Faculty Meeting Notes - Spring 2006 - 2007

New items for future meetings.

Calculators in class - Should we set a department policy? [Frank]

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5/23/07 - Agenda

Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Bob Williams; Frank Kraft, Khairul Alam; Bhavin Mehta, Ken Halliday, David Bayless, Stephanie Walker, David Burnette

Reminder Schedule:

> TH May 24, 1:30 PM, Baker Theater, "On the Road to a Campus Culture of Integrity...", Tim Dodd, Center for Academic Integrity

> Wed May 30, no faculty meeting. Plant trip to American Axle Mfg Co. See Frank if interested.

> Friday June 1, 11:15AM - Sr. Class Picture with faculty and staff, followed by SrD awards and a lunch social

> June 6 - Faculty meeting only if there is urgent business. Items will be shared via email.

Quick Items:

> House Bill money: Corrected ME amount is $36,774.

> New faculty hire - the hiring committee will try to move the process forward over the summer, and will let all faculty know when interviews are scheduled

Action Items:

Lab committee - discussion and decisions related to "supported Ugrad lab experiences" and space allocation in 015 and other locations for lab activities

Current "equipment-related" outcomes:

· An ability to use common measurement equipment [Competence; ME388 or ME288]

· Part of the lab experiences run every time in ME388 (Temperature and strain gage(Wheatstone bridge) and/or vibrations (rotating balance))

· An ability to apply previously-learned engineering concepts to compare theoretical predictions with actual experimental results in diverse, practical mechanical engineering experiments. [Competence; ME388]

· Thermal Sciences - at least two of the following will be used in each offering of ME388: Stirling Cooler, Pump (fluids), wind tunnel, steam plant or equivalent

· Mechanical Systems - at least two of the following: Tension test, rotating fatigue, servo mechanisms, dynamometer

Other Questions and actions

1. Khairul will look into selling the large extruder in 015

2. Izzi will contact Global Cooling about their interest in the large refrigeration test unit in 015. If they do not want it, Randy will be asked to coordinate a disassembly and salvage/scrap operation to remove the unit from 015.

3. Dave and Izzi will get more info on steam plants and Bob will get info on servo mechanism labs,

4. We need to address the outcome: The ability to program and use CNC machines to manufacture simple parts [Competence; ME388]

· CIM Lab Equipment is obsolete...Randy suggested MASTERCAM tool path studies - can it be integrated into ME 351/451?...Should we consider rewriting this outcome statement?

5. We need to address the outcome: An ability to explain the operation and performance characteristics of electric motors [Competence; ME388 or ME488]

· This could be set up with the small 750W dyno in ME388 (if done every time) or 488

6. Do the mechanical systems tests in ME388 serve as an acceptable replacement for CE223?

7. Lab space - consider all spaces. Possibly use 402 as Mechanical Testing Lab (and site of ME 596 lab) to free up second floor lab.

Other Items:

> Peer-to-peer file sharing - RCENT guidelines. Any concerns?

* Dept labs should have no public user accounts

* Distribute P2P informational statement

* Add statement on use of P2P to honor codes

* Research lab advisors are responsible for computers in their labs

* If uncertain, run the P2P software removal tool at: http://technology.ohio.edu/help/

> Budget - lots of rumors concerning the "raise pool", no certainty... The House budget included a 2% increase in subsidy and a 3% increase in tuition in 2007-8 and a 10% increase in subsidy and no increase in tuition in 2008-9. The Ohio Senate is now addressing the budget and may come up with a different scenario... Also, the Dean is looking at Responsibility Centered Budgeting and reports that concerns for us are enrollment, the current way that charges for space are handled, and grad fee waivers...

> NCEES making changes to the model law that governs PE licensure: In 2006, NCEES approved a motion to add language to the Model Law stating that beginning in 2015 engineer interns must have 30 credit hours in addition to the bachelor’s degree in order to sit for the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam. These additional credits are being further defined this year. (more details at http://www.ncees.org/licensure/licensure_exchange/le_2007_04.pdf)

> Faculty office space for next year - where to put John and the other new hire so that they are in the ME hallway and not off by themselves.

· Other long term actions

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5/16/07 - Notes

Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Bob Williams; Frank Kraft, Stephanie Walker, Khairul Alam; Bhavin Mehta, Jay Gunasekera, Ken Halliday,

Excused: Rudy Pasic, Carole Womeldorf

Reminder Schedule:

> SrD prototype judging in front of Stocker, Wed May 23 10 AM - noon. All faculty are invited to participate as judges. http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~me470/SnrDesign05_06/me472/ProtoDesignConstruction_evaluation.htm

> Friday June 1, 11:15AM - Sr. Class Picture with faculty and staff, followed by SrD awards and a lunch social

> Wed May 30, plant trip to American Axle Mfg Co. See Frank if interested.

Quick Items:

> Congrats to White award winners Bob (teaching) and Rudy (research)

> Bob is joining Rudy and Khairul on P&T committee

> House Bill money: ME amount is $34,803.

> College wants to go to Vista in all computer labs. We have concerns with ALGOR, Solid Edge, MATLAB, impacts on hardware, loads slower,...

> The College will be posting the plagiarism "investigation report" on the web, hoping the conclusions that the less than 10% plagiarism rate found by the lot sampling method will be accepted as sufficient justification for not doing additional investigations of previously published theses.

> There will be another academic integrity expert visiting campus May 24th to comment publicly on the academic integrity plan in place in RCENT.

> Student behavior issues - err on the side of caution - if uncertain, call University Judiciaries and let them decide what to do.

> Learning Community Compensation - Will change course # to UC190 so we get some faculty compensation (goes to department, it is suggested that the course be scheduled as part of normal load, if it is an extra elective load, then part of money could go to the faculty member (RI, or discretionary spending).

> Telephone recruiting?: Ken Sampson email: "We have been asked to make recruiting phone calls to students who haven't yet committed to attend Ohio University next fall. Both the University and the Russ College are projected to be below last year's total for new students... I expect that most of you'll want to spread this list out among several faculty members to reduce the individual burden. After identifying yourself to the student, here is my take on how a conversation might start: "I'm calling to see if you've decided where to attend college next fall." "

* After discussion we decided we would not be effective and it wouldn't be a good use of our time. We will talk to SAB about doing this in the future, but starting it early (January) and targeting high quality students. Other recruiting idea - give out names of alumni in the area to talk to potential students.

> Good publicity for the ME department - Athens News article on SrD, Ohio front page story on Christopher Gregg's research (electric test bed vehicle)

Action Items:

SAB/GSAB items:

> Wed. event behind Stocker - Engineering Competition, Professors sing Karaoke, etc.

> ME-CE softball game! Sunday, May 20, 3:00pm, West State Street Fields

Curriculum and scheduling issues:

> MATH344 - preferred quarters - Fall and Winter (CE has dropped so we are the main users)

> Some students have noted a paucity of ME courses for the fall - It is a temporary thing due to faculty availability issues

> ME 101 issue - full with zero students according to physics. This is the college's way of handling it to give out the slots at pre-college. Others can see Ken to possibly pink slip.

> CE 340 is moved to 10-11 in Fall to avoid conflict with ME301

> ME460/ME 560 changes submitted to clean up prereq issues (460) and credit hour issues (560)

> Reminder - ME499 replacing ME489 for project courses - Fall schedule reflects this. Will change to 1-4 credit course and change prereqs to permission.

> Permission slips guidelines: (http://www.ohio.edu/registrar/upload/Class%20Permission%20Slip%20-%20Instructions.pdf)

> IT117 - John Deno will be teaching one section in Summer, one in Fall, and hopefully 2 or 3 in Winter and Spring (10 students per section). We still need a long term plan to get to the point when IT117 is actually a freshmen level course rather than Sr. Level.

> Winter Schedule distributed - Steph will follow up with e-copy and deadlines via email

ME Advisory Board Meeting Recap

> Positive feedback on changes (GD&T, ...) and overall program (evidenced by student interactions and SrD)

> Requested individually written lab reports to better assess the technical writing skills of our graduating students (to assess the technical communication objective). Their concern is that the SrD reports and executive summaries do not show any individual's complete writing skills.

> Proposed changes to program educational objectives.

Lab committee update

> Izzi handed out minutes from the lab committee meeting on ME288/388/488, and especially on the 6-8 experiments in both Thermal sciences and Mechanical that would comprise 388. Izzi will try to collect some more info by next week, and this will be the main agenda item for the May 23rd meeting.

· Other long term actions

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5/02/07 - Notes

Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Bob Williams; Frank Kraft, Dave Bayless, Stephanie Walker, Khairul Alam; David Burnette, Matt Dixon

Excused: Carole Womeldorf, Bhavin Mehta, Jay Gunasekera, Ken Halliday, Rudy Pasic,

Reminder Schedule:

> Schedule for Sr. Design Prototype Demonstration day (Sat. May 12th at 10AM) is posted at http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~me470/SnrDesign06_07/me472/PrototypeDemoDay07.pdf

> No meeting next Wednesday - please attend the session on Friday at 9:30 with the advisory board...see below

Quick Items:

> Faculty should attend a 1/2 hour presentation (by board chairman Terry Russell) and discussion on Friday May 11th at 9:30 AM. Details of the presentation, from Terry's email:

"GE Aviation and Energy have initiated a Mechanical Design Fundamentals curriculum for engineers (mostly mechanical) with five years or less experience. For Aviation, this is about 30 weeks in duration and covers 800 employees. GE has come to the conclusion that its new hires do not possess the education and training that would allow them to participate and contribute at the required level of competence. I have become involved in designing the curriculum for the producibility portion of the course and have been conducting voice of the customer interviews with key stakeholders as a prerequisite. Some of the curriculum is obviously business specific that our colleges and universities would not be expected to provide in their engineering programs, but other parts of the curriculum point to a lack of meeting minimum requirements. I think our curriculum is better than most, but I thought this would be of interest. GE is spending over $1M to initiate this training and it will run several years."

> Frank sent via email an updated Integrated Engineering Ph.D. Policies and Procedures document - send any questions or comments to Frank

> Stocker travel money updates - About $4K will likely be available to be spread as equally as possible among those who have a second qualifying trip (Dave, Rudy, Bob, Greg, Khairul, Carole). Exact amounts depend on numerous factors, including some SFEF proposals - Steph will update us as things get finalized.

Action Items:

SAB/GSAB items:

> Reminder of ASME Lecture on importance of an engineering education from 6-7pm on May 10th in 103.

> We will have at least 8 total SAB/GSAB attendees for advisory board meeting. Get lunch orders to Steph.

> Congrats to Matt "Ace" Dixon - aced the 401 midterm!

> Need GSAB members for next year - Izzi recommends TJ Cyders. Please send other names to Dave Burnette.

> Engineering Panel Discussion on working on multidisciplinary teams sponsored by Stocker Scholars, Wed. May 9 at 7 p.m. in Stocker 192. Please announce to student organizations and classes.

Scheduling issues and teaching assignments for Fall 07: ME498 /ME470 at 1:10 PM, teaching assignments,...

> Greg, Ken and Steph will work on the Tuesday conflict with ME498 and the conflict with CHE418.

> More on teaching assignments at a later mtg.

ME Grad Committee will consider adding as required courses OPIE574 (Advanced Graduate Writing) and/or OPIE 575 (Thesis/Dissertation Writing)

Risk Assessment: Greg handed out a document containing a compilation of notes from previous discussions along with some other suggestions for how to proceed (see handout). Students and faculty gave input, especially related to the Communications and Relations section. Greg will present the modified copy to the Advisory board next week for their input.

Other Items:

> Faculty responsibility statement was circulated by email. Izzi reports that it seems intuitively correct. Izzi is our representative, so send him any comments.

> We need to come up with ideas for faculty office space for next year (where to put John and the other new hire so that they are in the ME hallway and not off by themselves). Please let Greg know of any ideas.

> Online Course Evaluations - is it possible to make them required by holding grades? Need to make access more user friendly - single click. Invite David Fleeman to a meeting to discuss this.

· Other long term actions

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4/25/07

Attendees: Greg Kremer; Carole Womeldorf, Izzi Urieli, Bob Williams; Frank Kraft, Bhavin Mehta, Jay Gunasekera, Ken Halliday, Stephanie Walker, Donna Bruce, Matt Dixon [unable to attend: Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; David Burnette]

Reminder Schedule:

Quick Items:

> Administrative Professionals Day "Celebration" - Thanks to Steph and Donna and Merry!

> Note Website Updates: http://www.ohio.edu/mechanical/people/index.cfm - Some input has been requested from us. we will follow up in future meetings.

> New Hire Process - Bob, Frank and Rudy are the committee, the Dean's office has approved and it has been passed on to HR, it was suggested to have a lab focus group interview with the candidates.

> Bob is interested in teaching ME 224 in 2008-2009, as part of an NSF proposal. Ken sees that as a positive and it will be easy to schedule it.

> Izzi - Will convene the lab committee to discuss plans for determining the required experiments/experiences for the ME lab sequence. The ~$4K lab budget needs to be spent by June 30, so Izzi will try to keep on track with finishing this work by May.

> Stocker Travel funds - over $4K will be reallocated equally to those with eligible expenses before 6/30/07. Six or seven faculty will likely have additional qualifying trips and will split the available funds.

> Sophomore advising - Carole will likely take over in Fall 07. Ken will cover this quarter.

> Summer Courses - Dave will help with ME328, Khairul with 412, and Ken and Rudy with the rest.

> Research and Creative activity Fair - Rox is begging for judges (EECS and ISE, 11:45 - 2PM, TH May 3rd). - Carole agreed to help out.

> Follow up on " Meeting the Needs of Second Language Writers" - additional handouts, plus electronic copies to be sent via email.

> ABET update - Greg gave a report from the Best Assessment Processes Symposium. After reviewing different approaches and the latest guidance from ABET I believe our process is still the best approach. We do need to focus our efforts on relocating some outcomes due to curriculum changes and assessing the new curriculum as the new courses are offered.

Action Items:

SAB/GSAB items: Need help recruiting Sophomores for Student Advisory Board. Any recommendations? SAB members may be asking to do some recruiting in the sophomore classes.

> ASME Lecture, TH May 10, Paul Heney, Fluid power expert, Talking about the importance of an engineering degree

Curriculum:

EE is proposing to increase # of credits in EE313 & EE314 from 3 to 4 (no impact on labs).

Reason: there is not enough time to adequately cover the material, especially since students aren't prepared and need lots of review.

Related change: PHYS253 will be dropped as a prerequisite for EE313 (since the approach to circuits taught in PHYS253 causes more harm than good), but we will keep it in our curriculum since it is the only place our students get electromagnetic waves and optics info, and we still have the requirement of 1 year of Math and Basic Sciences.

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4/18/07 -

Attendees: Greg Kremer; Carole Womeldorf, Izzi Urieli, Bob Williams; Frank Kraft, Bhavin Mehta, Rudy Pasic; Khairul Alam; Ken Halliday, David Burnette

Reminder Schedule:

· Sheila Tobias STEM Teaching Workshop - 3:00 - 6:00 pm - Stocker 103 (See Carole for more info)

· April 20, noon - Spring Stocker Faculty Enrichment Fund Deadline

· April 25 - Administrative Professionals Day (We will celebrate it at the beginning of the faculty/staff meeting)

· May 11th (Friday) - Advisory Board, Spring Awards Banquet,...

· May 12th (Saturday) 10 AM - ME Senior Design "Customer Demo Day"

Quick Items and Announcements

A New Faculty Hire committee is being formed. Per our agreement during the last hiring process, it will be targeted to Mechatronics. Due to our teaching needs, we will also seek someone with an ability/desire to organize and help teach the new undergraduate lab sequence. Please provide comments to Greg if you think we need to reconsider this approach.

Main agenda item:

Dawn Bikowski and Talinn Phillips (CWE) will give a short workshop on Meeting the Needs of Second Language Writers

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4/11/07

ME Social with students in 103. Pizza and drinks provided by ASME.

Reminder Schedule:

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4/4/07

Attendees: Greg Kremer; Carole Womeldorf, Izzi Urieli, Bob Williams; Frank Kraft, Bhavin Mehta, Stephanie Walker, David Burnette, Rudy Pasic

Excused: Jay Gunasekera, Khairul Alam; Gary Graham, Ken Halliday, Matt Dixon

Reminder Schedule:

Future Meetings

April 11 - ME Social with students

April 18 - Meeting the Needs of Second Language Writers (Talinn Phillips, Assistant Director, Center for Writing Excellence)

April 25 - Regular ME faculty meeting

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Guest: Robbyn Matthews, the college's new Coordinator for Career Programs will introduce herself and talk about the Co-Op program.

Announcement: University's annual recognition of authors and performers is now including recognition for journal publications and book chapters, so many of us will qualify. See the message below.

> The Friends of the Libraries and the Office of the Provost invite Ohio University Authors, Editors & Performers to submit information on their publications and performances during 2006.

> The link for submitting data is at <http://teach.citl.ohiou.edu/pubs/>http://teach.citl.ohiou.edu/pubs/.

> There is a change this year--journal articles and book chapters qualify members of the faculty and staff for recognition.

> The deadline for data submission is very tight this year--the date is Monday, April 16.

> For additional information, link to http://www.library.ohiou.edu/newsblog/?p=176.

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SAB/GSAB:

ME seminar courses: Update on adding two new 1-credit seminar (or colloquium) courses to the curriculum - Pending feedback from SAB and check of the total number of credit hours required for graduation

Workload policy - update

Risk Assessment: At last meeting we began the discussion of the risks that were rated by at least 1/3 of the raters as needing a risk management plan. The goal of the discussions is to get everyone to a common understanding of the situation so we can vote again to prioritize the items and start to attack the highest priority ones and monitor the rest. We will continue the discussion at this meeting. The results of this process will ultimately be used to determine distribution of resources and discretionary departmental money.

Space utilization - when to move forward with plans ...

ME lab sequence - required experiments/experiences being defined (Izzi)

Assessment updates:

Mentoring program for new faculty

· Other long term actions

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3/28/07

Attendees: Greg Kremer; Carole Womeldorf, Izzi Urieli, Bob Williams; Frank Kraft, Bhavin Mehta, Stephanie Walker, David Burnette, Rudy Pasic

Excused: Jay Gunasekera, Khairul Alam; Gary Graham, Ken Halliday, Matt Dixon

Reminder Schedule:

· ASME would like to have another lunch hour social with the professors:

o Wednesday April 11 (if the weather does not cooperate we will go to 103)

· May 11th (Friday) - Advisory Board, Spring Awards Banquet,...

· May 12th (Saturday) 10 AM - ME Senior Design "Customer Demo Day"

Quick Items and Announcements

ME 7-year program review approved by UCC 3/13/07

John Cotton will be starting in the summer

ME faculty encouraged to apply to become Biomedical Engineering faculty if they have research/teaching interests in that area.

Faculty development requirement has been added to the standard college offer letter

College plans to implement Peer Led Team Learning and Early Start Programs for recruiting and retention, starting next academic year.

White Award Committees - need research award winner by next week

Budget updates for discretionary spending and Stocker Travel funds

> Please release funds if you do not plan to use them before June 30 2007. Let Steph know by April 11 if you plan to use your unspent funds for eligible travel and other expenses.

Selected ME Department's outstanding senior leader and nominee for the Loehr Leadership Award (based on student vote), and the outstanding senior (based on GPA, service to department, extraordinary accomplishments,...)

Approved the proposal for an experimental course: PHYS 569 Introduction to Radiation.

Minimal overlap with ME507 Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering, and our course is inactive.

· ME507: Nuclear engineering, including nuclear reactions, radiation detection and measurement, reactor control, radiation shielding, effects of radiation on materials, uses of radioactive materials.

· PHYS 569: Description of natural and man-made sources of radiation. The interaction of radiation with biological systems. Comparison of the natural radiation background and risk assement. Exploring radiation based cancer treatment and medical imaging.

015 - Plan for Short term cleanup

Randy is willing to work on cleanup and rearranging the space for ME288 and ME498 use this quarter as we wait for the long term vision for the labs to be decided. The following is to be moved from the Ugrad lab area by Tuesday April 3rd or it will be sent to surplus:

· 2 desks

· 2 refrigeration units

· Flow experiment (on blue painted plywood base)

· Air flow experiment? - Blue 55 gal plastic drums in wood frame with fan on top

· Tumbler apparatus (pressure cooker turned by motor via belt and pulley)

· Doerr pump (sitting under the wind tunnel)

· PVC frame with plastic sheets

Long Term Actions:

· Should we adopt a standard citation format for all undergraduate and graduate departmental reports, including labs, design reports, project reports, and theses? This could be added to our Technical Writing guidelines for the department.

· Use of 011

· P&T Committee to propose a formal mentoring program for new faculty

· ABET / Assessment leader needed.

· IT117 long term plan

· Space issues (esp wrt CAD lab, 402, ...)

Long Term Actions:

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