Faculty of Engineering
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
1.
Apologies
for absence
2.
Minutes
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
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
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.
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.
None.
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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