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College of Engineering & Applied Sciences. All Hands Meeting. 11 September 2009. Agenda. Opening Remarks – Tony Vizzini OVPR Remarks – Paula Kohler United Way – Said AbuBakr Dean’s Remarks – Tony Vizzini Questions Annual CEAS photograph @ the tower.
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College of Engineering & Applied Sciences All Hands Meeting 11 September 2009
Agenda • Opening Remarks – Tony Vizzini • OVPR Remarks – Paula Kohler • United Way – Said AbuBakr • Dean’s Remarks – Tony Vizzini • Questions Annual CEAS photograph @ the tower
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Paula Kohler Associate VP for Research Office of the Vice President for Research 11 September 2009
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Said AbuBakr Professor and Chair Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Imaging 11 September 2009
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Tony Vizzini Professor and Dean 11 September 2009
CEAS Faculty/Staff Awards • Outstanding New Educator • Outstanding New Researcher • Outstanding Educator • Outstanding Researcher • Outstanding Staff
Awards Committee Ala Al-Fuqaha Betsy Aller Raja Aravamuthan Elise deDoncker Tycho Fredericks Margaret Joyce Tianshu Liu Pete Parker Abe Poot Sam Ramrattan Slobodan Urdarevik Klaz Welch Past award winners
CEAS Outstanding New Researcher MuralidharGhantasala
CEAS Outstanding Educator Andrew Kline
CEAS Outstanding Researcher Alexandra (Sasha) Pekarovicova
CEAS Outstanding Staff Matthew Stoops
Common Phrases • One size fits all! • Trying to put a square peg into a round hole. • If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. CEAS Outstanding Service To be bestowed upon an individual who has provided outstanding service to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
CEAS Outstanding Service Judy Northey
Introductions • Estella Burdick – Office Assistant, CCE • Natallie Bolliger – Office Assistant, CS • Nancy Landsberger – Office Coordinator, CCE • Nicole Maggio – Career Advisor, CEAS • Tony Vizzini – Dean, CEAS
Undergraduate Enrollment 2009 – unofficial (pre census)
Graduate Enrollment 2009 – unofficial (pre census)
The Road Not Taken And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost (1874-1963)
What Does It Mean? • We are better off taking the path less traveled. • “I wasn't thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was hard on himself that way." Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 23 Aug 1953 • Sometimes we have to look more than once to see, to understand.
Why Are We Here?Top Ten Reasons • Student discounts • Free pencils/pens • Free books • Free tuition • It is better to give than to receive (exams, problems, etc)
Why Are We Here?Top Ten Reasons • I like the people from ABET • I was supposed to get a job someplace else? • I got lost in the building • Psst, don’t tell anybody I am here (great hideout) • I’ll leave when they stop feeding me
Why Are We Here? • Make a difference for students • Change the world • Push back the frontiers of ignorance • We have cool toys • The road less traveled • Get to spend someone else’s money • Get to say NO to other people spending other people’s money on other things • Develop professional and responsible citizens • Captive audience • Cheap labor • Intellectual freedom • Free choice of problems to work on • Fun Responses from the audience
Why Are We Here? • Noble profession • We want to educate and learn • We want to change the world Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
Charge for 2009-2010 • Celebrate • Recognize and applaud efforts • Share • Ambassadors • Grow • Students, Opportunities My role is to encourage, entrust, and enable
Specifics • Increase recognition and visibility of our students, staff, and faculty • Strengthen our ties with alumni and supporters • Instill in our students a greater sense of community – now and in the future Improve the quality of our lives
Take Aways • We are engaged in a noble profession; we are accomplishing great work. • Who we are and what we accomplish is known best by us and often unknown to others. • We need to work as one.