R. Adams July 31, 2007 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ACADEMIC REPORT FOR 2006-2007 1. 2006-2007 Highlights Oregon State University’s stated vision is: “To best serve the people of Oregon, Oregon State University will be among the Top 10 land grant institutions in America” 1 . The College of Engineering supports this vision through its quest to grow prosperity through innovation by delivering the impact of one of the nation’s top 25 engineering programs. OSU Engineering is now 40 th and on par with the University of Virginia measured by a weighted composite of degrees and research expenditures. This same measure places us 16 th among land grant schools and our focus on impact will elevate OSU Engineering to join the group of nine other land grant engineering programs that are among the nation’s top-25 2 . A top-25 engineering school located in Oregon will help the state, the Pacific Northwest, and the nation remain globally competitive by delivering the world’s best engineering talent and breakthrough ideas. And this engineering talent and these ideas will help grow prosperity through innovation. Our top-25 journey is built upon our century-long legacy as a truly great engineering institution. This greatness stems from the diverse group of people here, their passion to create opportunity for our students and the broader community, their drive to develop the best work-ready engineering talent, and the power of their extraordinary collaboration in research and learning. These three attributes have been, and will continue to be, the guideposts of our journey. Already, the excitement and synergy of the Top-25 Drive is producing key results: significant increase in Legislative support; new professors from top-tier programs are coming to OSU; our six collaborative research clusters are producing 1 http://oregonstate.edu/mission/ , July 27, 2006. 2 US News Rankings of Best Graduate Schools: Top Engineering Schools, 2006. 1
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ACADEMIC REPORT FOR 2006-2007
1. 2006-2007 Highlights
Oregon State University’s stated vision is: “To best serve the people of Oregon, Oregon State University will be among the Top 10 land grant institutions in America”1. The College of Engineering supports this vision through its quest to grow prosperity through innovation by delivering the impact of one of the nation’s top 25 engineering programs. OSU Engineering is now 40th and on par with the University of Virginia measured by a weighted composite of degrees and research expenditures. This same measure places us 16th among land grant schools and our focus on impact will elevate OSU Engineering to join the group of nine other land grant engineering programs that are among the nation’s top-252. A top-25 engineering school located in Oregon will help the state, the Pacific Northwest, and the nation remain globally competitive by delivering the world’s best engineering talent and breakthrough ideas. And this engineering talent and these ideas will help grow prosperity through innovation.
Our top-25 journey is built upon our century-long legacy as a truly great engineering institution. This greatness stems from the diverse group of people here, their passion to create opportunity for our students and the broader community, their drive to develop the best work-ready engineering talent, and the power of their extraordinary collaboration in research and learning. These three attributes have been, and will continue to be, the guideposts of our journey.
Already, the excitement and synergy of the Top-25 Drive is producing key results: significant increase in Legislative support; new professors from top-tier programs are coming to OSU; our six collaborative research clusters are producing groundbreaking results; most of Oregon’s very best engineering students choose OSU including 8 out of the 9 AeA 2007 scholarship winners; PhD enrollment is up 61% over 1999 levels; and our student design teams consistently place well in national competitions.3 These results, and more, are fueling the momentum and paving the ascent to top-25.
Our focus on excellence is increasing capacity to deliver a diverse group of top talent at all levels. During AY 07, the College was a top producer (25th nationally) of BS-degreed engineers (579 degrees), a national leader in critically needed areas of graduate education (106 Masters and 35 PhD degrees) and research ($26.7M in expenditures ). The number of awarded Masters of Engineering degrees continues to grow experiencing an eight-fold increase since initiation in 2004 (24 degrees in 2007).
1 http://oregonstate.edu/mission/, July 27, 2006.2 US News Rankings of Best Graduate Schools: Top Engineering Schools, 2006.3 See Appendix for a summary of Faculty and Staff Recognition and Awards, Student Recognition and Awards, Faculty and Staff Development, and Results of Student Design Competitions
This new talent experienced our unique hands-on Platforms for Learning™, and/or an industry-sponsored internship, and/or coursework leading to a business-savvy Entrepreneurship Minor. In addition, many of our MS and PhD graduates worked in one of our six collaborative research clusters helping innovate breakthroughs; breakthroughs that are beginning to have business impact.
During the past year, two new companies were formed, three technology license agreements were completed and 3 other ideas are in various stages of consideration for commercialization. These results bring the total to over a dozen ideas in three years that have hit various stages of spin out from license agreements with existing companies, to new companies formed, to consideration for investment. This level of activity is unprecedented and an indicator of the culture of innovation developing in the College. This activity is summarized in Section 2.0.
From our nationally ranked research clusters (some of them top 5) to our nationally leading learning innovations, collaboration is a critical success factor—collaboration that spans not only engineering disciplines, but also other OSU units: the College of Business and University Housing & Dining Services in entrepreneurship; the School of Education in learning innovations; and with almost all OSU colleges in research. And this collaboration goes beyond OSU to include relationships with other universities, national labs, and our industry partners as in the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI).
OSU Engineering’s track record for delivering high impact results and Oregon’s need for a prosperous future prompted the Engineering and Technology Industry Council, the State Board of Higher Education, the Oregon Legislature and the Governor to endorse a significant increase in support of our programs. This action will help grow OSU Engineering to the critical mass and impact of the nation’s top 25 engineering programs. For 2007-2009, an investment of $28.9M in public funds will be matched dollar for dollar by private funds and enable the college to support 16 additional professors and significantly improve existing infrastructure; important steps toward our goal of adding 114 additional professors (doubling the total number to 230) needed to reach the top 25 average faculty size.
OSU Engineering’s Prosperity through Innovation initiative with its goal to achieve the impact of the nation’s top 25 attracted substantial private investment. The top 25 drive has attracted $102M in private gifts since its launch in 2000. And Engineering’s component of the University’s new capital campaign launched in 2005 reached $76M this year or 59% of the $128M College campaign goal.
The people of the College of Engineering have uncommon focus on creating opportunity, developing work ready talent, and collaboration all to help grow prosperity through innovation and drive momentum toward the goal of reaching the top-25.
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2. Strategic Plan Implementation
Enhancing student success and engagement
In 2006, we committed to expand experiential learning through the Platforms for Learning(TM) to other COE areas. The TekBots have become a deep and pervasive component of the ECE program and is being recognized as a powerful engineering education tool nationally and internationally. Terri Fiez was given the 2007 Educational Innovation Award by IEEE for her leadership in creating this program. Two new platforms have been launched, one in CS and a pilot in communication skills in ME. The pilot is expected to be expanded across the College. Most degree programs in COE are fielding winning design teams (e.g. SAE mini Baja car, ASCE concrete canoe and steel bridge competition, ASME design competition, CEM estimating teams, etc.) and in the past 3 years, more than 40 teams placed in the top 3 in those competitions.
We committed to implementation and improvement of the Austin Entrepreneurship Program and the MBE in Construction Management in partnership with the College of Business and University Housing and Dining (for the entrepreneurship program). The first MBE degree was completed Fall ’04 and the program continues to see growth with 12 students. The Austin Entrepreneurship Program and the Weatherford Residential College are now launched. Residents include several companies organized by engineering and business students as well as other majors. The program is now under new direction and undergoing improvements to increase engagement of residents and former residents.
In partnership with the University Honors College in 2005, the College agreed to launch the Opportunity Plus Engineering Honors Program to provide opportunity for accelerated graduate studies through PhD for OSU students. To date, 8 students have moved seamlessly from the undergraduate Honors program into graduate programs.
In addition to the 2006 plans identified above, the College has initiated a number of success and engagement activities through the Women and Minorities in Engineering Program and the Undergraduate Program Office. These initiatives are described below.
o COE AMBASSADORS. Team of 16 students from all departments responsible for many of the college recruitment efforts including over 600 high school classroom visits, community college presentations, prospective student tours and visits, presentations at teacher professional conferences, and K-12 outreach events throughout the year. Beyond the recruitment efforts, Ambassadors participated in leadership, presentation, and communication skill development.
o SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION provided for required courses with high attrition (chemistry and physics) with sessions exclusive for women in physics.
o REVISION OF COE ACADEMIC STANDING POLICY. Academic standing policy revised to ensure earlier intervention with students having academic difficulty in pro-school.
o ACADEMIC SUCCESS WORKSHOPS. Students on academic warning with the COE were required to participate in an academic success workshop in partnership
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with the Academic Success Center and utilizing our COE ambassadors as group leaders.
o CONNECT WEEK. All incoming students participated in College of Engineering Day. Students met key faculty and administration, participating in a variety of networking and navigational events. Over 700 students participated in events and workshops.
o FALL DEPARTMENTAL OPEN HOUSE was initiated for all first year COE students. Students learn about the other programs within COE to assist with their career selection.
o REVISION OF START PROGRAM based upon graduate research and focus groups; some programs modularize their START presentation to better integrate students from their initial interaction with the College.
o UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH & INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. The MECOP/CECOP programs continue to grow and now include more than 100 companies supporting over 375 students annually. Undergraduate research opportunities are expanding (see comments below).
o SPONSORED NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CONFERENCE AND COMPETITION ATTENDANCE for COE undergraduate students. Many student teams finish in the top 3 places in their respective competitions and sponsored conference attendance helps link students to their profession and career.
Increasing research/scholarship and outreach
In 2006, the College committed to grow ONAMI into a nationally recognized research program. ONAMI collaboration won more than $25M in federal and private research grants and contracts, most involving collaboration among academic partners and PNNL. The Microproducts Breakthrough Institute collaboration between OSU and PNNL is well established and HP offered use of all of B-11 under a 20 year lease for operating and maintenance expenses only. The Legislature subsequently approved the use of $9.5M of bonding to complete improvements for the MBI component of ONAMI.
The College worked to coalesce alternative energy programs, including nuclear, ocean, bio, wind, etc. into a more powerful Energy Systems Research Cluster. In 2006, we added additional wind and wave energy faculty. This cluster has two powerful engagement activities: wave energy generator and small scale nuclear power generator, as noted below.
The College committed to identify and implement actions that would continue to grow and strengthen collaborative research. While we have not directly implemented explicit measures to strengthen collaborative research, the 2006 research results clearly demonstrate that COE researchers collaborate within the College, across the University and with outside researchers.
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Although not explicitly defined as a goal in 2006, the College has significantly increased the impact of our research through more effective commercialization. During the past three years, a dozen ideas have reached varying levels of implementation as new companies, license agreements with existing companies, or are in discussion. The table below summarizes this unprecedented record.
MyStrands: Information Usability Cluster2004 Co-Founded by Jon Herlocker
A unique social recommendation engine using “collaborative filtering” that leverages how people organize, play, and tag their digital music collections.
Smart Desktop: Information Usability Cluster2006 Co-Founded by Jon Herlocker and Tom Dietterich
Uses machine intelligence to automatically classify, sort and organize information for people by observing and learning from their interactions with their personal computers.
I-5 Logic: Information Usability Cluster2006 Founded on license of technology originated by Margaret Burnett, et. al.
Software that applies advanced end-user programming techniques and unique intuitive logic to provide spreadsheet users sophisticated error detection and prevention techniques presented in a simple way.
Clear Shape: Mixed Signal Integration2007 Equity LicenseTerri Fiez and Karti Mayaram
Computer Aided Design tool for detailed analysis of integrated circuit interconnect structures in nanoscale CMOS technologies for systems on a chip
Transparent Electronics: ONAMI/MBI Cluster2006 License to HP John Wager & Doug Keszler
Uses new class of materials to create transparent thin film transistors.
Biodiesel Microreactor: ONAMI/MBI ClusterLicense in discussion Goran Jovanovich, et. al.
Credit card-sized biodiesel reactor that takes in vegetable oil and alcohol and, using a catalyst in tiny micro channels produces biodiesel fuel.
Home Dialysis Plus: ONAMI/MBI ClusterVenture funding in discussion Goran Jovanovich, et. al.
Micro filtration technology that enables portable dialysis.
Nanofactories: ONAMI/MBI ClusterNew Venture in DiscussionChih-hung Chang, Vincent Remcho, Brian Paul
Optimizes the production of nanomaterials within a micro reactor. Devices can be tailored for specific applications and can decentralize the process of chemical synthesis.
RF Energy Harvesting: Mixed Signal Integration ClusterNew venture in discussionTerri Fiez and Karti Mayaram
A wireless device that captures enough power to run the device and/or charge the battery either continuously of during down time.
Ocean Wave Energy: Energy Systems ClusterLicense to Columbia Power TechnologiesAnnette von Jouanne
Direct drive ocean buoys, capable of converting the power of ocean waves to electrical energy.
Multimedia Streaming: Information Usability Cluster Seeking interestThinh Nguyen
Allows hundreds of thousand of users to video conference all at once using peer-to-peer networking.
Small Scale Nuclear Power: Energy Systems ClusterNew venture in discussionJose Reyes
A new reactor design that eliminates pipes, pumps, and moving parts by using passive forces like gravity and natural convection. The result is a safer, small, more streamlined reactor that fits on a rail car and can be used as stand alone 35MW power source or a module in larger power plants.
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Enhancing diversity and community, including international dimensions
In the 2006 Academic Report, the College committed to developing a formal mentoring plan for junior faculty. The program was implemented in EECS specifically around the topic of developing leadership skills, but has not yet been expanded to the other programs nor has the plan been broadened to included topics on promotion and tenure.
In 2006 we planned to develop a network of peer advisors accessible to all COE students with focus on connecting COE students to academic, social, computer, and mentoring services and support structures in the University. In addition we planned that 50 percent of all first year, full-time freshman and 75 percent of first year, full-time women, underrepresented minorities, and at-risk students will participate in targeted programs by end of FY07. While we have not fully achieved these goals, the College has significantly improved our performance in many areas as described below. These activities have helped promote a sense of community, engagement and outreach to a wider more diverse population.
o SUPPORT FOR DIVERSE STUDENT GROUPS. NSBE, SHPE, SWE. Provided funding for attendance to both regional and national conferences for students.
o SPONSORED MONTHLY “LUNCH & LEARN”. Topics of interest to female and underrepresented engineering students.
o PROVIDED ALL FEMALE ODYSSEY & FOOTSTEPS ORIENTATION SECTIONS
o RECRUITING EVENTS FOR DIVERSE STUDENTS The College participated in several recruiting events including Kaleidoscope, Latino Beaver Open House, off-site admission events.
o COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENTS such as Discovery Days, Family Science Evenings, Da Vinci Days, Math, Science, Technology conference for middle school girls, SMILE engineering challenge.
o ENGINEERING WEEK EVENTS on-campus and off-campus focused on outreach. Presentations in Portland and south coast.
o INITIATED TRAINEE PROGRAM FOR IIT STUDENTS. Sponsored 12 students from Indian Institute of Technology spring term.
o COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEGREE PARTNERSHIP DAY AND AMBASSADOR VISITS
o SPONSORED STATEWIDE MATHCOUNTS COMPETITION with COE ambassador participation.
o UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Tektronix and Intel provided support to link female and underrepresented students to research faculty so that they could be initiated in the research experience.
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b) Promoting the Thematic Areas
Our partnership with the College of Business and University Housing and Dinning in the Austin Entrepreneurship Program at Weatherford Hall helped promote the Optimizing enterprise, innovation, and economic development theme.
Our research program helped promote the thematic areas through our major focus on collaboration. Driven to make collaboration our competitive advantage, much of our research is now within six collaborative clusters including:
1. Oregon Nanoscience & Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI)
Putting nanotechnology to work in micro systems for home-land security, clean and efficient energy systems, new medical devices, the next generation of integrated circuits, and more.
2. Large-Scale Energy Systems
Creating safer, super-efficient ways of generating energy to meet the world’s growing demand--from harnessing the power of wind and waves to innovating new nuclear reactor designs.
3. Mixed-Signal Integration
Converting real-world signals like sound, light, and motion into digital data that computers can quickly process, resulting in technology breakthroughs that improve everything from telecommunications to medicine.
4. Kiewit Center for Infrastructure & Transportation
Making the world’s infrastructure safe, reliable and efficient--from better tsunami warning systems to smarter transportation systems.
5. Biological & Environmental Systems
Employing Earth’s smallest microorganisms in toxic waste cleanup, the development of more efficient manufacturing processes, and much more.
6. Information Usability
Making the world’s vast amounts of information both easily accessible and highly useful--from more powerful internet searches to more efficient databank management.
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The close relationship between our research clusters and the thematic areas is shown below.
OSU Thematic Area
COE Research Cluster No.
1 2 3 4 5 6
Advancing the arts and sciences as the foundation for scientific discovery, social and cultural enhancement, and progress in the applied professions.
x
Understanding the origin, dynamics, and sustainability of the Earth and its resources.
x x x x x
Optimizing enterprise, innovation, and economic development. x x x x x x
Realizing fundamental contributions in the life sciences and optimizing the health and well-being of the public.
x x x x
Managing natural resources that contribute to Oregon's quality of life, and growing and sustaining natural resources-based industries.
x x x x x x
c) Support of the OSU Capital Campaign
The College of Engineering ended FY07 $1M short of its financial objective for private commitments, securing $14M towards the capital campaign objectives of the College of Engineering and of OSU. To date, the College of Engineering has secured 59% of its capital campaign goal of $128.3M, receiving commitments of $76M.
Major highlights of the gifts from FY 07 are: Estates of alumni totaled $2.8M for endowed scholarships. A bequest from $1.4M from David and Roberts Mocabee created the David A. Mocabee
Endowed Scholarship. The total for the Apperson to Kearney Hall Renovation reached $8.9M including an
additional $1M gift from Lee and Connie Kearney. Once the campaign total reaches $9.15M, the $850k Kresge Challenge Grant will be awarded.
Gifts in kind for equipment and facilities from Hewlett Packard Corp were valued at $980k.
Raymond Pederson created a $960k endowment to establish a new engineering communication program.
Forrest Morse created a $750k endowed scholarship. Tektronix provided equipment to EECS valued at $363k.
3. Other initiatives and outcomes:
Strategy Development
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An analysis of recent information on US Competitiveness and Oregon’s position both nationally and internationally led the following key conclusions:
The path to prosperity is through innovation and countries around the world are aggressively working to replicate America’s success. China and India are making major investments in engineering and science education at all levels.
Oregon and other states measure innovation capacity through a number of research and education metrics, e.g. Massachusetts includes the number of engineering degrees at all levels and the Oregon Business Plan focuses on PhDs conferred and university research conducted. Today, Oregon is 32nd in university engineering research per gross state product and 37th in engineering PhDs conferred per capita.
Achieving the impact of a top 25 engineering college is more critical than ever and now is the time for Oregon to step up investment in OSU to make this happen. The College is now 40th in composite output of degrees and research as measured by our Innovation Capacity Metric and OSU engineering faculty average 15th in individual productivity. Doubling the number of engineering faculty to the average of the top 25 engineering colleges will allow OSU Engineering to deliver the impact of those programs and move Oregon into the top 10 in engineering research and education metrics.
These key conclusions drove the development of our successful ETIC proposal for the 2007-9 biennium, it was endorsed by the voting industry members of ETIC and presented at the June 7th, 2006 OSU Engineering Strategy Summit. At the Summit 60 of the approximately 100 attendees signed on to help ETIC and OSU garner the funds needed to achieve our goals. That support led to endorsement by the State Board of Higher Education at its July 14th, 2006 meeting. Later the Governor’s Budget funded $17M of ETIC’s requested increase of $34M and the Legislative session closed on June 29th, 2007 with ETIC funding approved for a $15M increase.
The foundational strategy built during the past 18 months has the solidity to support our next legislative proposal and our quest for funding to support doubling the number of engineering faculty between 2006 and 2012.
See Appendix for compilation of faculty/staff awards and development activities and student successes.
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4. College of Engineering Scorecard
Performance on college-level metrics
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Metric FY 07 Plan* FY 07 Actual
BS Degrees 545 579
Graduate Degrees 218 141**
Research Expenditures $23.5M $26.7M
Private Support (gifts and research grants)
$10M $15M
* From ETIC Strategic Plan 2005 - 2007
** Our success in growing PhD graduates (up over 30% over 2005) has resulted in a reduction in MS graduates, though MENGR numbers are increasing.
Leveraging resources
Initiatives to leverage state resources
1. Engineering campaign: raised $14M for the year and $102M since the launch of the initiative. This private support has leveraged $45M in state support.
a. The Kelley Engineering Center was brought on-line in September 2005.
b. The Austin Entrepreneurship Program partnership with the College of Business and University Housing and Dinning.
c. Generous gifts from the Lee and Connie Kearney and others will allow the renovation of Apperson to begin in FY08.
d. Launch of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute with UO, PSU, PNNL and Oregon’s high tech industry.
e. Garnered support from Tektronix for the Women and Minorities in Engineering Program.
f. Current and former employees their support of the Kiewit Center for Infrastructure and Transportation.
g. Initiated the Intel Graduate Fellowship Program
h. The TekBots(TM) program.
i. Endowments and current funds for faculty and students. Engineering students now receive more than $6M in scholarship support each year.
j. Equipment for laboratories and classrooms.
2. Focused research and research growth in six collaborative research clusters. New grants and contracts of $22.6M in FY07; nearly double the $12M for FY99, the year the initiative was launched.
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Initiatives to improve administrative efficiencies
1. Three new Schools will become effective Fall 2007 increasing effectiveness, collaboration, and efficiency of degree program delivery. The new Schools are Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering (CBEE), Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME), Civil and Construction Engineering (CCE). Although administrative efficiencies have not yet been realized from this restructuring based on the experience of EECS we expect efficiencies to develop in FY08.
5. Assessment of 2006-2007 Priorities
Focus Area Worked Well Needs Improvement Major Barriers
Enhancing Student Engagement and Success
Platforms for Learning TM are expanding across COE
COE Ambassadors have supported a wide variety of engagement and success activities.
Internship programs (e.g., MECOP) are valued by both students and industry.
Tracking of student retention data remains a challenge yet these data are essential to successful intervention.
Some programs have not provided an engaging experience for incoming freshmen and their parents during START.
Providing Community College engineering advisors and students timing information on changes at OSU is difficult.
The number of students and available resources preclude a robust academic success program for pre-engineering students.
Enhancing Research and Outreach
ONAMI remains an excellent example of successful collaboration across multiple institutions and the private sector.
Commercialization of research has been difficult.
Managing potential conflicts of interest have been initially challenging.
National research funding in several areas important to the College have been significantly reduced.
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Outstanding faculty have been recruited and retained.
Enhancing Diversity and Community
A number of activities have been launched around the undergraduate program.
Leadership training for faculty was initiated in EECS.
A College-wide climate survey indicated that increased input from faculty and staff was necessary. That has proven difficult at the College level.
Implementing a College-wide program of mentorship for junior faculty has proven difficult.
6. Proposed Priorities for 2007-2008
Enhancing student success
Successfully implement a least one additional Platform for Learning.
Continue to promote and grow the MEng degree as a path toward professional success.
Develop a business/entrepreneurship component of the senior capstone design experience.
Provide special training for Ambassadors to assist in academic success workshops geared towards students in academic difficulty
Continue work with programs to modify Orientation course content based on student retention and success research with a goal of improved consistency across the College.
Increasing research/scholarship and outreach
Develop strategy to move to the next level of research impact.
Work with other Oregon research universities to establish a state wide commercialization institute that will capitalize on the critical mass of the combined Oregon research enterprise and increase the effectiveness of new venture formation.
Continue development of ONAMI and be a key partner in the development of the new signature research centers formed by ORInC.
Enhancing diversity and community, including international dimensions
Prepare a peer mentoring program for female and underrepresented first year engineering students.
Develop an Ambassador-run volunteer service learning program to expand our participation in community and outreach events and provide more engineering students the opportunity to participate in outreach events.
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Initiate a Community College Engineering Instructor/Advisor Day by bringing community college engineering representative from throughout Oregon to campus for a series of discussions, tours, and brainstorming sessions.
Initiate a High School Overnight camp for girls entitled “Engineering Your Future” to be held in October, 2007.
Develop a component of COE START specifically for parents of incoming engineering students.
Performance on college-level metrics (from proposal to ETIC & Diversity Plan)
Metric FY 08 Plan FY 08 Actual
BS Degrees 565
Graduate Degrees 240
Research Expenditures $28M
Private Support (gifts and Research grants)
$15M
Community & Diversity:
Junior faculty participation in mentoring forum
First year freshmen and first year full time women, underrepresented minority, or at risk student participation in targeted student success programs
50%
50% and 75%
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Appendix
Faculty and Staff Recognition and AwardsUnit Recognition and Awards Recipients
CBEE COE Research Award Gregory Rorrer
CBEE COE Alumni Professor Award Goran Jovanovic
CBEE COE Classified Award Karen Kelly
CBEE COE Burgess/Tektronix Award Hannah Tuinstra
CCEE ASCE Zone IV Practitioner Advisor of the Year for 2007. Todd Whitaker
CCEE Mechanical Contractors Association of America Educator of the Year Awards Greg Baker
CCEE COE Austin-Paul Award, for his encouragement and leadership to students in pursuit of innovative ideas. Greg Baker
CCEE
National award from the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Consortium of the National Science Foundation for excellence in K-12 Education and Outreach
Alicia Lyman-Holt
CCEE COE Research Collaboration Award Dan Cox
CCEESelected as the chairman for the national ASCE Ports 2010 conference, the nation’s most prominent conference for port engineering issues.
Steve Dickenson
CCEE
ASCE-TCLEE (Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering) Honor Award in recognition of “significant contributions to lifeline earthquake engineering.”
Steve Dickenson
CCEESelected to chair an expert/peer review team for the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center Laboratory Assessment Process.
Karen Dixon
CCEEASCE/EWRI, Julian Hinds Award and Lecture for Outstanding Career Contributions in Water Resources Engineering
Wayne Huber
CCEE
Chair, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress
Wayne Huber
CCEE
First recipient within the College of Engineering to receive the Distinguished Professor award, for his ‘international stature as a result of contributions to scholarship/creative activity, research, education, and service, and whose work has been notably influential in their fields of specialization'.
Lew Semprini
CCEE COE Professional Faculty Award Sandy Jameson
CCEE National President, Associated Schools of Construction www.ascweb.org Dave Rogge
EECS Women of Distinction, Oregon Commission on Cherri Pancake
WomenEECS NSF CAREER Award Winner Pallavi DhagatEECS IEEE Fellow Cetin Koc
EECS COE Carter Award (for Outstanding and Inspirational Teaching) Roger Traylor
EECS COE Alumni Professor Award (Posthumously Awarded) Alan Wallace
EECSFulbright Scholar (Sept. 2007), researching ultra wideband communications at the University of La Plata.
Mario Magana
EECS
OSU Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year (Annual award to a member of the OSU research community that has contributed significantly to the advancement of his/her field of study.)
John Wager
EECS Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Electron Devices Society Karti Mayaram
EECS IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award Zhongfeng Wang
EECS
“Gone with the Wind: Innovative Hydrogen/Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Based on Renewable Energy Sources,” IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, Prize Paper Award
Annette von Jouanne, Alan Wallace (Posthumously), and Alex Yokochi
EECS LBCC 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award Rick Presley
EECS 2007 University Collaboration Award, Samsung Electronics Un-Ku Moon
EECS OSU Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award (to be awarded on University Day, Sept. 2007) Un-Ku Moon
EECS IBM International Faculty Award Margaret BurnettEECS IEEE Educational Innovation Award, Nov. 2006 Terri Fiez
EECSPC Magazine: Transparent Transistors Named #6 on the top “10 Coolest Technologies You've Never Heard Of”
John Wager
MIME College of Engineering Engelbrecht Young Faculty Award Jamie Kruzic
MIMEThe Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)Young Leader Professional Development Award
Jamie Kruzic
MIME Fellow of ASME James A. Liburdy
MIME
Best Paper award at 2007 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems for "Distributed Agent-Based Air Traffic Flow Management," coauthored with Adrian Agogino, UCSC, NASA Ames Research Center.
Kagan Tumer (Dynamics and Control)
NE-RHPParticipant, National Academy of Science Committee on Toxicology in collaboration with the Board on Radiation Effects Research.
Kathryn Higley
NE-RHP Academic Dean, Health Physics Society Professional Development School on "Radiological Assessment,
Kathryn Higley
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Detection, Identification and Evaluation". July 2007 OSU, Corvallis
NE-RHP
Host and committee member, International Commission on Radiological Protection - Committee 5 - Protection of the Environment, in Corvallis, Aug 2006
Kathryn Higley
NE-RHPInvited Speaker, BIOPROTA, Lappeenranta, Finland, Jan 2007, on Radiation Protection of the Environment
Kathryn Higley
NE-RHPInvited speaker, Japanese Radiation Protection Organization, Tokyo, Japan, on Radiation Protection of the Environment, Jan 2007
Kathryn Higley
NE-RHPInvited speaker, PROTECT/IAEA, Vienna, Austria, on Radiation Protection of the Environment, June 2007
Kathryn Higley
NE-RHP Department of Homeland Security - Subject Matter Expert - Radiological (ongoing) Kathryn Higley
NE-RHP
Administrative Dean, Health Physics Society Professional Development School on "Radiological Assessment, Detection, Identification and Evaluation". July 2007 OSU, Corvallis
Steve Reese
NE-RHP 2006 Chairperson, National Organization of Training, Research, and Test Reactors Steve Reese
NE-RHP Representative, Department of Homeland Security Nuclear Sector Coordinating Council Steve Reese
NE-RHP Elected to National American Nuclear Society Board of Directors - 2007 José Reyes
NE-RHP Technical Delegate, United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency Research Coordination Meeting on Passive Safety Systems, Cadarache, France September 2006
José Reyes
NE-RHPTechnical Delegate, United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency Meeting on Natural Circulation, Vienna, Austria, December 2006
José Reyes
NE-RHPInvited Lecturer, Natural Circulation and Passive Safety Systems, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, June 2007
José Reyes
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NE-RHPInvited Speaker, “OSU Advanced Thermal Hydraulic Research Program,” University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy June 2007
José Reyes
NE-RHPSelected as Editor of a new international journal “Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations," Hindawi Publishing Corporation
José Reyes
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Technical Delegate, United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency Research Coordination Meeting on Passive Safety Systems, Cadarache, France September 2006
Brian Woods
NE-RHP Invited panel member, Northwest Energy Summit, Portland, OR, December 2006. Brian Woods
NE-RHPElected as Vice-President/President-Elect of the Alpha Nu Sigma National Honor Society—April 2007
Brian Woods
Student Recognition and Awards
CCEE Mechanical Contractors Association of America National Student Chapter of Excellence award. MCAA Student Chapter
CCEE Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International Scholarship Awards
Kyle Winkler (3rd place)Brodie Harvey (Top 10)
CCEE Kiewit Center Graduate Fellowship recipients. Thomas SchumacherMatthew Hallowell
CCEE CCEE Outstanding Student AwardKelsey Edwardsen (CE), Amanda Ring (CEM), and Ian Maguire (EnvE)
EECS COE Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Tim Reinholt
EECSFirst Place Winner, ISCAS 2007 Student Paper Contest, “A Low Power BFSK Super Regenerative Transceiver.”
EECS Best Student Paper Award, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
Peter Kurahashi (with faculty Pavan Hanamolu, Gabor Temes, Un-Ku Moon)
EECS Intel Fellow James AyersEECS Intel Fellow Hai ChiangEECS NSF IGERT Fellow David HongEECS NSF IGERT Fellow Twinkle LettkemanEECS NSF IGERT Fellow Matt ClothierEECS NSF IGERT Fellow Ethan DereszynskiEECS NSF Graduate Fellowship Erin FitzhenryEECS Oregon Laurels Christopher MoorEECS Oregon Laurels Gregory EschEECS Oregon Laurels Patrick Neill
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EECS Oregon Laurels Stephen MelizaEECS Oregon Laurels Skyler WeaverEECS Supplemental Laurels Tyler PayneEECS Supplemental Laurels Craig FurtadoEECS Supplemental Laurels Timothy ReinholtEECS NASA Space Grant Fellow Matthew ClothierEECS NASA Space Grant Scholarship Brandon PhilipsEECS NASA Space Grant Scholarship Chris EdmondsEECS NASA Space Grant Scholarship David McIntoshEECS NASA Space Grant Internship Ryan OllerenshawEECS NASA Space Grant Internship Steven Kollmansberger
EECSAwarded $5,000 Scholarship from Sourcefire®, Inc. (Recognizing the Use of Snort® as an Educational Tool)
Michael Burns
MIME Supplemental Oregon Laurels Scholarships
Chris Dandeneau Chris SheltonJune WorleyBrenton Gibson
MIME Boeing Engineering Educator Fellowship Prashant Wadhwa
MIME OSU Culture of Writing Award in Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
MIME Society of Manufacturing Engineering Scholarship Tristan WagnerMIME COE Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Yuming Qiu
NE-RHP
Best Proposal for Student Conference and Host of the 2007 National American Nuclear Society (ANS) Student Meeting, 300 students from 18 universities and 100 industry sponsors, Corvallis, March 2007
OSU ANS Student Chapter
NE-RHP "Best Poster" at the 2007 ANS Student Conference, March 2007 Josh Bergman
NE-RHP 2006 Western Nuclear Science Alliance (WNSA) Scholarship - $4,500 Angela Hamilton
ASCE and EERI-sponsored team placed first in the 4th annual national shake table contest sponsored jointly by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center and Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER).
Jeremy Mikkelsen, Beth McNair, Josh Leher, Sarah Martin, and Joe Henry
CCEEASCE Student Chapter Steel Bridge Team placed 1st in Aesthetics and Lightness at 2007 Pacific Northwest regional competition.
Captain Katie Caskey, Fabrication Leader Gavin Smith, Design Leader Garret Ellingson, Analysis Leader Josh Goodall, Kyle Latimer, Jacob Moomaw and Dan Zylkowski
CCEEASCE Student Chapter Steel Bridge 2007 Pacific Northwest regional competition paper presentations – 3rd place for undergraduate research.
Josh Goodall
CCEE
Associated Schools of Construction Student Competition: During the annual estimating & bidding competitions in Reno, Nevada, CEM undergraduate and graduate students on six of eight teams placed in the top three in their divisions including:
Mechanical: 3rd Place National Heavy/Civil: 1st Place Regional/2nd Place NationalGraduate: 3rd Place NationalResidential: 2nd Place RegionalMarine: 2nd NationalLEED: 2nd National
CEM juniors and seniors
CCEE
Mechanical Contractors Association of America: Team of 6 undergraduate students were selected as one of the “Final 4” teams for the National Student Competition in Orlando, Florida.
CEM seniors
CCEE National Timber Bridge Design Competition second ASCE Students lead by
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in Best Overall Design, Best Support Structure and Most Practical Design, and Most Aesthetic Design categories.
Professor Rakesh Gupta
MIME
New York Baja SAE event: 1st place in design, 1st place in maneuverability of 140 teams (note, team led by MIME, and had students from EECS involved)
SAE Baja Team
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South Dakota Baja SAE event: 1st and 3rd in marketing presentation; 3rd in design; 3rd in rock crawl; 2nd and 5th overall (entered 2 cars; note, team led by MIME, and had students from EECS involved)
SAE Baja Team
MIMEFormula SAE team placed 21st out of 130 teams at Detroit, MI. Team placed in top 10 in both acceleration and presentation.
SAE Formula Team
MIME
One of only 10 student design teams nationwide selected to compete in the 2007 Innovation Showcase (I-SHOW) at the ASME International Congress next November.
Ruander Cardenas Douglas Heymann Jordan Young
Supplemental InformationEECS Technology Transfer
EECS Spinoff: “Smart Desktop” a division of Pi CorporationFaculty Involved:
Jon Herlocker (On leave)Tom Dietterich (Chief Scientist)
