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WSU-CECS: Where Education & Innovation Meet

WSU-CECS: Where Education & Innovation Meet. S. Narayanan, Ph.D., P.E., Dean, CECS Fall 2010 Faculty Meeting. Balancing the Academic Unit. Teaching. Economic Impact. Service. Research. Photo from http://www.infinitiusa.com/g_sedan.

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WSU-CECS: Where Education & Innovation Meet

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  1. WSU-CECS: Where Education & Innovation Meet S. Narayanan, Ph.D., P.E., Dean, CECS Fall 2010 Faculty Meeting

  2. Balancing the Academic Unit Teaching Economic Impact Service Research Photo from http://www.infinitiusa.com/g_sedan

  3. Excellence in Engineering Education, Research & Practice Excellence Success Survival

  4. Principles to Enable Excellence • Creating a nurturing environment • Capitalizes on differing strengths of faculty in an academic environment • Maximizes personal and professional growth of people • Inspires people to give their best to the organization • Building an entrepreneurial spirit • Promotes creative thinking and risk taking • Enables organization to be nimble and proactive • Institutionalizing a results-oriented mindset • Focus on outcomes rather than on activities • Analyze tactics to determine what works, continuously adapt, and break down barriers to achieving results

  5. Major Challenges • Global battle for talent • Reduced state funding • Globalization & geopolitical impact • USO & push for economic impact • Fund raising in an uncertain economic climate • Growth in Distance Education programs • DAGSI & graduate student support • High school graduation & implication

  6. Great Opportunities • BRAC and WPAFB growth • Human Performance, Sensors, and Aerospace Medicine • Movement of Industrial Base • Issue 1: Ohio Third Frontier funding ($700M until 2012) • America COMPETES Act and doubling of federal funding (5 more years) – NSF, NIST, DoE, NIH (flat) • Budget cuts in many states and talent grab potential (California, Florida, Arizona) • New State of Ohio law allowing state universities to take up equity positions in spin-offs

  7. Budget Pressures and GrowthImplications Revenue Streams • Tuition Revenue (increase enrollment and graduation rates) • Endowments (align CECS with WSU priorities, leverage on CoEs, OTF ORS in addition to corporate, foundations, and alumnae giving; cultivation through a phased approach) • Research IDC (grant writing, boiler-plate and large PM support, OTF research commercialization templates, strategies for addressing the fluctuating cash flow problem) • AY release time and course buyout (lower threshold for buyout, but increasing non-linearly; revitalize research performance program; attractive release time policy) • WSU equity position in faculty startups (manage conflict of interest, SBIR/STTR, VPR for new tech transfer/licensing policies) • Alternative funding streams (short courses, E-courses, certificates)

  8. Basic Principles forGrowth Under Constraints • Organic Growth in the Big League Model (Calculated Risk-Based Investment) • Focus on Core Competencies • Outcome-Driven Activities • Accounting for Investment • Leveraging Partnerships • Focus on Efficiencies • Celebrate and Market Success for National Prominence • Systematically Pursue Alternative Revenue Models

  9. First Steps • Technical Communication, Marketing, Distance & Continuing Education Programs (Leo, Meg, Brandy) – BIE, CS, ME-Lake Campus • daytaOhio Access & Integration; Programming for New Building • Recruitment & Retention Activities Under Associate Dean Nate Klingbeil (Academic Affairs) • Enrollment Data, Retention Success, Quarter-to-Semester Transition • Dual-Admissions Opportunity with SCC • Associate Dean Lang Hong, Research & Graduate Studies • Distinguished Speaker Series, SBIR/STTR For-Profit Venture • Leveraged Support for Graduate Students (Tom Bazzoli)

  10. UndergraduateRecruitment & Retention • Recruitment and Retention (RRT) Staff: • Student Affairs Manager: Cindy Oakley, RC 405 • Enrollment Advisors: Ann Wright, Courtney Tygret, Mary Hutcheson • New CECS Recruitment & Retention Office: RC 351 • Vision and Goals • Increase both the number and caliber of our incoming students • Support student success from first-year through graduation • Make Wright State University the first choice for area high school students interested in engineering or computer science

  11. Recruitment Strategies • Saturate our local footprint • 20+ area high school visits planned for 2010-11 • 50+ visits planned for 2011-12 • Focus our investment on highest impact events • Trebuchet Competition • Direct Admit Receptions • K-12 Outreach Programs: GREEN, Women in Engineering Day, etc. • Selected college fairs • Streamline transfer and articulation • Dual Admission program with Sinclair • Expansion of dual-enrollment and PSEO offerings

  12. Retention Activities • First-year engineering math program • EGR 101, EGR 199, DEV 095 for Engineers • Over 300 total students enrolled in Fall 2010 • CECS Help Room • EGR 499 Peer Tutoring in Engineering • Volunteer support for both first-year and upper division courses • Increased CECS advising of intending students • Direct admit student scheduling by CECS advisors • Earlier transition of pre-majors from University College • Nearly all transfer students now advised by CECS • Ultimate Goal: Engineering Student Success Center

  13. Fall 2010 Enrollment • Total New Direct from High School Enrollment: 351 3.8% increase from 2009 • Total CECS Undergraduate Enrollment: 1610 8.3% increase from 2009 • Total CECS Enrollment: 2191 5.9% increase from 2009 • Total New Direct from High School Applications: 841 8.1% increase from 2009

  14. Research • Distinguished Speaker Series • Introduce state-of-the-art technologies to students and faculty • Provide NAE-ready faculty the personal engagement opportunities with NAE members • Proposals for major research opportunities, such as DoD, NSF and Ohio 3rd Frontier • Coordinate with WSRI • Research incentive policy • Mentor junior faculty

  15. Research For-profit company for SBIR/STTR and commercialization • Only for-profit companies can bid on SBIR/STTR topics • Faculty as PI in SBIR/STTR proposals • Much larger percentage of fund directly to faculty (more than 50% in Phase I) • Increase WSU/CECS portfolio • Faculty taking ownership of the company • Develop pipeline of potential technologies for commercialization • servers as an incubator for the creation of spin-off, high-tech companies based on technologies developed at WSU

  16. Graduate Studies • Coordinate MS and Ph.D. programs • Quarter to semester: MS program requirements and graduate course semester conversion • Graduate student recruitment • Continue to improve the quality of the graduate programs • Faculty and student exchange programs • Wright State International Academy (WSIA)

  17. Graduate Student Funding • Loss of external sources of support • DAGSI • OBR PhD Enhancement Funds • Request for funding support in progress • Relies heavily on leveraging with research funds • Shared stipend expense between college funds and grant • Early as first year of studies • Transition to fully grant funded by third year

  18. Enabling CECS Growth & Excellencein a Resource-Constrained World Vision without execution is hallucination! – Albert Einstein Q & A

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