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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994
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438 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 9 projects, continuing education programs, information services, technology demonstrations, and a summer intern assistantship program. Services will be delivered through both direct contact with companies and close interaction with members of the State community college system. The industrial development and improvement project activity will involve student/faculty teams, formed as part of the senior-level capstone design courses in mechanical and industrial engineering. Teams will work with a company over a period of one semester to identify and solve a design problem. This activity will provide an important practical experience for engineering students and simultaneously will benefit the companies. The ICM will reinforce and strengthen existing programs of education and research at UIUC while introducing a new program of service through technology transfer and outreach to industry. It will neither replace any existing programs nor should it have an impact on enrollments in other programs. No degrees, undergraduate or graduate, will be awarded by the ICM. Faculty members involved in ICM programs are presently full-time faculty; no new tenured or tenure-track faculty positions will be required to support ICM activities. The Illinois Board of Higher Education has provided Higher Education Cooperation Act Grant support to sustain the pilot project for the past four years. Program costs were underwritten in part by this grant and in part by the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the College of Engineering. The ICM will also seek Federal and other non-State funding and will be able to gather support from other programs such as certain programs in manufacturing associated with community colleges. The vice president for academic affairs concurs with this recommendation. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved. I recommend approval, subject to further action by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved. Redesignate the Department of Basic Sciences, College of Medicine at Peoria (10) The interim chancellor at Chicago, with the advice of the Chicago Senate and the dean of the College of Medicine, recommends the redesignation of the Department of Basic Sciences in the College of Medicine at Peoria as the Department of Biomedical and Therapeutic Sciences. In 1993, the College of Medicine at Peoria received a grant from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop a Clinical Pharmacology Training Program in the Department of Basic Sciences. Through this program, the department has created the Section of Clinical Pharmacology. Moreover, the mission of the department has been expanded to include training of clinical pharmacology fellows, emphasizing clinical research and care. The new name reflects the mission of the Section of Clinical Pharmacology. The teaching of the department encompasses essential scientific knowledge in the use of therapeutic agents. The department emphasizes scientific expertise, knowledge, and interpretation throughout its training of the physician. The proposed name reflects this re-dedication to the training of new physicians. Finally, the department will continue to engage in research in the integrative biomedical sciences coupled with contributions from the molecular and subcellular domains. The proposed name continues to recognize the multi-disciplinary nature of the department. The vice president for academic affairs concurs in this recommendation. The University Senates Conference has indicated that no further senate jurisdiction is involved.
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