Faculty of Engineering

FACULTY BOARD

 

ENG08-A1


The next meeting of the Engineering Faculty Board will take place on Wednesday 21 May 2008 at 1.15 pm in the Council Chamber, Administration Building Two.  

A sandwich lunch will be served at 1 pm for all Board members. 

The Board meeting will be followed immediately afterwards by the next meeting of the Engineering Directorate.

 

Marie Kennedy, Secretary


 

AGENDA

 

1.                  New AD(R)

 

i.                             To note the appointment, from 1 June 2008 for a period of three years, of Professor David Parish, of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, as the next AD(R), and to welcome Professor Parish to the meeting;

ii.                            To thank Professor Dickens for all his work on behalf of the Faculty in recent years.

 

2.                  New Heads of Department

 

i.                             To note the appointment, from 1 August 2008 for a period of three years, of Professor Richard Stobart as Head of the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, and Professor Chris Rielly as Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and to welcome them to the meeting;

ii.                            To thank Professor Rob Thring, Head of the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, and Professor Richard Wakeman, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, for all their work on behalf of their departments, the Faculty, and the University.

 

3.                  Apologies for absence

 

4.                  Minutes

ENG07-M2 (available on the web at:  http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/committees/engineering_fb/meetings/

To confirm, subject to any corrections, the Minutes of the last meeting of the Board held on 14 November 2007.

 

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

 

5.1       Proposed review mechanisms for research degree programmes, and the monitoring of research student progress

(action on all members, item 6.2 (b) refers)

5.2       International postgraduate students

(action on AD(T), item 6.3 (a) refers)

5.3       Draft e-learning strategy and implementation

(actions on the Dean and the AD(R), item 6.3 (g) refers)

5.4       Mathematics CETL

(actions on all members, and separately on Sigma Director, item 17 (b) refers)



SECTION A – Items for Discussion/Report

 

6.         Teaching Centre (ENG08-P1) and ENG08-P1a

 

            To receive a brief update from Professor Morag Bell, PVC(T), and Ms Jan Tennant, Head of Academic Practice and Enhancement, on the University’s new Teaching Centre.

 

7.         Destination statistics for 2007 graduates (ENG08-P2, ENG08-P2a, ENG08-P2b)

 

To receive a report from Mrs Ruth Grainger, Careers Centre.

 

8.         14-19 Diploma

 

Following his presentation to the Royal Academy of Engineering, Dr Malcolm Carr-West to brief members on the implications for undergraduate admissions to Engineering departments of the recent introduction of the 14-19 Diploma.

 

9.         Copyright issues and the Institutional Repository (ENG08-P3)

 

Katie Appleton, Institutional Repository Manager, Library, Jeff Brown, Support Services Manager, Library, and Mark Summers, University Copyright Officer, LISU, to brief members on the issues of copyright as they affect placing publications in the Institutional Repository.

 

10.       Enhanced Learn update (ENG08-P4)

 

            To receive an update from Jenny Logan.

 

11.       Reports from Faculty Officers

 

To receive reports from Faculty Officers:

 

11.1    Dean

 

To include:

 

(a)   Other new appointments:  Director of WEDC, and administrative support for Faculty RA recruitment

(b)  Staff survey

(c)   University centenary programme

(d)  Rolls-Royce Manufacturing Technology Centre

(e)   Faculty financial position

 

11.2    Associate Dean (Research)

 

To include:

 

(a)   Student recruitment 2007-08

 

(b)  Research Excellence Framework

 

11.3    Associate Dean (Teaching)

 

To include:

 

(a)   Recruitment 2008/09

 

(b)  National Student Survey 2008

 

(c)   QAA Institutional Audit 2008

 

(d)  BUE Validation 2008

 

(e)   Annual Programme Reviews (ENG08-P5)

 

12.       Award of Research Degrees  (ENG08-P6a, ENG08-P6b, ENG08-P6c)

To award degrees to candidates whose examinations have been conducted since the last meeting of Senate.

 

13.       Personal Titles

To congratulate the following members of the Faculty who have been awarded Personal Chairs:

 

Professor Graham Sander, Professor of Hydrology (Civil and Building Engineering)

Professor John Tyrer, Professor of Optical Instrumentation (Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)

 

and to the following member of the Faculty Board who has been awarded a Personal Chair:

Professor Tony Croft, Professor of Mathematics Education (MEC).

 

Also to congratulate the following member of the Faculty who has been awarded a Personal Readership:

Dr Basu Saha (Chemical Engineering)


SECTION B – Formal ‘Starred’ Items for Approval

 

            None.


 

SECTION C – Items for Information

 

14.       Faculty Board:  elected departmental representatives

 

To note that that there are 12 vacancies for elected departmental representatives of the Faculty Board for the 2008-2009 academic year:

 

Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering (2)

Chemical Engineering (2)

Civil and Building Engineering (3)

Electronic and Electrical Engineering (2)

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (3)

           

15.       Curriculum Sub-Committee

 

To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee has recommended to Learning and Teaching Committee the change of name, with immediate effect, of the following programme:

from MEng Innovative Manufacturing Technology to MEng Innovative Manufacturing Engineering.

 

16.       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).

 

17.       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

UG

20 June 2007

28 November 2007

Chemical Engineering

UG/PG

27 February 2008

30 April 2008

Civil and Building Engineering:

Transport Policy and Business Management )

Sustainable Transport and Travel Planning    )

Transport Studies

Transport Policy and Business Management )

Sustainable Transport and Travel Planning    )

Architectural Engineering & Design Management

Building Services Engineering

Construction Engineering Management

Construction Project Management – Work-based DL

Transport Studies

Construction Management/Construction Project Management

CICE EngD

EngD

Architectural Engineering & Design Management

Building Services Engineering

 

PGT

 

UG

PGT

 

UG

PGT

UG

PGT

 

UG

PGT

 

PGR

PGR

UG

PGT

 

9 November 2007

 

14 November 2007

16 November 2007

 

12 December 2007

14 December 2007

5 December 2007

7 December 2007

 

19 February 2008

12 March 2008

 

 

31 October 2007

19 March 2008

15 April 2008

23 April 2008

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

UG

UG

24 October 2007

5 February 2008

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

UG/PG

21 February 2008

16 May 2007

 

18.       Date of the next meeting

 

TBA.

 

19.       Any other business



Author – Marie Kennedy

Date – May 2008

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