April 2025 - Me-indy-faculty

Fw: Conference Room Keys
by Zachary Daniel Sigafoes 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

Hello, Tiffany is looking for a set of keys. I'm sharing this with profs/faculty incase any may have borrowed them recently and haven't returned them yet. Sincerely, Zach Sigafoes - Executive Assistant Purdue University in Indianapolis SL 260S 723 West Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 zsigafoe(a)purdue.edu<mailto:zsigafoe@purdue.edu> - 765.495.7703 [cid:4b1ebbea-4fc9-4b25-8a4c-4996f305828d] ________________________________ From: Tiffany L Lewallen <tlewalle(a)purdue.edu> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2025 8:29 AM To: Annice Elizabeth Willard <aewillar(a)purdue.edu>; Zachary Daniel Sigafoes <zsigafoe(a)purdue.edu>; Sherrie Tucker <tucker76(a)purdue.edu>; Katrin Danielson <kadan(a)purdue.edu> Cc: Sherry Clemens <clemens4(a)purdue.edu>; Alicia Breeding <anbreedi(a)purdue.edu> Subject: Conference Room Keys Hi! I am missing connection room keys. Can you check with people in your programs or department to find out if they have a conference room key and please return them to the dropbox outside ET 331 for me? Tiffany Lewallen

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CoE classroom slides
by Wassgren, Carl R 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

Attached are the classroom slides from the CoE for this week.

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ASME - please advertise
by Wassgren, Carl R 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

The feedback has been that the ASME call-out meeting last night went well with dozens of students attending. I’d like to capitalize on this momentum to get students to sign up, particularly for leadership positions. Having a strong ASME presence on campus will go a long way toward building student community and providing students opportunities to develop their engineering, communication, teamwork, and leadership skills. Please show the attached slide in your classes and encourage students who have demonstrated leadership qualities to sign up to be part of the leadership team. Our goal is to establish the leadership team before the end of the semester so ASME can start strong in the fall. I greatly appreciate your help in getting the word out. -- Carl

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More information on teaching loads and representation within the School
by Wassgren, Carl R 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

I have some updated information on teaching loads and representation within the School that you’ll find of interest. Eckhard reviews academic year support once per year in May/June to determine teaching loads for the following academic year. He’ll also take into consideration proposal writing effort. The principle is that he wants to see research productivity, otherwise faculty need to contribute to the School with an increased teaching load. Thus, decisions on 2+1 academic year teaching loads for Associate and Full Professors will be made early this summer. Assistant professors will remain at 1+1 for the next academic year so they can continue to develop their research programs. For those faculty who will teach an extra course, the plan is to keep the Fa25 semester essentially as is and use the extra teaching load to reduce the dependence on limited term lecturers in Sp26. Eckhard is also supportive of using the increased teaching assignments to offer some ME graduate courses at the Indianapolis campus as long as there is sufficient enrollment (>=9 students for 5xx courses, >= 6 students for 6xx courses) and we can balance other teaching needs. I asked this morning about increasing the representation of University Tenure (UT) faculty with courtesy appointments on ME committees. Apparently UT courtesy faculty already have representation in the academic areas and the Graduate Committee. If you haven’t done so already, please inform Victoria Wunderlich (vwunder(a)purdue.edu<mailto:vwunder@purdue.edu>) in which academic area (e.g., Fluid Mechanics and Propulsion, Solid Mechanics, System Measurements and Controls, etc.) you’d like to have your primary appointment. You can also be in a secondary academic area, but should only vote in your primary area. Eckhard also included the caveat that you should only vote on curriculum-related matters if you are actively teaching in the Purdue ME curriculum. If you are teaching a continuing-student course, then you should wait to vote on curriculum matters until you are teaching a Purdue ME course. You can still contribute in meetings and vote on non-curriculum matters, however. As far as the Graduate Committee, Hamid Dalir is the UT courtesy faculty representative. As far as I know, he has voting rights in that committee. Eckhard has agreed that courtesy faculty can participate and vote in all ME committees except for the ME Primary Committee. Again, votes related to curriculum matters should wait until you’re teaching Purdue ME courses. I encourage you to actively participate so you can contribute to the School, particularly in shaping the ME-Indy experience, and develop relationships for research partnerships.

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Slot available to meet with speaker Matt Rosen on Friday April 18th 1030-11am
by Larriba-Andaluz, Carlos 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Hello all, We are looking forward to having our first distinguished lecture series in Indy on April 18that 2pm in IO105. There is still one slot available to meet with the speaker at 1030am on Friday. Please let me know if you would like to meet with him. Matt works on MRI technology but uses a ton of Machine Learning to improve signal to noise ratio. I hope to see you all there. All the best, Carlos [cid:image001.png@01DBADE7.23450CA0]

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Graduate courses
by Wassgren, Carl R 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

I realize it’s late in the day, but could those of you who are advising graduate students email me a list of courses you’d like to have available face-to-face at the Indy campus in Fa25 semester? This is purely for informational purposes at the moment. I’m just trying to find out what one or two courses might have high enrollments if offered at Indy face-to-face this fall. Thanks, -- Carl

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Updated CoE slide
by Wassgren, Carl R 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

There was an incorrect date in the original CoE slides sent to us. The attached slide has the correct date. -- Carl

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Classroom slides from the CoE
by Wassgren, Carl R 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

Please share the attached CoE slides with your classes. In particular, please be sure to show the first slide. Thanks, -- Carl

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Mini Research Symposium
by Wassgren, Carl R 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

Another opportunity for your graduate students to present their work. [cid:image001.png@01DBAB1C.3D9F0FB0]

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Please advertise tomorrow (Fr, Apr 11)
by Wassgren, Carl R 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Would you please advertise the attached two posters in your classes tomorrow? We want to get a strong start on student organizations. Thanks, -- Carl

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