Faculty Responsibilities
All curricular changes in engineering must be approved by the Engineering Faculty.
These include:
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new courses
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deletion of courses
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changes in course descriptions/prerequisites/credit hours/times of offering
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changes in degree requirements
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curricular elements and graduation requirements for new academic programs
Each change/addition is described in an Engineering Faculty Document (EFD)
which goes through a review and approval process established
by the engineering faculty (see Curricular Change Procedure flow-chart).
The basic sequence is:
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A proposed EFD is first submitted by a committee or academic unit
to the Engineering Advisory Committee.
Upon review, it is either approved for consideration by CFR or
returned to the originating unit for reconsideration and/or revision.
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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 for engineering faculty meeting consideration.
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If no engineering faculty member, within two weeks after distribution,
requests and provides his/her rationale for faculty meeting consideration,
CFR is authorized to approve the EFD for the faculty.
If one or more faculty so request, the EFD will be an action
item on the agenda of the next engineering faculty meeting.
The ultimate authority and responsibility for review and approval
of all EFDs reside with the engineering faculty.
Each member should review every EFD to decide if issues are present that need
discussion and action at an engineering faculty meeting.
