1 / 19

ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting July 16-17, 2010 Lamberton Hall, Lehigh University Fil Bartoli ECE Dept. Chair and Chan

ECE . ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting July 16-17, 2010 Lamberton Hall, Lehigh University Fil Bartoli ECE Dept. Chair and Chandler Weaver Chair P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science. ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting Attendees. About Lehigh.

lis
Download Presentation

ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting July 16-17, 2010 Lamberton Hall, Lehigh University Fil Bartoli ECE Dept. Chair and Chan

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ECE ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting July 16-17, 2010 Lamberton Hall, Lehigh University FilBartoli ECE Dept. Chair and Chandler Weaver Chair P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science

  2. ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting Attendees

  3. About Lehigh • Private institution founded in 1865; 35thamong National Research Universities in U.S. News & World Report • ~4700 undergraduate students (59% m, 41% f) • ~2100 graduate students (56% m, 44% f) • 432 full-time tenure track faculty • 1,600 acres on 3 contiguous campuses; half preserved as open space • ~150 buildings with >3.6 million square feet of classroom, lab, office and living space; 180 acres of playing fields

  4. Beginning of Electrical Engineering Program at Lehigh Robert Alexander Lamberton (Third Lehigh President: 1880-1893) Previous graduated of Dickinson College, Prominent lawyer in Harrisburg, Pa., and Lehigh trustee.

  5. Lehigh Engineering:A tradition of unconventional thinking Golden Gate Bridge Howard H. McClintic & Charles D. Marshall, 1888 Packard Automobile James Ward Packard, 1884 Escalator Jesse Reno, 1883 Panama Canal Howard H. McClintic & Charles D. Marshall, 1888 Francis R. Dravo, 1887 Ford Mustang: Lee Iacocca, 1945

  6. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh Today • Degree programs: BS, MS, PhD • in EE and CompE(joint with CSE) • Faculty • 20 full-time faculty • (30% hired in last 7 years) • 2 Professors of Practice • Bachelors’ Programs • 130 undergraduate students • 50 B.S. degrees granted each year • Masters’ & Doctoral Programs • 110 FT graduate students • 25 M.S. & 10 Ph.D. degrees granted each year • (>20% of RCEAS graduate degrees) • Educational Opportunities: • Co-op program & industrial internships • Research experiences for undergraduates, & others

  7. Lehigh Engineering -Today • 7 Academic departments • 130 full-time faculty • 30% hired in last 7 years • 17 Bachelors’ Programs • 1670 undergraduate students; some 33% of Lehigh undergrads • 400+ B.S. degrees conferredeach year • 21 Masters’, 13 Doctoral Programs • 650 graduate students • 135 M.S. & 50 Ph.D. degrees granted each year • More than 50% of Lehigh’s Ph.D. degrees; 65% of research expenditure

  8. ECE Enrollment Trend

  9. 15-Year Enrollment Trend 19%

  10. Undergraduate Research Opportunities in ECE • Optical Technologies • Microelectronics and Nanotechnology • Bioelectronics Engineering • Wireless Communication, Networking & Sensing • Energy and the Environment • Computer Engineering

  11. Environmental/EnergyEngineering

  12. Life Science/Biotechnology

  13. Information/ CommunicationsTechnologies

  14. ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting • Central Themes • Improving undergraduate enrollments • First-year experience • Innovation and leadership development • Redefining ECE in interdisciplinary world • Interdepartmental programs • ECE meeting societal challenges in 21st century • Increasing the number of US doctoral students • ABET Issues and best practices

  15. Broad Impact of Electrical and Computer Engineering Twenty Engineering Achievements That Transformed our Lives Electrification Automobile Airplane Water Supply and Distribution Electronics Radio and Television Agricultural Mechanization Computers Telephony Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Highways Spacecraft Internet Imaging Household Appliances Health Technologies Petroleum/Petrochemical Technologies Lasers and Fiber Optics Nuclear Technologies High Performance Materials

  16. NAE Engineering’sGrand Challenges • Sustainability, Health, Security, Joy of Living • Make solar energy economical • Provide energy from fusion • Provide access to clean water • Reverse-engineer the brain • Advance personalized learning • Develop carbon sequestration methods • Restore/improve urban infrastructure • Engineer tools of scientific discovery • Advance health informatics • Prevent nuclear terror • Engineer better medicines • Manage the nitrogen cycle • Enhance virtual reality • Secure cyberspace Source: National Academy of Engineering

  17. Engineering Innovators Cross-functional technical leaders and innovators Undergraduate research Integrate undergraduate and master’s engineering education The Dual Mission ofLehigh Engineering Cross-Disciplinary Professionals • Liberal education for the 21st Century • Career preparation in • Health/medicine • Business/Finance • Entrepreneurship • Design/Architecture • Legal Studies • International Relations • Technical Journalism

  18. Where Have All The Jobs Gone? • Most jobs created in the U.S. over the past two decades are in Housing, Finance, and Service • Most of the jobs lost are not coming back to the level they were; not any time soon • How are new jobs created in the future?

  19. We will have much to discuss following the presentations to come…. Thank You! Questions?

More Related