Welcome, fans, to Convocation

2005!

The College of Engineeringat Iowa State

• A team working together to be the leader and make international impact in all we do.

• Step up to the plate.• What does it take to be the best?

The accuracy and power of thought to dominate our fields.

The speed and cunning to evade obstacles.

The reputation of getting the job done

year after year.

The innovativeness to develop and apply new technologies.

The inclusiveness of diversity in all forms.

The experience and wisdom to make wise decisions.

Sometimes you have to persevere to make your point...

…and sometimes you just have to hope a miracle occurs.

Taking risks is part of the game, even though we may not always win. But with taking risks comes learning…

…and with that learning comes accomplishment, making an international impact, and meeting our goals.

ISU College of Engineering: A team working together, innovating, being the leader in all we do…and hitting the intellectual home runs.

New Administrative Appointments• CCEE Chair: James E. Alleman• CBE Chair: James C. Hill• Director of Diversity and Graduate Student

Affairs: Nancy Knight• Director of Engineering Distance

Education: Loren Zachary• Director of Assessment: Steve Mickelson

Upcoming Administrative Initiatives

• Capital Campaign• Buildings

• ECpE Building II• ABE Building

• IT: Seamless Environment, Front Office, Back Office, “the Database”

• Strategic Planning: Campus, College, Department

Learning and Outreach

• Minor in Engineering Studies• Bioengineering Minor (undergraduate/graduate)• ABET• Engineering Policy and Leadership Institute

• Undergraduate Honors/Leadership ($1M grant from 3M)

• Flexibility and Breadth in all Curricula (Think Systems!)

www.nap.edu/catalog/10999

The Systems Approach to Engineering• Contemporary challenges—from biomedical devices to complex

manufacturing designs to large systems of networked devices—increasingly require a systems perspective.

• The systems perspective…looks to achieve synergy…among diverse components.…Hence, there is a need for greater breadth so that broader requirements can be addressed.

Engineers and Public Policy• As technology becomes increasingly engrained into every facet of

our lives, the convergence between engineering and public policy will also increase.

• This new level of intimacy necessitates that engineering (and engineers) develop a stronger sense of how technology and public policy interact.

www.nap.edu/catalog/10999

Graduate and Research Affairs

• Support for Center Proposal Preparation• Central Facilities and Major Instrumentation• High-performance Computing• Bioengineering Minor

Starting Line-ups

( New Faculty )

Aerospace Engineering

Paul Durbin Zhi Wang

Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

David Grewell Nir Keren D. Raj Raman (1/06)

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Not pictured:

Eric Cochran (1/06)

Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

James Alleman Amr Kandil Chris Williams

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tien Nguyen Namrata Vaswani

Not pictured: Umesh Vaidya (1/06)

Chen-Ching Liu (1/06)

Materials Science and Engineering

Michael Kessler Krishna Rajan

Mechanical Engineering

Song-Charng Kong John Brighton

Starting Line-ups

( New P&S and Merit )

New Staff• Judy Johnson, CCEE• Alexandre Kisslinger-

Rodrigues, CIRAS• JoAnn Miller, CIRAS• Craig Schmidt,

Development• Imad Abbadi, ECpE• Charyl Winterink, ECpE

• Brian Scrimager, ECM• Jamie Alt, ECSS• Jill Walkinshaw-Kramer,

ENGUP• David Perry, ME• Jodi Reinhart, ME• Allison Mickelson, ME• Sherrie Nystrom, ME

CoE All-Stars( Promotion and Tenure )

Promotion to Professor ( already tenured )

• Srinivas Aluru, ECpE• Carolina Cruz-Neira, IMSE• Jay Harmon, ABE• Steven Hoff, ABE• Edward Jaselskis, CCEE• Atul Kelkar, ME• Ratnesh Kumar, ECpE• Alan Russell, MSE• Charles Schwab, ABE

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure

• Ashraf Bastawros, AerE• Francine Battaglia, ME• Chris Chong-Nuen Chu, ECpE• Nicola Elia, ECpE• Manimaran Govindarasu, ECpE• Shauna Hallmark, CCEE• Ralph Napolitano, MSE• Shana Shiang-Fong Smith, ABE• Sivalingam Sritharan, CCEE• Brian Steward, ABE

Tenure without Promotion ( as professor )

• Thomas Maze, CCEE• Johannes Van Leeuwen, CCEE

CoE All-Stars( College Awards )

David R. Boylan Eminent Faculty

Award for ResearchDr. Vikram L. Dalal, ECpE

Young Engineering Faculty Research Award

David J. White, CCEE

Superior Engineering Advisor Award

Paul S. Castleberry, ME

Superior Engineering Extension Award

Jay D. Harmon, ABE

Superior Engineering Teacher Award

Steven J. Hoff, ABE

Superior Engineering Teacher Award

Michael B. Pate, ME

Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

Julia Apple-Smith,

Engineering International Programs

Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

James Gaunt, CCEE

Scouting Reports

( College Research Actions )

Hit the Ball

Rally

Major Leagues

Mission and Goals• Highly collaborative focal point for

fundamental and technological breakthroughs in materials research

• Synergistic partnering with industry for seamless knowledge and technology transfer

• Premier combinatorial experimentation facility for research and education • 36 faculty

• 11 departments• 5 colleges and several centers

Institute for Combinatorial Discovery

www.icd.iastate.edu

CombiSci Research and Innovation• Intelligent biomaterials for controlled drug delivery• Pathogen detection at the single cell/virus level via

molecular evolution • Biomimetic surface engineering for nerve regeneration

and biosensors • High-performance catalysts for energy storage and

conversion• Smart materials for durable surfaces/interfaces• In vitro evolution of catalysts• Low-cost, high-intensity light sources for biosensors and

devicesNext generation analytical tools for CombiSci

Hire: Rajan, MSEHire: Jeffries-El, Chem

ISU Initiative

ICD Launch

Hire: Hillier, ChE

Hire: Zou, ME

NSF-IMI: COSMIC(Rajan – Director)

2002

2005

2004

2003

Growth

International Materials NetworkAsia:

• Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.

Middle East:• Istanbul Technical Univ.

Europe:• Royal Inst. Tech., Uppsala Univ.• Univ. de Saarlandes, Ecole Polytech• Cambridge Cryst. Center • Slovak Academy of Sci., Bratislava• Instituto Trentino de Cultura

Americas:• Ecole Polytech (Montreal), Argentina

ERC: Chemical/Biological Sensor Platforms for Security and Environment

• Experimental Tools for CombiSci• Library Design

• Liquid Delivery• Gradient and Array Fabrication

• High Throughput Screening• Multiplexed Analytical Methods• Rapid and Serial Detection

ERC: Chemical/Biological Sensor Platforms for Security and EnvironmentERC Systems Foci University Industry National

Labs

Chemical and Biological Sensors U Arizona Honeywell CDC LSU GE

Food Safety KSU Pioneer NADC

ISU Cargill

Environmental Safety Notre Dame Dow Ames LabArdesta

CombiSci Tools Kent St. U Imago NISTDigital Inst

ISU establishes Office of Biorenewables Programs

2002 2003 2004

ISU joins regional educational initiative

Iowa Vision and Roadmap for a Bioeconomy released

Iowa Department of Economic Development establishes Biosciences Alliance Board

BIOWA Development Associationfounded

ISU offers graduate degrees in biorenewable resources and technology

2005

ISU joins international educational initiative

$30 million funding

History of the Bioeconomy Initiative at Iowa State

Millions of years < 1 year

Future of the Bioeconomy Initiative: NSF Engineering Research Center• Proposed Name: Center for Biorenewable Chemicals• Carbon-based chemical applications:

• Polymers, cleaners, paints, surfactants, lubricants, cosmetics, plasticizers, fuel additives, resins, glues, etc.

• What are our alternatives for carbon sources?

Center for Biorenewable Chemicals

Biorenewable status at the National Science Foundation • Several recent NSF-sponsored workshops on the topic.• June 2005 NSF workshop developed the grand challenge:

Harnessing Catalysis for a New Carbon Economy

Center for Biorenewable Chemicals

Why Iowa State University? • Office of Biorenewable Programs

• Strong infrastructure already in place• National and international status in biorenewables• Industrial contacts already established

• State of Iowa• Leading producer of ethanol and soon biodiesel• Commitment to the biorenewables area

An ERC Proposal under Development in the ISU Farm System

• Science of materials• Solid and fluid mechanics• Heat transfer• Sensing/non-destructive evaluation• Harsh operating conditions

Spring Training Roster• Several powerful but independent ideas have been

invited to Spring Training• Integrated Damage Prognosis Methodology

• Gray, Ustundag, and Thompson• Mechanism-based Prognostics for Coated Superalloy

Airfoils• UCSB, Michigan, ISU, MIT (Clarke, Evans, Hutchinson,

Jones, McMeeking, Patera, Pollock, and Thompson)• Degradation of Materials Exposed to Aggressive

Environments• Gleeson

Roster ( continued )

• Continuation of Spring Training Roster• Extreme Environment Technology Center

• Durbin and Bastawros• Design Approach Combining Turbine Film Cooling,

Conjugate Heat Transfer, and Reliability of TBC-System• Bastawros, Rudolphi, and Shih

• Computations of Film Cooling• Shih and Sultanian

• Turbulence Modeling• Durbin, Fox, and Hill

Coaching Experience• Serving at the Pleasure of the Dean of Engineering and His

Staff (hopefully not operating in the George Steinbrenner mold)• Academic Affiliate in University of Colorado Proposal that

Received a Site Visit Two Rounds Ago• High-temperature materials• Elevator question

• One of Three University Leads in KSU Proposal in the Last Round• Gas pipeline system• Doomed by withdrawal of one lead partner one week before pre-

proposals due

Process to Select Final Roster• Establish Teamwork

• Identify value that exceeds the sum of the parts• Materials, Sensing, CFD, …

• Identify Theme• Generic versus Application Focus?

• Requires Presence on Campus of all Principals• Not possible until mid-September

• Feedback To Be Sought• Past experiences of CoE• Anticipated NSF perspective from Brighton

Team Update( Strategic Plans )

www.iastate.edu/~strategicplan/

Strategic Planning• ISU Strategic Plan • HLC Accreditation Visit:

Colleges’ strategic plans to align with campus plans.

• ABET: Department strategic plans to align with college plan.

CoE Strategic Plan• Summer 2005: Dean team and chairs iterated on

update to COE Strategic Plan• Light on metrics and implementation• Heavy on statement of principles and goals• Chairs/directors have plan to share

• Early Fall 2005: Departments and administrative units discuss, comment, revise

• October 1, 2005: Near-to-final draft to Provost• November 2005: Feedback from ECIAC• Late Fall 2005: Final version to Provost