Convocation Fall 2013

ConvocationFall 2013Sarah A. RajalaDeanJames & 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

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

Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment

Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013*

5030 5448 59356495 7000

Engineering Graduate Enrollment

Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013*

996 1069 997 1013 1000

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 FacultyABE Norman Muzzy - Lecturer CBE Zengyi Shao - Assistant ProfessorCCEE 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 ProfessorME 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 StaffABE Tamara Kerns – Academic Advisor Joshua Kruse - Accountant Dana Woolley – 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 StaffME 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

General Fund Revenue Budget$86 Million

Undergraduate Tuition - $43 Million

Graduate Tuition - $10 Million

Indirect Cost Recovery - $3 Million

State Appropriations - $30 Million

50%35%

11%4%

Engineering Budgets for Academicand Administration

FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014

Academic Department - Millions ($) Administration and Service Units - Millions ($)

$32.6

$15.4

$35.5 $39.1$44.0

$48.6

$15.5$12.4 $11.4 $10.9

Engineering Research Expenditures

FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012

$67.5 $70.6 $74.4 $78.5 $83.9

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 BastawrosGrace Miller Wilson and T. WilsonEndowed Engineering Faculty Fund

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

Kristen Constant Wilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering

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

Caroline HayesLynn Gleason Professorship in Interdisciplinary Engineering

Andrew Hillier Wilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering

Charles Jahren W.A. Klinger Teaching Professorship

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

Richard Lesar Lynn Gleason Professorshipin Interdisciplinary Engineering

Anja Mudring Glenn MurphyProfessor of Engineering

Krishna Rajan Wilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering

Janis Terpenny Joseph Walkup Professorship in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Song Zhang William and Virginia BingerProfessorship inMechanical 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 EngineeringTeaching 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