The Student Advisory Board (SAB) was created in 2001 to fairly represent the Electrical Engineering student body and promote an enriching learning environment by providing the students with a means for voicing their opinions and suggestions regarding the department, faculty, and overall student experience. ABET now requires student feedback/involvement in the assessment of passing accreditation, and this is one of the SAB's primary purposes. Each year the SAB convene to discuss and poll current issues. A report is compiled and presented to an Industrial Avisory Board (IAB) composed of outside professionals, who in turn discuss these issues with faculty. These reports count in bringing tough and important issues to the table.

An introduction presentation made to the IAB in 2002 can be found here.

The 2001 SAB was extremely effective in invoking change within the Electrical Engineering Curriculum. Below are some examples of the positive impact the SAB has made on our Department.

SAB Recommendations:

  1. CE270 (Statics) and ME311 (Introduction to Thermodynamics) should not be required.
    a. Almost all students do not use the technical knowledge from either course.
    b. Skills obtained in the course are already achieved in other technical curriculum.
  2. The track system is too restrictive and not flexible.
  3. Course pre-requisite structure based on mathematics and physics courses need to be re-evaluated.
  4. Create a Matlab tutorial/course, as well as a Matlab manual.

Department of Electrical Engineering Response:

  1. The Non-EE course requirement may be satisfied by CE270, ME311, a CE, ME, OE, or BE course that is at the 300 level or higher. It may also be satisfied by a physical or biological science course that is at the 300 level or higher, subject to approval by the undergraduate curriculum committee.
    a. Now students can take what is most interesting to them.
  2. There is a new option for creating your own track. A student along with a faculty member may propose a new track. Upon approval from the undergraduate curriculum committee, this new track will be available to all students who wish to enroll.
  3. A faculty committee has been formed to re-evaluate the mathematics requirements.
  4. Matlab will now be taught as a part of EE213.

 

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Modified 03.24.07