TO: Members of the Undergraduate Studies Committee (UGSC)

FROM: Greg Pulliam, Director of Communication Across the Curriculum (CAC), and Candace Wark and Sally Laurent-Muehleisen of the Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Review Committee

RE: Review of C-courses in the Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department (MMAE)

DATE: November 13, 2018

Over the Summer and Fall 2018 terms, the CAC conducted a review of C-courses taught by the MMAE Department in order to ensure they were in compliance with the UGSC-established criteria for such courses.  The UGSC mandates that a committee be established to do this, made up of the CAC director (Pulliam), a faculty member from MMAE (Candace Wark) appointed by that department’s chair, and a faculty member from outside of MMAE (Sally Laurent-Muehleisen of Physics) nominated by the CAC director and approved by the MMAE chair.

The committee began work in June, and over the summer and early fall reviewed and approved the C-designation for the following courses, some of which required additional clarification or revisions to demonstrate that they met UGSC criteria:

MMAE 100       MMAE 412

MMAE 232       MMAE 414

MMAE 315       MMAE 415

MMAE 319       MMAE 419

MMAE 372       MMAE 432

MMAE 373       MMAE 433

MMAE has elected to remove the C-designation from the following courses:

MMAE 362

MMAE 370

MMAE 465

MMAE 470

MMAE 484

All decisions were unanimous among the three committee members. The complete documentation for these decisions and the process used to reach them are on file in the office of the CAC director (SH 213), as required by the UGSC.

The CAC and the review committee submit the results of this review to the UGSC for its formal acceptance, and ask that (if accepted) these results be forwarded to the registrar for the action necessary to put them into effect. They should also be forwarded to the Faculty Council as an informational item.