College guidelines, procedures and templates outlined below apply to the members of one or more of the following categories—students, staff or faculty or impact the work of more than one area of the college. They provide guidelines to help achieve university objectives, including compliance with university, local, state and federal laws, as well as outline a process for effective, uniform and consistent college operations.
CEC departments and schools have created their own bylaws and guidelines that apply to their respective areas and are responsible for maintaining these documents and ensuring that they are not in conflict with official university policies.
Policies and Procedures
- Administration and Operations
Pattern of Administration (POA): The POA describes policies and structures concerning the governance of the college and faculty responsibilities. Specifically the PoA presents information about the college organization, administration and decision-making, faculty membership and appointments, responsibilities, course offerings, teaching schedules and leaves, outside activities, conflicts of interest.
College Standard Operations Manual (SOM): Revised on June 2024. The SOM describes guidelines, protocols and procedures concerning finance management, human resources, research administration, academic pattern of administration, marketing and communications practices, event and building operations, graduate and undergraduate program services, fundraising and information technology, and the business operations & standards at the Office of the Dean.
College-wide Faculty and Staff Communications: This document provides an overview of procedural guidelines and a college-wide policy that apply to the announcements sent to CEC employees (faculty & staff) or its subset of faculty and staff mailing lists simultaneously to ensure pertinent information is circulated to our community.
Protocol to Request Dean’s Participation in College Events: Please employ procedures highlighted in this protocol if you wish the dean participate in events organized by the units within the college. It does not apply to candidate interviews or internal meetings such as faculty/staff meetings.
FIU Events Calendar User Guidelines: This manual provides guidelines about posting events (i.e. conferences, workshops, seminar series) to the calendars managed by the college or units.
Resources and documentation for the FIU Calendar:
- Academic Affairs
- CEC Courtesy Appointment Guidelines
- Large Online Enrollment Compensation Guidelines
- Instructional Overload Guidelines
- Large Course Compensation Guidelines
- Tenure and Promotion and Tenure-Track/Third-Year Review Guidelines
- Non-Tenure Track Faculty Promotion Guidelines
- Professor of Practice Promotion Guidelines
- Research Faculty Promotion Guidelines
- Differential Assignment Guidelines
- Annual Assignment and Review of Faculty
- Default Evaluation Metric Tables
- Default Merit Raise Guidelines
- CEC T&P Dossier Organization and Letter Solicitation Expectations
- Academic Units
Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering Teaching Guidelines and Rubric
- Biomedical Engineering Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
- Biomedical Engineering Non-Tenure Promotion Guidelines
- Biomedical Engineering Merit Raise and Bonus Policies and Guidelines
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Civil & Environmental Engineering Teaching Guidelines and Rubric
- Civil & Environmental Engineering Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
- Civil & Environmental Engineering Non-Tenure Promotion Guidelines
- Civil & Environmental Engineering Merit Raise and Bonus Policies and Guidelines
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Electrical & Computer Engineering Teaching Rubric
- Electrical & Computer Engineering Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
- Electrical & Computer Engineering Non-Tenure Promotion Guidelines
- Electrical & Computer Engineering Merit Raise and Bonus Policies and Guidelines
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
- Mechanical & Materials Engineering Teaching Guidelines
- Mechanical & Materials Engineering Teaching Rubric
- Mechanical & Materials Engineering Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
- Materials & Mechanical Engineering Non-Tenure Promotion Guidelines
- Mechanical & Materials Engineering Merit Raise and Bonus Policies and Guidelines
Knight Foundation School of Computing & Information Sciences
- Knight Foundation School Teaching Guidelines and Rubric
- Knight Foundation School Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
- Knight Foundation School Non-Tenure Promotion
- Knight Foundation School Merit Raise and Bonus Policies and Guidelines
Moss School of Construction
- Moss Construction Teaching Guidelines
- Moss Construction Teaching Rubric
- Moss Construction Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
- Moss Construction Non-Tenure Promotion Guidelines
- Moss Construction Merit Raise and Bonus Policies and Guidelines
Multidisciplinary Engineering & Computing Education, Systems and Management Department
- ESM Department Teaching Guidelines and Rubric
- ESM Department Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
- ESM Department Non-Tenure Promotion Guidelines
- ESM Department Merit Raise and Bonus Policies and Guidelines
Post-Tenure Review Guidelines
This document describes quantifiable metrics for systematically assigning exceeds expectations and meets expectations for teaching, research and service for CEC faculty undergoing post-tenure review.
- University-wide method for determining overall calculations
- Additional Guidance for Research Evaluation in CEC for PTR and Tenure and Promotion
External Awards
The CEC External Faculty Awards Catalog is an inventory of honorific faculty award opportunities (fellowships, memberships or prizes) that are awarded by external organizations. These honors are intended to acknowledge faculty excellence in teaching, research or service.
This spreadsheet provides a comprehensive list of these opportunities, offering a curated selection of available awards in engineering and computing disciplines.
Differential Assignment Policies
Updates pending.
- Forms and Templates
College PowerPoint Templates: You can download and use PowerPoint presentation templates created for college, listed below, for your presentation or other meeting needs. These templates incorporate FIU’s new brand campaign colors, design and style.
Refrain from recreating different versions. More information about FIU’s brand guidelines can be found on the FIU Brand Style Guide. If you have any questions about the templates, contact Elizabeth Calzadilla at ecalzadi@fiu.edu.
- CEC Hybrid: This template merges classic format with new colors. It could be used for research presentations and alike.
- CEC Real Triumphs: This template incorporates geometric design elements and may be more suitable for presentations that call for more images, fewer text, such as new student orientations, town halls or displays for lobby screens.
College General Overview: Revised January 2025. College general overview presents our points of pride, student demographics, research stats, rankings, faculty honors, alumni and industry partnerships, as well as a brief outline of our research areas.
Research Administration: Forms listed below apply to research proposal submissions and can be found on the linked SharePoint. If you have any questions about these forms, contact the Research Administration team at the college.
- Budget Justification Template
- Cost Share Form
- Direct Charge Exemption Form, Expenses
- Direct Charge Exemption Form, Salaries
- Electronic Proposal Routing Approval Form
- Internal Budget Sheet
- Purchase of Electronic Devices
Dean's Office Event Space Request Form: An Event Space Request (ESR) form is required anytime a unit wishes the use of a space that is under the control and management of the Office of the Dean at CEC such as EC 2300, EC 2461, Panther Pit, EC Lawn, EC Underdeck, for an advertised function at the college or Engineering Center, such as seminars, workshops, celebrations, guest speakers.
CEC Virtual Background Images: College virtual background images can be used at any virtual activity (a meeting or an event) with our internal/external partners, in particular those activities that don’t have a customized background image or a theme.
- Access to CEC SharePoint
CEC has employed Microsoft SharePoint group site to help organize and share information more effectively and house policies, guidelines, protocols, as well as presentations and templates that are commonly used by or circulated to the CEC faculty and staff.
If you are having issues accessing the CEC SharePoint site or downloading a document, contact Steven Luis at luiss@fiu.edu.