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 popcies and structures concerning the governance of the college and faculty responsibipties. Specifically the PoA presents information about the college organization, administration and decision-making, faculty membership and appointments, responsibipties, course offerings, teaching schedules and leaves, outside activities, confpcts of interest.
College Standard Operations Manual (SOM): Revised on June 2024. The SOM describes guidepnes, 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 & 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.
- 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
Evaluation of Teaching Guidelines
- Biomedical Engineering Department Guidelines and Rubric
- Civil & Environmental Engineering Department Guidelines and Rubric
- Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Guidelines: ECE employs the college rubric as a default.
- Knight Foundation School of Computer & Information Sciences Guidelines and Rubric
- Mechanical & Materials Engineering Department Guidelines and Rubric
- Moss School of Construction Guidelines and Rubric
- Multidisciplinary Engineering & Computing Education, Systems and Management Department Guidelines and Rubric
Tenure and Promotion Guidelines
- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Knight Foundation School of Computer & Information Sciences
- Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
- Moss School of Construction
- Multidisciplinary Engineering & Computing Education, Systems and Management Department
Non-Tenure Promotion Guidelines
- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Knight Foundation School of Computer & Information Sciences
- Moss School of Construction
- Multidisciplinary Engineering & Computing Education, Systems and Management Department
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 T&P
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.
Merit Raise and Bonus Policies and Guidelines
- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Knight Foundation School of Computer & Information Sciences
- Moss School of Construction
- Department of Mechanical & Materials
- Multidisciplinary Engineering & Computing Education, Systems and Management Department
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.
College General Overview: Revised September 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.
College Research Overview: Revised May 2025. Research overview provides more comprehensive information about our research areas, particularly four research trusts that are outlined in our 2030 Strategic Plan.
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 EC2300, EC2461, 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.