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_01-04_from_BME: (New Grad Course, BME 570)			APPROVED
EFD_06-04_from_BME: (Change in Semester offering BME 583)			APPROVED
EFD_07-04_from_BME: (Change in Semester offering BME 541)			APPROVED
EFD_1-02_from_ECE: (New Course)			with originating unit
EFD_10-04_from_ChE: (Change in Prerequisite Requirements 320)			APPROVED
EFD_11-04_from_ChE: (Change in Prerequisite Requirements 377)			APPROVED
EFD_13-04_from_ENE: (Change in Course Description Engr 194)			APPROVED
EFD_14-04_from_ENE: (Change in Course Description Engr 180)			APPROVED
EFD_15-04_from_ENE: (IDE 485 New Course)			APPROVED
EFD_16-04_from_ENE: (Change in graduation requirements for IDE for BSE)			APPROVED
EFD_17-04_from_ENE: (IDE 300 New Course)			APPROVED
EFD_18-04_from_MSE: (New Grad Course, MSE 525)			APPROVED
EFD_19-03_from_COOP: (Creation of a Concentrated Coop Education Program)			APPROVED
EFD_19-04_from_ABE: (Change in Semester offering ABE 320)			APPROVED
EFD_2-04_from_ENE: (New Course)			APPROVED
EFD_20-04_from_ABE: (Change in Semester offering ABE 545)			APPROVED
EFD_21-04_from_CE: (CE 567 New Dual-Level Course )			APPROVED
EFD_22-04_from_CE: (CE 355 New undergraduate course )			APPROVED
EFD_24-04_from_ENE: (Change in graduation requirements for IDE for BS Degree)			APPROVED
EFD_25-04_from_ENE: (New Grad Course ENE 699)			APPROVED
EFD_26-04_from_ENE: (New Dual Level Course ENE 590)			APPROVED
EFD_27-04_from_ENE: (New Dual Level Course ENE 595)			APPROVED
EFD_28-04_from_ENE: (New Grad Course ENE 695)			APPROVED
EFD_29-04_from_ENE: (New Grad Course ENE 698)			APPROVED
EFD_3-02_from_ECE: (New Course)			APPROVED
EFD_3-04_from_ENE: (New Course)			APPROVED
EFD_30-04_from_NUCL: (New Dual Level Course, NUCL 553)			APPROVED
EFD_31-01_from_BME: (New Grad Course, BME 658)			APPROVED
EFD_31-04_from_BME: (New Dual Level Course, BME 553)			APPROVED
EFD_32-04_from_EPCS: (New Course EPCS 101)			APPROVED
EFD_33-04_from_EPCS: (New Course EPCS 201)			APPROVED
EFD_34-02_from_COOP: (Creation of an Advanced Technical Experience Program)			APPROVED
EFD_34-04_from_EPCS: (New Course EPCS 301)			APPROVED
EFD_35-04_from_EPCS: (New Course EPCS 302)			APPROVED
EFD_36-03_from_EEC: (General Education Requirements)			with originating unit
EFD_36-04_from_EPCS: (New Course EPCS 401)			APPROVED
EFD_37-03_from_BME: (New Course: BME 630)			APPROVED
EFD_37-04_from_EPCS: (New Course EPCS 402)			APPROVED
EFD_38-02_from_COOP: (Creation of an Intensive Internship Program)			APPROVED
EFD_38-04_from_EPCS: (New Course EPCS 490)			APPROVED
EFD_39-02_from_COOP: (Creation of an Advanced Leadership Experience Program)			APPROVED
EFD_4-04_from_AAE: (New Grad Course, AAE 535)			APPROVED
EFD_40-01_from_BME: (New Grad Course, BME 551)			APPROVED
EFD_40-02_from_COOP: (Creation of an Internship Program)			APPROVED
EFD_41-02_from_COOP: (Creation of new courses)			APPROVED
EFD_41-03_from_CEM: (Change of Course Requirements)			APPROVED
EFD_42-03_from_CE: (Elective Rules for BSCE Curriculum)			APPROVED
EFD_43-03_from_CE: (Change of Grading Requirements for BS in CE)			APPROVED
EFD_44-03_from_BME: (New Grad Course, BME 690)			APPROVED
EFD_45-03_from_BME: (Permanent Course: BME 583 Biomaterials)			APPROVED
EFD_46-03_from_BME: (Permanent Course: BME 541 Biomedical Fluid Dynamics )			APPROVED
EFD_47-03_from_NUCL: (New Undergrad Course, NUCL 470)			APPROVED
EFD_5-02_from_ECE: (New Grad Course, ECE 677)			APPROVED
EFD_5-04_from_AAE: (New Grad Course, AAE 575)			APPROVED
EFD_9-04_from_ChE: (Change in Curriculum )			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.