EFDs Active in 2004-05

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.