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October 19, 2022

Date/Time
Wednesday, 10/19/2022
Location
SCI TECH BLDG 275
Submitted By:
Carly Cox

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Graduate Council  

Minutes #483

October 19, 2022

 

Attending: Jerry Lin, Carly Cox, Debbie Troxclair, Jeff Forret, Theresa Hefner-Babb, Awais Saleem

 

Approval of Minutes 

#482 – September 21, 2022

Motion to accept: Forret, Second: Troxclair

 

Old Business 

 

College of Fine Arts & Communication

Deaf Studies & Deaf Education – proposing to 1) change to existing degree program title; current title is Master of Science in Deaf Studies Deaf Education, proposed new title is Master of Science in Deaf Education. Deaf Studies is under an MA in the same department since August 2021. 2) requesting the MS Deaf Education be moved to asynchronous online delivery, hours required for degree would be 33 hours for students already having Deaf Education certification and 36 hours for those that need certification.  3) course additions and changes as described below:

Course Change

DSDE 5318

Changing title to “Bilingual Theories”

MS Deaf Education

Course Change

DSDE 5319

Changing title to “Literacy”

MS Deaf Education

Course Change

DSDE 5322

Changing title to “STEM”

MS Deaf Education

Course Change

DSDE 5326

Changing title to “Educational Psychology”

MS Deaf Education

Course Addition

DSDE 5311

ASL Linguistics

MA Deaf Studies

Course Addition

DSDE 5330

Deaf Immigrants

MS Deaf Education

Course Addition

DSDE 5331

Deaf Education

MS Deaf Education

Course Addition

DSDE 5332

Behavioral Management

MS Deaf Education

Course Addition

DSDE 5333

21st Century Deaf Education

MS Deaf Education

Course Addition

DSDE 5360

Capstone Seminar

MA Deaf Studies

Council reviewed syllabi and found a mix of both higher and lower level descriptions of rigor, and some inconsistencies in use of higher-level Bloom’s taxonomy across the syllabi. Dr. Saleem will communicate this to DSDE and CoFAC curriculum committee. Once revisions are made, Grad Council can hold voting on these items via email so that the courses are not delayed further and can be placed on the February 2023 Board of Regents agenda.

 

 

New Business


College of Engineering

 

Mechanical Engineering – proposing three doctoral and two master’s courses for Mechanical Engineering graduate programs, see below for details

 

Course Prefix & Number

Course Title

Degree(s) Impacted

Effective Semester

MEEN 5341

Modeling of Supercritical Flui

MS

Summer 2023

MEEN 5342

Mechanism Design & Analysis

MS

Summer 2023

MEEN 6332

Adv. Topics in Computer. Fluids

DE

Summer 2023

MEEN 6315

Adv. Eng. Mathematics

DE

Summer 2023

MEEN 6312

Adv. Topics in Thermal Fluids

DE

Summer 2023

 

Industrial Engineering – proposing several new courses and course changes, see below for details

Change or Addition

Course Prefix & Number

Course Title

Degree(s) Impacted

Effective Semester

Addition

INEN 6305

Engineering Reliability

DE

Spring 2023

Change

INEN 6325

Technology Entrepreneurship

DE

Spring 2023

Change

INEN 6328

User Interface

DE

Spring 2023

Addition

INEN 6331

Stochastic Modeling

DE

Spring 2023

Change

INEN 6353

Manufacturing Analysis

DE

Spring 2023

Addition

INEN 6360

Heuristic Algorithms

DE

Spring 2023

Addition

INEN 6361

Supply Chain Modeling

DE

Spring 2023

Addition

INEN 6374

Human Factors Engineering

DE

Spring 2023

Addition

INEN 6380

Engineering Project Management

DE

Spring 2023

Addition

INEN 5340

Programming for IE

DE, MEM, MES, ME

Spring 2023

 

Electrical Engineering – proposing two course additions: ELEN 5303 Python Programming and ELEN 6303 Advanced Python Programming.

 

Council reviewed all Engineering items and found appropriate description of rigor but some small edits are still needed. Dr. Hefner-Babb will review these further.

 

Policy/Procedure

 

Annual Graduate Faculty review – currently collecting applications, deadline is October 1st, plan to begin review at October meeting and conclude before start of spring 2023 semester. Need to discuss appointment term expirations. Currently set at 5 years for full members and 1 year for special. Do we want to set this year’s approvals to expire in 2025 (4-year appointment) so that we can move toward completing the bulk of our review of full-time faculty to once every five years, or continue to do annual reviews?

 

Previous Discussion: the large number of faculty in CoA&S would make for a very lengthy review in that college. Will discuss further at October meeting.

 

Today’s discussion: the large amount of CoA&S faculty that would need to be reviewed every 5 years would make that process very cumbersome; the relatively large amount of CoEHD adjunct faculty needing yearly review prohibits us from eliminating an annual review entirely. It was agreed to maintain the current procedures.