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CE "biweekly" meeting
Feb 20, 2009
Personnel
- Replacement for Per W
- Two candidates left
- Substitute for Katarina V
- One candidate left
- Recruitment of ProViking-financed student for Per L-E
- 59 applications
- 3 called in for interview
Education
- EDITZ evaluation finished
- Response submitted from dept. (also from other depts, programmes, etc)
- Update of final report with no large changes
- Summary distributed (in Swedish)
- URKUND system for plagiarism detection will be introduced
- Sound baffles on their way for the course labs
- No word yet about tuition fees
Research and proposals
- Dept. has nominated Per S for Wallenberg Scholar
- Chalmers will submit 2 such nominations to the KAW Foundation
- Strategic funding proposals still being worked on
- Division contributions at least to ICT, E-Sceince, Manufacturing
- ICT: six areas (don't trust these names!)
- High-speed electronics
- Devices and materials
- Communication theory
- Antennas
- Safety/security
- Parallelism
Department issues
- Planning process kicks in again
- "Strategy Day" for division faculty (March 10)
- Five-year plan to Dept. on April 4
- 2008 economical preliminary results
- Surplus
- SUHF overhead calculation model will mean higher overhead figures (5%)
Chalmers issues
- Salary review coming up
- Doodle poll will be used for salary talks
- "Academies" for ICT, automotive, etc
- Coordination of educational (and research?) offerings for certain industry sector