want to know what other courses students who like that course take.
• Kudeki reminded the committee that we need to complete a mid-cycle ABET review. A reminded email for faculty self-evaluation has been circulated with a due  date of March 1, but there has been little information provided by faculty.
• The meeting was adjourned at 3:54pm.

Action Items