ECE Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes for February 20, 2009

1. The Minutes of the February 13, 2009 meeting were approved.
2. The revision of ECE 398 to allow Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading (so that the ECE 398 rubric can be used to offer zero-credit-hour seminars) was approved.
3. Lynford Goddard's ECE 498 Principles of Experimental Research was approved for the Fall 2009 semester. The Committee suggested shortening the title to Experimental Research Methods.
4. Kent Choquette proposed a list of technical electives from Biochemistry; after discussions, the final approved list is BIOC 406, 440, 446, and 455.
5. Erhan Kudeki led the discussion of the proposed list for Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; the final approved list is CHBE 221, 321, 421, 422, 424, 430, 431, 440, 451, 452, 453, 456, 457, 471, 472, 473, and 474.
6. The Committee approved Biophysics courses BIOP 401, 417, 419, 420, 432, and 470 for technical elective credit.
7. Doug Jones reported that all Neuroscience concentration courses are cross-listed from MCB or IB (and thus already on the technical elective list) or from Psychology (and in his opinion not technical enough to qualify), so he proposed that no NEUR courses be listed as technical electives. The Curriculum Committee accepted this recommendation.
8. Jont Allen volunteered to review courses from Speech and Hearing Science.
9. Donna Brown and Doug Jones volunteered to draft a general guideline for evaluating the suitability of courses for technical elective credit.
10. The Committee adjourned at 3:49 PM.