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.

Documents needing immediate faculty attention show an in faculty review status and their Action Deadline. Such EFDs open with an integral form that may be used to "flag" it for special processing, i.e. forestall approval by the normal CFR process and instead divert that EFD onto the action agenda of the next engineering faculty meeting.  

Document No. and Source: Subject	PDF	Action Deadline	Status
EFD_01-02_from_ECE: (New Undergraduate Course ECE 435 Object-Oriented Design Using C++ and Java)			in CFR review
EFD_01-06_from_CE: (New Grad Course, CE 684)			APPROVED
EFD_02-06_from_CE: (New Grad Course, CE 685)			APPROVED
EFD_03-06_from_CE: (New Grad Course, CE 686)			APPROVED
EFD_04-03_from_ECE: (New Graduate Level Course: ECE 683)		8/24/07	in AC preview
EFD_04-06_from_BME: (New Grad Course BME 691)			APPROVED
EFD_05-05_from_AAE: (New Grad Course, AAE 595)			APPROVED
EFD_05-06_from_BME: (Change in BME 305)			APPROVED
EFD_06-06_from_BME: (New Grad Course BME 600)			APPROVED
EFD_07-05_from_COOP: (Creation of College-wide Certification Program)			withdrawn
EFD_08-05_from_AAE: (Curriculum Change for BS in AAE)			APPROVED
EFD_08-06_from_ME: (Changes in ME 263)			APPROVED
EFD_09-05_from_ECE: (Title Changes to Grad Course ECE 663)			APPROVED
EFD_09-06_from_ME: (Changes in ME 290)			APPROVED
EFD_10-05_from_ECE: (Title Changes to Grad Course ECE 573)			APPROVED
EFD_11-06_from_MSE: (Change in Minimum Degree Requirements for MSE)			APPROVED
EFD_12-06_from_ECE: (Deletion of ECE 553)			APPROVED
EFD_13-06_from_ECE: (Deletion of ECE 653)			APPROVED
EFD_14-06_from_ECE: (New undergraduate course ECE 470)			APPROVED
EFD_15-06_from_CRTF: (Adoption of Purdue Engineer 2020)			APPROVED
EFD_16-06_from_ECE: (Changes in ECE 572 Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems)			APPROVED
EFD_17-06_from_CE: (Changes in CE 456 Water and Wastewater Treatment)			APPROVED
EFD_18-06_from_CE: (Changes in CE 352 Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering)			APPROVED
EFD_19-06_from_ENE: (Replacement of Freshman with First-Year in various undergrad course titles)			APPROVED
EFD_20-06_from_ECE: (New Undergraduate Level Course ECE 190)		8/31/07	in faculty review
EFD_21-06_from_CHE: (CHE 205 Chemical Engineering Calculations (Prerequisite change))			APPROVED
EFD_22-06_from_CHE: (CHE 306 Design of Staged Processes (Corequisite change))			APPROVED
EFD_23-06_from_CHE: (CHE 348 Chemical Reaction Engineering (Prerequisite and Corequisite changes))			APPROVED
EFD_24-05_from_CE: (Changes in CE 456)			APPROVED
EFD_24-06_from_CHE: (CHE 434 Chemical Engineering Laboratory I (Prerequisite change))			APPROVED
EFD_25-06_from_CHE: (CHE curriculum change)			APPROVED
EFD_27-06_from_CE: (New Grad Course, CE 598 Graduate Professional Internship)			APPROVED
EFD_28-06_from_CE: (Change in Course Name CE 397 Professional Internship)			APPROVED
EFD_29-06_from_ABE: (Changes in Undergraduate Level course ABE 201 Thermodynamics in Biological Systems I)			APPROVED
EFD_30-06_from_ABE: (Changes in Undergraduate Level Course ABE 205 Engineering Computations for Biological Systems)			APPROVED
EFD_31-05_from_ENE: (New Grad Course, ENE 601)			on AC agenda
EFD_31-06_from_ABE: (Curriculum Change for the B.S. Degrees in ABE)			APPROVED
EFD_32-05_from_ENE: (New Grad Course, ENE 602)			withdrawn
EFD_32-06_from_ABE: (Changes in Name of field of study Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering)			APPROVED
EFD_33-05_from_ENE: (New Grad Course, ENE 696)		8/24/07	in faculty review
EFD_34-05_from_CE: (Changes in CE 479)			APPROVED
EFD_34-06_from_ENE: (Engr 103 revision to class hours)			APPROVED
EFD_35-05_from_CE: (Changes in CE 584)			APPROVED
EFD_35-06_from_ENE: (Engr 104 revision to class hours)			APPROVED
EFD_36-03_from_EEC: (General Education Requirements)			with originating unit
EFD_36-05_from_ECE: (Changes in ECE 659 Course)			in CFR review
EFD_36-06_from_ENE: (Change in Title for Bachelor of Science in Engineering Degree Program)			APPROVED
EFD_37-05_from_ECE: (Changes in ECE 453 Course)			in CFR review
EFD_37-06_from_ENE: (Addition of COM 114 prerequisite to IDE 301)			APPROVED
EFD_38-06_from_ENE: (Changes in Graduation Requirements for IDE BSE Degree)			APPROVED
EFD_39-06_from_CE: (New Graduate Level Course CE 689 Plasticity Theory)			in CFR review
EFD_40-06_from_ME: (New Course Approval ME 554 Intellectual Property)		8/31/07	in faculty review
EFD_41-06_from_ECE: (Change in Graduation Requirements for Electrical and Computer Engineering )		8/31/07	in faculty review
EFD_42-06_from_ME: (Prerequisite Changes ME 200 and ME 270)		8/31/07	in faculty review
EFD_43-06_from_ME: (Changes in ME 586 and ME 588)		8/31/07	in faculty review
EFD_45-06_from_ME: (New Course ME 612 Continuum Mechanics)			in CFR review
EFD_46-06_from_ME: (Course Deletions)			in CFR review
EFD_47-06_from_ECE: (Changes in Course ECE 654)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_48-06_from_ECE: (Changes in Course ECE 526)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_49-06_from_ECE: (Changes in course ECE 556)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_50-06_from_ECE: (Course Changes in ECE 606)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_51-06_from_ECE: (Changes in ECE 612)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_52-06_from_ECE: (Changes in ECE 656)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_53-06_from_ECE: (Changes in ECE 658)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_54-06_from_ECE: (Changes in Course ECE 559)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_55-06_from_ECE: (Course Deletion ECE 589)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_56-06_from_ECE: (Course Deletion ECE 681)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_57-06_from_ECE: (Course Deletion ECE 682)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_58-06_from_ECE: (Course Deletion ECE 684)		8/31/07	in AC preview
EFD_59-06_from_ECE: (Course Deletion ECE 689)		8/31/07	in AC preview

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. A flag of the document by one or more Engineering Faculty members can result in referral of the EFD to the faculty. CFR is authorized to approve the EFD for the faculty after action on the flag.
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.