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20090309
CE biweekly meeting
March 09, 2009
Personnel
- Johan Hansén, replacement for Per Waborg, will join the dept. on Apr 1
- Per W will support during transition
- Eva Paulson, substitute for Katarina Vemdal, starts today (Monday)
- Philippas Tsigas installation lecture this Wednesday
- SE positions now at hiring committee (AK)
Education
- Thesis project start requirements have been stricter at Dept. than centrally (60 vs 45 hp)
- Likely to be relaxed
- Evaluation of general reception of international masters students at Chalmers is underway
- Student Union will help
- General evaluation of all international masters programmes will be carried out
Research and proposals
- Strategic Resource applications
- Support letters from industry coming in
- Dept., div. planning must reflect the SR plans
- Make sure that all home pages are updated (reviewers will Google!)
- Chalmers Initiatives will likely be morphed to reflect all the thinking that has gone into these applications!
Department issues
- 2009 budget has surplus (4.4M)
- Space to hire postdocs. Women graduate students?
- Books closed on undergrad and master education for 2008
- Deficit for CE, NS (CE: -2.4M)
- Analysis pending (likely too large)
- Also, labs are expensive!
Chalmers issues
- Work Environment Authority (Arbetsmiljöverket) has inspected Chalmers
- Clarify alcohol policy
- Weak routines for work environment issues
- Workspace for students
- Mandatory courses for all research advisors
Computer support issues
- ITS file server procurement failed
- our migration will be delayed
- Consider migrating web sites onto new web server (old one is going away)
- Email, calendar service will be replaced this summer
- Oracle out, Microsoft in
- Microsoft Sharepoint to be installed by fall