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Meeting: Present: . February 21, 1984 MINUTES OF ENGINEERING COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, February 21, 1984, President's Office, 1:30 p.m. Messrs. Abde1 Hamid, Kruger, Baird, Hedlund, Farag, Kamal Eldin, Hunsberger, Ms. Morse. The meeting was called to order by the Chairman, Euan Baird. He reviewed some of the decisions made at the meeting with the local advisors, and Dr. Hunsberger commented more fully on the new computer science major. He said that the program will require at least 3 new faculty members and that due to a tremendous demand, it is extremely difficult to find qualifying professors with Ph.D.s to teach. Dr. Hunsberger said the University hopes to offer the new major by Fall 1985 on the condition that adequate faculty is found. He also feels that eventually Aue will offer a computer literacy course to all students as part of the general University requirements. Dr. Hunsberger was asked to comment on Mohamed EI-Wakil, who will be joining Aue's engineering department in February 1985. In a brief sketch, Dr. Hunsberger said that El-Wakil is a well-known engineer in Egypt and .ifi the United States who has been at the University of Wisconsin at Madison since about ~950. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, but has also done very extensive It work in nuclear engineering, earning outstanding teaching awards in both fields. • Mr. Baird then ~ed a discussion about Aue's engineering priorities, expressing his concern, which was shared by the committee, that the program be one of high quality and not diminished by offering too broad a spectrum of subjects. He agreed with the firm base being offered by the mechanical engineering and computer science programs, with construction management as a natural extension. He suggested that perhaps a future direction for Aue to take would be agricultural engineering where it could specialize and make a unique contribution. The committee agreed that this could be the way in which Aue's .engineering program would develop. In the meantime, Dr. Farag summarized the timing of what is planned to be offered: Project management diploma and the new computer science major during the next two semesters, with continuing work on the undergraduate degree in civil engineering for offering by 1985/86. Mr. Kruger suggested that the B.Sc. degree might slip a year and be offered in 1986/87. There was a general discussion about the inclusion of the word ·'management" in the new deg:r;ee, and the consensus of the committee was that the word should probably be dropped "to emphasize the engineering aspect of the program. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned. Re7fectfull~~ J9-~ Reporte