Dean’s Report
BU ECS Board of Advocates
Friday, April 28, 2006
Today’s Agenda Sessions/Reports- 3 Carry-over
– Global/Communication/Business in curriculum– Retention thread (guest)– Marketing thread (guest)
Leadership students (guests) Board Session Engineering Senior Design (guests) Wrap up
Dean’s Report ACM ICPC World Finals success ABET EAC accreditation update (& SACS) ECS Career Fair Dean’s leadership education Facilities needs report Faculty/Student/Staff happenings Advocate Board Scholarship
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The 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finalswith the Baylor Bear Touch!
BRIEFINGpresented toThe ECS Board of Advocates
byDr. William B. Poucher, Ph.D., ACM FellowBaylor Professor of Computer ScienceICPC Executive Director
14 October 2005Baylor University
ICPC Champions Mr. Shawn Sedate- HEB
Liaison Dr. Bill Poucher- Executive
Director Ms. Marsha Poucher-
UCPC Manager Dr. Don Gaitros- Contest
Director Mr. Pat Hynan- Host
Operations Ms. Leigh Ann Marshall-
BU Public Relations Dr. Jeff Donahoo-
Headquarter Services
Dr. Larry Johnson- Chief Wrangler Washer
Prof Cindy Fry- Volunteer Coordination
Dr. David Sturgill- Host Java Challenge Coord
Prof Bill Booth- Compet-itive Learning Workshop
Dr. Amanda Sturgill- Host Activities Chair
Dr. Mike Korpi- Digital Media Team Producer
Dr. Ben Kelley- Steering Committee Chair
ABET EAC Update (& SACS)
Preparation/Assessment continuous– Rationale for Fall departmental breakouts
Peer-Evaluation team visits Fall 2006 Self-Study report due 30-June-06
– Describe programs; BU & ECS details– Assess according to a-k & PEOs
4 primary authors; 100% faculty involved On track, yet time consuming
Last visit Fall 2001; Three programs evaluated: ECE, ME, EGR
Wed, 15-Feb-06 in Science Building Atrium– Day after BU Career Fair (Ferrell Center)
– 19 Industry recruiters
– Next event- 8-Feb-07
– Refine preparation
– Later hours
– Grow size & selectivity
Science Engineering Technology Career Fair
Dean’s Leadership Training
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People– Fall-Winter 2005
Harvard Institute for Management and Leadership in Education– 2 weeks on site (June 17-29)– How well-positioned is my organization to meet
current and future challenges?– How effective is my own leadership?
Mentioned at Fall ’05 Board meeting
Facilities Expansion/Needs Space limits affecting performance Expansion plans back to 1998 Internal space recovery helped
– ECS occupies 70% of 3rd floor Faculty/staff committee brought to Fall ’05
Advocate Board meeting Report completed Jan 2006
– Noted need for faculty, research space & classrooms
Continued from Fall ’05 Board meeting
Identified Space Challenges
Function Space (ft2) Classrooms 3,500 Offices & research space
15,250
Teaching/Research labs 17,500 Other 7,500 Shell/Future 20,000 Common areas (25%) 15,950Useable space needs 79,700 (Rogers Building) (60,000)
By the Faculty/Staff Committee (Jordan, Marshall, Maurer, Thornton) plus Kelley
Facilities- next steps Insert into BU hopper
– Load into project-request system
– Sell to administration (as settles in) Upper administration & Regents Development arm
– Architectural detail and costing
– Initiate fund-raising campaign
Faculty/Student/Staff Team wins ASME
design event Speegle & Van
Treuren promoted Business plan won ASEE Best paper Teams back to Kenya Grants submitted,
funded, and planned
Budget resurrection Student demand
remains high Eunjee Song joining
CS faculty (?) Agenda for fall retreat
– T&P refine, software engr, adm standards
Farison ASEE Fellow
For BU, new President/CEO and Provost/EVP
ECS Board of Advocates Endowed Scholarship
Book Value: $34,708.38
Market Value: $46,791.40