Lamar University
Graduate Council
Minutes #486
February 15, 2023
Attending: Tom Harvey, Brett Welch, Theresa Hefner-Babb, David Short, Carly Cox, Debbie Troxclair, Ken Young, Awais Saleem, Vivek Natarajan, Yueqing Li
Approval of Minutes
#485 – January 18, 2022
A motion to accept the minutes was made and seconded. The minutes are approved.
Old Business
Graduate faculty review – discussed procedure and criteria for review; council members tasked with completing their review and forwarding any questions or concerns to council
College of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering – proposing three doctoral and two master’s level courses for Mechanical Engineering graduate programs, see details in table below.
|
Course Change or Addition |
Course Prefix & Number |
Course Title |
Degree(s) Impacted |
Effective Semester |
|
Addition |
MEEN 5341 |
Modeling of Supercritical Fluids |
MS |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
MEEN 5342 |
Mechanism Design & Analysis |
MS |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
MEEN 6332 |
Adv. Topics in Comput. Fluids |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
MEEN 6315 |
Adv. Eng. Mathematics |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
MEEN 6312 |
Adv. Topics in Thermal Fluids |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
Industrial Engineering – proposing several course additions and changes, see table below for details.
|
Course Change or Addition |
Course Prefix & Number |
Course Title |
Degree(s) Impacted |
Effective Semester |
|
Addition |
INEN 6305 |
Engineering Reliability |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Change |
INEN 6325 |
Technology Entrepreneurship |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Change |
INEN 6328 |
User Interface |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
INEN 6331 |
Stochastic Modeling |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Change |
INEN 6353 |
Manufacturing Analysis |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
INEN 6360 |
Heuristic Algorithms |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
INEN 6361 |
Supply Chain Modeling |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
INEN 6374 |
Human Factors Engineering |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
INEN 6380 |
Engineering Project Management |
DE |
Summer 2023 |
|
Addition |
INEN 5340 |
Programming for IE |
DE, MEM, MES, ME |
Summer 2023 |
Council members will review these syllabi and we will conduct voting via email once review is completed.
New Business
College of Education & Human Development
Counseling – proposing deletion of CNDV 5302 Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and replace with new course CNDV 5304 Foundations of Professional Counseling. Will impact M.Ed. Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Clinical Mental Health Counseling certificate programs.
Need to know if the current degree plan reflects this change already. The department has been asked to submit a degree plan for review.