ConvocationFall 2013Sarah A. RajalaDeanJames & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering
Welcome and
Introduction
Goals for 2013-14• Deliver a high quality education to all of our students• Hire at least 17 new, diverse, high-quality faculty members• Develop a new model for Engineering Online to encourage growth,
new pedagogical development and sustainability• Increase the number of graduate students who have been enrolled
or accepted admission by 5%• Expand research portfolio and increase expenditures by 7.5%• Develop a new plan for renovation and expansion of CoE space• Raise $22M in new private gifts
Role of Educating Students• Educating tomorrow’s engineering leaders• Focus on strong academics• ABET accreditation• Global and engaged learning
Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment
Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013*
5030 5448 59356495 7000
Engineering Graduate Enrollment
Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013*
996 1069 997 1013 1000
Faculty and Staff• Importance of high quality faculty and staff• More than 400 faculty and staff critical to our
success• All are dedicated to student achievement
Welcome New Engineering FacultyABE Norman Muzzy - Lecturer CBE Zengyi Shao - Assistant ProfessorCCEE Junwon Seo - Research Assistant Professor Jiehua J Shen - Associate Professor An Chen - Assistant Professor ECpE Ikenna Nlebedim – Adjunct Assistant Professor Siddartha Khaitan – Research Assistant Professor Meng Lu - Assistant Professor (ECpE/ME) Kathryn Stolee - Assistant Professor
IMSE Caroline Krejci - Assistant ProfessorME Xianglan Bai - Assistant Professor Ming-Chen Hsu - Assistant Professor Travis Sippel - Assistant Professor MSE Eliseo deLeon - Lecturer Anja Mudring - Professor Ruifeng Zhang - Research Assistant Professor
Welcome New Engineering StaffABE Tamara Kerns – Academic Advisor Joshua Kruse - Accountant Dana Woolley – Communications Specialist (ABE/AERE)
AERE Tracy Borts - Program Assistant Kelsey Hummer - Program Assistant Andrew Jordan - Teaching Lab Associate Cameron Rayburn – Academic Advisor Katrina Williams – Academic Advisor Christine Jensen - Teaching Lab Associate
CBE Michael Forrester - Assistant Scientist Jennifer Gibbs – Academic Adviser Michelle Grawe - Teaching Lab Coordinator Molly Seaboch - Program Assistant
CCEE Traci Goldberg - Academic Advisor Paul Ledtje - Research Associate Jennifer Simba - Academic Advisor
ECpE Helen Drake – Program Assistant Carrie Graves-Warden – Academic Advisor Benjamin Holland – Research Associate Lucinda Sheehy – Academic Advisor
IMSE Angela Stone - Administrative Specialist Holly Twedt - Program Assistant
Welcome New Engineering StaffME Cindy Bartleson - Administrative Specialist Derek Dickson - System Support Mallory Quinn - Program Assistant Craig Severson - Teaching Lab Coordinator MSE Cory Johns - Desktop Systems Administrator Jacqueline Kester - Program Assistant Michelle Lenkaitis - Administrative Specialist
College Relations Ann Wilson – Director
Career Services Kellie Mullaney - Program Assistant
Engineering-LAS Online Learning Sonya Nichols - Instructional Support Jane Tomesch - Program Coordinator
Engineering Research Institute Deborah Moses - Program Coordinator Rachael Voas - Administrative Specialist Student Services Jeana Gingery - Program Coordinator Nancy Jeffs - Program Coordinator
Technology Support Kevin Wickham – System Analyst
CIRAS Chris Hill - Industrial Specialist Peter Nadolny - Program Manager Carey Novak - Industrial Specialist Glenn Volkman - Program Manager
Promotions in the Engineering College• Hui Hu (AERE) to Professor• Eric Cochran (CBE) to Associate Professor• Nadia Gkritza (CCEE) to Associate Professor• Rangan Gopalakrishnan (CCEE) to Senior Lecturer• Dionysios Aliprantis (ECpE) to Associate Professor• Sumit Chaudhary (ECpE) to Associate Professor• Chris Chu (ECpE) to Professor• Liang Dong (ECpE) to Associate Professor• Lizhi Wang (IMSE) to Associate Professor• Gap Kim (ME) to Associate Professor• Xiaoli Tan (MSE) to Professor
General Fund Revenue Budget$86 Million
Undergraduate Tuition - $43 Million
Graduate Tuition - $10 Million
Indirect Cost Recovery - $3 Million
State Appropriations - $30 Million
50%35%
11%4%
Engineering Budgets for Academicand Administration
FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014
Academic Department - Millions ($) Administration and Service Units - Millions ($)
$32.6
$15.4
$35.5 $39.1$44.0
$48.6
$15.5$12.4 $11.4 $10.9
Engineering Research Expenditures
FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012
$67.5 $70.6 $74.4 $78.5 $83.9
Engineering Facilities Update
Medallion Awards• Named faculty positions established with private support
enable the college to attract and retain world-class professors and researchers
• Thank you to the donors who established these prestigious positions
• Recognize 13 recipients
Ashraf BastawrosGrace Miller Wilson and T. WilsonEndowed Engineering Faculty Fund
Sumit Chaudhary Northrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green
Kristen Constant Wilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering
Randall Geiger Tunc and Lale Doluca Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Caroline HayesLynn Gleason Professorship in Interdisciplinary Engineering
Andrew Hillier Wilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering
Charles Jahren W.A. Klinger Teaching Professorship
Suraj Kothari Willard & Leitha Richardson Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Richard Lesar Lynn Gleason Professorshipin Interdisciplinary Engineering
Anja Mudring Glenn MurphyProfessor of Engineering
Krishna Rajan Wilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering
Janis Terpenny Joseph Walkup Professorship in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Song Zhang William and Virginia BingerProfessorship inMechanical Engineering
Patent Awards• Patents are a prestigious form of recognition • Recognize 11 recipients
Sang Wu Kim Cooperative Spatial Multiplexing
Shihwu Sung Micro-Aeration of Sulfide Removal from Biogas
Atul Kelkar Pneumatic Vibration Isolation Device
Srikanta Tirthapura Computing Time-decayed Aggregates in Data Streams
Arun Somani Logic Element Architecture for Generic Logic Chains in Programmable Devices
Jaeyoun Kim Elastomeric Device for Tunable Imaging
Thomas Lograsso Magnetostrictive Materials, Devices and Methods Using High Magnetostriction, High Strength FeGa and FeBe Alloys
Balaji Narasimhan Antimicrobial Compositions and Methods
Rana Biswas and Kristen Constant Manufacturing Method of Photonic Crystal
Stuart Birrell Combination Residue Spreader and Collector for Single Pass Harvesting Systems
Faculty and Staff Awards
• Honoring faculty and staff from the college • Recognize 6 recipients
Leslie Potter Superior EngineeringTeaching Award
Konstantina (Nadia) Gkritza Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award
Iver E. Anderson David R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Research
Melissa Skinner Dean’s Staff Excellence Award
DeAnn Pitman Dean’s Staff Excellence Award
Devna Popejoy-Sheriff Superior Engineering Advisor Award
Thank You