UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY COMMITTTEE
MEETING MINUTES
June 8, 2000

PRESENT
Perry Moore, Noel Nussbaum, Chuck Taylor, Jeff Vernooy, David Grossie, Barbara Denison, Vicky Montavon, Bonnie Mathies, Paul Hernandez, Terry Anderson, Terri Klaus, Dan DeStephen, and Dave Sauter.

I. INTERNET 2 RESEARCH PRESENTATION
Dr. Mitch Wolff gave a presentation about the I2 project titled "Unsteady Aerodynamics of Gas Turbine Jet Engines". He is the principal investigator on this project with professors from AFIT, UC and UD currently involved. The project has both computational and experimental components. The computational work involves utilizing several 3-D CFD models for predicting unsteady gas turbine vane/blade interaction flow physics. On the experimental side, the team is working closely with AFRL's Compressor Aero Research Lab (CARL) to make high speed flow measurements. I2 will be utilized by the various researchers to communicate the massive amounts of data acquired both experimentally and computationally. Finally, Dr. Wolff is investigating the potential for massive parallel computing over the I2 network. Bonnie Mathies thanked Dr Wolff for the information and requested more be presented in the future. Paul Hernandez announced that other researchers will be invited to attend future UTC meetings.

II. CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING UPDATE

Dan DeStephen
Updated the committee on the status of Allyn Hall classrooms. By the beginning of Fall Quarter, seven of the classrooms will be electronic with the rest having traditional audio/video equipment and the capability to become electronic classrooms in the future. One of the seven electronic rooms will be designed as a distance education classroom.

Terri Klaus

• Gave a brief update on distance education projects for academic year 99-00 and forecasted projects for year 00-01 (see attachment).
• An announcement was mailed this week informing the campus community of the transition to WebCT.
• A new version of WebCT will be released in July - training will be available. WebCT training is taking place due to requests from College of Engineering
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• Advanced WebCT training will take place June 16-17.
• Although the two grants applied for to the Ohio Learning Network were rejected, applications will continue to be submitted for these types of grants.

III. CATS UPDATE

Paul Hernandez

• All T-1s have been removed and we are running on the new T-3.
• The Abilene application has been accepted as of Monday, June 12. We are officially a member of Abilene and will be using the high-speed backbone across the country.
• Due to inappropriate use of Internet activity, excessive bandwidth is being used which interferes with many activities across campus including distance learning, etc. Examples are listening to Internet music and "pay-to-surf" on individual websites. The Provost requested further discussion before notifying the campus community regarding these abusive bandwidth practices.
• Due to excessive use of printers in the CaTS labs, a policy change has been announced. All UNIX laser printers will produce four-pages-per-side, double-sided-page copies. There will be a charge to the user for any other requests. This will go into effect within the next month.

Terry Anderson

• Terry discussed revisions/additions for the following University Web Policy guideline sites being developed by the Web Advisory Committee. Once these revisions are complete, all web administrators and department chairs will be notified.
  
  1. www.wright.edu/web/access
  
  2. www.wright.edu/web/access/accountability.html
  
  3. www.wright.edu/wrightway/2001.html
  
  4. www.wright.edu/cwis/resources/2001.html
  
  
• On Tuesday, June 6, the "grades" application was made available to students on the web through Raider On-Line Express. Although it has not been officially announced yet, the first day the service was made available, it had 55 visits.

IV. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND STUDENT IDS DISCUSSION
Paul Hernandez reported on a discussion by the Board of Regents at a recent Inter-University Council of Ohio (IUC) meeting in Columbus. Within the next few years, the State of Ohio will require social security numbers NOT be used to identify students. As this change will affect the university significantly, CaTS is beginning to evaluate replacement systems. In the interim, discussions are on-going to limit the use of SSNs whenever possible. Dave Sauter, Registrar, also announced that social security numbers will not be printed on class lists and starting Fall Quarter, e-mail addresses will be on class lists. However, social security numbers will still be on grade sheets.

V. UTC FACULTY CHAIR ELECTION
Barbara Denison announced that although there was not a designated time limit on her term as Faculty Co-Chair of the University Technology Committee, she suggested nominations be accepted for a new faculty member to continue as Co-Chair. Nominated by Paul Hernandez, seconded by Barbara Denison and a unanimous vote by members of the committee, Chuck Taylor will begin his term as of September 7, 2000. Provost Moore expressed his appreciation to Barbara for her efforts during her term of office.

THE NEXT MEETING IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR JULY 13. COMMITTEE MEMBERS WILL BE NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE IF THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD.