February 15, 2023

Date/Time
Wednesday, 02/15/2023
Location
Reaud 312
Submitted By:
Kristan Traxler

Lamar University  

Graduate Council   

Minutes #486 

February 15, 2023 

Attending: Tom Harvey, Brett Welch, Theresa Hefner-Babb, David Short, Carly Cox, Debbie Troxclair, Ken Young, Awais Saleem, Vivek Natarajan, Yueqing Li 

 

Approval of Minutes 

#485 – January 18, 2022 

A motion to accept the minutes was made and seconded. The minutes are approved.  

 

Old Business 

Graduate faculty review – discussed procedure and criteria for review; council members tasked with completing their review and forwarding any questions or concerns to council 

 

College of Engineering 

 Mechanical Engineering – proposing three doctoral and two master’s level courses for Mechanical Engineering graduate programs, see details in table below. 

Course Change or Addition  

Course Prefix & Number 

Course Title 

Degree(s) Impacted 

Effective Semester 

Addition  

MEEN 5341 

Modeling of Supercritical Fluids 

MS 

Summer 2023 

Addition 

MEEN 5342 

Mechanism Design & Analysis 

MS 

Summer 2023 

Addition  

MEEN 6332 

Adv. Topics in Comput. Fluids 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Addition 

MEEN 6315 

Adv. Eng. Mathematics 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Addition 

MEEN 6312 

Adv. Topics in Thermal Fluids 

DE 

Summer 2023 

 

Industrial Engineering – proposing several course additions and changes, see table below for details. 

Course Change or Addition 

Course Prefix & Number 

Course Title 

Degree(s) Impacted 

Effective Semester 

Addition 

INEN 6305 

Engineering Reliability 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Change 

INEN 6325 

Technology Entrepreneurship 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Change 

INEN 6328 

User Interface 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Addition 

INEN 6331 

Stochastic Modeling 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Change 

INEN 6353 

Manufacturing Analysis 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Addition 

INEN 6360 

Heuristic Algorithms 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Addition  

INEN 6361 

Supply Chain Modeling 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Addition  

INEN 6374 

Human Factors Engineering 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Addition 

INEN 6380 

Engineering Project Management 

DE 

Summer 2023 

Addition  

INEN 5340 

Programming for IE 

DE, MEM, MES, ME 

Summer 2023 

 Council members will review these syllabi and we will conduct voting via email once review is completed.  

 

New Business 

 College of Education & Human Development 

 Counseling – proposing deletion of CNDV 5302 Foundations of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and replace with new course CNDV 5304 Foundations of Professional Counseling. Will impact M.Ed. Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Clinical Mental Health Counseling certificate programs.  

 Need to know if the current degree plan reflects this change already. The department has been asked to submit a degree plan for review.