20080822

CE biweekly gathering

Aug 22, 2008

Attempt at structure (!)

Education
Research and proposals
Personnel
Dept. organization and administration
Chalmers outside CSE
AOI

Education

Industrial PhD students will need to spend 10% of their time teaching
TA assignment for courses? Who is responsible?
Anonymous exams from October

Research

Proposals to Chalmers Foundation to be decided on soon
New rules for proposal writing (cost claims and so on)

Personnel

Sally McKee has accepted our offer
Albert Nummelin (NS) and Ida Holmberg (adm) are resigning
Tiina Rankanen is now a regular employee
Stig-Göran Larsson is retiring
Katarina Vemdal is back at 75%
New economy person: Stefan Österberg

Department issues

Markides visits the dept. on Sep 30
Recruitment of successor to Sven Tafvelin (NS); also general process for recruitment
Internal faculty funding distribution
Mentor program up for evaluation
Administrative support for MSc Coords

Chalmers issues

Centre for vehicular electronics being created (Lindholmen)
New org. for information secretaries