Minutes

ECE Faculty Meeting February 19, 2019 12:40

Present: Drs. Chamberlin, Kirsch (via Zoom), Kun, LaCourse, Messner, Smith, Song, Yoon, Yu

Absent: Carter, Kayaalp, Mahmud

1. Approve minutes of January 29, 2019 faculty meeting

The minutes were passed by a vote of the faculty.

2. Announcements

a. Update on Faculty Search

Faculty candidate Filiz Yesilkoy will be visiting on Friday, March 1. We will need to do a better

job of organizing the student session, as only one student showed up for several of the last inter-

views.

b. Executive Committee

i. Budget expected to be flat next year, so it is unlikely that departmental budget cuts will be restored. UNH & CEPS enrollments are down by 3%.

ii. Workaround for international students taking online courses.

iii. SAT/ACT/GPA of incoming freshmen about the same as in past.

c. Budget Meeting with Dean

i. Tentative teaching assignments (attached) approved

The teaching assignments were discussed and only one faculty member (Prof. Messner) expressed

concern. Prof. Messner will be following up with the Chair to address that concern.

d. Consider nominating student(s) for one of eleven university awards.

e. Admitted Students Day (Saturday, April 13th; tentative agenda below) and Mini-Admitted-Students Days (Friday, March 29th and Friday, April 5th)

Based upon discussions in the meeting, faculty volunteered for roles in the Saturday event and the

tentative agenda below reflects faculty participation in that event. Please let the Chair know if

there are discrepancies.

No faculty member committed to the Mini-Admitted Students Day, but several are considering do-

ing so. It was noted that having more student volunteers for those days would be desirable.

i. Need volunteers for the three events (attachment).

f. Writing Academy Retreat (attachment)

3. Merit/Equity Pay: we have $6820 to distribute to tenure-track faculty. In recent years, we have distributed across-the-board.

The faculty voted to spread the merit/equity dollars evenly across the faculty.

4. Standing Committee Reports/Updates

a. Undergraduate (Carter)

In Prof. Carter’s absence, Profs. Song and Yoon reported on Committee activities. The Committee

is exploring how the recommended changes in the curriculum will impact issues such as student

transfers. In particular, they would like to make it easier to transfer between the EE and CE pro-

grams. They are also looking for ways to ensure that CE and EE students are equally prepared for

upper-level courses.

Consideration is being given to moving ECE543 to the sophomore year for CE students.

The Committee is continuing to advance the idea of a Biomedical Engineering option.

b. Graduate (Kun)

Himadri Bassu presented his Dissertation Defense to his Committee (Profs. Carter, Thein, Fer-

rante, Yoon and Song) and they voted unanimously to pass him. The ECE faculty voted to pass Mr.

Basu to candidacy.

c. Lab & Equipment (LaCourse)

Prof. LaCourse reported that the Human-Computer Interface Lab (Prof. Kun) would be moving

and sharing space in the Biomedical Engineering Lab (Profs. LaCourse and Chamberlin).

Prof. LaCourse stated that having access to a relatively-low-cost EEG (<$2K) would be useful in

several courses (e.g., ECE444, ECE784 and ECE791/792). The faculty were asked if anyone had

concerns about purchasing the EEG and no concerns were expressed.

d. CAPC (LaCourse, see attachment)

e. Faculty Senate (LaCourse, see attachment)

5. New/Old Business

Respectfully submitted,

-Kent Chamberlin

Tentative Teaching Assignments Presented at Budget Meeting with Dean

Faculty Member Fall 2019 Spring 2020

Carter 714/814, 602 634, 941**

Chamberlin 901**, Chair 704/804, Chair

Kayaalp 562 711

Kirsch 757/857, 920** 603

Kun 724/824**, 900, GC 900, 924**, GC

LaCourse 444H/444 (H, W, L(2)), 775/875 784/884

Messner 401 L(5), 757 Labs (3) 543, 562

New Hire 541 548

Pahlevanzadeh 537 L(5) -

Shaad 543/543 L(4) 583

Smith 651, 617(W, L(3)), 791(W) 647, 618(W), 792

Song 992 (Biosensors) 7XX/8XX (new, Solid State)

Yoon 633/633H 772/872H L(2), 952

Yu 715/815 649, 992 (Security)

GC: Graduate Coordinator

**Required for our online certificate program

W = Writing Intensive

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

ADMITTED STUDENT VISIT DAY

10:00 AM, April 13, 2019

Station Room Faculty___________

GENERAL MEETING – 10:00 – 10:25 AM Kingsbury N101 Prof. Chamberlin

(Coffee and Pastries available)

TOURS (15 minutes each station: 10:30, 10:50, 11:10, and 11:30 AM):

Station 1. Academic Laboratories – Kingsbury 2nd Floor

Advanced Electronics and Physical

Instrumentation Laboratory Kingsbury S220 Prof. Song

Station 2. Academic Laboratories – Kingsbury 3rd Floor

Communication Systems & Network and

Wireless Data Communication Laboratory Kingsbury S316 Prof. Yoon

Station 3. Academic Laboratories – Kingsbury 3rd Floor

Embedded Computing Systems & Digital Kingsbury S324

Signal Processing Laboratory Prof. Yu

Station 4. Research Involving Students

Human-Computer Interactions While Driving Morse 229 Prof. Kun

Research Involving Students

InterOperability Laboratory (IOL) 21 Madbury Road

IOL guides will walk you to the IOL's facility

for lunch and tours from 12-2

OPEN MEETINGS – 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon

Meet the Professor Kingsbury W208 Prof. Chamberlin

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Faculty Tour Guides: Drs. Carter, LaCourse and Smith

Student Tour Guides: Connor Burton, Joshua Kuun, Ashnav Lal, Teagan Northrup, Jason Sisk,

Paul Willis

Offsite, June 3-5, 2019 Omni Mount Washington Hotel June 3-5, 2019: White Mountain Faculty Retreat, Mount Washington Hotel: The UNH Writing Program will reprise the well-received White Mountain Faculty retreat. All faculty who are invested in writing in pedagogy are welcome to apply, although priority will go to those teaching or planning to teach writing-intensive courses. The experience consists of a three-day offsite at the Mount Washington Hotel in June followed by three sessions at UNH over the course of the following year (one in August*, December, and May). The salient goals of the retreat are to give faculty a more full awareness of the principles underlying writing in pedagogy, to equip them with practices to enhance their work with student writing, and to pro-mote connections among writing-invested faculty. Participants will design or revise a course as part of the process. There will be room for 10 participants, to be decided by the Writing Committee in mid April. This event is made possible in part through the generosity of the Dey Family Fund. *Date of the summer follow-on session will be arranged based on participants’ schedules.

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~APPLICATION INFORMATION~ Please send an email or hardcopy document with the following information to Ed Mueller, Director, UNH Writing Program (edward.mueller@unh.edu), Dimond Library, Room 329, by April 5th: 1. Name, Department, email/phone 2. Class(es) with writing (WI or other) that you have taught or plan to teach 3. Class that you intend to develop or revise during the retreat 4. A brief statement outlining what you would hope to bring away from the experience 5. A brief statement of what you would hope to contribute to the experience of colleagues 6. A statement affirming that you are able and willing to attend both the June* offsite and the summer follow-on session at UNH (date to be arranged based on collective availability) * Participants will be responsible for their own transportation to and from the Omni Mount Washington Hotel. Lodging and noon meals will be covered by the Writing Program; participants may be accompanied by spouse/family. Further details will be sent upon selection. For questions, please email edward.mueller@unh.edu

Senate and CEPS-CAPC (Prof. LaCourse) February 18, 2019 SENATE Past: The RPSC motion on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report. Whereas, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a Special Report on

the impacts of global warming and finds that adverse impacts on human and natural systems are

already occurring at the current 1°C of warming and that risks will be much more severe and de-

structive at 2°C than previously projected and beyond the capacity of our societies to adapt, and

Whereas, the IPCC report recommends limiting global warming to 1.5°C and finds that this goal

can be achieved if global greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to a target of 45% below 2010 lev-

els over the next twelve years, and to carbon neutrality by 2050, and

Whereas, UNH has become a national leader in climate action and sustainability and has already

developed an aggressive Climate Action Plan (WildCAP) that is on track with near term goals and

seeks carbon neutrality by 2100.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE FACULTY SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW

HAMPSHIRE

To urge the community of the University of New Hampshire, including faculty, staff, students and

university leadership to collectively commit to adopting the IPCC goals of 45% reduction in green-

house gas emissions from the 2010 baseline, by 2030, and net-zero emissions by 2050 as part of a

revised UNH Climate Action Plan.

To urge the University of New Hampshire to develop and implement a plan to meet these goals

through continued coordinated actions among students, staff, faculty, administration and commu-

nity partners and in a manner that ensures that all members of the university community understand

the urgency and importance of the issue, and

To urge the University of New Hampshire community to commit to providing its students with an

education that prepares them to respond creatively and effectively to the unprecedented challenges

outlined in the report, insuring that they have the skills to contribute to solutions in their profes-

sional and civic lives.

Tabled: Academic Affairs Committee motion on Test Optional Admission Preface: The Office of Admissions would like to move to a test optional admissions policy that

would no longer require UNH undergraduate applicants to submit standardized test scores (e.g.,

SAT/ACT) as part of their application materials. The primary reason cited for this change is that

the Admissions office believes this to be an effective strategy for increasing the quantity and diver-

sity of the applicant pool. Further arguments provided to support this change are that SAT/ACT

scores provide little additional predictive information regarding likelihood of students’ first-year

success beyond high school GPA. Admission decisions are currently primarily driven by HS tran-

scripts (i.e., grades, course difficulty, etc.), and by placing the high school transcript in context

(e.g., by using characteristics of HS, curricula). In addition, research suggests that standardized

testing may include bias that misrepresents the abilities of social and class groups marginalized or

underrepresented at UNH or in American society. Thus, requiring SATs/ACTs may be embedding

this bias in UNH Admissions Policy.

Motion: The Faculty Senate supports the move to a “test optional” admissions policy for un-

dergraduate admissions at UNH, provided that:

students decide whether to submit standardized scores or not based on which ap-

proach the student believes makes the strongest application;

additional resources to review applications if necessary would be provided to the Ad-

missions Office;

the review process and criteria for reviewing and evaluating applications for univer-

sity scholarships be modified appropriately as needed to ensure the process remains

equitable and fair;

individual departments, or Colleges reserve the right to require additional admission

criteria to select programs which may include ACT and/or SAT test scores upon con-

sultation with the Admissions Office, to ensure satisfactory admission criteria for such

programs;

the Office of Admissions collects data yearly to monitor and evaluate the impact of the

test optional policy on student outcomes, and the quality, quantity and diversity of the

applicant pool, and matriculated students, making a report to the Faculty Senate each

year for the first three years; and

the policy undergoes a formal review by the Faculty Senate three years after it is im-

plemented.

CEPS-CAPC

Ph.D in Data Science: Intent to Submit Proposal

Analytics & Data Science: Minor proposal

BENG 761: Add: Biochemical Engineering, 4 credits, Cross list with CHE 761, re-strict to BENG JRs

CS: Re-proposal of BA in CS with modifications from original proposal