Convocation Fall 2013

Sarah A. Rajala

Dean James & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering

Welcome and Introduction

Goals for 2013-14

• • • • • • • Deliver a high quality education to all of our students Hire at least 17 new, diverse, high-quality faculty members Develop a new model for Engineering Online to encourage growth, new pedagogical development and sustainability Increase the number of graduate students who have been enrolled or accepted admission by 5% Expand research portfolio and increase expenditures by 7.5% Develop a new plan for renovation and expansion of CoE space Raise $22M in new private gifts

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Role of Educating Students

Educating tomorrow’s engineering leaders Focus on strong academics ABET accreditation Global and engaged learning

Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment 7000 6495 5935 5448 5030 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013*

Engineering Graduate Enrollment 1069 996 997 1013 1000 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013*

Faculty and Staff

• • • Importance of high quality faculty and staff More than 400 faculty and staff critical to our success All are dedicated to student achievement

Welcome New Engineering Faculty ABE Norman Muzzy

- Lecturer

CBE Zengyi Shao

- Assistant Professor

CCEE Junwon Seo

- Research Assistant Professor

Jiehua J Shen

- Associate Professor

An Chen

- Assistant Professor

ECpE Ikenna Nlebedim

– Adjunct Assistant Professor

Siddartha Khaitan

– Research Assistant Professor

Meng Lu

- Assistant Professor (ECpE/ME)

Kathryn Stolee

- Assistant Professor

IMSE Caroline Krejci

- Assistant Professor

ME Xianglan Bai

- Assistant Professor

Ming-Chen Hsu

- Assistant Professor

Travis Sippel

- Assistant Professor

MSE Eliseo deLeon

- Lecturer

Anja Mudring

- Professor

Ruifeng Zhang

- Research Assistant Professor

Welcome New Engineering Staff ABE Tamara Kerns

– Academic Advisor

Joshua Kruse Dana Woolley

- Accountant – Communications Specialist (ABE/AERE)

AERE Tracy Borts

- Program Assistant

Kelsey Hummer

- Program Assistant

Andrew Jordan

- Teaching Lab Associate

Cameron Rayburn

– Academic Advisor

Katrina Williams

– Academic Advisor

Christine Jensen

- Teaching Lab Associate

CBE Michael Forrester

- Assistant Scientist

Jennifer Gibbs

– Academic Adviser

Michelle Grawe

- Teaching Lab Coordinator

Molly Seaboch

- Program Assistant

CCEE Traci Goldberg

- Academic Advisor

Paul Ledtje

- Research Associate

Jennifer Simba

- Academic Advisor

ECpE Helen Drake

– Program Assistant

Carrie Graves-Warden

– Academic Advisor

Benjamin Holland

– Research Associate

Lucinda Sheehy

– Academic Advisor

IMSE Angela Stone

- Administrative Specialist

Holly Twedt

- Program Assistant

Welcome New Engineering Staff ME Cindy Bartleson

- Administrative Specialist

Derek Dickson

- System Support

Mallory Quinn

- Program Assistant

Craig Severson

- Teaching Lab Coordinator

MSE Cory Johns

- Desktop Systems Administrator

Jacqueline Kester

- Program Assistant

Michelle Lenkaitis

- Administrative Specialist

College Relations Ann Wilson

– Director

Career Services Kellie Mullaney

- Program Assistant

Engineering-LAS Online Learning Sonya Nichols

- Instructional Support

Jane Tomesch

- Program Coordinator

Engineering Research Institute Deborah Moses

- Program Coordinator

Rachael Voas

- Administrative Specialist

Student Services Jeana Gingery

- Program Coordinator

Nancy Jeffs

- Program Coordinator

Technology Support Kevin Wickham –

System Analyst

CIRAS Chris Hill

- Industrial Specialist

Peter Nadolny

- Program Manager

Carey Novak

- Industrial Specialist

Glenn Volkman

- Program Manager

Promotions in the Engineering College

• • • • • • • • • • • Hui Hu (AERE) to Professor Eric Cochran (CBE) to Associate Professor Nadia Gkritza (CCEE) to Associate Professor Rangan Gopalakrishnan (CCEE) to Senior Lecturer Dionysios Aliprantis (ECpE) to Associate Professor Sumit Chaudhary (ECpE) to Associate Professor Chris Chu (ECpE) to Professor Liang Dong (ECpE) to Associate Professor Lizhi Wang (IMSE) to Associate Professor Gap Kim (ME) to Associate Professor Xiaoli Tan (MSE) to Professor

4% General Fund Revenue Budget $86 Million 35% 11% 50%

Undergraduate Tuition - $43 Million Graduate Tuition - $10 Million Indirect Cost Recovery - $3 Million State Appropriations - $30 Million

Engineering Budgets for Academic and Administration

Academic Department - Millions ($)

$39.1

Administration and Service Units - Millions ($)

$48.6

$44.0

$35.5

$32.6

$15.4

$15.5

$12.4

$11.4

$10.9

FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014

Engineering Research Expenditures $83.9

$78.5

$74.4

$67.5

$70.6

FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012

Engineering Facilities Update

Medallion Awards

• • • Named faculty positions established with private support enable the college to attract and retain world-class professors and researchers Thank you to the donors who established these prestigious positions Recognize 13 recipients

Ashraf Bastawros Grace Miller Wilson and T. Wilson Endowed Engineering Faculty Fund

Sumit Chaudhary Northrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green

Kristen Constant Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering

Randall Geiger Tunc and Lale Doluca Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Caroline Hayes Lynn Gleason Professorship in Interdisciplinary Engineering

Andrew Hillier Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering

Charles Jahren W.A. Klinger Teaching Professorship

Suraj Kothari Willard & Leitha Richardson Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Richard Lesar Lynn Gleason Professorship in Interdisciplinary Engineering

Anja Mudring Glenn Murphy Professor of Engineering

Krishna Rajan Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering

Janis Terpenny Joseph Walkup Professorship in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Song Zhang William and Virginia Binger Professorship in Mechanical Engineering

Patent Awards

• • Patents are a prestigious form of recognition Recognize 11 recipients

Sang Wu Kim Cooperative Spatial Multiplexing

Shihwu Sung Micro-Aeration of Sulfide Removal from Biogas

Atul Kelkar Pneumatic Vibration Isolation Device

Srikanta Tirthapura Computing Time-decayed Aggregates in Data Streams

Arun Somani Logic Element Architecture for Generic Logic Chains in Programmable Devices

Jaeyoun Kim Elastomeric Device for Tunable Imaging

Thomas Lograsso Magnetostrictive Materials, Devices and Methods Using High Magnetostriction, High Strength FeGa and FeBe Alloys

Balaji Narasimhan Antimicrobial Compositions and Methods

Rana Biswas and Kristen Constant Manufacturing Method of Photonic Crystal

Stuart Birrell Combination Residue Spreader and Collector for Single Pass Harvesting Systems

Faculty and Staff Awards

• • Honoring faculty and staff from the college Recognize 6 recipients

Leslie Potter Superior Engineering Teaching Award

Konstantina (Nadia) Gkritza Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

Iver E. Anderson David R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Research

Melissa Skinner Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

DeAnn Pitman Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

Devna Popejoy-Sheriff Superior Engineering Advisor Award

Thank You