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Faculty Meeting
Notes - Spring 2007-2008
05/28/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Frank Kraft, Rudy Pasic,
Khairul Alam; John
Cotton, Bob Williams, Dave Bayless, Carole Womeldorf, Jesus Pagan, Melissa Feigi,
Alex Conatser, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
Wed May 28 - faculty mtg (Bob Judd (ISE tech electives), Area of Expertise
breakouts to prep for program review)
ME vs
Civil Softball Game, May 31st, 1PM (?)
Wednesday June 4th - 11:15
AM. Senior celebration day. Sr class
picture with faculty (~11:15).
Food, awards, pictures/videos, etc.
Wednesday June 4th - 12 - 2 PM Faculty Program Review Meeting
For information:
>
Benefit events: for Kelly Jolley today until 1:30PM
in HDL center...
For discussion:
> Bob
Judd - departmental collaborations, especially with respect to technical
electives.
> Area
of Expertise breakouts
Thermal Systems, Lab / Experimental Methods, and Service Courses [Izzi Urieli, Dave Bayless, Carole Womeldorf, Khairul Alam]
1) Review and update outcomes list, especially
> Verify tollgate courses for all outcomes associated with [ABET-b]
OU ME graduates will demonstrate an ability to design and conduct
experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. [DOE in 288?]
> Verify plan for "An ability to explain the
operation and performance characteristics of electric motors [Competence;
ME498/ME388; Fundamentals & Service Courses]"
> consider the impact of rewritten objective 3 (copied
below)
2) Area of Expertise assessment summaries for Program
review meeting - findings and proposed changes
3) Recommend technical elective "concentrations"
(for example manufacturing, power, energy, business, design,...)
by listing regularly available courses in those areas.
Mechanical
Systems, Materials & Manufacturing, Design, and Computers/Simulation[Bob Williams, Rudy Pasic, Frank Kraft, Jay Gunasekera, Greg
Kremer, Ken Halliday, John Cotton]
1) Review and update outcomes list, especially
> Move "An ability to
interpret tensile test data [Competence; ME314; Materials and Manufacturing]
(changed from CE223, 1/08)" to ME388?
> Verify plan for "f.2) An ability to evaluate
ethical issues that may occur in professional practice [Competence;
ME100/ME101; Design]"
> Will colloquium courses be used for any outcomes?
> consider the impact of rewritten objective 3 (copied
below)
2) Need Area
of Expertise assessment summaries and proposed action items (changes to
courses, curriculum, or outcomes) by 10th week
3) Recommend
technical elective "concentrations" (for example manufacturing,
power, energy, business, design,...) by listing regularly
available courses in those areas.
Rewritten objective
3:
3. Graduate mechanical engineers
with skills to perform in the work environment, including:
• Safety
and health: (for example awareness of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), use
of personal protective equipment, Design for Safety methods, ...)
• Technical
communication: Oral and written
• Teamwork
• Project
management: planning, scheduling, budgeting
• Self
evaluation, leading to improvement
• Awareness
of international standards, quality standards, and systems of units
• Appreciation
of engineering integration with business (market awareness, customer
satisfaction, quality, continuous improvement, profit, mission / vision /
core values, ...)
• Ethical
and effective decision making, involving environmental health and safety,
economics, time, quality, performance / operability, and reliability / life.
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05/21/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Frank Kraft, Rudy Pasic,
Khairul Alam; John
Cotton, Bob Williams, Dave Bayless, Carole Womeldorf, Jesus Pagan, Melissa Feigi,
Alex Conatser, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
Wed May 28 - faculty mtg (Area of Expertise breakouts, prep for program
review)
Wednesday June 4th - 11:15 AM. Senior celebration day. Sr class
picture (~11:15). Food, awards,
pictures/videos, etc.
Wednesday June 4th - 12 - 2 PM Faculty Program Review
Meeting
For information:
>
Benefit events: Gladys, Kelly,...
> SIS system implementation will be a
multi-year process.
> The
Ohio State University Research Foundation, leading a partnership with Ohio University,
Case Western
Reserve University,
and University
of Toledo were
recommended for $10,476,924 in funding to establish a collaborative cluster
in Advanced Energy Systems. The Ohio
State University
and Ohio University will each receive one endowed Research Scholar position .
> Increasing emphasis on Online Education in Ohio - Guiding
principles for online education passed at UCC this week, Ohio Learning
Network report "Catalyst for change: E-learning in Ohio"
distributed by the Provost,...
>
Could be helpful for students in summer...
> We
will continue to work on this and try to start something.
>
CE220 and Physics 253 scheduling conflict
>
EE304 and ME288 conflict
Move Mechatronics to Spring
ME vs Civil Softball Game, May 31st, 1PM (?)
> ABET Timeline updates:
>
May 08 [Complete]: Program
Educational Objectives recertified and approved by Advisory Board (including SAB)
> June 08 (to be approved at the program review mtg):
> "Review-ready" outcomes
list (including new outcomes as required by PEO updates) with
implementation dates and updated tollgate courses
> Review ME Department
Statement Of Purpose [and verify consistency with new college mission in RCENT
Strategic Plan]
>
07-08 and 08-09 academic years: Assess new courses (101, 288/388/488,
303/304, 314,...) and existing courses per our assessment plan with a special
emphasis on compiling evidence of "closing the loop"
> By end-of-summer ’08: 1st draft of self-study report completed to
identify areas of concern
> By end-of-summer ’09: Complete self study copy suitable for
external review
> During 09-10 academic year: Compile course binders and address any open
items or areas of concern
> By end of Winter ’09: Course syllabi and faculty resumes compiled
> January 2010: Final Self Study Draft complete
> July 2010: All info sent to ABET
> Fall 2010: ABET visit
For Discussion: ABET (Advisory
Board Mtg Department Overview Presentation and ABET
overview)
> ABET dual-level accreditation:
POLICY CHANGE APPROVED TO ALLOW DUAL-LEVEL ENGINEERING
PROGRAM ACCREDITATION At its spring meeting on Saturday, March 29, the
ABET Board of Directors approved a change to section II.B.8.a. of ABET's Accreditation Policy
and Procedure Manual that will allow institutions to seek accreditation for
their engineering programs of the same name/discipline at multiple levels
(i.e., bachelor's and master's) concurrently. This voluntary option, which
has been unavailable for most of ABET's history, is
known as "dual-level accreditation." The change will go into
effect with the 2009-2010 accreditation cycle.
More on dual-level accreditation can be found at http://www.abet.org/dual.shtml.
>
Decision points and concerns with outcomes list (including impact of new PEOs)
> Need
Area of Expertise assessment summaries and proposed action items (changes to
courses, curriculum, or outcomes) by 10th week
>
Consider going electronic with all reports (get multi-sheet scanner to
support it?)
>
Goal: link example work and rubrics for all outcomes to our outcomes list by
08-09
> Goal:
Link ABET syllabi and outcomes to curriculum flowchart
Time
permitting:
> ME
PhD - next steps (need to partner with CASE)
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05/14/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Ken Halliday, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; John Cotton, Bob Williams, Dave Bayless,
Carole Womeldorf, Jesus Pagan, Melissa Feigi, Alex Conatser, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
Wed May 14 -
faculty mtg (Department business)
Tuesday May
20th - 11AM - 1 PM in Stocker lobby or outside along Stocker bridge.
Alpha Design judging day - Ken, John,
Carole and Izzi will help.
Wed May 21 -
faculty mtg (ABET focus)
Wed May 28 -
faculty mtg (Area of Expertise breakouts, prep for
program review)
Wednesday June
4th - 11:15 AM. Senior
celebration day. Sr class picture (~11:15).
Food,
awards, pictures/videos, etc.
***Need to schedule faculty program review meeting for ~ 2 hours 10th week
(or exam week).
10th week options: Wed June 4th after Sr
celebration. ~ 12 - 2 PM.
TH
June 5th, 10-12 or 2-4 (or any other 2 hour block)
F June 6th, any 2 hour time block
Please check your schedule and reply by Monday May 19th with any
time conflicts you have with the proposed meeting times. It is important to show full
participation at this faculty program review meeting.
For information:
> ICMT faculty search has resulted in an offer. The ME candidate was judged
acceptable. More info later.
> Please remind faculty that students funded in spring or in the fall can get a summer tuition
waiver but need to register for at least 9 graduate credit hours (this is
in light of the course that Dave intends to teach). Student will be responsible for fees.
[Frank]
> Part A of the
IE PhD qualifying exam will be offered per my e-mail of several weeks
ago. Off the top of my head I
remember that Chalmersk Dasaard
must take it. Also remind faculty
about students taking the comprehensive exam before credit hours are exceeded
(I think Elvedin Kljuno
falls in this category). If
students don’t follow the rules or otherwise get a waiver, they may
very well run into problems. [Frank]
> PCARD
statements must be resolved and signed by the end of the month of the
statement
> TEAMS next
year is on a new Theme: Behind the Scenes: The Engineering of Theme-Parks. Does anyone in your department have an
expertise or an interest? (Contact Costas, vass@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu)
> Thanks to a generous one-time budget increase,
substantially higher funding for Group I and II faculty travel will be
available through the International
Travel Fund (ITF) over the next two years.
>
[Bob] Advising items (ME urban
legends, and quick questions).
> ME288/388/488 transition, EE313/ME470 conflict, ...
> Biomedical
Manufacturing course proposal from IT (IT385). Prereq
topics are manufacturing processes and CAD. Do we want to propose ME314 &
ME351 as alternate prereqs to make the course available
to MEs?
If so, would we accept it for tech elective credit?
> Bob Judd
is interested in coming to a future meeting to discuss ISE courses (how they
can be made more attractive to MEs as tech
electives).
> Provost/Deans/Chairs
Meeting on TH May 15 on SIS system.
Issues with finance & administration attitudes
and treatment of academic/research units was postponed to the next
chairs meeting. More later...
> RCENT
Strategic Plan (March 10 2008 version) which was sent to all faculty for review was approved at the last RCENT faculty
meeting. It is unclear what
impact it will have.
> RCENT Workload Policy which was sent
to all faculty for review was discussed but was
tabled to resolve language concerning the suggested minimum number of hours
listed for faculty with "significant expectation of scholarly
activity." It is likely to
be approved after minor changes.
> Potential impacts: It includes a
requirement for a departmental workload policy. It also states "The chair will
review the teaching load assignment with each faculty member annually...A
written document will be produced stating the expectations of the faculty
member for this particular load assignment."
> SAB Suggestion: Create a suggested tech electives sheet for the ME program
(Ken offered to work on this)
For discussion /
approval:
> P&T guidelines: Review of
proposal from committee.
>
Faculty decided to include in the ME procedures a fourth year review (after
completion of three years) using a dossier following the college guidelines.
> Raise pool
distributions will be handled as in the past. Greg is happy to meet with anyone to
discuss their individual situation relative to the overall raise pool. Rudy reports that $160K was
distributed to the college. Greg
will try to find out how it was split amongst departments.
> ME budget projection through year end
is positive. We will continue to
discuss our options.
Time
permitting:
> Increasing emphasis on Online Education in Ohio - Guiding
principles for online education passed at UCC this week, Ohio Learning
Network report "Catalyst for change: E-learning in Ohio"
distributed by the Provost,...
> ABET dual-level accreditation
approved (Ugrad and Grad program accreditation is
now possible for programs.)
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04/16/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Ken Halliday, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; John Cotton, Bob Williams, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf, Jesus Pagan, Melissa Feigi,
Alex Conatser, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
* ME faculty interview of ICMT
candidate Jinsuo Zhang scheduled for April 16, 9:30
AM. Research presentation April
16 at 1 PM in Stocker 103.
Wed
April 23: Administrative Professionals Day - Lunch
Wed
April 30 - Faculty meeting with Dean Irwin
Wed May
7 - ASME student / faculty social
Friday May 9 - ME Advisory Board, all faculty
encouraged to attend 8:30-9 social and 9-10 AM mtg
(John, 5 minute intro presentation on your research?)
( Dave, 1 example of a good, marginal, and poor formal report needed
from Sr Lab, with abstract or executive summary,
for board members to review to evaluate written communication skills of our
graduating seniors.)
Saturday, May
10th - SrD Demo Day. 10AM, in front of Stocker and
in 103.
Wed May 14 -
faculty mtg (Department business)
Tuesday May
20th - 11AM - 1 PM in Stocker lobby or outside along Stocker bridge. Alpha Design judging day - judges needed
Wed May 21 -
faculty mtg (ABET focus)
Wed May 28 -
faculty mtg (Area of Expertise breakouts, prep for
program review)
Wednesday June
4th - 11:15 AM - 1 PM. Senior celebration day. Sr class
picture (~11:15), food, awards,
videos, etc.
***Need to schedule
faculty program review meeting for ~ 2 hours 10th week (or exam week)
For information:
1. Responses from Dean Irwin on some of our
questions
> New
faculty line requests need to be supported by comparisons to peer ME
departments, not internal comparisons within RCENT. He suggests we read
the USO document and look at those metrics to see the advantage we may get
from doing well with respect to our metrics. Even with good case, little chance at
new positions from Provost since money is being directed to faculty salary equity
increases, not new positions. Soft money or Russ money positions are a
possibility.
>
Dean's main role in the allocation of the Russ bequest is to set up the
committee and implement their recommendations. There will be some
opportunities for departments to make proposals for some of the money -
details later. No money will be spent before July 1, 2009.
Endowed positions (i.e. Energy and Environment) may be a part of it.
For discussion /
approval:
1. Top
student award winners identified (GPA based).
2.
Discuss and rank Robe Leadership seminar 08-09 nominees:
> Nichole Blackmore
> Jonathan Robe
> David Jones
> Ryan Risdon
3.
Curriculum and catalog items.
> ME303 prereq
should be: C or better in CE220 and NOT 403 (already approved by UCC)
> ME304 prereq
should be: ME301 and 303 and NOT 403 (will submit change form to remove 314
concurrent)
> ME351 prereq
should be: IT101 and (304 or concurrent) and NOT ME350 (Yes, it already is)
> EE313 should be a prereq for a ME388 (Yes, it already is)
> Delete courses ME290, 322, 402, 411, and 465.
> Provide descriptions for ME381
and ME481 (internships), and and ME432 - [Analy/Simulation
Transpt (4)
Prereq: M E 412.]
> Update
catalog to reflect ME280 and ME380 and send informational memo to UCC
programs committee. Also we need
updates concerning moving Freshmen Eng Comp and CE220, deleting CE223,
modifying the Hum and SS requirement to meet the new University requirement, and
adding explicit language that 48 credits of MATH and Basic sciences are
required for graduation (to address the transfer student loophole on this
that could be a problem with ABET).
4. Some
discussion of adding a Bio course to the curriculum. All agree it is a good idea, but there
are some issues to overcome.
Discussion will continue later.
5. ABET
schedule review
ABET Timeline:
> 07-08 and 08-09 academic
years: Assess new courses (101, 288/388/488, 303/304, 314,...) and existing
courses per our assessment plan with a special emphasis on compiling
evidence of "closing the loop"
> By end-of-summer ’08: 1st draft of self-study report completed to
identify areas of concern
> By end-of-summer ’09: Complete self study copy suitable for
external review
> During 09-10 academic year: Compile course binders and address any open
items or areas of concern
> By end of Winter ’09: Course syllabi and faculty resumes compiled
> January 2010: Final Self Study Draft complete
> July 2010: All info sent to ABET
> Fall 2010: ABET visit
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04/09/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Rudy Pasic, John
Cotton, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf, Jesus Pagan,
Stephanie Walker, Melissa Feigi, TJ Cyders
> SAB:
Wed May 7 is the date selected for the ASME student / faculty social this
quarter
>
Discussion of new approach to Area of Expertise groups. There was consensus that reorganizing
into two large groups to allow easier scheduling makes sense. The proposed groups (copied below)
were discussed and approved. For
clarification, the service course group includes what was previously called
"fundamentals and service courses". There will be some courses that may go
into whatever group the instructor is in, but we can work out those details
as we go. The chair of each
committee has not yet been appointed - Greg will work on that.
Thermal Systems, Lab / Experimental Methods, and Service Courses [Izzi Urieli, Dave Bayless, Carole Womeldorf, Khairul Alam]
Mechanical
Systems, Materials & Manufacturing, Design, and Computers/Simulation[Bob Williams, Rudy Pasic, Frank Kraft, Jay Gunasekera, Greg
Kremer, Ken Halliday, John Cotton]
> Due to
the large number of faculty unable to attend the meeting, we remained in one
large group and discussed and gave feedback on the outcomes assessments done
by John and Carole, since they are still new to the process.
> One
point of clarification is the difference between our policy to keep one copy
of graded marginal work for assessment purposes (each time an outcome is
assessed), and the policy of creating an ABET course binder in the year
before the site visit (2009-2010 for our new review) in which the best, worst
and average examples of all assignments are saved, regardless of whether they
demonstrate an outcome or not.
>
Reminder of upcoming meetings:
Wed April 16:
Curriculum, ABET business and "ABET training"
Wed
April 23: Administrative Professionals Day (and Department business)
Wed
April 30 - Faculty meeting with Dean Irwin
Wed May
7 - ASME student / faculty social
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04/02/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Ken Halliday, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; John Cotton, Bob Williams, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf, Dave Bayless, Jesus
Pagan, Stephanie Walker, Melissa Feigi, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
> House
Bill purchases need to be
made/encumbered before April 4th 2008.
>
Upcoming Meetings:
Wed April 9 - Area of Expertise mtgs to review and discuss assessment info from last
quarter [Spring only]
* April 15th catalog change deadline
Wed April 16:
ABET business and "training"
Wed
April 23: Administrative Professionals Day (and Department business) - Possible date for social
Wed
April 30 - Meeting with Dean Irwin
Wed May
7 - Possible date for social
For information:
> ME Budget update - Still in red but
salary savings from Khairul and Frank and Stocker
money from the college (which we have been waiting on all year) should put us
back in good shape. We may even
be able to release some discretionary funds or make a few extra equipment
purchases. There is increasing
concern that all carry forward accounts (maybe even RI) could be taxed, so we
may want to start considering spending down accounts if we have important
maintenance or new purchases to fund.
> 015 update: Old gas bottles have been
removed from 015. 015 door
repairs have been made to improve closing. Randy is still investigating
"door open" alarm options, but all alarm requests must now go
through police office. Swipe card
lock can be installed for ~$700, but there would be some ongoing charges for
reprogramming.
> ONCA
info for ME students - pizza lunch on April 8th. Ideas for other students to invite?
> Ken
Sampson encourages us to send students to him if they need money for student
projects.
> ORSP
- Jim Rankin reports that electronic transmittal forms are up and operating
>
Other announcements, issues to resolve, etc?
* avoid 314/401 scheduling
conflicts in the future
* Need 2 faculty
for ME-only learning communities next year. John and maybe Dave or maybe Greg.
* ICMT faculty interview of ME
candidate scheduled for April 16 1-3 PM
* Some concern with the lack of
grad courses this quarter.
For discussion /
approval:
1. Student Awards (discussed and selected winners
of Leadership and Outstanding Sr award)
2. House Bill update from Izzi (along with info on CNC Mill cost-sharing agreement
with ISE)
3.
SAB/GSAB
> Possible dates for student/faculty
social this quarter April 23 or May 7.
> Student Surveys will be
distributed to 40 sophomores in ME224, 44 juniors in ME304, and 49 seniors in
ME472.
> Update on grad MATH545 course: Try
to avoid using it in the future, but if we do make sure to work with the
instructor beforehand to identify an engineering problem to be used
throughout the course. The class
was very theory-based with no applications problems. Also MATLAB intensive with no
instruction for grad students unfamiliar with it.
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Open items:
> Technical Writing Committee: (John, Greg, Frank,...)
> Develop standard Technical Writing guidelines for the
department (common expectations for reports).
> Define a standard citation format for all
departmental undergraduate (lab and design reports) and graduate (project and
thesis) reports.
>
Discussions initiated with CHE faculty concerning content of CHE418
>
Thermal systems group is preparing to include a thermal systems design
activity (with assessment) in ME328. The proposed wording of the outcome is:
[ABET-8]
The program must demonstrate that graduates have the ability to work
professionally in both thermal and mechanical systems areas, including the
design and realization of such systems
8.1) Design and realization of mechanical
systems [Competence*; ME472**; Design***]
8.2) Design of thermal systems
[Competence; ME328; Thermal Systems].
> Note that the realization aspects of
both mechanical and thermal systems are developed and assessed in the
capstone design sequence (ME470/ME471/ME472), but that a specific thermal
design activity is assessed in ME328.
> Lab / Experimental Methods: Frank Kraft, Dave Bayless, Izzi Urieli, Bob Williams, Khairul Alam,
[More definition of ME388/488 (are we doing the 6-8 experiments, each
sponsored by a different faculty member for ME388?), assessment of
ME288/388/488, use of lab space (015, 408, 298,...), need to address the
outcome: An ability to explain the operation and performance characteristics
of electric motors [Competence; ME388 or ME488], ...]
> Materials and Manufacturing: Frank Kraft, Khairul
Alam, Jay Gunasekera
[Determine how best to use the new CNC lathe to address the outcome: The
ability to program and use CNC machines to manufacture simple parts
[Competence; ME388], Develop tensile tests with the Instrom
to handle mechanical systems in ME388 to serve as an acceptable replacement
for CE223,...]
> Computers, programming and simulation:
Izzi Urieli, John Cotton,
Bob Williams
[ET181 new outcomes, ET181 and MATH344 assessment follow ups, ME351 and
ME451, ...]
> Mechanical Systems: Bob Williams, Rudy Pasic,
[linear systems sequence, servo mechanism labs, Mechatronics, ...]
> Design: Greg Kremer, Ken Halliday, John Cotton
[ME303 and ME304/ME351, and ME451 (development and assessment),...]
> Other Items
> Address issue with transfer students and total # of
hours of Math and BS (in catalogue, DARS, and by assigning a "transfer
advisor")
> Address issue of the lack of courses for students
early in the program (if they do not start in MATH263A)
> Promote tech elective "concentrations" such
as Energy, Biomedical, Robotics, Automotive, Manufacturing, ...
> Develop department-level understanding of an
appropriate scope and level of difficulty for a graduate project (vs. a
thesis).
> Need more SAB members (personal invitations to
freshmen, sophomores and juniors) and GSAB members (Sarang,
Erik K., PhD from Khairul or Bob
?)
> Report to Task Force on Centers of Excellence in
Graduate and Professional Education - due date and format TBD
> College Strategic Plan and Workload policy
> IT117 Long Term Plan
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