2016-02-02 Meeting Notes

Date

Feb 2, 2016

Attendees

AY 2015-2016 Members: Jont Allen, Can Bayram, Mohamed Ali Belabbas, John Dallesasse, Arne Fliflet, Patricia Franke, Pavan Kumar Hanumolu, Kiruba Haran, Yih-Chun Hu, Nam Sung Kim, Erhan Kudeki (Ex-Officio), Rakesh Kumar, Stephen Levinson, Yi Lu, Jonathan Makela (Chair), Serge Minin, Chandrasekhar Radhakrishnan, Maxim Raginsky, William Sanders (Ex-Officio), Christopher Schmitz, Jose Schutt-Aine, Paris Smaragdis, Lav Varshney, Shobha Vasudevan, Venugopal Veeravalli, Lara Waldrop, Hao Zhu

Discussion Items

Minutes

• The meeting was called to order at 2:04pm.
• Minutes from January 26, 2016 were approved.
• Kudeki brought up handling CS498 courses as tech electives.  He looked through offering with Schmitz and will accept two on the list, but in general these courses would not be approved until they are "regular courses."
• The committee discussed ECE 498YL.
  • The provided material was identical to the current offering of ECE498RS, which was approved last semester.
  • Lu had indicated to Makela that she believed the enrollment in ECE498RS was strong this semester.
  • The committee expressed concern about offering the same 498 course in back-to-back semester, as it does not allow time to develop the course and respond to any issues that occur in the original offering.
    • Schmitz asked if the summer was enough time to reflect and address any issues.
    • Kudeki asked if there was a specific reason why the course needed to be offered in the fall, rather than waiting a semester.  Makela will ask this question of Lu.
• The committee deferred approving the course until Makela hears from Lu.
• The committee discussed the charge the committee received from Sanders regarding examining how are curriculum is deliver.
  • There was broad discussion about what the committee was actually charged with doing and how progress should be made.
  • Kudeki brought us a concern that the committee had not received information from people who research in this area.  Makela reminded the committee of the discussion and report Varshney and Makela had with Khalick from the College of Education.
  • Kiruba asked why flipped lectures, for example, had not been implemented in 110.  Schmitz responded that there are enough doubts about the efficacy of flipping and flipping a class requires a significant investment of resources.
  • The survey that Minin has put together was discussed.  The response rate has been low, so the committee agreed to fill out the survey by the next meeting. Kudeki would also remind the 1xx and 2xx instructors to fill out the survey.
  • Bayram volunteered to get in touch with Laura Hahn of AE3 and invite her to a future meeting.
• The meeting was adjourned at 2:51pm.

Action Items