PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Schools of Engineering
Committee on Faculty Relations
Minutes of Meeting #980 December
4, 2003
Present: Professors,
Cipra, Huggins, Lawley, Montgomery, Okos, Rundell, Swain and Wang
Absent: Professors
Collicott, Fricker, Revankar, and Spitzer
Guest: Andrew Brightman,
BME
1. The meeting was called to order by Chair Montgomery. The agenda was approved as distributed.
2. Meeting minutes #979 were approved as distributed.
3. Announcements: Dean Huggins announced a substantial restructuring
of the Dean’s office resulting in a change in his duties to become Associate
Dean for a newly formed Office for Resource Planning and Management. Duties previously associated with the Office
of Strategic Initiatives under the leadership of Assistant Dean Klod Kokini
have been reallocated and that office closed.
Professor Kokini has agreed to accept appointment as the Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs. Leah Jamieson,
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, will assume the duties as administrative
member of CFR effective January 1, 2004.
4. Rundell moved that EFD 16-03 be approved for distribution to the faculty; Okos
seconded the motion, which passed unanimously.
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EFD
16-03 was approved for distribution to the faculty.
5. Rundell
moved that EFD 17-03 be approved for distribution to the faculty; Okos seconded
the motion, which passed unanimously.
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EFD
17-03 was approved for distribution to the faculty.
6. Rundell moved that
EFD 18-03 be approved for distribution to the faculty; Okos seconded the
motion, which passed unanimously.
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EFD
18-03 was approved for distribution to the faculty.
7. Dean Huggins
led a discussion of the BME undergraduate program. The committee was asked to reflect about how
it should review and process the anticipated BME curriculum when prior faculty
approval of all undergraduate courses cannot be attained before students must preregister in March.
After discussion, the committee agreed to consider a proposed curriculum
that would run parallel with the six remaining EFDs
that are pending. The first meeting of
the spring semester will be scheduled as soon as possible in January.
8. The meeting was
adjourned at 1:20 p.m.
Recorder