Engineering A&D Update

abecross@wustl.edu

December 2015

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Fast facts

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Fall 2015 • 273 Freshman (6,500 applicants) • 1,300 Undergraduate students • 844 Master's students • 380 Doctoral students • 243 UMSL/WU Joint Program students Degrees awarded FY2015 – 360 BS, 227 MS, 62 PhD 2015 Employment Survey (~75% of seniors reporting) • 167 accepted jobs in industry, start ups • 77 grad school, med school, law school • 22 internship, volunteering, military, other FY15 budget – ~$100M FY15 endowment – $275M

Fast facts

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Departments • Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS) • Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering (EECE) • Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) • Biomedical Engineering (BME) • Electrical & Systems Engineering (ESE) • Professional Education & Sever Institute • EN A&D liaisons

Faculty: 88 FY15 research grants: ~$24M

New BME department chair: Steve George, Stuckenberg Professor

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) - BME, EE, Systems, ChemE, and ME; WU/UMSL Program - ME, EE, CivE

Alumni/19,024 Solicitable/15,051 STL/6,440 SF/903 Chicago/741 DC/605

Dr. Steve George

Fast facts

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New Dean – Dr. Aaron Bobick

Georgia Tech faculty beginning 1999

Founding chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech

Authored more than 80 academic papers on action recognition by computer vision

MIT pedigree – BS in Math and CS, PhD in cognitive science

MIT Media Lab – led Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Projects (DARPA)

Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

More than $6M in research grants

Annual giving

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FY15 FY14 FY13 FY12 FY11 FY10

EN Annual Fund $2,699,540

+17%

$2,272,089

+12%

$2,014,930

+12%

$1,784,562

+4%

$1,700,889

+7% $1,580,083

EN Eliot Society 896 819 768 738 667 635

New EN Eliot Society 219 171 194 181 147 136

EN AF alumni donors 3,571 3,360 3,313 3,224 3,116 3,035

EN AF total donors # 6,382 6,055 5,809 5,420 5,063 4,641

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Gift challenges

Langsdorf Scholars Challenge

Matt Ettus EN96 EN96 and Sara Ettus

Young Annual Fund Challenge

Peter Young EN80 and Lin Young

Eliot Society Jubel Challenge

Don Jubel EN73, Karen Jubel

and Jubel Family Foundation

Bush Family Parent Challenge

Wes and Natalie Bush, Parents

New business

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FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015

Estate commitments $7.2 $1.3 $0.41 $5.4 $2.4 $7.0 $17.5

Irrevocable PG $0.2 $1.06 $0.05 $0.2 $0.1 $0.5 $0.1

Cash/pledges $8.4 $7.4 $3.65 $4.4 $23.0 $2.8 $7.0

$15.8M

$9.8M

$4.1M

$10M

$25.5M

$9.9M

$24.5M

Engineering priorities

Naming opportunity Gift amount

School $50M-$100M

Endowed professorships $6M – dean’s chair $4M – department chair $1M+ – career development

Programs & centers $10K+ program support Institute of Materials Science & Engineering $5M-$10M program naming Center for Biological Systems Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation Discovery Competition

Scholarships, fellowships, and internships, Langsdorf, $5K annual, $100K endowed McKelvey Undergrad Research $1M+ (full support)

Buildings and facilities $25K-$20M

Special initiatives $1K-$50K Student project fund, International Programs

Engineering Annual Fund All levels

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Campaign production

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Goal Progress % to goal

$110M $103.3M 94%

Student support $42M $21.8M 52%

Faculty support $20M $6.9M 34%

Academic programs $10M $9M 90%

Facilities $20M $33.8 169%

Annual Fund $18M $24.7M 137%

East Campus today

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East Campus tomorrow

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Engineering A&D team

Abe Cross Sr. Director of Development

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Libby Gutberlet Sr. Associate Director of Development

Alex Carr Director of Development

Paula McBurnett Sr. Associate Director of Development

Mandy Ray Sr. Associate Director of Development

Eric Yin Sr. Associate Director of Development

Ally Favre Associate Director of Development

Jill Lewin Associate Director of Development

Claire Byrne Development Coordinator

Tracy Speller Administrative Assistant

Engineering A&D team

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Event calendar

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January 10 - Engineering Eliot Society Holiday Open House

Feb 2 - Engineering Mentor Program Networking Event

February 4 - Jonathan Rosenberg Lecture (EN/BU co-sponsor)

February 22 - Dean’s Breakfast, 2016 Engineers Week

Feb 23/24 - Mindlin Lecture, 2016 Engineers Week

April 7 - Engineering Alumni Achievement Awards Banquet

April 8 - Engineering National Council Meeting

April 15 - Engineering Dean’s Reception @ Reunion Weekend

May 20 - Engineering Dean’s Reception @ Commencement