Engineering Faculty Board

ENG06-A1

The next meeting of the Engineering Faculty Board will take on Wednesday 24 May 2006 at 2 pm in the Council Chamber, Administration Building Two.

This will be followed immediately afterwards by the next meeting of the Engineering Directorate

Marie Kennedy, Secretary

AGENDA

Apologies for absence

Business of the Agenda

Any member wishing to unstar an item is asked to notify the Secretary by 12 noon on Tuesday 23 May 2006. Starred items will otherwise be taken without discussion.

Minutes

ENG05-M3 (available on the web at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/committees/engineering_fb/meetings/eng05-m3.htm)

To confirm, subject to any corrections, the Minutes of the last meeting of the Board held on 9 November 2006.

4. Matters arising from the Minutes, not appearing elsewhere on this Agenda

4.1 Periodic Programme Review (item 39 refers)

To note that:

(a) The report of the PPR held in the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in May 2005, together with an institutional response, has been mounted on the TQI website (www.tqi.ac.uk);

(b) The institutional responses (for any department) can be updated at any time, eg with actions taken subsequently.

4.2 Research degree submission rates (item 40.2 (a) (iii) refers)

To receive a report from the Head of Civil and Building Engineering Department on the pilot exercise to see the effect on data of making certain changes.

SECTION A – Items for Discussion/Report

5. Destination statistics for 2005 graduates

ENG06-P1

To receive a report from Mrs Jenny Jones, Director of the Careers Centre.

6. Reports from Faculty Officers

To receive reports from Faculty Officers:

.1 Dean

To include:

(a) SRWG

(b) Research Schools

(d) BUE

(e) Industrial action

(f) Appointment and re-appointment of HoDs

.2 Associate Dean (Research)

To include:

Award of RCUK Fellowships

.3 Associate Dean (Teaching)

To include:

(a) Royal Academy of Engineering Student Design Poster Competition, 2006

(b) National Student Survey 2006

(d) Recruitment ENG06-P3 – to follow)

(e) CETL

(f) Condonement

(g) Future L&T Strategy as part of the planned review

7. Award of Research Degrees

ENG06-P4 (to follow)

To award degrees as recommended by the Examiners.

8. Personal Titles

To congratulate the following member of the Faculty who has been awarded a Personal Chair:

Professor J G Dickens, Professor of Engineering Education

SECTION B – Formal “Starred” Items for Approval

*9. Actions of the Associate Dean (Teaching)

ENG06-P5

To ratify actions taken by the Associate Dean (Teaching) on behalf of the Board.

SECTION C – Items for Information

*10. External Examiners’ Reports

To note that reports of External Examiners, and Departmental responses, have been deposited with the Secretary, and are available for consultation on request. Any major issues have been brought to the attention of the appropriate Head of Department and the Associate Dean (Teaching).

*11. Appointment of Boards of Examiners, Module Boards and External Examiners

To note that details of appointments made by the Associate Dean (Teaching) are available from the Secretary on request.

*12. Curriculum Sub-Committee

To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee has recommended the following programme proposals to Learning and Teaching Committee:

.1 New programme for introduction in the 2006/07 session (subject to a

number of issues being resolved to the satisfaction of the AD(T) and Chair of Curriculum Sub-Committee):

MSc Advanced Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

MSc Construction Project Management (Work-based DL)

MRes Sustainability in the Built Environment (WEDC)

MSc Sustainable Transport and Travel Planning

(p-t version commencing 2006/07, f-t version commencing 2007/08)

EngD Systems Engineering (Electronic & Electrical Engineering)

.2 New programme for introduction in 2007/08 session (subject to a

number of issues being resolved to the satisfaction of the AD(T) and Chair of Curriculum Sub-Committee):

MSc Advanced Chemical Engineering with Information Technology and Management

MSc Mechanical Engineering

.3 Change of title from the 2006/07 session:

From: MSc Manufacturing Management

To: MSc Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Management

.4 Discontinued programmes (last intake shown in brackets)

MEng Computer Network and Internet Engineering (October 2005)

BEng/MEng Computer Systems Engineering (October 2005)

(Note: the latter discontinuation involves the continuation of the BEng/MEng Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering programme formally discontinued in 2002.)

*13. Staff-Student Committees

To note that reports of the following Staff-Student Committees have been deposited with the Secretary, and are available for consultation on request:

Department	Level	Date
Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering	UG	16 November 2005
	UG	8 March 2006
Chemical Engineering	UG/PG	19 October 2005
	UG/PG	8 February 2006
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering	UG	26 October 2005
		14 December 2005
	PG	11 November 2005

14. Date of the next meeting

Wednesday 8 November 2006 at 2 pm in the Council Chamber

(closing date for receipt of agenda items 5 pm Monday 30 October 2006)

15. Any other business

Author – Marie Kennedy

Date – May 2005