Information for Faculty

Academic Personnel Information

The Academic Personnel website provides information and forms regarding merit and promotion, reporting outside activities, leave, recruitment, benefits and other resources.

Campus Resources

Berkeley Faculty Guide to Campus Life

Answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about faculty life and work.

U.C. Faculty Handbook

Provides summary information as well as a guide to where official policies and more detailed information can be found.

Office of Educational Development

Quick links to the Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions, evaluation forms, Teach-net, Teaching in Difficult Times and Tools for Teaching.

Faculty Clubs

The Faculty Club		Women's Faculty Club
Phone: (510) 540-5678 Fax: (510) 540-6204 info@berkeleyfacultyclub.com		Phone: (510) 642-4175 Fax: (510) 204-9661 wfc@uclink.berkeley.edu

Class Computer Accounts

Instructional Support Group (ISG)
Contact: inst@eecs, 643-6141, 642-9543

ISG contacts teaching faculty before the semester begins to determine which courses need student accounts on a departmental or Instructional Systems & Technology computer. If you are not contacted within two weeks of the start of classes, check with Kevin Mullally, (kevinm@eecs), the IESG Manager.

IESG Instructor's Survey for Instructional Computing

For more information, please see: ISG Information for Instructors.

Class Lists and Student Enrollment in Courses

EE Scheduler: Jo Bullock, 207 Cory, jbullock@eecs, 2-1786
CS Scheduler: Michael-David Sasson, 379 Soda, msasson@eecs, 3-6002

Students who do not meet course prerequisites or do not attend the first class meeting may be dropped from the course by contacting Michael-David or Jo during the first week of class. See BearFacts for class lists and email addresses. More on campus enrollment procedures is in the Faculty Guide to Campus Life.

Class Scheduling

EE Scheduler:		CS Scheduler:
Jo Bullock 207 Cory Hall, 2-1786 jbullock@eecs EE Course Scheduling home page		Michael-David Sasson 379 Soda Hall, 3-6002 msasson@cs CS Course Scheduling home page

Re-scheduling Courses

If you have a compelling reason to re-schedule a course, contact the Scheduling Assistant immediately. Such changes should be avoided if at all possible since students complete their study and work schedules very early under the Tele-BEARS enrollment system and unanticipated day/time changes can create serious conflicts for them. The University permits no changes in rooms or times after Friday of the third week of classes. Requests for changes to rooms and/or times are not guaranteed to be approved.

Computing Help

Contact the The Help Desk located in 395 Cory Hall (642-7777, help@eecs) between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Course Management Tools (CourseWeb)

The Department provides various levels of support to manage course materials and websites. The EECS Instructional Support Group has prepared a Briefing of what is available and in progress. CourseWeb is a web application developed at UC Berkeley that automatically generates a basic website for every university course. Faculty can easily modify CourseWeb sites to add a syllabus, student photos, update office hours and contact info, and link to additional course sites, web resources, or external websites. It is useful throughout the semester for faculty to create coursewide announcements and to send email to enrolled and waitlisted students. Even if you have an existing website for your course, you can link to it here so it is easy for students to find.

Course Materials/Notes

If your course requires photocopied notes, a course anthology (reader) or other lengthy materials for distribution to students, please arrange with your assigned secretarial staff to create a Master copy. Bring the Master to a local copy shop (for example Copy Central at 2483 Hearst Ave or 2560 Bancroft Way), which will make copies and sell directly to your students, or to Loretta Lutcher (loret@eecs) in room 253 Cory. She can arrange for resale of the material to your students. Instructors are responsible for observing applicable copyright conditions on materials for classroom use. For more information, see Tools for Teaching: Preparing or Revising a Course.

Course Reports/Grades

EE contact: EECS Receptionist, eecsoffice@eecs / 2-3214
CS contact: Audrey Raya, 385-soda@eecs / 2-0930

UC Berkeley final grades are submitted online via BearFacts. Instructors are notified by email when the grades submission system opens. It is very important for instructors to submit their students' grades before the deadline specified in the e-mail notification; late submission can hold up students' transcripts or delay their graduation. More information on campus grade procedures is in the Faculty Guide FAQ, or review A Faculty User's Guide to UCB's Online Grading System.

Faculty Lists

Internal Faculty List (includes grant administrators and faculty assistants)
External Faculty List (includes photos)
Faculty Photos
EECS Faculty Email Lists

Final exams

Under UC Academic Senate regulations, instructors must be present to give their final exams. Any changes to the published Final Exam date or time, or the addition or omission of an exam from the list included in the Schedule of Classes, require approval from the Academic Senate Committee on Courses. Requests are due NO LATER than the third week of the semester. See the section in the Faculty Guide or the Committee on Courses of Instruction (COCI) Handbook (pdf)

Common Exams

For courses with more than one lecture section, a common exam room is often preferred by the instructors. Letters requesting common finals must be addressed to the Committee on Courses between the first and third week of classes. Contact the EE Scheduling Assistant (khutch@eecs) or the CS Scheduling Assistant in 379 Soda, 3-6002 (msasson@eecs) regarding these requests.

Retention of Final Exams

Final exams must be kept on file on campus for thirteen months. Please make arrangements with your assistant, eecsoffice@eecs in EE, or Audrey Raya in CS (385-soda@cs) to retain the exams. Students may look at their exams, but not leave with or photocopy them.

Forms

EECS Faculty Forms
Including those for biobibs, outside activities, short leave, visiting scholars, incomplete grades, grad student progress reviews, and award nominations.

Graduate Student Instructor (TA) Appointments

EECS GSI Application

Electrical Engineering		Computer Science
EE assignments: Pat Hernan hernan@eecs, 2-9265		CS assignments: Brian Harvey bh@cs, 2-8311

GSI position allocation to courses

Courses with laboratory or discussion sections are assigned Graduate Student Instructors (teaching assistants); the number of GSI hours per week allocated to the course is based on the needs of the course and the overall EECS GSI funding from the Dean's Office. Assignments are given as 10 or 20 hr/wk positions.

GSI selection process

The EE and CS Scheduling Assistants confer with Department faculty on the appointment of specific individuals as GSIs for courses. Final GSI selection is based on instructional needs and the Department's commitments. Under UC policy and the GSIs' Contract, GSIs should never perform duties until they have been cleared by the Scheduling Assistant, and have signed up with Julie Aquino, EECS Payroll Specialist, 367 Soda, 2-0544, payroll@eecs

Grading and BearFacts

EECS instructors use BearFacts for course rosters and grading management. To access the system, all instructors (whether regular faculty or visiting instructors) must have a CalNet ID and passphrase. An EECS CalNet Deputy (listed on the CalNet site) can assign an ID upon presentation of a photo ID by the instructor. BearFacts includes the midterm status reporting for students with especially low grades. EECS has grading guidelines for Graduate Courses and Undergraduate Courses Please be aware of privacy concerns regarding public posting of grades or Student ID Numbers. The campus has Academic Policies for grading, grade changes, and the appeal process.

Graduate Student Progress Reviews

Hiring a Reader

Hiring Readers: Instructors for classes of any size may request a Reader allocation to assist with grading homework, lab reports, problem sets and the like. The number of Reader hours assigned to a course is based on class size and Departmental funding. The total reader hours assigned to your course may not be exceeded.
Selecting Readers: Potential Readers will approach you to tell you about their qualifications and ask for a position as your Reader. Readers should themselves have completed the course with a B or better grade, and have an overall GPA of 3.0 or better.
Reader Applications: Applicants can apply online: Reader Application
Once selected, Readers will need to see Jenny Jones in Room 395 Soda Hall to be added to the Payroll. Readers should do no work, and cannot be paid, before being signed up for payroll.

Instructor and GSI Evaluations

The Engineering student honor society, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), conducts a survey each semester to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of each instructor and teaching assistant. Near the end of the semester you will be asked to allow a representative from Eta Kappa Nu to distribute and collect the surveys during one of your class meetings. Arrangements are made for this activity to be minimally disruptive of normal class time.

Faculty Lunches

The EECS faculty hold joint lunch meetings on alternating Mondays in the Wozniak Lounge (430 Soda Hall).

EECS Faculty Luncheon and Cluster Meeting Schedules

Cory Hall: On the last Monday of the month, the Electrical Engineering faculty hold a lunch in the Hogan Room, 521 Cory Hall.
Soda Hall: On the last Monday of the month, the Computer Science Division faculty hold a lunch in the Wozniak Lounge, 430 Soda Hall.

Policies

Work Place Polices for EECS Faculty
include workload, leave, equipment and visitor policies as well as links to miscellaneous academic and administrative procedures.
UC Berkeley Guide to Consulting for Faculty and Academic Employees (MS Word)
UC Berkeley Preliminary Disclosure of Invention (pdf)

Public Printers

Cory Hall

There are no public printers in Cory Hall at this time. Students with instructional accounts should print to the printers in the instructional labs. Students with research accounts should print to printers in their research labs.

Soda Hall

Public printers are located in 384, 510 and 730 Soda Hall (lws384, lws510 & lws730). General contact: printers@cs.

For paper/toner problems contact printers@cs.
For job cancellations: users can do a kerberized or ssh login to machine huginn.CS, and from there do a "cancel [id]" where id is the print job id which may be determined using the "lpstat" command. If the printer is disabled, the "/usr/bin/enable printers" command may be used to re-enable the named printers.
For problems with private printers in Soda Hall, users should contact their local system administrator.

Room Reservations for Special Events

Faculty, administrative assistants, RAs and TAs can reserve seminar and conference rooms for special events through the EECS Room Reservations web page.

To reserve rooms for classes, please see Class Scheduling.

Technical Reports

Textbook Ordering

EE contact: 253 Cory Hall (eecsoffice@eecs)
CS contact: 385 Soda Hall (araya@cs)

Textbooks must be ordered approximately three months prior to the beginning of the semester. Textbook requisitions are given to all faculty members teaching that semester.

Visiting Scholars and Industrial Fellows

Web Pages

EECS Resource Guide Table of Contents

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

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