Faculty of Engineering
The next
meeting of the Engineering Faculty Board will take place on Wednesday 20 May
2009 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 Dennis Loveday, Dr Helen Fletcher and Ms Ruth Grainger 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
ENG08-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 held on 12 November 2008.
3.
Matters arising from the Minutes, not appearing
elsewhere on this Agenda
3.1
SEFS (Science and Engineering Foundation Studies) Programmes Annual Report (action on HoDs and AD(T), item 5 applies)
3.2
Research Excellence Framework (action on AD(R), item 9.2 applies)
3.3
Research Degree Regulations and Code of Practice on Research Degree Programmes (action on AD(R), item 9.2
(c) applies)
3.4
NSS 2008 results (action on HoDs, item 9.3 (b) applies)
4.
ETI
Update
Professor Dennis Loveday
and Dr Helen Fletcher will provide a progress report.
5.
Graduate
destination data (ENG09-P20)
To receive a presentation
from Ms Ruth Grainger of the Careers Centre.
6.
Single Equality
Action Plan (ENG09-P21)
To receive a presentation from Ms Lesley Mansell, Equality and Diversity Adviser, regarding:
i.
the decision by the Equality and Diversity Sub-Committee that all the
University’s equality action plans be incorporated into one document;
ii.
the implications of these changes for departments.
7.
Reports from Faculty Officers
To receive reports from
Faculty Officers:
7.1 Acting Dean
To include:
(a)
Centenary celebrations
(b)
Staff survey
7.2 Associate Dean (Research)
To include:
Research
Excellence Framework
7.3 Associate Dean (Teaching)
To include:
(a)
Recruitment (ENG09-P22 to follow)
(b)
Annual Programme Reviews (ENG09-P23a, ENG09-P23b, ENG09-P23c, ENG09-P23d and ENG09-P23e)
(c)
NSS
8.
Award of Research Degrees (ENG09-P24 to follow)
To award degrees to candidates whose examinations
have been conducted since the last meeting of Senate.
9.
Personal Titles
To congratulate the following member of Faculty
staff, who has been awarded a Personal Title:
Dr Ian Ashcroft, Wolfson
10.
Membership
of Faculty Board
To thank the four members of Faculty Board who will
retire at the end of the current academic year, and to note that there will
therefore be four vacancies for elected departmental representatives from the
2009/10 session, each for a term of three years. Nominations are especially welcomed from the
Departments of Civil and Building Engineering, Electronic and Electrical
Engineering and Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.
11.
Actions of the Associate
Dean (Teaching) (ENG09-P25)
To
approve actions of the AD(T) taken on behalf of the
Faculty Board.
12.
Curriculum
Sub-Committee
12.1
To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee had recommended
to Learning and Teaching Committee the approval of the following:
New
programmes:
MSc Infrastructure in Emergencies (part-time)
(extension of existing PGCert programme)
Additional pathway to an existing programme:
MEng Innovative Manufacturing
Technology
Major programme changes:
Changes to
programme titles or awards:
BEng/MEng Product Design
and Manufacture to
BEng/MEng Product Design
Engineering (Sept 2009 entry)
BEng/MEng Manufacturing
Engineering and Management to
BEng Manufacturing
Engineering (Sept 2009 entry)
Discontinuation
of a programme:
MSc Advanced
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (no recruitment)
BSc/BSc,DIS Process Technology and
Management (last intake October 2009)
12.2
To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee had also
recommended to Learning and Teaching Committee the approval of the following,
subject to certain matters being agreed to the satisfaction of the AD(T):
New
programmes:
BSc Engineering Management
MSc Signal Processing in
Communication Systems
13.
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).
14.
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 |
17
June 2008 19
November 2008 |
Chemical
Engineering |
UG/PG UG/PG |
5
November 2008 2
March 2009 |
Civil
and Building Engineering: AEDM CMQS CEM Transport
Studies B/MEng Civil Engineering Transport
Studies WEDC |
PGT UG UG UG UG UG
UG PGT PGT |
30
October 2008 5
November 2008 5
November 2008 12
November 2008 12
November 2008 19
November 2008 18
February 2009 27
November 2008 4
March 2009 |
Mechanical
and Manufacturing Engineering |
PG UG |
24
October 2008 3
February 2009 |
15.
Date of
the next meeting
Wednesday 11 November 2009
(TBC) at 1.15 pm either in the
Council Chamber or in the engCETL Design Centre (TBD).
A sandwich lunch will be served at 1 pm.
16.
Any other business
Author
– Marie Kennedy
Date – May 2008
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