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Faculty Meeting Minutes Department of Mechanical Engineering May 3, 2016

Present: R. Anthony, R. Averill, S. Baek, A. Benard, G. Brereton, T. Reid Bush, J. Choi, G. Cloud,B. Feeny, C. Gunn, G. Griffore, F. Jaberi, M. Koochesfahani, J.Klausner, P. Kwon, L. Lee, P. Lillehoj, D. Liu, A. Loos, N. Mueller, R. Mukherjee, A. Naguib, T. Pence, G. Recktenwald, S. Roccabianca, H. Schock, D. Segalman, K. Stevenson, R. Tabaczynski, I. Wichman, X. Xiao, J. Yeom, J. Yuan,. Zayernouri , G. Zhu.

Absent: A. Alsahlani, A. Diaz (Sab.), A. Engeda, T.Gao, R. Haut, C. Paul, W.Resh,B. Thompson, E. Toulson, N. Wright

Meeting called to order at 3:00 p .m.

1. Approval of Minutes of the 4/6/2016 Faculty Meeting –

Naguib moved/Bush seconded - Unanimous

2. J. Klausner presented his Chair’s Remarks

 Congratulated the search committee on its efforts and work this semester and the current search.

3. A. Naguib presented the background and committee’s recommendation on the hiring of G.Magnotti.

 The search committee finds Gaetano Magnotti to be acceptable (6-0)for a tenure track faculty position in fluids/combustion in the ME Department at MSU

Yes 23 No 0

4. J. Klausner presented a new policy for the composition of Ph.D. committees

 The proposal is to require ME Department Ph.D. Committees to have at least one member with 50% or more appointment in the Department.

 Much discussion ensued.

Yes 26 No 0

5. J. Klausner presented a charge to the Graduate Committee:

Proposal:

 1) Sitting for the qualifying exam is the norm for all incoming Ph.D. students and will be administered following the completion of a semester.  2) Each qualifying exam will be associated with a core graduate course plus designated others identified by the Graduate Committee, and will cover basic introductory graduate curricular concepts.

 3) The qualifying exam will consist of Engineering Analysis and two other subject areas associated with graduate core courses.

 4) Incoming Ph.D. students taking core courses (plus designated others) will be excused from taking the qualifying exam in a specific subject area if they earn a grade of 3.5 or better in the associated core course.

 5) MSU undergraduate students who earn 3.5 or better in a core graduate course (or designated others) will be excused from taking the qualifying exam in the subject area associated with the course.

 6) MSU M.S. students earning 3.5 or better in a core graduate course (or designated others) will be excused from taking the qualifying exam in the subject area associated with the course.

 7) Only the first four core graduate courses (or designated others) attempted will be considered for a grade of 3.5 or better to be excused from a qualifying exam subject area.

 8) Students who must sit for the exam will only have two attempts.

 9) Students must successfully complete qualifying exam requirements within 15 months of starting the PhD program.

Motion from G.Brereton seconded by H.Schock to require the 3.5 in #5 above to be in an examination in the course not the course itself.

Yes 5 No 15

Motion from A.Naguib seconded by M.Koochesfahani to remove Fluids II from the list of subject areas. (See appendix for listing of all subject areas)

Yes 10

Motion from Tom Pence seconded by G. Brereton to have only core courses be connected to qualifiers.

Yes 21

Much discussion ensued. A.Naguib moved G.Brereton seconded to table the proposal and send it back to the Gradaute Committee.

Yes 11 No 3

5. J. Klausner presented the Graduate Program organizational structure and the 3-year course projections for each of the four groups (Fluid-Thermal Science and Engineering, Dynamic Systems and Controls, Solid mechanics, Design, and Manufacturing, Biomechanical Engineering.

6. R. Mukherjee reported on the Graduate Program:

 114 Ph.D.’s /31 MS students

 T support provided to new Ph.D.’s for the first year and continuing Ph.D.’s who have failed to find and advisor with funding or an advisor who has run out of funding.

 Students requesting TA support must fill out the TA request form.

 Mukherjee provided numbers of students without funding, offers made for fall 21016, and names of the 20 incoming Ph.D. students for fall 2016.

 There are also 2 incoming MS students.

 There is an effort being made to target graduate students for acceptance which requires faculty to provide information on their research, approach to that research, challenges, and impacts.

 There is to be a formal application review process for students applying for fall 2017.

7. G. Brereton brought a motion from the MEUCC:

A concentration in Aerospace Engineering is approved as an addition to the BSME Program.

Yes 14 No 2

8. Geoff Recktenwald presented the Faculty Onboarding for Academic Resources:

 The large number of resources available to instructors to aid in their teaching was provided.

Meeting adjourned at 5:05 p.m. respectfully submitted cjgunn Appendix

ME Core Courses Plus Designated Others

Subject Graduate Core Courses Plus Designated Others Math ME800F Engineering Analysis

Solids ME820F Continuum Mechanics ME821S Linear Elasticity

Dynamics ME860F Theory of Vibrations ME861S Advanced Dynamics

Fluids ME830F Fluid Mechanics I ME832S Fluid Mechanics II

Controls ME851F Linear Systems and Control ME859S Nonlinear Systems and Control

Thermodynamics ME810S Advanced Classical Thermodynamics ME819S Combustion ME842S Advanced Turbomachinery Heat Transfer ME812F Conductive Heat Transfer ME814S Convective Heat Transfer