Faculty of Engineering

FACULTY BOARD

 

ENG08-A2


 

The next meeting of the Engineering Faculty Board will take place on Wednesday 12 November 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 (Professor Chris Backhouse will join members for lunch).. 

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

 

Marie Kennedy, Secretary


 

AGENDA

 

1.                  Apologies for absence

 

2.                  Minutes

ENG08-M1

To confirm, subject to any corrections, the Minutes of the last meeting held on

21 May 2008.

 

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

 

3.1 Car parking issues (item 3.3 (a) refers)

 

3.2 Destination statistics for 2007 (item 5 (a) - (c) refers)

 

3.3 International Repository (item 7 refers)

Secretary’s note:  Staff can now submit the full text of their journal articles, conference papers, etc via the submission form at: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/

Further information about the Repository, including retention of copyright, is available at : http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/resources/InstitutionalRepository.html

 


 

SECTION A – Items for Discussion/Report

 

4.                  Internationalisation Strategy

To receive a short update from Professor Chris Backhouse, Director of Internationalisation Strategy, and Ms Christina Zhang, Students’ Union Global Development Officer.

 

5.                  Constitution and powers of the Board, and briefing note for members

(ENG08-P7a, ENG08-P7b)
To consider the constitution and powers of the Board together with a briefing note for members.

 

6.                  Periodic Programme Review:  Department of Chemical Engineering

(ENG08-P8a , ENG08-P8b)

To consider the report of the PPR held in May, together with the departmental response, and to offer comments.

 

7.                  sigma (Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Statistics Support) Annual Report (http://mec.lboro.ac.uk/documents/6th_mec_annual_report.pdf )

(a)        To congratulate the Director, Professor Tony Croft, on his award of a Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy;

 

(b)        To consider the annual report of the CETL.

 

8.                  Reports from Faculty Officers

To receive reports from Faculty Officers:

 

8.1       Dean

To include:

 

(a)         Faculty AD(T)

      To note that Professor John Dickens will continue as AD(T) for a further term 1 August 2008 – 31 July 2011.

 

(b)       Faculty Board:  elected departmental representatives

To note that Senate recently approved a Faculty request to (i) re-elect some of its current members for either one or two years, (ii) elect some new members for one or two years, and (iii) elect other new members for the full three-year term.  This should ensure that in future, a suitable proportion of elected representatives reach the end of their term of office each year, and new members are elected. 

 

8.2       Associate Dean (Research)

 

To include:

 

(a)         Research Excellence Framework

 

(b)         Recruitment

 

(c)         Research Degree Regulations and Code of Practice on Research Degree Programmes
      (ENG08-P9a, ENG08-P9b, ENG08-P9c)

To consider proposed amendments to the Regulations, and a proposed Code of Practice, and to offer advice to the Regulations Review Working Group.

 

8.3       Associate Dean (Teaching)

 

To include:

 

(a)        Recruitment 2008/09
            (ENG08-P10)

 

(b)       National Student Survey 2008 results

 

9.                  Bologna process update

To receive a brief verbal report from Dr Adam Crawford.

 

10.             engCETL Report (Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning)
(ENG08-P11)

To consider the annual report from the Director, Dr Adam Crawford.

 

11.             Science and Engineering Foundation Programmes
(ENG08-P12)

To consider the annual report from the Programme Director, Dr Sandie Dann

 

12.             Award of Research Degrees 
(ENG08-P13) - to follow

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 Faculty staff, who have been awarded Personal Readerships:

 

Dr Vince Dwyer, Reader in Electronic Devices

Dr Ricky Wildman, Reader in Experimental Mechanics.

 


 

SECTION B – Formal ‘Starred’ Items for Approval

 

None.


 

SECTION C – Items for Information

 

14.             Membership of the Board
(ENG08-P14)

To note membership of the Board for the academic year 2008/09 including co-opted members.

 

15.             Representation on other Committees
(ENG08-P15)

            To note representation of Faculty members on other University committees.

 

16.             QAA Institutional Audit 2008

To note that the report, and the University’s response, has been published on the QAA website at http://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/reports/instReports.asp?instID=H-0152

 

17.             Prizes Committee
(ENG08-P16)

            To note those Faculty students who were awarded prizes during 2007/08.

 

18.             Curriculum Sub-Committee

To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee had recommended to Learning and Teaching Committee discontinuation of the MEng Wireless Communications Engineering programme (last intake October 2003).

 

19.             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, as well as any areas of good practice, have been brought to the attention of the appropriate Head of Department and the Associate Dean (Teaching).

 

20.             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

5 March 2008

Civil and Building Engineering:

Construction Project Management

(Work-Based DL)

CMQS

WEDC

 

 

PGT

UG

PGT/R

 

 

4 March 2008

30 April 2008

19 May 2008

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

UG

PGT

16 April 2008

16 April 2008

SEFS

F

14 November 2007

 

21.             Date of the next meeting

            Wednesday 20 May 2009 at 1.15 pm in the Council Chamber. 

            A sandwich lunch will be served at 1 pm.

 

22.             Any other business

 


Author – Marie Kennedy

Date – November 2008

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