2017-03-27 Meeting notes

Date

Mar 27, 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

Discussion Items

Minutes

• The meeting was called to order at 3:08pm.
• The committee discussed including CS498RK as a non-ECE technical elective.
  • The course has been offered in a previous semester. The content appears technical in nature and involves software labs and MPs. It also counts for graduate credit in CS.
  • Lumetta pointed out that more "design" courses will be coming down the pike as the campus' design initiatives come online. The committee might want to have a future discussion on what portion of "design" is deemed technical in nature.
• The committee approved CS498RK: The Art of Web Programming as a non-ECE technical elective.
• Makela provided an update on the continued collection of mid-cycle ABET course self-evaluations.
  • An addition 8 have come in since Kudeki sent out a reminder email. Most of the ECE core is now represented, with about 10 electives. Kudeki will send out personalized emails for the remaining core courses to complete the data collection.
  • The committee discussed what to do with the information collected. It was decided to look at the responses to the ABET a-n criteria throughout the required ECE core to make sure all ABET criteria are being adequately covered. In addition, the committee will look through the text responses in the evaluations to ensure that there are no problem spots. Each committee member will be assigned 2-3 evaluations to read (at random) and complete the task by mid-April. Makela will send out these assignments.
• The committee held a broad discussion on the sub-disciplines.
  • Hajek pointed out that there could be advantages to not specifically delineating between EE and CE sub disciplines.
  • The topic of where/how optics should be included in the sub disciplines was discussed. There are many different ways to approach this, depending on who the audience. Further discussion is needed on this topic.
  • Lumetta pointed out that we could involve/poll recent alumni to find out what course combinations were useful. Lee pointed out that alumni at both big and small companies should be contacted.
  • Makela presented preliminary data collected from the first two years of the campus-wide outcomes survey. Interesting points of discussion included the salary and industry vs. grad school differentials between EE and CE.
• The meeting was adjourned at 3:46pm.

Action Items