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Faculty Meeting
Notes - Winter 2007-2008
03/12/08
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 1st 2008.
> Next
Meeting: Wed April 2
For information:
>
Randy asks everyone to inform him when sending any equipment to surplus (so he can verify it is not
on our inventory list).
> Engineering and Public Policy Course
being proposed as a J course,
and it now has college support.
It would require ~10 sections per year (20 students per) and each
dept. Would be asked to teach a section. (Is J course
approval instructor specific?)
> Budget update - 3% raise pool in
current budget, pending info from state on possible budget cuts. Provost/EVP has fought to maintain 2nd
year of equity increase in spite of tight budgets. There is ongoing discussion of
guidelines for dispersing funds to college / dept / faculty.
> New SIS system "gap test"
is proceeding. More info expected
next qtr.
> New Blackboard system in pilot
testing - likely to convert to it in summer.
> Space allocation in new building -
there is no assignable space for RCENT, except for biomedical research
collaborations. Classroom and
student project space will be scheduled through the University and college.
> Term of Chairman appointment: 2 year
initial appointment ending. Dean
has asked me to continue in the position. Max consecutive term based on
department consensus is 5 years (July 2011, after ABET visit)
> 5S approach to safety (Toyota factory method) being planned for
011 and SrD next year.
[The
assertion of 5S is that by assigning everything a location, time is not wasted
by looking for things. Additionally, it is quickly obvious when something is
missing from its designated location. 5S advocates believe that the benefits
of this methodology come from deciding what should be kept, where it should
be kept, and how it should be stored.The 5S's are:
- Seiri (整理): Separating. Refers to the practice
of going through all the tools, materials, etc., in the work area and keeping
only essential items. Everything else is stored or discarded. This leads to
fewer hazards and less clutter to interfere with productive work.
- Seiton (整頓): Sorting. Focuses on the need for an orderly workplace.
"Orderly" in this sense means arranging the tools and equipment in
an order that promotes work flow. Tools and equipment should be kept where
they will be used, and the process should be ordered in a manner that
eliminates extra motion.
- Seisō (清掃): Cleaning. Indicates the need to
keep the workplace clean as well as neat. Cleaning in Japanese companies is a
daily activity. At the end of each shift, the work area is cleaned up and
everything is restored to its place. The key point is that maintaining
cleanliness should be part of the daily work - not an occasional activity
initiated when things get too messy.
- Seiketsu (清潔): Standardizing. This refers to
standardized work practices. It refers to more than standardized cleanliness
(otherwise this would mean essentially the same as "systemized
cleanliness"). This means operating in a consistent and standardized
fashion. Everyone knows exactly what his or her responsibilities are.
- Shitsuke (躾): Sustaining. Refers to maintaining
standards. Once the previous 4S's have been established they become the new
way to operate. Maintain the focus on this new way of operating, and do not
allow a gradual decline back to the old ways of operating.
(SrD - talk with Randy about buddy
system to allow work when he is not present)
>
Provost is evaluating the overhead return policy - Dave is on the committee
and will keep us informed
For discussion /
approval:
1. House Bill requests - current status
and approval of some items (See Izzi's file)
> Get requests in by end of month for full
consideration. Rudy suggested
using his combined tension/torsion tester.
2. Safety
-
> 015 "door open alarm" being
investigated. (door doesn't always
shut - look at getting door to close properly, may need to make sure all
students who need it have a key, or have a card swipe lock.)
>
Considering adding safety awareness
and discussions about methods for enhancing safety to 280 / 580. More info from safety committee
later...
3. BOV poster session TH May 8th, 6-7
PM, OU Inn - one "hands-on" project display from the department and
one from each center. All RCENT
faculty, staff and students invited.
Ideas for department project to display?
> Bob will
organize, with Haptics as the centerpiece
4. Proposed quarterly meeting schedule, by
week (to support ABET prep, safety and risk mgmt, etc.)
1. Dept business (schedule review, assessment planning for
new qtr, etc.)
2. Area of
Expertise mtgs to review and discuss assessment
info from last quarter [Spring only]
3. ABET
business and "training"
4. Department
business
5. Social
(ASME, etc)
6. ABET
business and "training"
7. Guests / visitors (Dean, CTL, etc.)
8. Department business
9. Area of
Expertise mtgs to review and discuss assessment and
other info from this quarter
10. ABET
business and "training" (yearly meeting will be at this time in
Spring Qtr)
Exam Wk: no meetings
Break: no meetings
> Schedule approved, with comments on the importance of
focusing on ABET. There were also
comments on the need to set short and long term milestones for the overall
ABET process.
5.
Student award nominations
> Sr
leadership award
- recognizes students who have demonstrated significant leadership in the
department, college, university, community, or in any other situation.
Students with proven accomplishments (not just a list of positions they
occupied) are most likely to be selected for the award.
> Melissa, Alex Conatser, Jim Ferrence, Mike Starkey
> Outstanding ME senior - recognizes students that have
demonstrated a balance of academic achievement, leadership and service, while
acting with character and integrity.
> Melissa, , Mike Starkey
5. Grad Program
> PhD
program updates - looking for CE to get approval soon, and we are next in
line (but timeline is still not clear - very political)
>
Discuss use of "college funds" for grad student support,
specifically issues with PhD student funding
> Department policy: PhD students who are admitted need to have
a faculty advocate
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
> Put together a list of requests for departmental mtg with the Dean
> Departmental P&T guidelines
> Curriculum
issues: Update on impact of the new Gen Ed Requirements (effective 08-09)
and the total number of hours if ME280 and ME380 are added to the curriculum.
> Create programs form FYI to add ME280 and ME380 to
curriculum.
> Make 321 a prereq for 388
(and include the steam turbine and other thermal systems labs)
> Address issue with transfer students and total # of
hours of Math and BS (in catalogue, DARS, and by assigning a "transfer
advisor")
> Correct the catalog wrt
CE220 listed in same quarter as 263C.
> 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, ...
> ABET review preparation
> 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
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03/05/08
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 1st 2008.
Announcements:
> Statics prereq survey completed
for this quarter (14/34 completed it), and data was compiled nicely by Carole
- thanks. Greg will informally
discuss it with CE reps and offer the standard prereq
survey as a tool they may want to implement since they are doing their own prereq inventories.
We will continue to compile data and Rudy will try to get better
participation next time.
>
Budget update:
a. Still waiting on Stocker money (travel, etc) to be
credited to our operating account.
Hard to tell now if we will have any excess available to release to
faculty for discretionary or other purposes. More later...
b. Learned that student awards and
science fair awards can be charged to accounts other than Foundation accounts
-
c. All "cash on hand" processes linked to the college (petty cash,
etc) are being eliminated based on audit findings.
> ICMT
faculty hire - one ME in top 3 candidates
Quick items:
1)
Continuation of report from most-of-the-day long ABET college retreat (Greg)
1. ABET is looking closely and giving deficiencies
for undocumented prereq violations - we may need to
change the pink slip process to require a letter in the file and
department-level sign off.
> Remove the one line from the pink slips
that requires a letter, and require a letter for that situation only.
2. Showing that faculty are
current in discipline is important and failure to do so has led to concerns -
it could be an issue for faculty who do not regularly attend conferences or
do professional development.
3. We need to address the issue with transfer
students and total # of hours of Math and BS (in catalogue, DARS, and by
assigning a "transfer advisor")
4. We need to close the loop for technical
writing. Advisory
board evaluations of lab reports is one part, but we probably need to
show program improvements...
---------------------------Items above
addressed at last mtg
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5. We need to implement a more formal Sr. exit survey for
employment / job title info - it is a new required reporting feature in the
self study report.
> Students suggested
sharing Sr survey data with Robbyn
in career services - maybe even get her office to do the survey and post the
data (useful for recruiting, alumni relations, etc.). We should also ask
alumni if they are willing to give permission to be contacted by students for
job/career info.
6. We need to resume more frequent Area of Expertise
meetings to review/discuss assessment data and courses, and document the
assessment conclusions and recommendations
> Faculty preferred not to have meetings
during exam week. Based on the
long breaks after Fall and Spring, review meetings for those quarters will be
during 10th week (with an extended meeting or extra meeting during 10th week
of Spring for the annual faculty program review meeting). Winter review meeting will be 2nd week
of Spring quarter.
2)
Computer Lab report (John)
> Update on student requests
relative to tech fee - discussed
duplex printer for lab. Added
question to SAB student survey to get additional ideas.
> The following Tech Fee policy proposal was approved
To request tech fee money to purchase software, please include
responses to the following questions in your request:
a) Course use: Is the
software used in a required course, an elective course, or not in any course?
b) Individual student
use: Will the software be used to support student mentoring (including
undergrad research, graduate research, student projects,...)
c) Number of students
impacted: Please estimate how many students a year will use the software
for any purpose (research, course work, etc.)
d) Is there any other justification for use of Tech Fee money for this purchase
(for example you plan to give a yearly seminar in colloquium on the software
application to make students more aware of its capabilities)?
> The computer lab coordinator (John) will review the
requests and either act on them (with department chair approval) or if there
is some question he will bring them to the faculty meeting for
discussion. Requests for software
that is primarily for research and that would impact a small number of
students are only eligible for up to 25% of their cost from tech fee money.
For transparency, the computer lab coordinator will periodically report to
the faculty on tech fee budget and purchases.
3)
SAB/GSAB:
> The
revised SAB
program survey was approved and will be used in ME304 / ME 314/ ME472
early in Spring Qtr. A sophomore
specific survey will also be made by eliminating some questions that do not
apply and it will be administered in ME 224 early in Spring Qtr. The
department will help compile the results, and the SAB will evaluate them and
use them in their report to the Advisory Board.
> Sr.
and Outstanding Leader awards were discussed. There is little student awareness of
the awards. Other departments
give larger awards than we do, but there is no need to match them. [Note: Civil -
3 senior awards, ($300, $250, $200) 3 junior awards ($200, $175, $150)
and one outstanding student award
- ($150), EECS - 2 awards ($250 junior, $500 senior) plus plaques, ME
- 2 senior awards - $100 each plus plaque, 1 junior - $50 plus plaque, 1
sophomore - $50 plus plaque].
> We haven't had an
increase in our award amounts for a long time, so we will increase our awards
to $300 for Outstanding Sr. (combo of GPA, academic achievements, and
leadership within and outside the university) and $150 each for all GPA-based
awards. Another note: The Sr.
Leader nominee for the Loehr Leadership award gets
$100 from RLI, but no monetary award from department.
> The
Department of Campus Life encourages nomination of students who have
demonstrated great leadership while attending Ohio University
- Due April 9th. Awards presented at the 25th Annual
Leadership Awards Gala, Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
4)
Evidence of student problems caused by MATH dept. This can include specific anecdotes or
broad observations.
> Unexplained inconsistency in grading from one section to
another.
> Examples of students who have done well in Math 115 - and
then D's or failed 263A.
> Lots of student feedback on their dissatisfaction with
their MATH instructors.
> Math concerns from TJ - they avoid application problems,
which are important to engineers.
We need them to focus on common problems in Engineering, not the
analytically difficult problems.
5) We put
together a list of requests/questions for our departmental mtg with the Dean (Spring quarter)
>
Space allocation
>
Workloads and P&T - High WSCH loads for ME profs puts us at a
disadvantage
>
Faculty lines - to address our high student/faculty ratio
>
Plans for the Stocker and Russ bequests - scholarships (Ugrad
and grad), recruiting, pipeline programs, increase travel support, ...
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02/27/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; John Cotton, Bob
Williams, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf, Dave Bayless, Jesus Pagan, Stephanie Walker, Melissa Feigi, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
> White Award Applications due to
department March 1.
Teaching
Committee: Bob (chair), with Dave (2006) and Greg (2005). Teaching
Application
Research
Committee: Rudy (chair), with Frank (2006) and Dave (2005). Research
Application
> House
Bill purchases need to be
made/encumbered before April 1st 2008.
> As
agreed in the 2/6/08 ME faculty meeting, we will follow the same procedure
this year as in the past for the faculty evaluations that help determine
distribution of any merit-based salary increases (including equity
adjustments). To be considered, please edit your form from previous
years, or fill out a new form available at
http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~kremer/ChairStuff/ME_Faculty_Eval_form.doc.
The due date will be March 3, 2008.
Announcements:
>
International Space University may be coming to campus in summer '08. If so, it may displace some summer
classes to rooms outside of Stocker.
>
Classroom space on first floor of Stocker will be made available to
departments (primarily to ME and CE) after the classrooms in the new building
are on line. We will have the
chance to use or trade spaces.
Committee (Dennis, Val, Gayle, Greg and Shawn) will begin to discuss /
plan.
> Possibly use
for dep't controlled classrooms, location for SEM... Try to find Stocker
layout to help decide what spaces would be best for the department...
> A
Copy of the topics list was reviewed for the first course in the MATH Proposal concerning splitting MATH
344 Numerical Methods for Civil and Mechanical Engineers into two 2 hour
courses, 1 that could be taken concurrently with MATH 263B and a 2nd which
would be department specific applications in differential equations. There were
huge concerns with freshmen being able to handle the topics listed,
especially in a 2-credit course.
Per Todd Young, MATH will keep teaching MATH344 as long as we want
them to, so we will not make any changes now and will wait to see what
happens with the course proposal with the other departments.
Carole
brought up an issue with course availability for sophomores - focused first
on ME288 but more broadly a concern that students leave when they cannot get
into courses needed for their degree.
Discussion
of ME288 prereqs led to a possible need to have
263B formally listed as a prereq due to the
histograms in statistics.
Quick items:
1)
Selected a 3-member Russ Best Paper Review Committee (Frank, Bob and Dave
submitted entries).
> Khairul, Rudy and John.
2) Report
from all-day meeting on employment
issues (Greg)
1.Campus Safety is a mindset (new notification systems
being implemented, there is already an emergency info link on the OU home
page http://www.ohio.edu/emergency/)
2. Internal Controls Survey (emailed to faculty)
3. Pre-employment background search policy (near approval
status, will add some time [<48 hours] and cost to faculty searches)
4. Employee misconduct
5. Americans with Disabilities Act
6. Harassment policy
7. Public records (all you can do for now is limit the
written records you create)
8. Ohio
Ethics Law
3) Report
from most-of-the-day long ABET college
retreat (Greg)
1. ABET is looking closely and giving deficiencies for
undocumented prereq violations - we may need to
change the pink slip process to require a letter in the file and
department-level sign off.
> Remove the one line from the pink slips that requires
a letter, and require a letter for that situation only.
2. Showing that faculty are
current in discipline is important and failure to do so has led to concerns -
it could be an issue for faculty who do not regularly attend conferences or
do professional development.
3. We need to address the issue with transfer students and
total # of hours of Math and BS (in catalogue, DARS, and by assigning a
"transfer advisor")
4. We need to close the loop for technical writing. Advisory board
evaluations of lab reports is one part, but we probably need to show
program improvements...
---------------------------Items below not
addressed due to time -----------------------------------------------------
5. We need to implement a more formal Sr. exit survey for
employment / job title info - it is a new required reporting feature in the
self study report. [Is there a
way to make it valuable to students / alumni - for example by putting a table
of the data on the web each year with student permission?
6. We need to resume more frequent Area of Expertise
meetings to review/discuss assessment data and courses, and document the
assessment conclusions and recommendations.
7. We need to correct the catalog wrt
CE220 listed in same quarter as 263C.
8. We need resume more formal yearly faculty program
review meetings. Proposed meeting during exam week:
Wednesday June 11th, 10AM - 2PM.
4) Area
of Expertise Committee updates?
> Statics prerequisite survey data [Rudy]
>
Updates on other open items?
5)
Computer Lab report (John)
> Update on student requests relative
to tech fee
> Tech Fee policy discussion?
6)
SAB/GSAB - Try to get easier access to style guides for ME grad students (in
addition to the copy at the library), and work with Melissa to refine the SAB
data collection method for this year.
7) ME288
- Do we need to add another section?
Main issue is lack of courses for students early in the program.
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02/06/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Ken Halliday, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; John Cotton, Bob Williams, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf, Stephanie Walker, Melissa Feigi,
TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
>
White Award Applications due to department March 1.
Teaching
Committee: Bob (chair), with Dave (2006) and Greg (2005). Teaching
Application
Research Committee:
Rudy (chair), with Frank (2006) and Dave (2005). Research
Application
Announcements:
Congratulations
to Dave Bayless
for being elected to the grade of Fellow
in ASME!
Hydraulics Lab Opportunity - IT department and the college
are working with Parker-Hannifin to have a Hydraulics lab donated, and have
invited ME participation.
a) Any ME courses we would be interested in using the lab
for (demos, experiments, etc.)?
If so, what equipment would we want?
b) Next Tuesday a group from OU will visit
Parker-Hannifin. Anyone from ME want to go along on to see options and give
the ME perspective? If not,
anyone willing to be the ME contact person to work with Pete Klein on this?
FYI, we are likely to get 8 training stations, with
hydraulics and controls (PLCs) and
sensors...probably similar to this lab description from U of I: "The
laboratory consists of hydraulic and pneumatic test systems that are
interfaced to a computer-based data acquisition and control system. The focus
of the lab activities is to support classes related to modeling, analysis,
and control of dynamic systems."
> No ME champion
for now (but Dr. Jay is willing to help out). There is interest in using the lab in
388 and 401 and maybe some other courses.
>Follow up on the MATH Proposal concerning
splitting MATH 344 Numerical Methods for Civil and Mechanical Engineers into
two 2 hour courses, 1 that could be taken concurrently with MATH 263B to give
a compact introduction to Matlab programming and
some numerical methods early in the curriculum, and a 2nd which keeps its ME
focus and covers the second half of the material which is primarily
differential equations. (http://www.math.ohiou.edu/courses/math344/). Todd
Young has been asked to come to a college CAC meeting for additional
discussion.
> For Rudy's idea of offering a workshop for our students, Ken
thought that we would need an immediate application if it was added to
ME101. It may be more appropriate
in ET181 since there are immediate applications, if MATLAB is appropriate to
introduce in that course. The
computer committee will revisit the overall issues with ET181 and at that
time will consider including MATLAB in the course.
> Dear
Chairs/Directors: I am writing to ask for your help in promoting the upcoming
interviews with candidates for Vice
President for Research and Creative Activity and Dean of the Graduate College. This is a very important position for
the university and the open forums provide an opportunity for the university
community to become acquainted with each candidate and participate in the
selection process by filling out a candidate evaluation form that will be
available at the forums. I would
appreciate it if you would encourage the faculty in your departments/schools
to attend the remaining open forums.
Mark
Welker- Feb 11th - 4:10pm Baker Center
room 240
Rathindra Bose - Feb 19th -
4:10pm Baker
Center room 240
CV's for
each of the candidates can be found on the search web site:
http://www.ohio.edu/apaa/VP_RESEARCH_SEARCH.cfm
Sincerely,Martin Tuck PhD, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
> Next Wed Feb 13th, ASME social 12-1, 103.
> Feb
20th - open time for area of expertise meetings. Feb 27 - normal meeting.
Quick items:
1) SAB -
At the request of the Advisory Board to provide a sampling of student
perspectives on the department and the curriculum, the SAB proposed doing a
survey in several of our new or modified classes (ME288, ME303, ME314, ...)
to reach a range of students and ask some general questions about the
curriculum, and ask for some comments on the new courses.
> Ken was concerned that the initial survey that was presented
in the meeting crossed the line into assessing individual courses/instructors
rather than the program and curriculum.
Greg will work with the SAB and the Industrial Advisory Board to
clarify what data is needed and how best to obtain it this year.
2) Statics prerequisite survey data [Rudy]
> Only 2 extra submissions - Rudy will present data at the
next meeting from the 17 tests completed
3) House Bill purchases
need to be made/encumbered before April 1st 2008. Remaining balance = $20,234
> Izzi and his committee will accept applications for lab
equipment that directly supports undergraduate labs. See Izzi for
instructions and the application guidelines.
4) Faculty availability for teaching next
year - any planned buy-outs or other things to consider as we look at the
teaching schedule?
> Izzi on sabbatical in Winter, Khairul 1 class buyout in Winter and Spring, Frank and
Dave may also buy out of a class.
5)
Discussions initiated with CHE faculty concerning content of CHE418. Need ME faculty to participate in the
discussions.
> Frank and Ken will meet with Dan Gulino,
Darin Ridgway, and Dr. Gu.
6) Faculty
evaluation form -
> We will use same process for this year, with a due date in
early March. We expect equity
money to be available for merit-based distribution. We do not know about the general
salary pool.
7) Tech Fee
report (John): Money is available for software or other technology to support
students and teaching.
> Khairul will talk to John about Polyflow
> Melissa suggested cleaning towels for the computer
keyboards. SAB will consider
other student needs.
8) ME
Department metrics - updated
after meeting with the dean and based on discussions at last meeting. Only one more issue to discuss now - PE registration for faculty - what is our
target? (50% of eligible Group 1 is college goal).
> We may return to
metrics later after we have data and an understanding of their use &
importance.
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1/30/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; Dave Bayless, John Cotton, Bob Williams, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf, Stephanie Walker, Melissa Feigi,
TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
Announcements:
>MATH
Proposal: Thinking about offering a new 2 credit freshman course,
tentatively titled: "Introduction to Numerical Methods and
Programming". It would be modeled on and take materials from the current
course: MATH 344 Numerical Methods for Civil and Mechanical Engineers. Our idea would be to take about half
of the material from 344 to make a 2 hour course that could be taken concurrently
with MATH 263B to give a compact introduction to Matlab
programming and some numerical methods early in the curriculum. If it works, we would then reduce MATH
344 to a two hour course which keeps its ME focus and covers the second half
of the material which is primarily differential equations. The ME majors in
MATH 344 routinely say that they wish they could have had the course earlier
in their careers and when asked, they unanimously favor the idea of the
proposed change. (http://www.math.ohiou.edu/courses/math344/)
> There was general support for the idea
> Questions: What is real breakup of material?
Ideas were offered for how it could be done.
> Related discussion: Rudy offered to lead a
MATLAB short-course for students.
Maybe offer it in ME101.
He will talk to Ken.
Quick items:
> Statics prerequisite survey data [Rudy] - Report
postponed until more data can be collected.
> Curriculum change suggestion: The idea of moving
ME412 into Jr year, possibly before ME328 was
thoroughly discussed by the thermal systems group after the main faculty
meeting. There were good
arguments for both sides, depending on whether you prefer a systems-first or
a component-first approach. In
the end it was decided to try to move ME412 to the junior year in the catalog
and in our advising materials, but not to add any prerequisites that would
force it to happen.
> Feb
22nd - ME Advisory board members on campus in morning for SrD
help sessions - may be available in early afternoon for talks to classes.
> ME
Department metrics - updated
after meeting with the dean.
Significant discussions, especially about diversity goals. Plan to follow up on this the Dean
>
Upcoming meetings: Feb 6th - normal meeting. Feb 13th, ASME social. Feb 20th - open time for area of
expertise meetings. Feb 27 -
normal meeting.
>
ME388 / CHE418 Spring schedule conflict.
Moving ME388 TH session to Wednesday would solve it.
****Consider eliminating
CHE418 from the curriculum.
Replace with a ME materials lab to replace CE223 and CHE418.
>
ME328 / CHE418 conflict - no change planned since it is not a graduation
critical issue - and ME328 may be offered in summer, and CHE418 is able to be
taken next year.
>
Computer/Software report (John)
> SAB/GSAB
items
> Faculty
evaluations - same process for this year?
Agenda:
> Thermal Systems group discussion of thermal
design outcome.
At minimum we need a short term assessment solution. We can also prepare for a longer term
curriculum solution.
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1/23/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; John Cotton, Bob
Williams, Ken Halliday, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf, Stephanie Walker, Melissa Feigi,
Alex Conatser, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
Announcements:
> PE
salary incentive - $1500 added to base, plus Dean will pay associated
preparation and travel expenses
>
Yield activities are again being encouraged by the University
> Sick
leave reminder - faculty must file if they are out or if they spend time in
hospital for an extended period (days)
> Russ
College Research Fair, May 9th in Walter Hall, faculty-focused
displays/demos, goal is to demonstrate (to the Board of Visitors and to other
within the college) the expertise available in the college
> 60%
classroom scheduling on hold until details can be worked out with
departmental schedulers (Steph is our
representative). They are
starting with scheduling of 125+ rooms.
>
State Budget uncertainty - should know by end of January
>
College funding looks better in long term due to major gifts
>
Physics plans to switch two weeks of material between 252 and 253.
Specifically, the material on electrostatics currently in 252 will be moved
to 253 and material on the wave properties of light and geometrical optics
will be moved from 253 to 252. The rational for this change is that less than
half of the students that take 253 take it in the quarter immediately
following the one in which they take 252. By moving the material on
electrostatics into 253 we will have a complete unit on electricity and
magnetism. Moving the material on light into 252 is justified by emphasizing
the wave properties of light and not the electromagnetic properties, as is
currently done.
>
ME467 Biomechanics of Human Motion approved by CAC.
Quick items:
>
Stocker Scholars, Sat Feb 16th, need 2 faculty from each program to talk to
families at the beginning (Dave will be there, need one more, Bob)
> Need
to schedule departmental mtg with the Dean (he has
no agenda, but wants to meet all departments to keep in touch and answer
questions) - put together a list of requests
>
Faculty training required for writing / reviewing documents?
> We
need to establish Departmental P&T guidelines (The Dean said that we can
no longer just rely on the college guidelines). [Dave volunteered to be on the
committee to work on it]
> Per
Dave: ME 388 will not really conflict with ME 328 in the Spring, as the
lecture is really only 1-2 T/Th, so the 2pm start
time of ME 328 should be fine
>
ME351/ME401 conflict in Spring?
Agenda:
The College safety committee has
instituted a requirement for posting in the lab the operating procedures and
emergency procedures for all experiments, both instructional and research.
Randy discussed this and we will take steps to comply.
Addressed
issue with ME288 outcome for DOE awareness - moved to ME488
Thermal Systems discussion: (ran out of time
before completing this - will follow up after the meeting)
> Adopt the curriculum suggestion?: Move 412 into Jr year and make it a prereq
for 470 instead of 328 (though there was some concern from students that we
shouldn't allow too much time between 321 and 328).
Other options? At
minimum we need a short term solution, we can also prepare for a longer term
solution:
a.
Reinstituting ME417 was proposed, but it is 4 credits with prerequisites of
ME328 and 412 - this would cause issues with total hours and scheduling (hard
to fit in before Sr. year).
b. 1-hour
"thermal design lab" coreq with ME412
c. 1-hour
lab add-on to ME328
[Note -
the better of b and c depends mostly on where they fall in the curriculum.]
d. Do it
in SrD by restricting project selection to
faculty-selected projects that incorporate both thermal and mechanical design
and instituting measures to ensure all individuals complete design work in
both aspects of the project. This would require increased involvement of
thermal design faculty in the Sr. design sequence and a long term commitment
to continue it.
e. Make
ME412 a prereq for ME451, and do
a thermal design project in ME451.
f. Make
ME328 a prereq for ME488, and do a steam turbine
design / experimental activity in 488.
1/16/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; John Cotton, Bob
Williams, Ken Halliday, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf, Stephanie Walker, Melissa Feigi,
Alex Conatser, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
Notes:
> ASME
social Feb 13th
> SAB
/ GSAB gave input on thermal design issues with curriculum. Target any new projects for Jr year, if it is a lab add-on make sure it doesn't
require more time than warranted by the number of credits,...
> GSAB
concerns with MATH 545 - it doesn't seem to be working well with the current
instructor. TJ will keep us
informed.
> Rudy
gave an update on the Statics prerequisite survey. He plans to have data at the next
meeting.
> Outcomes Review - moved one from MATH344
to ME401. Posted the updated
outcomes list on departmental webpage for easy access by all (http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~kremer/ChairStuff/Specific%20Outcomes_withFundamentals_Jan08.doc).
> Thermal Systems discussion:
>
Related curriculum suggestion: Move 412 into Jr
year and make it a prereq for 470 instead of 328
(though there was some concern from students that we shouldn't allow too much
time between 321 and 328).
Options
Discussed:
a.
Reinstituting ME417 was proposed, but it is 4 credits with prerequisites of
ME328 and 412 - this would cause issues with total hours and scheduling (hard
to fit in before Sr. year).
b. 1-hour
"thermal design lab" coreq with ME412
c. 1-hour
lab add-on to ME328
[Note -
the better of b and c depends mostly on where they fall in the
curriculum. There was general
be taken after it How to address the thermal design outcome. Idea - add a 1-credit hour to the
ME412 course.]
d. Do it
in SrD by restricting project selection to
faculty-selected projects that incorporate both thermal and mechanical design
and instituting measures to ensure all individuals complete design work in
both aspects of the project. This would require increased involvement of
thermal design faculty in the Sr. design sequence and a long term commitment
to continue it.
1/09/08
Attendees: Greg Kremer; Izzi Urieli, Rudy Pasic, Khairul Alam; Dave Bayless, John Cotton, Bob Williams, Ken Halliday, Frank Kraft, Carole Womeldorf,
Stephanie Walker, Melissa Feigi, TJ Cyders
Reminder
Schedule
>
Course Assessment
Report "front page" due for all required Ugrad classes - please see Steph
if you need a template.
>
Chemical Inventory due by Jan 10th - Please get with Randy if you have not
yet completed it.
Announcements
> Jun Choi has accepted our job offer and will start July 1
2008.
>
Jesus Pagan is currently working for the OCRC and will move into departmental
role on July 1, 2008.
>
Randy has updated the safety contact sheets and the nameplate info outside of
each ME lab based on college guidelines.
Please make sure all students using the labs are aware of the
procedures to follow in the event of a safety event.
> Two
Sr. Design teams have received prototype funding awards from ASEE for their NISH projects, and one team received PURF funds.
>
Randy's primary job responsibility is to support the Sr. Design machine shop
and undergraduate labs. He can
help out with some research related items and special projects, but only as
his schedule allows. We have been
asking too much of him in side projects, hampering his ability to prepare 011
and 015.
>
Department "poster" is available for events, conferences, etc. It is set up in Greg's office if you
want to take a look.
>
Stephanie is continuing to move into an administrative coordinator role
(Assessment coordinator for Data and reports, Enrollment management
coordinator, Special events coordinator)
Agenda
Items
> The
College safety committee has instituted a requirement for posting in the lab
the operating procedures for all experiments, both instructional and
research. (Randy)
>
Departmental Safety Committee Update.
> Display
area in hall - See Steph if you have items of
interest to add to the area.
>
ET280 - need a volunteer to do the ME talk on Feb 20. I can provide a basic presentation
file. The emphasis is on examples
- students or faculty talking about ME projects is good.
>
Department Metrics - do we want to discuss?
> SAB
items?
>
Computer Lab items (John)
>
Fundamentals & Service Courses (Rudy Pasic, Jay
Gunasekera, Carole Womeldorf):
Status of prerequisite inventory in Dynamics to make case for integrating Statics with Dynamics in a Mechanics course sequence.
> ICMT
faculty hire Update?
> TA
issues?
> 60%
classroom scheduling rule
>
Other items?
·
Other long term actions
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