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UIC College of EngineeringStrategic Plan Update
2004-2007
Prith BanerjeeDean, College of Engineering
University of Illinois at [email protected]
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University of Illinois at Chicago
Started as University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) in 1965
Merged with UI Medical Center in 1982 to become University of Illinois at Chicago
UIC is part of University of Illinois System Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Springfield
UIC is a premier “public, urban, research university” UIC currently ranks among the nation's top 50
universities in federal research funding with $300 million in research funding
UIC is Chicago's largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges
Has the state's major public medical center Known for its diverse student population
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UIC College of Engineering Six Departments with graduate and undergraduate programs
Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Materials Eng., Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Eng., and Mechanical/Industrial Eng.
Faculty 114 Faculty in 6 departments 47 Professors, 37 Assoc. Prof, 24 Asst. Prof, 6 Lecturers 13 are women and 3 minorities 2 NAE, 43 Fellows, 21 NSF Career/PYI
Students 1624 B.S. students enrolled in 2006-07, 342 B.S. graduates in 2005-06 23.4% women, 6.4% African, 17.5% Hispanic, 33% Asian 406 Ph.D. students in 2006-07, 47 Ph.D. graduates in 2005-06 410 M.S. students in 2006-07, 217 M.S. graduates in 2005-06
Alumni 18,000 alumni
Research Research expenditures: $20.1 million for 2005-06 Publications: 80 books and book chapters, 465 journals and 500
conferences
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Strategic Plan for 2010
Issues Year 2005 Year 2010
Faculty size 114 130
Research Funding $20 million $40 million
Undergraduate Students Enrolled 1550 1900
Undergraduate students graduated per year
364 B.S. 450 B.S.
Graduate Student Enrolled 426 Ph.D, 425 MS, 850 total 600 Ph.D, 400 MS, 1000 total
Graduate students graduated per year
41 Ph.D., 200 M.S. 100 Ph.D., 200 M.S.
Space 267,000 sq ft 417,000 sq ft (including new building)
Alumni and Corporate Fund Raising
$75 million total ($5 million cash) $50 million total ($38 million cash)
College Funding from State $16.7 million $18.2 million
Indirect Cost Funds from Research 30% ICR ($2 million) 50% ICR ($6 million)
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Key Elements of Strategic Plan Increase faculty from 114 to 130, recruit NAE members, recruiting
more women Recruited 12 new faculty from top 10 universities, including 5 women Recruited two members of the National Academy of Engineering (Rodica and Subrata) Received a $3.3 million ADVANCE grant from NSF for recruiting women faculty
Increase undergraduate engineering enrollment from 1550 to 1900 Increased undergraduate enrollment from 1550 to 1625 (expected to be 1700 in
2007) while increasing the ACT scores of freshmen. Emphasize graduate education with Ph.D., increase the number of
Ph.D. graduates from 35 to 100. Developed direct PhD program, 5 year funding model for supporting Ph.D. students Increased the number of Ph.D. graduates from 35 to 60.
Increase research funding from $20 million to $40 million, create cross-disciplinary areas, create large centers
Developed four cross-disciplinary themes of research: Bio, Nano, Info, Energy/ Infrastructure along with a quad chart view of all the faculty’s research interests
Organized several research retreats to prepare for Engineering Research Centers. UIC engineering faculty received five large collaborative center grants
Create Technology Centers to bring in short-term industry projects The model provides a WIN-WIN-WIN situation for industry, students and university. Received Tech Center projects worth $640,000 in first year
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Faculty Action Plan Increase faculty size from 114 to 130 faculty
Allocate faculty resources based on enrollment, research funding, Ph.D. graduates
Create strategic selective areas of excellence, clusters of 3-4 faculty each
Recruit excellent faculty Hire 15 new and 15 replacement faculty in selective areas
of excellence Proactively recruit fresh Ph.D.s from top 20 universities Recruit some NAE members
Increase standards for Promotions and Tenure Create salary and other incentives for faculty Create policy for teaching and research loads Create 4 endowed Chairs and 12 Professorships for
senior faculty.
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Faculty Status in 2007
Faculty Distribution
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114 Faculty, 13 women and 3 minority43 Fellows of Societies, IEEE, ASME, ASCE, ACM21 NSF Career Award, NYI, PYI AwardeesTwo members of the National Academy of Engineering
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Faculty Promotions Update Increased standards for Promotions and Tenure
Quality and quantity of publications, research funding Teaching accomplishments Soliciting additional letters of reference at College level Measured impact of publications through citation indices
10 cases considered for promotions in 2006-07 (8 promoted) Promoted five faculty to the rank of Full Professor
Robert Kenyon (CS) Jie Liang (BioE) Bing Liu (CS) Dan Schonfeld (ECE) David Yang (ECE)
Promoted three faculty to Associate Professor with tenure Yang Dai (BioE Danilo Erricolo (ECE) Laxman Saggere (MIE)
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Faculty Promotions (Contd) 12 cases were considered by College in 2005-06 (8 promoted) Promoted 3 faculty to the rank of Full Professor
Derong Liu (ECE) Krishna Reddy (CME) Bob Sloan (CS)
Promoted 5 faculty to Associate Professor with tenure Houshang Darabi (MIE) Amid Khodadoust (CME) Sudip Mazumder (ECE) Michael Scott (MIE) Lenore Zuck (CS)
9 cases considered for promotions in 2004-05 (6 promoted) Promoted 4 faculty to Associate Professor with tenure
Michael Cho, (BioE) Bhaskar DasGupta (CS) Karl Rockne (CME) Milos Zefran (ECE)
Promoted two faculty to the rank of Full Professor Ashfaq Khokhar ( ECE and CS) John Regalbuto (ChE)
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Developed Guidelines for Faculty Recruiting Faculty allocation function of
TEACHING (60%) Undergraduate headcount by major past two years (15%) Graduate headcount by major past two years (15%) Course enrollments in undergrad and grad courses past
two years (30%) RESEARCH (40%)
Total research funding for all faculty in department past two years (10%)
Average research funding per faculty in department past two years (10%)
Average research funding per NEW faculty in past 5 years (10%)
Ph.D. student graduation two years (10%)
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Faculty Recruiting Six new faculty joined in 2005-06, three women
Rodica Baranescu, MIE, Elisa Budyn, MIE, Tanya Berger-Wolf, CS, Subrata Chakrabarti, CME/MIE, Randy Meyer, ChE, Alex Yarin, MIE
Two members of the National Academy of Engineering Two new faculty joined in 2006-07, one woman
Dr. Elodie Adida, Ph.D. MIT, Assistant Professor, MIE, (woman) Dr. David Eddington, Ph.D. Wisconsin, postdoc, Harvard-MIT,
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Four new faculty in 2007-08, one woman
Craig Foster, Ph.D. Stanford, Assistant Prof. Civil Engineering Eduard Karpov, Ph.D. Southampton, postdoc Northwestern, Asst Prof.
Civil Ying Liu, Ph.D. Princeton, Asst. Prof. Chemical Eng (woman) Philip Yu, Ph.D. Stanford, Senior Manager from IBM Watson Center,
Wexler Chair of Information Technology in CS/ECE department Two other searches ongoing for 2007-08
Learning Sciences search, Asst. Prof. CS Ongoing search for Assistant Prof., Bioengineering
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Wexler Chair in Information Technology College of Engineering received a $2 million Chair
in Information Technology from Peter and Deborah Wexler in Dec. 2005
Search Committee co-Chaired by Ouri Wolfson (CS) and Gyungho Lee (ECE) interviewed four candidates and identified two finalists
Philip Yu, Senior Manager of IBM TJ Watson Center, was our top choice, accepted our offer Feb. 14, 2007
Will join as Wexler Chair in IT in Jan. 1, 2008 with 75% appointment in CS, and 25% in ECE
Expected to lead some large collaborative research Center grants in Databases and Networking
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Biography of Philip Yu Education
B.S. Degree in E.E. from National Taiwan University M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in E.E. from Stanford University M.B.A. degree from New York University.
Work Experience Manager of the Software Tools and Techniques group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Publications Published more than 450 papers in refereed journals and conferences. Holds or has applied for more than 250 U.S. patents.
Awards and Honors Dr. Yu is a Fellow of the ACM and Fellow of the IEEE. Associate editor of ACM Transactions on the Internet Technology and ACM Transactions on
Knowledge Discovery in Data. Member of the IEEE Data Engineering steering committee and is also on the steering
committee of IEEE Conference on Data Mining. Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2001-2004). Received several IBM honors including two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, an
Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, two Research Division Awards and the 85th plateau of Invention Achievement Awards.
He received a Research Contributions Award from IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in 2003 and also an IEEE Region 1 Award for "promoting and perpetuating numerous new electrical engineering concepts" in 1999.
Dr. Yu is an IBM Master Inventor.
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Faculty Awards and Honors Fellows of Societies during 2005-07
Derong Liu, ECE, became Fellow of IEEE Sabri Centinkunt, Farid Amirouche, Suresh Aggarwal, Farzad Mashayek,
Tom Royston, became Fellows of ASME Prith Banerjee, Gyungho Lee became Fellows of AAAS Brings total number of Fellows in College to 43
CAREER Awards in during 2005-07 Laxman Saggere, MIE, received NSF CAREER Award in 2005 Sudip Mazumder, ECE, received ONR Young Investigator in 2006 Daniela Tuninetti, ECE received NSF CAREER Award in 2006 Brings total number of NSF CAREER Awards in College to 21
Named Professorships in 2005-07 Ouri Wolfson, CS and Ahmed Shabana, MIE and Michael Stroscio, ECE/BIOE
named Richard and Loan Hill Professors of Engineering in 2006, 2007 Wally Minkowycz, MIE, named James Hartnett Professor of Energy
Engineering in 2006 Phillip Yu, CS was appointed Wexler Chair in Information Technology in
2007 Brings total number of Professorships in College to 4, also 4 UIC
Distinguished Professors
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Implemented Faculty Incentives
New uniform teaching load policy Normal teaching load for COE tenure track faculty is four courses per year
for reasonable amount of scholarly activity Faculty who are active in research (at least $50,000 of research
expenditures per year) will have a reduced load of three courses per year. Allow faculty to reduce teaching load to two courses
Paying 11% (1/9) of their academic year salary or $10,000, whichever is higher. Having $350,000 of research expenditures per year Supporting two 25% TA per year
Appoint faculty who are teaching four courses to teach additional fifth course. These faculty will be provided 1/9 of their salary or $7,500, whichever is lower.
New policies for Research, Teaching and Advising awards $500 Bronze Awards for $100,000 in research expenditures, $1000 Silver
Awards for $200,000, $1500 Gold Award for $300,000, $2000 Diamond Awards for $400,000, and $2500 Platinum Award for $500,000 or higher
Six $500 Best Teaching awards Six $500 Best Advising Awards Awards given in Fall 2006
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Research Program• Research done in six departments and eight centers
• Research expenditures: $20.1 million for 2005-06• Publications: 80 books and book chapters, 465 journals and 500 conferences• 406 Ph.D. students, 47 Ph.D. graduates in 2005-06
Research Expenditures 2005-06
$2,599,403 , 13%
$3,272,384 , 16%
$2,723,405 , 14%$6,364,349 ,
32%
$619,853 , 3%$1,436,709 , 7%
$3,112,885 , 15%
ERC
MIE
BIOE
CS
CHE
CME
ECE
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Research Productivity Published 80 books and book chapters in
2005-06 compared to 78 in 2004-05
Published 465 journal publications in 2005-06 compared to 371 in 2004-05
Published 500 conference publications in 2005-06
compared to 441 in 2004-05 Graduated 47 Ph.D. students in 2005-06
Compared to 41 in 2004-05 Research expenditures: $20.1 million for 2005-
06 compared to $21.6 million in 2004-05
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Accomplishments in Research
Four Interdisciplinary thrust areas were created Biotech, Nanotech, Info Tech, Infrastructure/Energy Tech
Created Quad chart view of the research expertise of the faculty in 6 departments by 4 clusters on COE Web page
Several large collaborative research proposals were submitted Several large collaborative research grants were funded
O. Wolfson, P. Nelson and R. Sloan received a $3.2 million NSF IGERT award on “Computational Transportation Systems”
M. Ashley, K. Rockne, S. Forman received a $2.5 million NSF IGERT award on “Ecology, Management and Restoration of Integrated Human/Natural Landscapes"
C. Takoudis and S. Ghosh received a $1.2 million NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams grant
Ahmed Shabana received a $2.7 million grant from Federal Highway Administration on “Enhancement and Development of Railroad Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Capabilities“
A. Nehorai and D. Erricolo received a $5.5 million grant from MURI on “Adaptive Waveform Diversity for Signal Processing”
One NSF REU grant and one NSF RET grant were also funded
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$3.2 Million Research Grant from NSF IGERT
National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education Research Training (IGERT) grant on “Computational Transportation Science”
Led by Professors Ouri Wolfson (PI), Peter Nelson, and Robert Sloan from the Computer Science department
Collaboration with Professors Aris Ouksel from College of Business, and Piyushimita Thakuriah from the College of Urban Planning
This IGERT award supports the establishment of a graduate training program in the Information Technology aspects of Transportation Science.
Funding $3.2 million over 5 years, 2006-2011. The doctoral students in the program will investigate technologies in
which sensors, traveler-devices such as PDAs, in-vehicle computers, and computers in the static infrastructure are integrated into a collaborative environment.
Basic research in information management, communications, software architectures, modeling tools, human factors, traffic prediction, and transportation planning is essential for founding a new discipline that will integrate millions of disparate, highly mobile computers and sensors into a collaborative system.
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$2.5 Million Research Grant from NSF IGERT National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education Research
Training (IGERT) grant on “Ecology, Management and Restoration of Integrated Human/Natural Landscapes.”
Led by Professors Mary Ashley and Steve Forman from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor Karl Rockne from the Civil and Materials Engineering department
Collaboration with the Chicago Botanic Garden Funding $2.5 million over 5 years, 2006-2011. The goal of this project is to develop a new doctoral program called
LEAP -- Landscape Ecological and Anthropogenic Processes -- that is set on promoting and preserving biodiversity in cities, suburbs and other areas dominated by humans.
The premise for the program is that we need more research on ecological processes occurring amid human activities and better-trained students for careers that integrate biodiversity and human activities.
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$3.3 Million ADVANCE grant from NSF National Science Foundation grant on “ADVANCE
Institutional Transformation Award: Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation (WISEST)”
PIs: Meena Rao, Chris Comer, Claudia Morrissey, Mo-Yin S. Tam, and Prith Banerjee
Collaboration between Office of Provost, College of Engineering and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Funding $3.3 million for 5 years, 2006-2010 Will support hiring 11 women and minority faculty in STEM
disciplines 5 sciences and 6 engineering departments Provide $90,000 startup funding per faculty Provide $20,000 per year support for postdocs (cost sharing
by College for additional $20,000) 3 faculty and 5 postdoc searches for this year
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$2.7 Million Research Grant from FHA Federal Highway Administration grant on “Enhancement and
Development of Railroad Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Capabilities”
Led by Professors Ahmed Shabana of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department
Funding $2,761,345 for 5 years, 2006-2010 This research project will develop and enhance comprehensive
computational algorithms and capabilities for the nonlinear dynamic simulations of large scale high speed railroad vehicle systems.
The goal of this research project is to provide FRA and the railroad industry with new capabilities for accurate prediction of the nonlinear dynamics behavior, vehicle critical speeds, vibration characteristics, and derailment and accident scenarios for high speed rail systems subjected to different dynamic loading and disturbances.
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$3 Million Motorola Innovation Center Received a $3 million grant for 2007-08 from Motorola on
an Innovation Center College of Engineering, Business, Art/Architecture PI: Prith Banerjee, Stefanie Lenway, Judith Kirshner, Michael
Tanner Identified three interdisciplinary projects on “Re-inventing
the phone” Each project will have one faculty and one grad student
each from COE/CBA/CAA Total 9 faculty, 9 grad student support
Engineering faculty: Dan Schonfeld (ECE), Ouri Wolfson (CS), Pat Banerjee (MIE), Michael Scott (MIE)
Business faculty: Al Page Art and Architecture faculty: Marcia Lausen, Stephen
Melamed 10,000 sq ft space identified
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Interdisciplinary Research Clusters
Chemical(biopharmaceutical)
BioEng (Neural Eng)
Civil
Electrical(Imaging)
Com. Sci(Bioinformatics)
Mechanical(Biosensors)
Medicine(Genetics)
Liberal Artsand Sciences(Neurosciences)
Business(Biotech
companies)
Education(K-12 education)
College of Engineering
Biotechnology
Nano-technology
Info technology
Energy / Env technology
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Example Information Technology: The OptIPuter ProjectTom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Tom Moher, Oliver Yu, Bob Grossman, Luc Renambot
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, UIC
Problem Statement and Motivation
Technical Approach—UIC OptIPuter Team Key Achievements and Future Goals—UIC Team
The OptIPuter, so named for its use of Optical networking, Internet Protocol, computer storage, processing and visualization technologies, is an infrastructure that tightly couples computational resources and displays over parallel optical networks using the IP communication mechanism.
The OptIPuter exploits a new world in which the central architectural element is optical networking, not computers.
The goal of this new architecture is to enable scientists who are generating terabytes of data to interactively visualize, analyze, and correlate their data from multiple storage sites connected to optical networks.
• Deployed tiled displays and clusters at partner sites• Procured a 10Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) private network UIC to
UCSD• Connected 1GigE and 10GigE metro, regional, national and
international research networks into the OptIPuter project. • Developed software and middleware to interconnect and
interoperate heterogeneous network domains, enabling applications to set up on-demand private networks using electronic-optical and fully optical switches.
• Developed advanced data transport protocols to move large data files quickly
• Develop high-bandwidth distributed applications in geoscience, medical imaging and digital cinema
Design, build and evaluate ultra-high-resolution displays
Transmit ultra-high-resolution still and motion images
Design, deploy and test high-bandwidth collaboration tools
Procure/provide experimental high-performance network services
Research distributed optical backplane architectures
Create and deploy lightpath management methods
Implement novel data transport protocols
Design performance metrics, analysis and protocol parameters
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Preparation for NSF ERC Centers
Organized four research retreats at College level among faculty during 2005-06 Identified themes
UIC strengths (medicine, visualization, sensors) Nations needs (energy, security, infrastructure) Strengths of Principal Investigators (NAE members)
Issued Call for Proposals for Seed Funding within College of Engineering Identified five such Collaborative Projects, provided seed funding Spring 2006
Center for Sensor-Enriched Secure Urban Infrastructure Center for Integrated Networks of Nanoscale Sensors Center for BioFuels Based Engine Systems For Multigrids Center for Scalable Therapeutic Simulation Center for Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security
Continuing seed funding with two centers in Fall 2006 Center for Sensor-Enriched Secure Urban Infrastructure
Directors: Subrata Chakrabarti (CME/MIE) and Ming Wang CME) Center for BioFuels Based Engine Systems For Multigrids
Directors: Rodica Baranescu (MIE) and Bill Worek (MIE)
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MARKET PLACE
FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
Cross-disciplinaryCross-disciplinaryresearch andresearch and
curriculacurricula
Develop future Develop future leaders in leaders in
alternate and alternate and renewable energy renewable energy
systemssystems
EDUCATION
Component-levelComponent-levelinterdisciplinary interdisciplinary
coursescourses
IMPACT
• Enhanced Enhanced sufficiency in sufficiency in
energy generationenergy generation
•Graduates trained Graduates trained in alternate and in alternate and
renewable energy renewable energy systemssystems
•Cleaner Cleaner environmentenvironment
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Robust and Robust and Efficient IC Efficient IC EnginesEngines
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIESENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
Biofuel basedBiofuel based energy systemsenergy systems
PROTOTYPESPROTOTYPES
ENGINEERING SYSTEMSENGINEERING SYSTEMS
MICROGRIDMICROGRID Industry & University Industry & University
Pilot systemsPilot systems
FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCEFUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE
Biofuel Biofuel ResearchResearch
Robust and Efficient Robust and Efficient Electronics and Electronics and ElectromechanicsElectromechanics
BiofuelsBiofuels
Systems on Systems on Module Power Module Power ElectronicsElectronics
•Reduced Reduced vulnerability to vulnerability to blackouts and blackouts and brownouts and brownouts and
energy security energy security •Enhanced power Enhanced power
qualityquality
• Cost-competitive Cost-competitive power systems power systems
Phenomena, simulation, Phenomena, simulation, structures, materials, structures, materials, and propertiesand properties
SCIENCESCIENCECombustion and Combustion and Emissions Emissions ResearchResearch
Biofuel based Energy Systems for MicrogridBiofuel based Energy Systems for Microgrid Strategic Research PlanStrategic Research Plan
Power Dense Power Dense Alternator DesignsAlternator Designs
flexibilityefficiency
power densityreliabilitycost
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Technology Elements
Fundamental Insights
Center for Sensor-Enriched Secure Urban Infrastructure
SystemRequirements
Knowledge Base
Technology Base
Technology Integration
Products and Outcomes
Requirements
Environment/Marketplace
Robustness & longevityof infrastructure
Asset management& life cycle cost
Advancedenvironmental
chambers for sensors
Data modeling& decision making
Data analysis& fusion
Computationalmechanics
Sensor materialsscience & modeling
Sensor technologyfor infrastructure
Data management &decision-making softwareInfrastructure
safetyData base for
design & maintenance
Test BedsBuildings
TransportationShoreline structures
Durable &smart sensors
High performanceCost effectiveinfrastructure
Life-cyclecost
System Architecture
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Technology Centers Given that UIC is located in the heart of Chicago, it should be possible for
the College to create Technology Centers Bring in shorter term research and development contracts Similar to model of Energy Resources Center at UIC or Information Sciences
Institute at USC, GTRI at Georgia Tech, APL at Johns Hopkins University Win for Industry and national labs
Normal cost of outsourcing of contracts is $150 per hour Outsourcing of projects to India/China is cheap but faces difficulty of remote
management UIC is uniquely positioned in being one hour from local industry Can be done at competitive prices $40 per hour involving senior undergrads and
Master’s students Win for Students
Provide alternate source of financial support for students Provide Co-Op Experience locally at UIC Prepare them for future employment
Win for UIC and College of Engineering Increase total funding, helps rankings Increase ties between faculty and industry May lead to more research funding
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Tech Center Update Prepared Updated Business and Operating
Plan for Tech Centers Master Agreement for Technology Services
developed by UIC legal Includes students, faculty and postdocs
About $640,000 of contracts in place for first year
Motorola, JSC, Baxter, Lisle Tech, etc. Marketing brochure and web page developed Received approval from Board of Trustees in
March 13, 2007 meeting
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UIC Graduate Eng Program• 406 Ph.D. students in 2006-07, 47 Ph.D. graduates in 2006406 Ph.D. students in 2006-07, 47 Ph.D. graduates in 2006• 410 M.S. students in 2006-07, 217 M.S. graduates in 2006410 M.S. students in 2006-07, 217 M.S. graduates in 2006
Grad Enrollment AY 06 by Departments
BIOE, 149, 18%
CME, 83, 10%
CS, 258, 32%CHE, 48, 6%
ECE, 168, 21%
MIE, 110, 13%BIOE
CME
CS
CHE
ECE
MIE
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Accomplishments in Graduate Program Implemented Direct Ph.D. program for all 6
departments Ph.D. students are not allowed to switch to MS program
Increased number of TAs in College from 58 to 92 Implemented TA Allocation policies in departments
Student heacount, course enrollment, Ph.D. graduates, Number of RAs supported
Implemented financial support for Ph.D. students 2 years of TAship with 3 years of matching RAship
Increased Ph.D. graduations to 47 in 2006 (from 35 in 2004 to 41 in 2005), expected to graduate 60 Ph.D. in 2007
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TA Allocation Across Departments Provide incentive based allocation
Increase UG enrollment, increase RA support, increase Ph.D program
TA allocation policy (60% teaching, 40% research) 35% course enrollment (Spr 06, Fall 06) 25% undergraduate headcount (Fall 06) 20% RA support (Spr 06-Fall 06) 10% Ph.D. enrollment (Fall 06) 10% Ph.D. graduates (AY05, AY06)
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TA Allocation for 2007-08
Dept
AY08 TA allocation
AY07 TA Allocation
AY06 TA Allocati
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BioE 13.6 12.5 12.0
ChE 6.3 5.5 4.5
CS 16.5 16.5 18.0
ECE 23.8 27.5 27.5
CME 12.8 12.0 11.0
MIE 19.5 18.5 19.5
COLLEGE 92.5 92.5 92.5
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UIC Undergraduate Eng. Program
• 1624 total undergraduate students in 2006-07• Average ACT score of freshmen students 25.6• 342 B.S. graduates in 2005-06
23.4% women, 33% Asian, 6.4% African, 17.5% Hispanic
BIOE, 178, 11%
CME, 239, 15%
CS, 206, 13%
CHE, 112, 7%ECE, 477, 29%
MIE, 407, 25%
AY06-07
AY06-07
BIOE
CME
CS
CHE
ECE
MIE
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Accomplishments in Undergraduate Programs Recruited students from High Schools and Community Colleges Had 4 major Open Houses for Recruiting Students Recruited engineering student applicants from Univ. Illinois Urbana Increased enrollment to 1624 in Fall 2006 (from 1550 in Fall 2005)
without lowering our standards (ACT increased from 25.4 to 25.6) Expected to have 1700 in Fall 2007 Have 333 new freshmen and 157 new transfer students enrolled into
Engineering for Fall 2006 (compared to 230 freshman and 120 transfer)
Developed Freshman courses in Engineering Intro to Bioengineering, Intro to Electrical and Computer Engineering, Intro
to Chemical Engg Streamlined the ECE and CS Curriculum to remove course overlaps Increased number of TAs in College from 58 to 92 Started program for upgrading Instructional Labs $200,000 per year Developed improved undergraduate advising program
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Professional Master’s Program UIC COE has an Online Master’s Program
(MENG) in ECE, CS, and MIE departments UIC COE also has two International
Master’s Programs (Turin and Milan) in ECE, CS, and MIE
Created two LIVE MS programs for people in Chicago area Masters in Energy Technology (Fall 2007) Masters in Information Technology (Fall 2008)
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Marketing Updates New brochures developed for all 6 departments to recruit
graduate students Sent to all Deans and Department Heads
Announcement of Hill and Hartnett Professorships Sent to all Deans and Department Heads
New Research Report for 2004-05 and 2005-06 Sent to all Deans and Department Heads
Engineering News Alumni magazine for 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
EN received UIC award for best magazine Sent to all Deans and Department Heads
Monthly COE Newsletter to faculty, students, staff and alums
Remodeling of SEO Lobby and Vestibule area (plasma TV screens, Directory, COE facts, wooden paneling, rugs, sofas) welcome students and visitors
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UIC COE Fund Raising Plan
UIC COE Plan $50 million
Endowed Chairs $8 million Four chairs at $2 million each for Biotech, Nanotech, Infotech, Infratech
Professorships $6 million 12 total at $500,000 each
Graduate Fellowships $3 million 12 total at $250,000 each
Undergraduate Fellowships $1.8 million 12 total at $150,000 each
Research Funds $2 million Facilities $16 million
Classroom, lab renovation $1 million New building $15 million
Annual Giving $700,000 $100,000 per year (currently $45,000 per year)
Gift in kind $12 million
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Fund Raising Update
Endowed Chairs $8 million Received one $2 million Chair in Infotech from Peter Wexler Appointed Philip Yu, Senior Manager from IBM Watson Center to Wexler
Chair Professorships $6 million
Received 3 $500,000 Professorships from Rick Hill, one from James Hartnett
Appointed Ahmed Shabana, Ouri Wolfson, Mike Stroscio, Wally Minkowicz to Professorships
Undergraduate Fellowships $1.8 million Received one $100,000 scholarship from Glenn Neland, one $100,000
scholarship from Bill Unger, $50,000 scholarship from E. Eugene Foundation, $25,000 from Nancy Holmes
Research Funds $2 million Received $720,000 grant from DOE on Integrative Bioengineering Institute Received $3.3 million NSF ADVANCE Grant for Women in Science and
Engineering Received $3 million grant from Motorola on Innovation Center
Facilities $16 million $50,000 from Chris Burke for Hydraulics Lab
Annual Giving $700,000 $100,000 per year
Gift in kind $12 million
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Conclusions UIC Engineering is poised to become a major
player in Illinois and the country Future of engineering is having strong ties to
industry Leverage location of Chicago effectively Recruit, promote and retain the best faculty Train our students for the 21st century Form interdisciplinary, collaborative centers of
research excellence MESSAGE – “Exceptional Engineering in the
Heart of Chicago!”