Engineering Faculty Documents (EFDs) are the formal process by which engineering faculty approve all academic policy and curricular changes. EFDs reviewed during the current academic year are linked in the following table. The Status column shows each document's stage in the approval process. Each EFD link opens an html-version of a document. Your browser is unlikely to display the document's original format, but PDF-versions offer correctly formatted viewing or printing.

Document No. and Source: Subject	PDF	Action Deadline	Status
EFD_1-02_from_ECE: (New Course)			with originating unit
EFD_1-03_from_NE: (New Course: NUCL 273. Mechanics of Materials)			APPROVED
EFD_10-03_from_ME: (ME 577: New course: Human Motion Kinetics)			APPROVED
EFD_11-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 295. Selected Topics in Biomedical Eng.)			APPROVED
EFD_12-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 395. Selected Topics in Biomedical Eng.)			APPROVED
EFD_13-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 495. Selected Topics in Biomedical Eng.)			APPROVED
EFD_14-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 201. Biomolecules: Structure, Function and Eng. Applications)			APPROVED
EFD_15-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 202. Biomaterials)			withdrawn
EFD_16-03_from_BME_revised: (New Course: BME 204. Biomechanics of Hard and Soft Tissues)			APPROVED
EFD_17-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 205. Biomedical Eng. Lab I)			APPROVED
EFD_18-03_from_BME_revised: (New Course: BME 206. Biomedical Eng. Lab II)			APPROVED
EFD_2-02_from_ECE: (New Undergrad Course)			APPROVED
EFD_2-03_from_ECE: (ECE 517 Visualization Techniques)			APPROVED
EFD_21-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 301. Bioelectricity)			APPROVED
EFD_22-01_from_CHE: (Che 536 Permanent course number)			APPROVED
EFD_22-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 304. Bioheat and Mass Transfer)			APPROVED
EFD_23-01_from_CHE: (New Course: CHE 525. Biochemical Engineering)			APPROVED
EFD_23-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 305. Bioinstrumentation Laboratory)			APPROVED
EFD_24-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 306. Biotransport Laboratory)			APPROVED
EFD_25-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 390. Biomedical Eng. Professional Seminar)			APPROVED
EFD_26-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 405. BME Design Project)			APPROVED
EFD_27-03_from_BME: (New BME Curriculum)			APPROVED
EFD_28-03_from_ABE: (New Course: ABE 201. Thermodynamics in Biological Systems I)			APPROVED
EFD_29-03_from_ABE: (New Course: ABE 202. Thermodynamics in Biological Systems II)			APPROVED
EFD_30-03_from_ABE: (New Course: ABE 592. Special Topics II)			APPROVED
EFD_31-03_from_CHE: (Che 498 change to allow repeat credit)			APPROVED
EFD_32-03_from_BME: (BME 540 change in semester offering)			APPROVED
EFD_33-03_from_AAE: (AAE 624: New Graduate Course)			APPROVED
EFD_34-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 521/ABE 560 - Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications)			APPROVED
EFD_35-03_from_ABE: (New Course: ABE 560/BME 521 - Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications)			APPROVED
EFD_36-03_from_EEC: (General Education Requirements)			with originating unit
EFD_38-03_from_FrE: (FrE Change of Course Requirements)			withdrawn
EFD_39-03_from_FrE: (FrE Admission to Professional Programs)			withdrawn
EFD_40-03_from_FrE: (ENGR 126 New Course)			with originating unit
EFD_42-02_from_ME: (ME 352, 452 and 463: Change prerequisites)			APPROVED
EFD_43-02_from_CE: (Change in BSCE degree requirements)			APPROVED
EFD_44-02_from_CE: (New Course: CE 399)			APPROVED
EFD_45-02_from_CE: (New Course: CE 398)			APPROVED
EFD_45-03_from_BME: (Permanent Course: BME 583 Biomaterials)			APPROVED
EFD_46-02_from_CE: (Change in BSLSE degree requirements)			APPROVED
EFD_46-03_from_BME: (Permanent Course: BME 541 Biomedical Fluid Dynamics )			APPROVED
EFD_47-02_from_CE: (New Course: CE 203)			APPROVED
EFD_47-03_from_NUCL: (New Undergrad Course, NUCL 470)			APPROVED
EFD_48-02_from_CE: (CE 303: Change in course title and description)			APPROVED
EFD_49-02_from_ABE: (New Course, ABE 303)			APPROVED
EFD_5-02_from_ECE: (New Grad Course, ECE 677)			APPROVED
EFD_50-02_from_ABE: (ABE 556: Change Title, Description, Prerequisite)			APPROVED
EFD_51-02_from_ABE: (Curriculum degree requirements change)			APPROVED
EFD_52-02_from_ECE: (ECE 398 and 398: Delete courses)			APPROVED
EFD_53-02_from_ECE: (ECE 396: Change in availability)			APPROVED
EFD_6-03_from_ECE: (ECE 462 Object Oriented Programming Using C++ and Java)			APPROVED
EFD_8-03_from_ChE: (New Course: CHE 517. Micro/Nanoscale Physical Processes)			APPROVED
EFD_9-03_from_ME: (New Course: ME 517/CHE 517. Micro/Nanoscale Physical Processes)			APPROVED

All engineering academic policy and curricular changes or additions must be approved by the voting engineering faculty. Each proposed action must originate and be approved by an academic unit or Engineering committee. That proposal must then be described in an Engineering Faculty Document (EFD) which undergoes a review and approval process (see flow-chart) managed by the Committee on Faculty Relations (CFR). The basic sequence is:

1. An EFD defining a proposed program or course change by an engineering committee or academic unit is first submitted as an MS Word™ file to the Academic Affairs Office for preview by the Engineering Advisory Committee (AC). Any voting AC member(s) may request the proposal be placed on the agenda of its next meeting. If no member so requests within two weeks of posting, the EFD is tacitly approved for consideration by CFR. Possible AC actions for "discussion flagged" documents are: table, approve for CFR consideration, or return to the originating unit for reconsideration and/or revision.
2. CFR reviews the EFD, either approving it for distribution to the engineering faculty or returning it to the originating unit for revision. Approval for distribution implies CFR will subsequently give formal approval unless the document is "flagged" by a faculty member(s) for engineering faculty meeting consideration. CFR meets, takes actions, and submits documents to the faculty only during the fall and spring semesters; the clock for faculty review is suspended for holidays and when academic year faculty are in vacation status.
3. If no voting engineering faculty member, within two weeks after distribution, requests and provides her/his rationale for faculty meeting consideration, CFR is authorized to approve the EFD for the faculty. If one or more faculty so request ("flags" the document), the EFD is put on the agenda for action at the next engineering faculty meeting.
4. If an EFD is not "flagged", it moves to awaiting CFR approval status. This is a one-week period for electronic balloting by CFR acting "for the engineering faculty" to officially approve a document.