PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Schools of Engineering

Committee on Faculty Relations

 

Minutes of Meeting #959                                                                                          February 15, 2002

 

 

Present:     Professors, Gaunt, Groll, Huggins, Okos, Schmeiser, Spitzer, Sutton, and Zoltowski.

 

Absent:     Professors Collicott, Revankar, and Venkatasubramanian.

 

1.   The meeting was called to order by Chair Sutton.  The agenda was approved as distributed.

 

2.       Meeting minutes #958 were approved as distributed.

 

3.  Announcements: The Heads and Cabinet Committee concluded it was not appropriate to follow accelerated procedures to consider forming an administrative unit/structure for EPICS that might initiate faculty documents, e.g., request new EPICS course designators.

 

4.   Zoltowski moved that EFD 10-01 be approved for the faculty with the revisions agreed upon by the faculty members that flagged the document for discussion at the spring faculty meeting and ECE.  Groll seconded the motion, which passed with one abstention.  EFD 10-01was approved for the faculty.

 

§         EFD 10-01   ECE    New Course EE 685 Introduction to Robust Control

 

5.   An ad hoc group consisting of John Gaunt (chair), Mike Zoltowski and Eckhard Groll was appointed by Chair Sutton to document the impact of minors in the engineering schools.  The group will report to CFR in 2-4 weeks.

 

6.   Groll moved that engineering faculty documents be submitted and distributed electronically to the faculty; Okos seconded the motion.  Documents will be posted on the web and an email summary of documents posted will be sent to engineering voting faculty with a link to the website.  A mechanism for response will be included on the website.  After discussion, Zoltowski moved that as an amendment to the original motion, in addition to the email notice, a hard copy of the email summary be sent via campus mail to the voting faculty; Groll seconded the motion, which passed with no one dissenting.  The original motion passed with a vote of 6/1.  As soon as technically feasible, faculty documents will be submitted and distributed using these new procedures.

 

7.   The meeting was adjourned at 1:10 p.m.

 

 

Chris Murray

Recording Secretary