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New recruiting
thrust of College
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Needs to be a
better balance between teaching and research
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Biomass/Biofuels
Group
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Capstone Courses
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New IP short
form related to skills development with students
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Exploring
concept of hiring research faculty with soft money
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Kalpana Katti,
Civil Engineering – Peltier Award
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Faculty
hiring: College is short 10 faculty
members
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Space is very
tight – chairs will decide on how they can best utilize space in Ehly and
Architecture buildings.
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ABET – Did not
state out objectives correctly; draft response report has been sent in (final
vote July 2007).
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New activity in
CEA: Leadership development – start
thinking differently; changing curriculum to a design curriculum concept
rather than analysis).
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Entrepreneurism
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FM Economic
Development Corporation partnership (embedded systems, biomedical device
design)
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New CEA
Distinguished Alumni Recognition Award – Jack Johnson first recipient
Agenda item: Recap of IIE Regional Conference Presenter: John Kline
Discussion:
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196 students
registered for this conference; 150 students actually were able to travel to
the conference
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This was a very
successful event
Agenda item: Afternoon Breakout Session
All Advisory Board Members,
Faculty
Colleen Emery presided over
the meeting in place of Andy Gates.
Discussion:
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Review of Action
Items from Fall 2006 Advisory Board Meeting
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Contact Alumni
Center to see if any alumni work for Haas Automation. Sue contacted the
Alumni Center
on 10/19/06 and no results were found.
Jeff Bigger had previously discussed assistance with equipment needs;
Dr. Farahmand will contact him by email.
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Get list of
schools participating in JET (Dr. Farahmand):
Nancy Rossland handled this.
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Send space
utilization study to advisory board members:
This was done on 10/17/06
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Provide a list
of AB subcommittees with membership information (Andy Gates): Andy Gates was
not present. Previous subcommittees
formed were Recruitment, Fundraising, Technology, and Space. Because Nancy Rossland is now in charge of
college relations and recruiting, it was decided by the Board that an
Executive Committee would be formed instead.
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Resend Bylaws to
Advisory Board members. This was done
on 10/17/06.
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Provide list of
members up for renewal with ballot (Andy Gates): Andy was not present. The Board decided on the steps described
under the ”Nomination Procedures” below.
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Check into
possibility of using IVN for AB meetings:
It was decided by the Board to drop this idea; possible future
technology.
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Send
recommendations for new advisory board members to Dr. Farahmand and he will
invite: No new recommendations were
forwarded to Dr. Farahmand. Nomination
procedures are discussed below in further detail.
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Funding for DVD
– possibility of student design. Reza
Maleki contacted Minnesota State University Film Studies Department on
10-18-06; that department reviews and finalizes project selection during
Spring semester. This will remain an
open action item.
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Equipment
requests (utilize Board members):
Department “Wish List” – this will remain an open action item.
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Readdress name
of program and title with Board members at Spring meeting.
Discussion:
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IME Advisory
Board Nomination Procedures
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Qualifications –
Nominated by someone in the department or other AB member
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Executive
Committee formed that will handle the nomination process during the Spring
meeting and voting process during the Fall meeting
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Revised board
would contain 2-3 student members, 2 years or less recent grads. Dr. Farahmand will put together list; also
look at possible recruit list from Elvin Isgrig. Contact first to see if they have an
interest in serving on the board, then forward their name to the AB members. A minimum of 9 names will be forwarded for
consideration.
(Peter
Sedgeman, Infinity Windows, was given as one possibility.)
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On current
member list, add a column for “date appointed.” If a member has not attended one meeting
per year and they do not contact us, they will be put on “inactive
list.” Dr. Farahmand will send out
emails to the “inactive list” before removing them from the AB. The Board reviewed the current member list
for active and inactive members.
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Two names were
nominated for the AB Chair and Vice-Chair position. Reza Maleki nominated Jim Misialek for the
Chair position; the motion was seconded.
Mike Kiernan was nominated for the Vice Chair position; the motion was
seconded.
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IME Alumni
Recognition Program
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Recognition: The AB voted to accept
the name “IME Recognition of Excellence”
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Selection criteria: Professional nomination
letter outlining alumni with distinctive careers that have made significant
contribution to the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department,
their professional accomplishments, and their contributions to society, community,
and state. Person can be renominated
if not chosen.
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Open nominations
to be discussed and voted on in Fall advisory board meeting. A subcommittee from AB will meet 1-2 months
before the Fall meeting to screen nominations.
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Method of
Recognition: Several ideas were
discussed; the idea that appealed to all was a “Wall of Fame” that would be
within the IME Department. Plaques
with names/pictures for the person(s) chosen would be placed on the wall and
on the department’s web site.
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Five recipients
will be selected at the next Advisory Board Meeting in October 2007. The AB decided to recognize Elvin Isgrig
and Al Henderson as the first two recipients of the IME Recognition of
Excellence. Three other recipients
will be selected during the Fall meeting.
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