College of Science and Engineering Curriculum Committee – Minutes of September 17, 2009

Location: WSB-145

Members present:

_X_ AVIT – Johnson

_X_ BIOL – Cook

_X_ CHEM – Jeannot

_X_ CSCI – Julstrom

_X_ EAS – Hoff

_X_ ECE – Petzold

___ ETS – Nicholson

_X_ MATH – Fiala

_X_ MME – Bekkala

_X_ NURS – Simones

_X_ PHYS – Harlander

_X_ STAT/CNS – Ghosh

Julstrom called the meeting to order at 10:04am.

Hoff moved, Cook seconded a motion to approve the agenda. Hoff pointed out that we must act on the General Education proposal; this was added to the agenda under old business. With this addition, the motion passed, vote 9-0-0.

Ghosh nominated Julstrom as chair for the 2009-1010 school year. Simones seconded the nomination. There were no further nominations. Julstrom was elected, vote 9-0-0.

Bekkala nominated Cook and Simones as UCC representatives from COSE for the 2009-1010 school year. Johnson seconded the nominations. There were no further nominations. Cook and Simones were elected, vote 9-0-0.

Cook moved, Ghosh seconded a motion to approve the minutes of April 22, 2009. Motion passed, vote 9-0-0.

Hoff indicated that a memo addressing issues raised by the proposal for a MS program in Applied Clinical Research should be forwarded to the chair of the UCC. (This has been done.)

OLD BUSINESS

Simones moved, Hoff seconded a motion to approve the SC proposal from the General Education Committee for the revised SCSU Undergraduate General Education program structure. The main points of the lengthy discussion that followed were these:

· The university is under a great deal of pressure (including legal pressure) to complete this process quickly.  If the deadline of August, 2010 is not met, the external Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MTC) may be imposed on SCSU.

· The university is seriously constrained by mandates, particularly legislative, from off campus.

· The current proposal neglects issues of technology and computer literacy.

· Any new general education program that meets the MTC works a hardship on several programs in the College, particularly in engineering.

· The current proposal is more flexible than the MTC. For example, it allows a single course to fulfill two goal areas and permits using some major courses to fulfill GenEd requirements.

Members of the committee want to consult again with their departments before voting. Johnson moved, Bekkala seconded a motion to table this proposal definitely until our next meeting, which will occur in one week. Motion passed, vote 9-0-0.

NEW BUSINESS

Remaining on the agenda are the following proposals from MME:

· PC: Replace electives MME 402 and 403 with MME 404 and 405.

· PC: Remove PESS 122 (1 credit) as a requirement for the MfgE BS.

· PC: Remove PESS 122 (1 credit) as a requirement for the ME BS.

· SC: Change admission requirements for MME majors and change bulletin description.

· RE: Drop MME 402/502 (Indoor Thermal Engineering)

· RE: Drop MME 403/503 (Design of Thermal Systems)

· NC: MME 404/504 (Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics)

· NC: MME 405/505 (Energy Systems Design and Analysis)

Meeting adjourned at 10:50.