University Undergraduate Curriculum Council

Meeting Minutes

Date:  Monday, September 21, 2026

Location: Reaud Building, Room 202

Approval of September 2026 minutes

Attending:

Voting members: Lucy Tsado, Ian Lian, Judson LaGrone, Chun-Wei Yao, Millicent Musyoka, Donna Meeks, Jane Liu, Bradley Mayer, Melissa Riley, Elizabeth Casey.

Ex-Officio: Samuel Jator, Kyle Boudreaux, Andrea Stephenson, Gabriel Crosby, Elizabeth Casey, Mansour Karkoub

Proxy’s: Zachary Valdes for Poornima Gunasekaran

Executive Associate, Academic Affairs: Shelly Traxler

Guests: Abdelnasser Eldek

Absent: 

Voting members: Xiao (Jerry) Zhang, Poornima Gunasekaran (designated a proxy)

Ex-Officio: David Short Wael Al-Sawai, Amy Wright, Alberto Marquez, Wendy Greenidge, Elizabeth Lea  

Presiding: Samual Jator 

Call to order 3:30 p.m. 

Dr. Jator asked members to review the August minutes. A motion was made to accept the minutes. Motion seconded; motion passed to accept minutes. 

The committee reviewed the item below. Dr. Eldek attended the meeting and discussed the New Course Proposal. The committee discussed edits they would like to see. Edits were made to the course description. The committee agreed there should be some additional work to the Student Learning Outcomes and pre-requisites. Andrea added notes for David and the committee will review the item in October.         

New Course Proposal

                        ECEN 4399 – Electrical & Computer Engineering Practicum

The committee reviewed the course below. Minimal changes to the course. Change of pre-requisites. Motion was made to approve. Motion seconded, motion passed.

Course Change Request

                        MEEN 4313 – Thermal Systems Design

Meeting adjourned 3:50 p.m.