Institute Graduate Curriculum Committeefacultygovernance.gatech.edu/FFSAFS2019-102318-Attach-A6b.pdf · 2017-2018 Annual Report Summary Administrative Updates Items addressed included:

Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee

Academic Faculty Senate

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

3:00-5:00 PM

Student Center Theatre

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Annual Report, Action Items, and Minutes

Presented by:Dr. Marilyn Smith, AE, IGCC Vice-Chair

• Annual Report for 2017-2018

• Action Items for May-October 2018 meetings

• Minutes for Approval for May-October 2018 meetings

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2017-2018 Annual Report Summary

Members: Bafna (CoD-ARCH), Balch (CoC-IC), Breedveld (ChBE), Ceccagnoli (CoB), Chow (CoC-CSE), Dickson (CHEM), Dovrolis (CoC-CS), Flowers (CoD-ARCH), Hays (CoC-IC), Henderson (ChBE), Jagoda (AE), Jayaraman (MSE), Johnson (GCC Student Representative), Macrakis (HSOC), Mihail (Faculty Exec Board Liaison), Pikowsky (REG), Ranjan (ME), Ries (ECON), Schmidt-Krey (BIOS), Sluss (CoB), Smith (AE), Vigoda (CoC-CS), Wang (BMED)

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Charge: The work of the Committee falls into three main categories (Curriculum Matters, Student Petitions, and Study Abroad). All meetings are meetings of the full committee except for the subcommittees and working groups.

Leadership: Dr. Victor Breedveld served as Chair of the Committee. Dr. David Sluss served as Vice Chair of the Committee. Reta Pikowsky served as Secretary for the Committee.

The IGCC met 12 times during the past academic year.

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Administrative Updates Items addressed included:

Updated Catalog Language• Comprehensive Exams

o Language updated in the catalog to reflect current practices of graduate education at Techo Language to specify that a maximum of 6 hours may be shared between the Master’s

degrees at Tech

Policy Item• New Credential Offering – Graduate Stand-Alone Certificate

Cooperative Agreements• GT Lorraine and ECAM Lyon (France)

Memorandums of Understanding• GT Lorraine and Central Casablanca (Morocco) – admission of students to GT-L

from Centrale Casablanca Engineering program to pursue a MS in ME or ECE.

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Degrees/ProgramsItems addressed included:

New Degree(s)• Master of Science in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies• Master of Science in Global Media and Cultures

Deactivating Degree Program(s)• Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics (MSPO)

Termination of Degree Program(s)• Master of Science in Paper Science and Engineering• Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Paper Science and Engineering

New Track(s) or Degree Option(s)• School of Modern Languages to offer BS/MS in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies

(BS/MSALIS)• School of Modern Languages and School of International Affairs to offer BS/MS in

International Affairs and Modern Languages (BSIAML/MSINTA)• College of Computing to offer BS/MS in Computer Science (BS/MSCS)

Catalog Language CorrectionMaster of Science in Cybersecurity• Courses listed in program as Special Topics corrected with permanent course numbers

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Degrees/ProgramsDegree/Program Modifications

Master of Science in Architecture• Deactivation of Digital Design and Fabrication concentration and establish 3 new

concentrations: Design Computation; Building Information Systems; and Advanced Productions

Master of Business Administration• Approved to offer 39-hour option (‘dual’) to students in College of Design

Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Psychology• Remove PSYC 7105-7106 sequence and remove PSYC 7701 (Teaching Practicum)

Master of Industrial Design• Addition of 4 new courses for Year 1: ID 6216 Service Design, Brand and Value Creation, ID 6211

Grad Studio 1, ID 6212 Grad Studio 2 – Health, ID 6213 Grad Studio 2 – Interactive Products• Addition of 1 new course for Year 2: ID 8803 Intro to Thesis Studies• Remove ID 6218, ID 6217, ID 6200, and ID 6201

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Degrees/ProgramsDegree/Program Modifications (continued)

Master of Science in Human-Computer InteractionIndustrial Design Specialization• Replace ID 6101 Grad Studio 2 with two 4-credit studio courses (ID 6213 and ID 6214); replace ID 6401 with ID

6402; replace ID 6214 and ID 6215 with ID 6216; add a new design studio course requirement to the ID-track which may be completed with ID 6213 or ID 6214; reduce ID-track elective requirement from 6 credits to 3 credits

Master of Science in Computer ScienceMachine Learning concentration• Add CS 6220 Big Data Systems and Analysis, CS 6476 Computer Vision, CS 7626 Behavioral Imaging, CS 7643

Deep Learning to elective selection

Social Computing concentration• Replace CS 8803 Special Topics with permanent number CS 6471 Computational Social Science and add CS 7650

Natural Language to elective pick selection

Interactive Intelligence concentration• Replace CS 8803 Special Topics with permanent number CS 6301 Advanced topics in Software Engineering and

add CS 6471 Computational Social Science and CS 6750 Human-Computer Interaction to elective pick selection

Computing Systems concentration• Add CS 6390 Programming Languages to core courses selection and add CS 6363 Intro to Cyber Physical Systems

Security to electives selection

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Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Economics• Replace ECON 7031 and ECON 7032 sequence with ECON 7025 Empirical Research Methods

and a Required Elective for core course requirements; remove ECON 7130 from list of required courses; replace exam covering ECON 7031-7032 with exam covering ECON 7022-7023; eliminate field exams; replace the Seminar requirement with dissertation research credits; replace second-year paper with third-year paper; reduce first year core courses from 27 to 24 credits; increase fields- and elective credits from 21 to 30 credits; reducing dissertation research hours from 33 to 24 credits and reducing total number of credit hours from 99 to 72 credit hours.

Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Biomedical Engineering• Add a one-course, data sciences requirement to count toward the fundamentals hour

requirement

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering• Approval to directly admit students in the MS in BMED program. Admittance terms will be fall,

spring, summer. Minimum TOEFL scores required will be 600 (paper-based) and 100 (internet-based) with a minimum section scores of 19. The GRE will be required.

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Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Robotics• Mechanics Area selection: add AE 6520 Advanced Flight Dynamics, BMED 8813 Robotics, CS

4796 Computer Animation• Control Area selection: Add AE 8803 Nonlinear Stochastic Optimal Control, ECE 6563

Networked Control and Multi-agent Systems• Perception Area selection: Replace Special Topics with CS 6476 Computer Vision, CS 7476

Advanced Computer Vision, CS 7616 Pattern Recognition, CS 7499 3-D Reconstruction and Mapping, CS 7626 Behavioral Imaging, CS 7643 Deep Learning

• Artificial Intelligence Area selection: CS 7643 Deep Learning, CS 8803 Mobile Manipulation, CS 7649 Robot Intelligence: Planning in Action, CS 8803 Computation and the Brain, CS 7462 Reinforcement Learning, CS 8803 Stasticial Techniques in Robotics, CS/ECE 8803 Probabilistic Graph Models and ML in High Dimensions, ECE 6254 Statistical Machine Learning

• Robot Interaction Area selection: Add AE 6721 Evaluation of Human Integrated Systems, CS 7633 Human-Robot Interaction, PSYC 6011 Cognitive Psychology. Remove AE 6551 and APPH 6203

• Autonomy Area: Remove area from curriculum

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CoursesItems addressed included:

New Subject Code(s)• GMC – Global Media and Cultures

Reactivated Courses• ARCH 8999 Preparation for Doctoral Dissertation• ARCH 9000 Doctoral Thesis

Course Updates• CS 8999 Doctoral Thesis Prep• LMC 6650 Project Studio• BIOL 7200 Programming for Bioinformatics• MSE 6120 Quantitative Characterization of Microstructures

Pre-requisite Modifications• CEE 6215 Coastal Structures

Approved 119 new courses!

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Student Petitions and Appeals

The Graduate Committee acted on 362 student petitions. Of these, 356 were handled administratively in areas where the Committee had delegated responsibility to the subcommittee and/or the Registrar. There were 0 written appeals that were acted on in 2017-2018. In academic year 2016-2017, the Committee acted on 337 petitions.

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Study Abroad Subcommittee

In 2017-2018, the Study Abroad Subcommittee reviewed and approved proposals for 1 fall semester faculty-led study abroad program, 1 fall semester embedded study abroad program, 3 spring semester faculty-led study abroad programs, 10 spring semester embedded study abroad programs, 35 summer faculty-led study abroad programs, and heard 0 student appeals. Four summer study abroad programs were cancelled due to low enrollment. The Committee held three meetings during Fall Semester 2017 and conducted the rest of its business by e-mail.

Responsible Conduct of Research Committee

The IGCC was represented by Dr. Tucker Balch, College of Computing and by Dr. Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey, College of Biological Sciences. Dr. Rob Butera acted as Chair for the 2017-2018 year. The Committee met once on October 31, 2017. There were no actions to report.

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Action Items from the May 24, 2018 Minutes

Administrative ItemMemorandum of Understanding• GT Lorraine and Central Casablanca (Morocco) – admission of students to GT-L from Centrale

Casablanca Engineering program to pursue a MS in ME or ECE.

School of Earth and Atmospheric SciencesNew Courses• EAS 6053 Preparing Future Faculty (1-0-1)• EAS 6142 Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (3-0-3)• EAS 6200 Environmental Geochemistry (3-0-3)• EAS 6201 Environmental Geochemistry Lab (0-3-1)• EAS 6224 Mineral Surface Geochemistry (3-0-3)• EAS 6315 Geofluids (3-0-3)• EAS 6316 Earthquake Physics (3-0-3)• EAS 6325 Geomorphology (3-3-4)• EAS 6333 Field Methods in Volcanic Terrains (3-0-3)• EAS 6375 Earth and Planet Materials (3-0-3)• EAS 6380 Land Remote Sensing (3-0-3)• EAS 6500 Climate and Global Change (3-0-3)• EAS 6525 Weather Risk and Modeling (3-0-3)

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College of ComputingNew Course• CS 6515 Introduction to Graduate Algorithms (3-0-3)

Degree ModificationMaster of Science in Computer Science (Computing Systems concentration)• Add CS 6390 Programming Languages to Core Courses• Add CS 6263 Intro to Cyber Physical Systems Security to elective options

Schools of Interactive Computing, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Biomedical EngineeringDegree ModificationDoctor of Philosophy with a major in Robotics – course updates to Program of Study Areas• Mechanics Area selection: add AE 6520 Advanced Flight Dynamics, BMED 8813 Robotics, CS

4796 Computer Animation• Control Area selection: Add AE 8803 Nonlinear Stochastic Optimal Control, ECE 6563 Networked

Control and Multi-agent Systems• Perception Area selection: Replace Special Topics with CS 6476 Computer Vision, CS 7476

Advanced Computer Vision, CS 7616 Pattern Recognition, CS 7499 3-D Reconstruction and Mapping, CS 7626 Behavioral Imaging, CS 7643 Deep Learning

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Schools of Interactive Computing, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Biomedical EngineeringDegree Modification (continued)Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Robotics• Artificial Intelligence Area selection: CS 7643 Deep Learning, CS 8803 Mobile Manipulation, CS

7649 Robot Intelligence: Planning in Action, CS 8803 Computation and the Brain, CS 7462 Reinforcement Learning, CS 8803 Statistical Techniques in Robotics, CS/ECE 8803 Probabilistic Graph Models and ML in High Dimensions, ECE 6254 Statistical Machine Learning

• Robot Interaction Area selection: Add AE 6721 Evaluation of Human Integrated Systems, CS 7633 Human-Robot Interaction, PSYC 6011 Cognitive Psychology. Remove AE 6551 and APPH 6203

• Autonomy Area: Remove area from curriculum

School of Civil and Environmental EngineeringNew Course• CEE 6432 Finite Element Method for Coupled Processes in Elastic Porous Media (3-0-3)

School of City and Regional PlanningNew Course• CP 6055 Planning Studio (3-0-3)

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Action Items from the June 21, 2018 Minutes

There were no action items from this meeting (only items presented were those that were informational).

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Action Items from the August 23, 2018 Minutes

There were no actions from this meeting. It consisted of welcoming new members, briefing

everyone on the mission and duties of the Graduate Curriculum Committee, and discussing

upcoming items for the year.

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Action Items from the September 6, 2018 Minutes

The School of Literature, Media, and CommunicationNew Courses• LMC 6322 Global Intellectual Property and Law (3-0-3)• LMC 6360 Global Ethnographies & Communication Practices (3-0-3)• LMC 6366 Global Science Fiction (3-0-3)

The School of PhysicsNew Course• PHYS 8002 Seminar (2-0-2)

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Action Items from the October 4, 2018 Minutes

The School of Interactive ComputingNew Course• CS 7639 Cyber-Physical Design and Analysis (3-0-3)

The College of ComputingDegree ModificationDoctor of Philosophy with a major in Computer Science• Add CS 7643 Deep Learning to Programming Proficiency pick• Add course options to Breadth Areas:

• Learning Sciences and Technology – add CS 6461 Computing Education Research

• Machine Learning – add CS 7545 Theoretical Foundations of ML

• Social Computing – add CS 6474 Social Computing

• Software Methodology and Engineering – add CS 6301 Advanced Topics in Software Engineering

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The School of Public PolicyNew DegreeMaster of Science in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management

A professional MSEEM offered by the School of Public Policy would make graduates more competitive in sustainability and climate change fields, by providing them with a practitioner-oriented degree that clearly distinguishes them as trained professionals in sustainability. The professional Masters will be distinct in three ways:

By focusing on a professional degree rather than a research-focused degree, the professional Masters will have different academic emphases, attract different students and serve a different market.

By making the courses available through Georgia Tech’s Distance Learning Program, the professional Masters will attract a new community of students that its current MS programs cannot reach, particularly those who have full- or part-time jobs and may be located far from Atlanta.

By allowing for the completion of the professional Masters in one year, through any combination of distance learning or classes taken in Atlanta, the proposed curriculum of 4-4-2 courses in the fall-spring-summer will have additional appeal. At the same time, a two-year 2-2-1 course program will allow the participation of working students/learners. In addition, the 4-course associated Graduate Certificate will offer a stand-alone program or one that could lead to the MSEEM.

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The School of Public PolicyNew Degree Master of Science in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management(Continued)

Student Learning Outcomes1. Mastery of sustainability metrics and the analytical techniques required to evaluate and estimate them

2. Knowledge of the dimensions of environmental ethics and their implications for sustainability practice

3. Ability to manage and design appropriate responses to energy & environmental sustainability problems

4. Capacity to assess the context of energy & environmental problems

5. Application of tools and methods to develop solutions for energy and environmental problems

Admissions Criteria• Students must meet all institute-level admissions criteria for graduate study, including holding a

bachelor´s degree or equivalent. In addition, applicants must provide:

• Statement of Purpose

• Official Transcripts

• Two Letters of recommendation

• Graduate Record Examination (GRE)

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Curriculum The MSEEM can be completed either full time (4-4-2 courses in a single year) or part time (2-2-1 courses each year for 2 years). Thirty (30) credit hours will be required to complete the program.The program be offered either on campus or in an asynchronous format on-line. One new course will be required. Every faculty member teaching in the program will be provided with a handbook that covers operational procedures, best practices for communication flow, classroom technology, copyright laws, and export control. Additionally, all “first time” faculty will be personally contacted by the Distance Learning (DL) office and extended an invitation to meet in the classroom where they will be teaching the distance learning section. During this session, DL staff addresses all of the questions and concerns of the faculty member and discusses options for instruction available using the multimedia equipment found in the DL classrooms. Georgia Tech Professional Education (GTPE) also provides facilities and support for faculty members who are recording lecture content for asynchronous, online delivery. A DL technician is assigned to work with each faculty member during every class meeting time to assist in effectively capturing the total classroom experience and lecture content for asynchronous delivery.

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The proposed curriculum is designed to have a professional focus in Sustainable Energy & Environmental Management, rather than a research focus (like our MSPP degree). It will be distinct from the MSPP degree program, by building heavily on the E&E concentration that currently exists in SPP. The one-year program with combined on-campus and on-line students is also distinct.

PROGRAM OF STUDY

Required courses: 6 credit hours• Sustainable Energy & Environmental Management (a new course that will be made available on campus and on-

line) – 3 credit hours

• Economics of Environmental Policy (PUBP 6312—an existing course that will be made available on-line). – 3 credit hours

Methods Electives: 6 credit hours

Sustainable Energy and Environmental Energy electives: 9 credit hours

Policy and Management Electives: 3 credit hours

Professional Paper: 6 credit hours

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Action Items and Minutes

• Move to approve all action items.

• Move to approve Minutes from:o May 24, 2018o June 21, 2018o August 23, 2018o September 06, 2018o October 4, 2018

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Documents

Institute Graduate Curriculum Committeefacultygovernance.gatech.edu/FFSAFS2019-102318-Attach-A6b.pdf · 2017-2018 Annual Report Summary Administrative Updates Items addressed included: