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Faculty Meeting
Notes - Spring 2008-2009
6/3/09 – Program
Review Meeting, Part 1
Attendees: ME Faculty plus student reps (David Jones, Esteban Hincapie)
Reminder
Calendar
For Discussion:
1. Advisor Online Evaluation
> Proposed to be initiated in all RCENT
Departments Fall ‘09
> Looks like we are ‘required’ to
make it available to students
> No ‘requirement’ stated as to how
we use the results
> Only input on questions is to add
some that ask about the student effort in preparation for advising
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handout given to Advisors
2. ABET Program Review Items
a. Resumes needed now or over
summer – for digital measures but also for ABET.
Send in whatever format you have and we will convert it to ABET format and
send to college for uploading.
> Some faculty seem
willing to reformat to ABET-style.
Steph will send template along with request
for resumes. Current resume due
in any format to Steph by June 24th.
b. Course Outcomes: Any
concerns with Steph and Greg converting current
course outcomes statements into standard format and posting on curriculum
flowchart?
>None
c. ME Advisory Board
–Items in yearly report, membership, objectives for final approval (see
Presentation)
> Faculty
voted to approve of the revised objectives with minor editing changes.
> Faculty resistant to replace other content with business courses. Reply to technical skill outsourcing trends
by ensuring tech electives available for students interested in developing entrepreneurial
and business skills.
d. Review / Discussion of Course Assessments submitted this year.
> Fall: 224, 301, 314, 388, 470. 101 (?)
> Winter: 288, 488, 471. 303 (?), 491
(?), 451 (?)
> Spring: 401. 304,
321, 328, 351, 412, 472 Due 2 weeks after quarter ends (June 26)
e. Examples of ‘actionable assessment
results’ from the assessments of each required Ugrad
course,
and plans for meaningful course changes that can be made based on that assessment data.
> Greg showed an example from ME470 for
discussion. After some discussion
it was agreed that this info would be submitted for
all required classes by July 1st, 2009 to make sure
we are prepared for our ABET preparation year.
f. Summer course assessment discussion
> Faculty agreed that summer courses do
not require a full assessment if they were assessed during the academic year,
but that all Mastery outcomes do
need to be enforced in the summer. In other words, the instructor must verify
that all students who pass the course have demonstrated acceptable
performance on all Mastery outcomes.
This should be discussed on the syllabus.
g. Discuss name change for mastery
outcomes – Is ‘required outcomes’ better
…
> Faculty shared perspective on both
sides. Ultimately it was decided
not to change, but to reinforce the meaning of current terms and make a
glossary of terms (from last ABET report) more easily accessible to faculty.
> Action:
Establish Consistent Mastery Outcome syllabus language – Greg to work with Frank on this.
h. ABET ‘help’ and motivation
> John suggested forming small working groups
for the ABET assessment activities, pairing new faculty with experienced ones
and using the ‘buddy system’ to help encourage meeting deadlines.
Proposed groups:
a) Khairul (and Jesus),
Carole and Izzi
b) Bob, Rudy and Jay
c) John, Ken and Greg
d) Dave, Frank and Jun
Plans for Fall Program Review
Meeting, Part 2 (second week of Fall ’09)
> Any unfinished business from Spring program
review, part 1
> Review of all course assessment data not
presented at the June 2009 meeting, including Summer course assessments
> Review of all continuous improvement plans
for each course not presented at the June 2009 meeting
ABET-related actions for next year
> Need to collect a written reason
for all pink slips that impact prerequisites (frequent weakness in transcript
review)
> Course Binders
> ABET course syllabi
> Teach and Assess ME280
> Implement Prerequisite inventories recently
added to our program outcomes list
> Re-assessment of the specific
outcomes with Continuous Improvement projects to
check for the effect of the change.
And use of this data in the Continuous Improvement section of the ABET
self study.
> Complete additional actions for problem
outcomes before next ABET visit? – technical
writing, etc.
> Technical Communication Committee: (John, Greg, Frank,...)
> Develop standard Technical Writing
guidelines for the department (common expectations for reports). Post on a website with other technical
writing resources (see example from Chemical Engineering Department)
> Define a standard citation format for all
departmental undergraduate (lab and design reports) and graduate (project and
thesis) reports.
> Ensure adequate presentation skills
coverage in semesters (since COMS103 will not be required)
> Convert current course outcomes list into
semester course version, and ‘roll up’ course outcomes into
revised program outcomes that will take effect under semesters.
> Other activities to complete the ABET Self
Study Report
> Ken and Frank to review MCF and determine
which courses to ‘save’
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5/27/09
Attendees: ME Faculty plus student reps (Michael D., Esteban Hincapie)
Reminder
Calendar
> May 27 – Q2S ‘final’
details / Dept business / Prep for program review
> June 3 – Sr. Class Picture ~11:45, ME
program Review Meeting 12 -2
PM
For Information:
SAB/GSAB – Welcome
Michael D. as new SAB president.
Stocker Travel $$ remaining –
Jun and Khairul have trips planned. We will budget accordingly.
Library Budget Cuts will
impact journal subscriptions.
Details to be worked out with each college. Greg will send the current list of
periodicals to all faculty and they can contact Jun (our Library rep) with
any journals we want to fight to maintain.
ABET / Assessment reminders. For this year’s program review
report, we should record at least one ‘actionable assessment
result’ from each required Ugrad course, and define
some change that is being made based on that assessment data. Then the result of the re-assessment
next year to check for the effect of the change will be added to the
Continuous Improvement section of the ABET self study.
Due: Bring examples for discussion on June 3rd,
info for report due by July 1st,
2009.
For Discussion:
1. Q2S Discussion – teaching
schedule simulation based on proposed curriculum with 18.4% increase in
ME-taught credits
> Key points are that the number of courses we
teach in our proposed curriculum actually decreases (by 1), though the # of
credit hours increases. That
makes the teaching schedule look like it will work out.
Notes:
a) There is a 12.5% increase in student credit hours if we teach the same
number of students in the same number of classes but they are 3 semester
credits instead of 4 quarter credits
b) A 24 quarter credit hour per year base teaching load
(six 4-hour courses) translates to a 16 semester credit hour per year base
teaching load (5 courses plus one credit hour)
c) EE successfully uses an "Applied Probability and
Statistics for EEs" course in its 1 year of
MATH and BS – so we may be able to drop PHYSII or define a science
elective like EE: 'select from any PHYS with lab > PHYS-I or CHEM with lab
> CHEM-I with lab or BIOS 170 or 171 (each with lab).’ We could also just have a MATH/Science
elective written just to ensure students meet the 32 hour requirement [Not
counting remedial MATH or CHEM courses].
> The removal of a lab course was addressed
with an expansion of the ME colloquium to include technical writing and other
outcomes. Proposals were to have
4 or more colloquia rather than the 2 that were planned. There was also agreement to go with
the ‘Science Elective’ approach to ensure compliance with the 32
semester hours of MATH and Basic Science.
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5/20/09
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Ken Halliday,
Frank Kraft, Rudy Pasic, Khairul
Alam, Bob Williams, John Cotton, Dave Bayless, Jun Choi, David Jones,
Esteban Hincapie,
Reminder
Calendar
> May 20 – Q2S: attempt to
‘finalize’ decisions
> May 27 – Dept business / Prep for
program review
> June 3 – Sr. Class Picture ~11:45, ME
program Review Meeting 12 -2
PM
For Information:
ABET / Assessment reminders. By the end of this academic year, for
all required Ugrad courses we need definition of
some change that is being made based on assessment data from this year that
will be re-assessed next year to check for the effect of the change. These items will be compiled in the
Continuous Improvement section of the ABET self study.
For Discussion:
1. Q2S Discussion – handout
of baseline curriculum and proposals
> Are we ready to make some decisions?
> What process should we use?
> Is there any additional info we need?
2. Course Outcomes Review – Steph provided Handouts of compiled course outcomes from
faculty.
> Review the outcomes for the courses you
depend on as prereqs and suggest changes /
clarifications
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5/6/09
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Ken Halliday,
Frank Kraft, Rudy Pasic, Khairul
Alam, Bob Williams, John Cotton, Dave Bayless, Jun Choi, David Jones,
Esteban Hincapie,
Reminder
Calendar
> Friday May 8th – Advisory
Board Annual Meeting
> Saturday May 9th – SrD Demo Day, 10AM in
Walter Hall Rotunda
> May 13 – ME student/prof
Social
> May 20 – Q2S: attempt to
‘finalize’ decisions
> May 27 – Dept business / Prep for
program review
> June 3 – Sr. Class Picture ~11:45, ME
program Review Meeting 12 -2
PM
For Information:
Celebration of Administrative
Professionals Day – Thanks Steph
and Merry and Terri
SAB/GSAB –
Newsletter, student/prof social,
For Discussion:
1. Comparison of ME-taught credit
hours in proposed semester curriculum [Greg]
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Target
based on count of current # of courses taught, with current faculty,
converted to semesters:
120-130 semester credit hours per year (40 – 45 courses per year)
taught by ME faculty (including grad and ugrad
courses but not including summer).
Max
ME-course teaching capacity for diverse group of 12 faculty:
Avg 5 courses per year x 10 (equivalent full time
teaching load capacity) = 50 courses per year
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Current
ME-taught portion of Ugrad Curriculum: 71 ME quarter credits + [4 ET181
+ tech electives]
Equivalent
load for Semester curriculum: 47.3 credits + [?]
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ME-taught
Semester credit hours based on proposals to date: 64 (~30% increase)
Mechanics
Sequence:
4 ME-taught quarter credits to 6 ME-taught semester credits [3.33 semester
credit increase, 125% increase]
Thermal-fluids
Sequence:
12
ME-taught quarter credits to 11 ME-taught semester credits [3 semester credit
increase, 37.5% increase]
Design/CAD:
25
ME-taught quarter credits to 20 ME-taught semester credits [ 3.33 semester
credit increase, 20% increase]
2. Q2S proposal for
computer/numerical methods [John and committee] – The
committee will list the ET181/MATH344 outcomes by May 6th. We will
review and decide what courses we need in this area and which outcomes need
to be redistributed to other courses.
3. CHE231/418 update? [Frank]
– Will work out details of activities to include.
4. Course Outcomes Review – Steph provided Handouts of compiled course outcomes
from faculty. Due to lack of time
we will use them at the May 20th meeting.
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4/29/09
Faculty mtg with Dean
Irwin
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4/22/09
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Ken Halliday,
Frank Kraft, Rudy Pasic, Khairul
Alam, Bob Williams, John Cotton, Dave Bayless, Jun Choi, David Jones,
Esteban Hincapie,
Reminder
Calendar
> April 22 – Administrative Professional
Day
> April 29 – Faculty mtg
with Dean Irwin
> May 6th – Dept./Q2S/ABET
business
> May 13 – ME student/prof
Social
> May 20 – Q2S ‘final’
decisions
> May 27 – Dept business / Prep for
program review
> June 3 – Sr. Class Picture ~11:45, ME
program Review Meeting 12 -2
PM
For Information:
We thanked Steph and
wished her a happy Administrative Professional Day, but
will celebrate it later
Group 2 MATH instructor being
hired by the college will teach engineering students in MATH115 and
263A. Will start in Fall.
> Questions about hiring
process
> 113 and 115 are offered in
summer as online courses – need better communication and interest from
incoming Freshmen
Board of Trustees says we need to
go to centralized IT for security
> bobcat
server will be phased out by summer
> concerns over limitations of current OAK
system for email attachments and website migration
SAB/GSAB – No
report
Grad Program –
No report
For Discussion:
Course Outcomes Review – Steph provided Handouts of compiled course outcomes
from faculty. General discussion.
Q2S Computer courses – The
committee will list the ET181/MATH344 outcomes by May 6th. We will
review and decide what courses we need in this area and which outcomes need
to be redistributed to other courses.
Student Awards –
Discussed and decided
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4/8/09
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Ken Halliday,
Frank Kraft, Rudy Pasic, Khairul
Alam, Bob Williams, John Cotton, Dave Bayless, Jun Choi, David Jones,
Esteban Hincapie,
Reminder
Calendar
> April 8 – ABET business and
‘training’
> April 15 – Area of Expertise meetings
(Greg is away)
> April 22 – Administrative Professional
Day celebration and Dept. Business / Q2S – ‘Computers and
Simulation’ Group proposal?
Friday, April 17
2:30-4:00
PM / 301U Faculty
Commons
PROMOTING STUDENT PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVE LEARNING
(Note that the date for this workshop has been rescheduled from Friday, April
10 to Friday, April 17).
Hands-on session focusing on strategies to engage students and promote active
learning in small and large classes.
Friday, May 8
2:30-4:00 PM / 301U Faculty Commons
TIPS FOR ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
This interactive session will feature a mini-presentation and discussion of
academic publishing strategies and tips.
Sandy Nessing and TaKeysha Cheney from AEP will give a presentation in ME
580 on “Career Opportunities in Alternative Energy”
Date: April 29
Time: 11:10 - 12:00
Room: 171 Stocker
Center
For Information:
SAB/GSAB – ME newsletter being planned – they will contact us
if any info is needed from faculty.
Grad Program – No new items.
Q2S Computer courses - Izzi, John, Khairul and Jay have met
and are working on writing outcomes for the ‘computer and
simulation’ courses - ET181 / MATH344 / (ME 351/451?) – and will bring them to the faculty for a discussion on
whether they can be distributed into other courses or need independent
courses.
For Discussion:
ABET Business and training…
> Refreshers on terminology:
Outcomes and Objectives. Most
discussion centered on the different types of outcomes: program-level (which
are assessed) and course-level (which are now required for all course syllabi
per the University). We will call
all outcomes reported on the syllabi ‘course outcomes’ and will
continue to maintain our separate table of ‘program outcomes’
that are assessed as part of our ABET self study.
> Mastery Outcomes:
Discussion of our approach to ‘mastery outcomes’ and how we
expect every student to demonstrate that they achieved each mastery outcome
before passing the course. It is
best to give either multiple attempts for the student to demonstrate
achievement, or make sure the assessment activity is early enough that you
can give feedback and give them another chance to demonstrate achievement on
that activity. The ‘extra
attempts’ do not have to be included in the grading (though they can if
you think it is appropriate), but successful completion of the activity must
be required for the student to be assigned a grade in the course.
> Action Item –
all faculty agreed to write up course outcomes for
all required undergraduate courses and send them in electronic form by 8AM Wednesday April 22nd to Steph (walkers3@ohio.edu) who will compile them for us.
Guidelines for writing course outcomes:
1. Each faculty member who regularly teaches a
course (and has done so within the last 2 years) should independently write a
set of 'course outcomes' for that course.
2. The list of 'course outcomes' will be more
expansive than the list of program outcomes currently assigned to courses,
but all current program outcomes should be included within the list of course
outcomes
3. For this outcomes list there is no requirement
that they be measurable and there is no expectation that you will be
assessing them within your course.
The primary expectation is that when you teach the course you include
activities designed to help the students meet the listed outcomes.
4. Please pay particular attention to
communication outcomes, especially technical writing.
Continuous improvement
> After reviewing the compilation of outcomes
for our current ‘quarter curriculum’ we will do a ‘bottom up’ approach to roll up the course outcomes to the
program outcome level and see if it suggests any changes to our program
outcomes. This should be good
evidence of continuous improvement of our process.
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4/1/09
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Ken Halliday, Izzi Urieli, Frank Kraft, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam, Bob Williams, John Cotton, Dave Bayless,
Carole Womeldorf, Jun Choi,
Jay Gunasekera, David Jones, Esteban Hincapie,
Reminder
Calendar
> Student Award Nominations have been gathered
and requests for resumes and supplemental info sent to students – due by April 6th.
> Ken, Rudy and Bob will
serve on the award committee to
review the student info and propose for faculty approval the award winners
for the Outstanding ME Senior and ME Senior Leadership Award.
> Robe Leadership Scholar nominees for next
year due April 21.
* We
are gathering names of Seniors to be who have leadership potential and
experience.
* Greg will work with Bob to get names and have Steph check their standing as seniors
> Assessment Reports due by end of 2nd Week
Faculty Meeting Schedule for the quarter
> April 1 – Dept. Business and Q2S
> April 8 – ABET business and
‘training’
> April 15 – Area of Expertise meetings
(Greg is away)
> April 22 – Administrative Professional
Day celebration and Dept. Business / Q2S
> April 29th - Dean Irwin will meet
with us. We get to set the agenda, so let me know if you have any discussion
topics.
> May 6th – Dept./Q2S/ABET
business
> May 13 – ME student/prof
Social or Q2S ‘final’ decisions
> May 20 – ME student/prof
Social or Q2S ‘final’ decisions
> May 27 – Dept business / Prep for
program review
> June 3 – ME program Review Meeting (2
hours)
For Information:
Academic Restructuring open forum
- Monday, April 6 from 12:00-1:30
p.m. in Room 240, Baker Center.
CAD LAB: Any
concerns about the upgrade plan for the machines in 249? No
concerns. Plan approved.
Appropriate uses for the machines being replaced? John will provide info on the old machines which will be
made available once the new machines are inplace. Some should go to student groups or to
upgrade the 011 computers since they were bought with Tech Fee money.
SAB/GSAB – They will be working on an ME newsletter this quarter, including SrD project profiles
Grad Program –
No new business
For Discussion:
Issues with classes and schedules – ME351 has low enrollment – 29 students and it is
supposed to be most of the class since the only other offering is in summer
and they need it for 451. Is the
‘word on the street’ that it will be offered again before 451? Ken will announce in class.
UGRAD Q2S
> Thermal Systems Group curriculum
change proposal was presented and discussed. The
proposal calls for a 3 credit enhanced ME321, a 3 credit enhanced ME328, and
a 5 credit ‘Heat and Fluid Transport’ course sequence that would
combine fluids and heat transfer.
Much discussion on the course names. Some concern over the number of
courses and hours, and significant concern over the number of additional
hours taught by ME faculty. It
was presented as a way to focus more on energy within the curriculum.
> What are the real outcomes (on a
conversational basis, not an assessable basis) for our courses:
> IT101 - what
do we want from this course, and will we lose that if drop the course and do
parts of it in other places?
Students should be able to sketch
part configurations, read blueprints and be competent with dimensioning,
perform 3D visualization, …
It looks feasible to include it in ME
courses (101 and 351/451), but it adds to the ME dept teaching load.
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IT117
Frank talked to Dr Z from IT about a
CNC/Metal Machining/GD&T course – we are waiting to hear back.
> The Ad-hoc ‘Computer Group’
– Izzi, John, Khairul and Jay
– will get together and come up with a proposal for ET181 / MATH344 / ME
351/451, etc. based on outcomes in those areas.
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Open items:
> Other Items
> SAB Suggestion: Create a suggested tech electives sheet for the ME program (Ken
offered to work on this)
> Address issue of the lack of courses for students
early in the program (if they do not start in MATH263A)
> 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
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