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Date, Time, and Location

Tuesday, January 22, 2018, 15:00-16:00, ECEB 5070

Old Business

Program Educational Objectives (PEOs): Committee needs to discuss and approve, if possible, our existing PEOs.  The current PEOs are as follows:

The University of Illinois Computer Engineering program will produce graduates having the choice, talents, and knowledge to:

  1. Pursue a diverse range of careers as engineers, consultants, and entrepreneurs.
  2. Continue their education in leading graduate programs in engineering and interdisciplinary areas to emerge as researchers, experts, and educators.
  3. Re-learn and innovate in ever-changing global economic and technological environments of the 21st century.
  4. Practice and inspire high ethical and technical standards and communicate to colleagues and the public at large their work and accomplishments.
  5. Lead their professional disciplines, organizations, and communities around the world.

Result: The committee discussed the PEOs, and updated them to read as follows

The University of Illinois Computer Engineering program will produce graduates having the choice, talents, and knowledge to:

a. Pursue a diverse range of careers as engineers, consultants, and entrepreneurs.

b. Continue their education in leading graduate programs in engineering and interdisciplinary areas to emerge as researchers, experts, and educators.

c. Learn and create new knowledge in ever-changing environments of the 21st century, and communicate their work and ideas to colleagues and the public at large.

d. Practice and inspire high ethical and technical standards, and lead their professional disciplines, organizations, and communities globally.

Moved and approved by the committee: The 2013 PEOs, and the list of four PEOs revised by the Curriculum Committee on 1/22/2019, will be sent to the Alumni Board for comment and reactions.

New Business

Relationship of PEOs to Student Outcomes (SOs): Committee needs to discuss.

SOs are the following seven, which are dictated by ABET (though the summary word for each SO is our invention):

  1. Principles: an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
  2. Design: an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
  3. Communication:an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
  4. Professionalism:an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
  5. Teamwork: an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plans tasks, and meet objectives
  6. Analysis: an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
  7. Learning: an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies


Result of discussion: The SOs are an enumerated list of the "talents and knowledge" that will enable our students to "pursue a diverse range of careers," "continue their education," "learn and create knowledge," and "lead their professional disciplines, organizations, and communities globally."  The SOs are thus a finer-grained description of the outcomes for individual students that support our program educational objectives.

Open Discussion

  1. One of the things that CC is charged to do this semester is to decide (1) should ECE 110 be modularized, (2) if so, how will this be accomplished, what will be the modules, etc.

One possible strategy: the course has three modules.  Two modules are required (same for all students), one is open to student choice (many options).

2. Should we/ can we relax the Chemistry requirement.

One possibility: make it optional that students take a Materials Science course instead of Chemistry?

Q: how many students currently AP out of chemistry?  Should those students be required to take something else?




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