Step 2: make faculty ask to be in other departments (with the dean's approval of course)
Step 3: make all faculty who can't get other departments to take them have a 100% teaching appointment and set TA budget of the department to $0. Effectively convincing all those cranky guys you wanted to get rid of to leave the university.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Success!
Then add the Ph.D. program back in and wait 25 years for it to rebuild.
Step 1: move graduate programs to ECE
Step 2: make faculty ask to be in other departments (with the dean's approval of course)
Step 3: make all faculty who can't get other departments to take them have a 100% teaching appointment and set TA budget of the department to $0. Effectively convincing all those cranky guys you wanted to get rid of to leave the university.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Success!
Then add the Ph.D. program back in and wait 25 years for it to rebuild.
Sounds like a great plan to me.