Minutes

Advisory Committee

 Machine Tool Technology

Tuesday May, 7, 2002 6:00 P.M.

Present: Jim Carroll, Tom Dickerson, Charles Edwards, Robert Good, Tim Hammond, Mike McClain, Steve Paulding

The meeting was held in the Conference Room of the new Institute for Manufacturing Productivity. The meeting was opened by Tom Dickerson as he reviewed the minutes from the Advisory Committee meeting held November 20,2001. The minutes were approved as read. Then the agenda for the current meeting was reviewed.

Next, we moved on to discuss the IMT (Integrated Manufacturing Technology) Certificates and Degree. We discussed the purpose for which the certificates and degree were created, the skill set included in the program, and the current enrollment in the IMT program. After much discussion regarding the future of the IMT program, Charles Edwards moved that we cancel the program and Robert Good submitted a second to the motion. Upon further discussion of the motion, Tim Hammond offered an amendment to the motion that we give students an alternative to the IMT degree. This alternative is to offer the MTT degree program and also allow the students to select other courses that had been in the IMT program. As a side discussion, it was also recommended that none of the courses offered in the IMT program be removed from the list of courses offered by the college. After a call for a vote, the motion passed by a vote of seven YES, and 0 NO.

Next we discussed the effectiveness of the MTT Advisory Committee for the 2001-2002 school year. We each made comments and each filled out a copy of Appendix G Standards for Advisory Committee Effectiveness. These forms are attached to the minutes.

Our next order of business was to establish a standard, regular meeting time. We decided to meet the third Tuesday of September and April each year. During the 2002-2003 school year the committee will meet on September 12, 2002 and April 15, 2003.

Our next order of business was to discuss Recruiting for the MTT program. Tom Dickerson informed the committee that a business card sized CD was being produced to advertise the MTT program. This was being done with grant money that had been obtained by Dr. Marc Tarplee. These CD's will be ready in the near future. We then discussed efforts that are being made by the MTT faculty to recruit in the local high schools and the weekly tours that are conducted by Student Services.

We then looked at the upcoming school year and everyone present agreed to serve on the committee for the coming year. Then Jim Carroll was elected as Chairman of the MTT Advisory Committee for the 2002-2003 school year. We also agreed that Tom Dickerson would contact those committee members who were not present and find out which ones would agree to serve on the committee next year. He will also work with Jim Carroll to replace committee members as necessary. Steve Paulding also agreed to help identify potential new members for the MTT Advisory Committee.

The meeting was then adjourned at 7:00 P.M. and the committee then went to dinner together at Ryan's Steakhouse.