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2/19/2020: Course Change Form - Multiple Courses
No full textAddition of BUSN 221 Financial Accounting (Sophomore 1; Summer/Fall)…4 credit hours
Justification: An in-depth understanding of financial accounting is considered as an essential component of common body of knowledge in the business/management curriculum across the globe and it prepares students better for the upper level courses. It is a part of the Common Professional Component (CPC) –ACBSP Accreditation Standard 6.
Addition of BUSN 312 Business Process Improvement (Junior 1; Summer/Fall)…4 credit hours; Course pre-requisite remains as Statistics for Business BUSN 271
Justification: The addition of this course will allow reintroduction of several important topics of business process improvement that were eliminated from the management curriculum caused by the elimination of the course in lean operations management (BUSN 361) with the previous curriculum change in 2018-2019. The new course number BUSN 312 is consistent with its Junior 1 level offering. This coincides with the deletion of BUSN 272.
Deletion of MGMT 102 Introduction to Systems Management…4 credit hours
Justification: The program is embracing systems view as an approach to appreciating the interconnectedness of functional and tool areas of business across the discipline in making managerial decisions instead of specialization in systems thinking framework as an independent course. Some of the systems thinking contents are integrated with the project management and team dynamics topics presented in the revised MGMT 101. This deletion will make room for courses in other critical components of management curriculum.
Modification of MGMT 101
Justification: Course content redesign to include complex-system thinking concepts and accordingly changed the course title to Introduction to Applied Management.
Deletion of MGMT 312 Systems Simulation…4 credit hours
Justification: This deletion removes a specialized focus on tools of systems dynamics for modeling while preserving the systems thinking view of management education across the curriculum. It allows addition of otherwise neglected or relegated critical components of management education in the curriculum.
Modification of Recommended Prerequisite for BUSN 331
Justification: Economic Principles (ECON 201) will better prepare students for the Financial Management (BUSN 331) course and therefore recommended to take.
Deletion of BUSN 272
Justification: Course redesign to reflect adjustments made in course content and title being consistent with the course description. New course is BUSN 312.
Modification of offering of BUSN 206/New BUSN 103 Freshman 1 Summer/Fall
Justification: Change in course offering sequence from to Winter-Spring to Freshman 1 Summer-Fall terms. The course number change to BUSN 103 will appropriately represent the course as a freshman level offering.
Modification of course title for MGMT 419-619 from Project & Change Management to Project Management
Justification: Change reflects the content design of the course
2/19/2020: Bachelor of Science in General Engineering
No full textThe Bachelor of Science in General Engineering degree was approved by the Faculty Senate (and HLC) in 2010 but never implemented. This proposal will (a) change the name of the program to simply Bachelor of Science in Engineering and (b) give it a multidisciplinary focus. The initial set of concentration areas will be Manufacturing, Mechatronics, and Robotics. A comparison of the 2010 and proposed program is attached. A proposed catalog description of the program is attached
2/19/2020: Course Change Form BUSN 206
No full textBalancing the course offerings due to other curriculum changes. This change will enable students to get an exposure of both principles of management and principles of marketing concepts during their freshman year. Under the proposed changes, Introduction to Marketing (old BUSN 206/new BUSN 103) will be offered as Freshman 1 Summer-Fall course. An understanding of basic management and marketing concepts will prepare students adequately for the Economic Principles ECON 201 which is a sophomore 1 summer-fall course
4/22/2020: Course Change Form EE 433
No full textEliminating 500 level courses. EE-530 will become EE-433/633
4/22/2020: Course Change Form EE530
No full textEliminating 500 level courses. EE-530 will become EE-433/633
August 28, 2020: Covid-19 Campus Update
Get PDFThe COVID-19 Response Team and University leadership continue to closely monitor the local, state and national situation in consultation with health experts and in accordance to government guidelines. If conditions change, the University will alter plans to ensure the safety of the campus community.
Fall Term 2020 classes begin on October 5. As the University’s COVID-19 Response Team continues to finalize details for the fall, please carefully review these updates
Factors Influencing Sustain with the Tapping Technique on an Electric Guitar
No full textTapping is a popular playing technique commonly used with electric guitars, in which the player combines a pluck with a pick in the right hand, with a finger hammering a string down on the fretboard with the left hand. The goal of this project is to explore the much-discussed sustain qualities of varying electric guitar strings while using the tapping technique; thus a repeatable pluck and tap are essential. Human players tend to vary the parameters involved in these excitation mechanisms; therefore, an automated testing fixture was designed and constructed to pluck and tap the string in a consistent fashion. An electric guitar is securely fastened to a table-top fixture using quick-release toggle clamps and tailor-made 3D printed nesting blocks shaped to fit the contour of the guitar body. Additionally, an Arduino microcontroller is used to operate 2 DC motors and specially designed 3D printed tooling to move the pick across a single string and fret the string. Data collected from the guitar pickup output signal then supplies the decay rate of the tapped guitar string, which quantifies the sustain. Preliminary results yield the repeatability and authenticity of this testing fixture, and discussion of sustain characteristics is presented