CE Faculty Department Meeting Minutes
November 4, 2002
11:00-12:30, Room BE330

Attending: C. Bazeghi, P. Chan, G. Cox, L. de Alfaro, J. Ferguson, R. 
Hughey, G. Langdon, T. Larrabee, K. Karplus, T. Madhyastha, R. Manduchi, P. 
Mantey, K. Obraczka, M. Schlag, A. Varma

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Discussion Items:
1.      CE80E.  Guy Cox created, & will be teaching, CMPE80E spring 
quarter.  This course was developed as a result of the undergrad ABET CEFUL 
last year.  Guy distributed the supplemental sheet & there was discussion 
re: the course.  ABET does not require that CE offer this course but it 
would help our curriculum & could draw students into CE.  It is likely that 
it will be of interest to under represented students.  Enrollment would be 
about 30-40 students.  Case studies will be used & students will write 
papers.  Possibly in the future it could be a W course.  It was decided 
that the title should be Engineering Ethics in order to attract a wide 
audience and that it be a required course as part of a group (action item: 
undergrad committee will create a list of those courses).  Faculty are 
encouraged to contact Guy re: any issues to include in the course.
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4.      ABET.  CE is falling behind, & EE is far behind in the ABET 
process.  Three CE faculty owe Tracy assessments.  Action Item: faculty 
should submit them to Tracy today.  If Tracy receives assessments from two 
different people, she has to get them to reach consensus.  Faculty should 
consider how courses relate to each other, whether outcomes are being met, 
feedback & checking feedback loops, suggesting others if applicable.

Outcome A       Martine
Outcome B       JJ
Outcome C       Pak.  Changed to Joel after meeting.
Outcome D       Anujan & Tara, Kevin, Cyrus, Richard, Steve
Outcome E       Alexandre
Outcome F       Richard
Outcome G       Joel.  Changed to Tara after meeting.
Outcome H       Roberto
Outcome I       Kevin
Outcome J       Tracy.  Changed to Roberto after meeting.
Outcome K       Pat Mantey
Outcome L       Katia
Outcome M       Luca
Outcome N       Hai

Design: Richard, Anujan, Martine, Pak, Cyrus

Professional Component A:       Kevin
Professional Component B:       Cyrus
Professional Component C:       Tracy.  Changed to Roberto after meeting.

Consider whether grad survey helps us with feedback mechanism.  CE should 
want to present our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and how we are 
working to improve.  It hurts the entire SoE if EE isn't handling its part 
of ABET.  Tracy has received more help from Chemistry & Physics than from 
EE.  It's as damaging to CE as it is to EE if EE fails.  There was 
discussion re: whether Tracy should do EE's part rather than trying to get 
EE to do it.  It is possible that the accreditation team would flunk EE 
because it would know that EE didn't do it.  It is probable that Tracy will 
ask faculty to tell her their lab needs for those courses that have 
labs.  The alumni survey is for students who graduate several years 
ago.  The grad survey will be re-named Exit Survey.  It is suggested that 
faculty look at the entire ABET website.  There was the suggestion that 
after the CLP is finalized each year, extended course descriptions could be 
distributed to faculty teaching those courses.

5.      ABET Discussion groups.  Capstone courses: change syllabi to 
include the theory of working in groups & teaching group skills (change 
extended descriptions).  In addition, restructure CMPE123 to be more like 
EE125 & 126 (2 quarters).