Cockrell School of Engineering CTBAC
The Cockrell School of Engineering College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee enhances the budget-setting process by creating a more transparent and inclusive environment for student decision making.
The Student Engineering Council has created a College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee within the Cockrell School of Engineering. The CTBAC will be comprised of a group of students whose role will be to represent engineering students on the University of Texas campus by gathering information and commenting on tuition budget priorities.
The CTBAC will identify student priorities for the Cockrell School of Engineering, recommend changes in tuition and offer advice on the budget. The CTBAC within the Cockrell School of Engineering will function in a similar manner to the TPAC process, as the committee will make written recommendations to the Dean.
Students, faculty, or staff may email questions and input to ctbac@sec.engr.utexas.edu.
Purpose
The CTBAC serves various purposes within the Cockrell School of Engineering. The primary functions of the CTBAC include, but are not limited to:
- discuss college-level academic priorities
- recommend tuition increases as are necessary to meet the college-level academic priorities
- consider the allocation of budget resources within the college necessary to achieve the college-level academic priorities
- solicit feedback from students, faculty, and staff
- work with other CTBACs to collect input from members of the university community about university-wide budgetary recommendations and changes
Recommendations
Memorandum expresses the CTBAC’s support of a tuition increase in the Cockrell School of Engineering for the 2012-14 biennium in order for the school to remain competitive among its peer engineering institutions and improve four-year graduation rates. The memorandum also states that “students believe that if tuition is not increased, the Cockrell School of Engineering will be unable to hire faculty and teaching assistants who are fundamental to student success towards graduation ” and that the “consensus among students is that the hiring of more faculty will improve the quality of education and allow the school to offer more engineering courses.”
Cockrell School of Engineering CTBAC Members
Roberto Valle, Student Engineering Council President
president@sec.engr.utexas.edu
Columbia Mishra, Graduate Engineering Council President
columbia.mishra@utexas.edu
(351) 225-2895
Michael Gaskin, Student Government Engineering Representative
sg@sec.engr.utexas.edu or michael.gaskin@utexas.edu
(512) 642-3356
Allison Ginger, Student Government Engineering Representative
sg@sec.engr.utexas.edu
Kevin Yuan, Student Government Engineering Representative
sg@sec.engr.utexas.edu or kevinyuan.2010@gmail.com
Vikraman Parthiban, Student Engineering Council Senate Representative
senate@sec.engr.utexas.edu or vikparthiban@utexas.edu
(281) 838-2294
Deepak Joseph, Aerospace Engineering Representative
deepakjoz@gmail.com
(972) 408-5045
Amy Lach, Architectural Engineering Representative
amylach@utexas.edu
(832) 577-9275
Angel Zubieta, Biomedial Engineering Representative
angel.zubieta@utexas.edu
(956) 589-9444
Cory Miller, Civil Engineering Representative
cmiller04@mail.utexas.edu
(361) 946-3000
Simeon Bochev, Electrical Engineering Representative
simeonb@utexas.edu
(505) 286-0167
Joshua Warren, Mechanical Engineering Representative
josh.warren2013@gmail.com
(972) 564-2702
Miguel Curo, Petroleum Engineering Representative
miguel.curo@mail.utexas.edu
(281) 398-5614
Membership
The CTBAC is composed of 14 members from two groups: student body representatives and departmental representatives.
Student body representatives include:
- the Student Engineering Council president
- the Senate Representative from the Student Engineering Council
- One additional Student Engineering Council officer as appointed by the Council president
- Two engineering Student Government representatives
- the Graduate Engineering Council president
- the Graduate Student Assembly engineering representative
Departmental representatives:
Each department’s professional society has an officer serve on the CTBAC or elects a representative to serve on the CTBAC. The professional societies required to participate are the following:
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Media Coverage
Advisory committees submit proposals for colleges budgets (The Daily Texan – November 2, 2011)
Engineering tuition may rise to improve school’s rankings (The Daily Texan – September 15, 2011)