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Graduate Council  

Minutes #483

October 19, 2022

 

Attending: Jerry Lin, Carly Cox, Debbie Troxclair, Jeff Forret, Theresa Hefner-Babb, Awais Saleem

 

Approval of Minutes 

#482 – September 21, 2022

Motion to accept: Forret, Second: Troxclair

 

Old Business 

 

College of Fine Arts & Communication

Deaf Studies & Deaf Education – proposing to 1) change to existing degree program title; current title is Master of Science in Deaf Studies Deaf Education, proposed new title is Master of Science in Deaf Education. Deaf Studies is under an MA in the same department since August 2021. 2) requesting the MS Deaf Education be moved to asynchronous online delivery, hours required for degree would be 33 hours for students already having Deaf Education certification and 36 hours for those that need certification.  3) course additions and changes as described below:

Course Change	DSDE 5318	Changing title to “Bilingual Theories”	MS Deaf Education
Course Change	DSDE 5319	Changing title to “Literacy”	MS Deaf Education
Course Change	DSDE 5322	Changing title to “STEM”	MS Deaf Education
Course Change	DSDE 5326	Changing title to “Educational Psychology”	MS Deaf Education
Course Addition	DSDE 5311	ASL Linguistics	MA Deaf Studies
Course Addition	DSDE 5330	Deaf Immigrants	MS Deaf Education
Course Addition	DSDE 5331	Deaf Education	MS Deaf Education
Course Addition	DSDE 5332	Behavioral Management	MS Deaf Education
Course Addition	DSDE 5333	21st Century Deaf Education	MS Deaf Education
Course Addition	DSDE 5360	Capstone Seminar	MA Deaf Studies

Council reviewed syllabi and found a mix of both higher and lower level descriptions of rigor, and some inconsistencies in use of higher-level Bloom’s taxonomy across the syllabi. Dr. Saleem will communicate this to DSDE and CoFAC curriculum committee. Once revisions are made, Grad Council can hold voting on these items via email so that the courses are not delayed further and can be placed on the February 2023 Board of Regents agenda.

 

 

New Business

College of Engineering

 

Mechanical Engineering – proposing three doctoral and two master’s courses for Mechanical Engineering graduate programs, see below for details

 

Course Prefix & Number	Course Title	Degree(s) Impacted	Effective Semester
MEEN 5341	Modeling of Supercritical Flui	MS	Summer 2023
MEEN 5342	Mechanism Design & Analysis	MS	Summer 2023
MEEN 6332	Adv. Topics in Computer. Fluids	DE	Summer 2023
MEEN 6315	Adv. Eng. Mathematics	DE	Summer 2023
MEEN 6312	Adv. Topics in Thermal Fluids	DE	Summer 2023

 

Industrial Engineering – proposing several new courses and course changes, see below for details

Change or Addition	Course Prefix & Number	Course Title	Degree(s) Impacted	Effective Semester
Addition	INEN 6305	Engineering Reliability	DE	Spring 2023
Change	INEN 6325	Technology Entrepreneurship	DE	Spring 2023
Change	INEN 6328	User Interface	DE	Spring 2023
Addition	INEN 6331	Stochastic Modeling	DE	Spring 2023
Change	INEN 6353	Manufacturing Analysis	DE	Spring 2023
Addition	INEN 6360	Heuristic Algorithms	DE	Spring 2023
Addition	INEN 6361	Supply Chain Modeling	DE	Spring 2023
Addition	INEN 6374	Human Factors Engineering	DE	Spring 2023
Addition	INEN 6380	Engineering Project Management	DE	Spring 2023
Addition	INEN 5340	Programming for IE	DE, MEM, MES, ME	Spring 2023

 

Electrical Engineering – proposing two course additions: ELEN 5303 Python Programming and ELEN 6303 Advanced Python Programming.

 

Council reviewed all Engineering items and found appropriate description of rigor but some small edits are still needed. Dr. Hefner-Babb will review these further.

 

Policy/Procedure

 

Annual Graduate Faculty review – currently collecting applications, deadline is October 1^st, plan to begin review at October meeting and conclude before start of spring 2023 semester. Need to discuss appointment term expirations. Currently set at 5 years for full members and 1 year for special. Do we want to set this year’s approvals to expire in 2025 (4-year appointment) so that we can move toward completing the bulk of our review of full-time faculty to once every five years, or continue to do annual reviews?

 

Previous Discussion: the large number of faculty in CoA&S would make for a very lengthy review in that college. Will discuss further at October meeting.

 

Today’s discussion: the large amount of CoA&S faculty that would need to be reviewed every 5 years would make that process very cumbersome; the relatively large amount of CoEHD adjunct faculty needing yearly review prohibits us from eliminating an annual review entirely. It was agreed to maintain the current procedures.