Faculty of Engineering
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
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
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)
6. Teaching
Centre (ENG08-P1)
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)
None.
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.
Author
– Marie Kennedy
Date –
May 2008
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