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Minutes Undergraduate Studies Committee Meeting 1/28/04 1) Alignment of AME412 with ENGR498 Our Department Head is very supportive of the Meredith Aronson proposal to bring the capstone design course offerings into chronological alignment. One of he difficulties in the past has been the perceived effort required to rearrange the 7 or 8 classes so that alignment is possible. To start this process, BDG will meet with the AME course coordinator, KG, to generate several scenarios to bring to the next faculty meeting. The second issue is quality assurance. To address this issue, Meredith has been asked if she would be willing to share the AME498 course evaluations with the UGSC. In any case, we should propose an oversight committee to re-evaluate the course on a semester or yearly basis. Action Item: BDG to develop a choice of alignment scenarios to present to faculty 2) Status of Manufacturing Engineering 2+2 and 2+2+ Degrees Pima is anxious to commence with the 2+2 and 2+2+ degree programs that have been recently proposed. In this regard, AA has contacted two officials in the University Curriculum Development Office to inquire what is necessary to bring the (unaccredited) manufacturing engineering degree to a reality. AA outlined the steps from the department to ABOR. We were also informed that approval will come no earlier than in ’06. It seems that we may be able to expedite the process if we are on the President’s agenda for cooperation with PCC. It was also strongly suggested that the stakeholders-PCC, UA: AME, SIE, EngMgt, Curriculum Development and Raytheon meet to discuss the situation. It was also noted that the 2+2+ degree is what we have now with PCC transfer students, so nothing much needs be done. It was suggested that we provide, in detail, the specific courses that are transferable from the current 2 year PCC manufacture engineering program; and in addition, identify the courses from our program that will lead to the BSME with a manufacturing emphasis. Action Item: JMC to arrange a meeting of all the stakeholders. Action Item: SVS to list the courses from the PCC and UA programs for the 2+2+ degree 3) Status of Pima Course: MAC 110 Manual Machine Shop PCC has developed a 4-unit course to teach shop to our students on their campus. This is more than we offer now (AME413: 1-unit) but is tailored to our ME student who is not training to be a machinist. The faculty will need to make some choices such as-- Should we + do this at all? + allow 1 shop unit from the 4-unit course in our program? + allow 1 shop unit and 3-units of technical elective? + ask students to attend just 1 unit’s worth of course material? + ask PCC to development a 1-unit shop course specifically for us? Upon this decision, we need to arrange the logistics. Action Item: BDG to bring choices to faculty for discussion. Attachments - Page 48 Aerospace Engineering
4) Faculty directive of 1/12/04: New Prerequisite Check Process and filing of syllabi The JMC directive of 1/12/04 asked the faculty to request students in undergraduate courses to obtain their SAPR to verify that they indeed have taken the prerequisites for the course (if any). To close the loop, the faculty should be queried as to compliance. In addition, the faculty should be made aware that in the near future this will be done automatically at the time of course registration. Also the faculty should be asked in another directive to register their syllabi with Keith, as the syllabus is the legal course contract with the student and should be available upon request. This is also true for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Action Item: JMC will release a directive Action Item: BDG will inform the faculty 5) Faculty advisors Some question was raised concerning the faculty advisor’s role in the overall AME experience. It was mentioned that the faculty should be reminded who is a faculty advisor and of their role. JMC suggested, that to make the advisor a more meaningful part of process, all students be requested to see a faculty advisor sometime during the semester. JMC also indicated that faculty advisors should spend some effort if they expect service credit. 6) Proposed Summer school courses Action Item: BDG to mention this at faculty meeting. Action Item: BDG to ask faculty which course should be offered during the summer session. 7) 3+2 Program The GSC asked for an opinion on going forward with the 3+2 program that would lead to both a BSME/AE and MSME/AE. After some discussion of the fairness of the program, the UGSC unanimously recommended that we endorse the program. Action Item: SVS to report to GSC Items for future consideration: + Student and alumni surveys: Dissemination and analysis + Is there a better way to do advanced standing? + Revisiting the AME minor. + Sharing the advising load. Aerospace Engineering Attachments - Page 49
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