Lamar University
Graduate Council
Minutes #482
September 21, 2022
Attending: Jerry Lin, Jeff Forret, David Short, Theresa Hefner-Babb, Vivek Natarajan, Yueqing Li, Awais Saleem
Approval of Minutes
#481 – August 24, 2022
Motion to accept minutes – Forret, second – Hefner-Babb
Old Business
New Business
College of Arts & Sciences
Mathematics – providing a list of proposed leveling courses for international students or students with undergraduate majors other than mathematics. The department will provide a prescribed list of leveling courses to the admissions office for each student as part of the acceptance process. See memo for full course details.
Motion to accept – Forret, second - Li
College of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering – proposing three doctoral and two master’s courses for Mechanical Engineering graduate programs, see below for details
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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 Comput. 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 one new master’s course, INEN 5340 Programming for IE, to be used in DE, MEM, MES, and ME Industrial Engineering degree programs effective summer 2023
After review of all CoE course additions, some issues with the course syllabi were found. CoE representative Dr. Li will address with Jenny Zhou and request word version of syllabi, will also check that the 6000 level courses do not corresponding 5000 or 4000 level courses. If so, need to make sure syllabi show different level of SLOs and course objectives.
Policy/Procedure
Annual Graduate Faculty review – currently collecting applications, deadline is October 1st, 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?
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.