UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

 

Academic Program Approval

 

This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs.  Proposing department should complete this form.  For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.

 

 

Submitted by: __Michael Keefe ___phone number__302-831-8009___

                               

Department:  ___Mechanical Engineering___email address__  keefe@udel.edu  __

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

Action:  _Add new Minor in Biomedical Engineering & delete current ME Concentration in Biomedical Engineering _

(Example:  add major/minor/concentration, delete major/minor/concentration,  revise major/minor/concentration,  academic unit name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)

 

Effective term________ 07F __________________________________________________________________________

                                                (use format 04F, 05W)

 

Current degree______ BME ___________________________________________________

                                    (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed change leads to the degree of: ___________________________________________

                                                                                             (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

 

Proposed name:____ (Minor:)   Biomedical Engineering  _________________________

                                            Proposed new name for revised or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit

                                                                                (if applicable)

 

Revising or Deleting: 

 

Undergraduate major / Concentration:_____deleting BMEG _________________

                                                                                    (Example:  Applied Music – Instrumental  degree BMAS)

 

Undergraduate minor:____________________________________________________

                                   (Example:  African Studies,  Business Administration,  English, Leadership, etc.)            

 

Graduate Program Policy statement change:_________________________________

                                                                  (Must attach  your Graduate Program Policy Statement)

 

            Graduate Program of Study:______________________________________________

                                 (Example:  Animal Science: MS  Animal Science:  PHD  Economics: MA Economics: PHD)

 

 

                Graduate minor / concentration:___________________________________________

 

 

Note: all graduate studies proposals must include an electronic copy of the Graduate Program Policy Document, highlighting the changes made to the original policy document.

 

 

 

List new courses required for the new or revised curriculum. How do they support the overall program objectives of the major/minor/concentrations)?

 (Be aware that approval of the curriculum is dependent upon these courses successfully passing through the Course Challenge list. If there are no new courses enter “None”)

 

All courses required for the proposed minor are existing courses; optional courses from which the students choose include new courses: MEEG485 Control of Human Movement, that has been taught experimentally, and MEEG486, Cell and Tissue Transport. Both are currently in the course challenge system for permanent-course approval.

 

Explain, when appropriate, how this new/revised curriculum supports the 10 goals of undergraduate education: http://www.ugs.udel.edu/gened/

 

The technical nature of the proposed minor and its engineering base will help the students involved to learn to think critically to solve problems (#2). Also, by allowing students from other majors to also focus on biomedical engineering, expanding our current concentration into a minor will allow students from other departments (e.g., biology; physics; health, nutrition, & exercise sciences; the other engineering majors; etc.) to join together thus providing exposure to more diverse ways of thinking that underlie the search for knowledge (#4). Finally, by its very nature, the body of knowledge comprising this minor demonstrates to students the interdisciplinary growth which fosters the intellectual curiosity, confidence and engagement that should lead to lifelong learning (#6).

 

Identify other units affected by the proposed changes:

(Attach permission from the affected units.  If no other unit is affected, enter “None”)

 

Biological Sciences; Mathematical Sciences; Physics & Astronomy; and Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences.

 

Describe the rationale for the proposed program change(s):

(Explain your reasons for creating, revising, or deleting the curriculum or program.) 

 

Our Center for Biomedical Engineering Research (CBER) now has 33 faculty members from seven departments and four colleges associated with it. CBER is a very successful center, having many research grants, including an NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence award. We also have many students working on CBER-related projects. Hence, we have a growing, university-wide interest in this area of research. We would like to expand our undergraduate biomedical engineering program so that it is available to students in other departments. This will require us to expand and offer a Minor in Biomedical Engineering rather than our current Biomedical Engineering Concentration (within the Mechanical Engineering Major). With such an expansion, our undergraduates (students in the Concentration and students in our undergraduate Student Advisory Committee) have indicated the Mechanical Engineering undergraduates would prefer obtaining the broader minor instead of the concentration - if both were available. Thus we propose to eliminate our current Biomedical Engineering Concentration within Mechanical Engineering (BMEG) and instead offer a minor in Biomedical Engineering to the entire University of Delaware community.

 

Program Requirements: 

(Show the new or revised curriculum as it should appear in the Course Catalog.  If this is a revision, be sure to indicate the changes being made to the current curriculum and include a side-by-side comparison of the credit distribution before and after the proposed change.)

 

See attached document.

 

 ROUTING AND AUTHORIZATION:        (Please do not remove supporting documentation.)

 

Department Chairperson                                                                                                        Date                                       

 

Dean of College                                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Chairperson, College Curriculum Committee___________________________________Date_____________________

 

Chairperson, Senate Com. on UG or GR Studies                                                                   Date                                       

 

Chairperson, Senate Coordinating Com.                                                                 Date                                       

 

Secretary, Faculty Senate                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Date of Senate Resolution                                                                                                      Date to be Effective               

 

Registrar                                                                  Program Code                                         Date                                       

 

Vice Provost for Academic Programs & Planning                                                                  Date                                       

 

Provost                                                                                                                                   Date                                       

 

Board of Trustee Notification                                                                                                                Date                                       

 

Revised 5/02/06   /khs