Minutes for Sep 29, 2014

ECE Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes for Sep 29, 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, Can Bayram, Deming Chen,  Peter Dragic, John Dallesasse, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Bruce Hajek,  Pavan Hanumolu, Erhan Kudeki, Steven Lumetta,  Olgica Milenkovic, Sayan Mitra, Michael Oelze, Chris Schmitz, Venu Veeravalli (chair), Lara Waldrop, Hao Zhu, Wejnuan Zhu.

1. The meeting was called to order at 3 pm.
2. The minutes of the Sep 22, 2014 meeting were approved.
3. The Curricula Flow Map on the ECE website was discussed further. Most areas require minimal updating. Sayan Mitra reported that the Computer Engineering areas will be updated after some further discussions within the CE area committee. 
4. Pramod Viswanath presented the proposal for the permanent Big Data course to the committee and received some feedback regarding course logistics and course content. Overall the committee felt very positively about the course.
5. The meeting was adjourned at 3:50 PM.

These minutes drafted by V. Veeravalli, Sep 29, 2014.