College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

1. College of Engineering & Applied Sciences All Hands Meeting 17 September 2010

2. Agenda • Opening Remarks – Tony Vizzini • United Way – Said AbuBakr • College Awards – Tony Vizzini • Academic Affairs – Tim Greene • Dean’s Remarks – Tony Vizzini • Questions Annual CEAS photograph @ the tower

3. College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Said AbuBakr United Way 17 September 2010

4. College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Tony Vizzini College Awards 17 September 2010

5. Introductions • Upul Attanayake (CCE) – Assistant Professor • Chuck Overberger (CEAS) – IT & Classroom Technology Specialist • Chris Sell – Career • Pingbo Tang (CCE) – Assistant Professor • Laura Decker (CEAS) • Frank Severance (ECE) Farewells

6. Promotion & Tenure • Ikhlas Abdel-Qadar (ECE) – Professor • Liang Dong (ECE) – Associate Professor with Tenure • David Meade (MFE) – Associate Professor with Tenure • Alexandra Pekarovicova (PCI) – Professor • Tom Swartz (IME) – Master Specialist Step • Slobodan Urdarevik (IME) – Master Specialist with Tenure

7. CEAS Faculty/Staff Awards • Outstanding New Educator • Outstanding New Researcher • Outstanding Educator • Outstanding Researcher • Outstanding Staff • Outstanding Service

8. Awards Committee Betsy Aller Margaret Joyce Murali Ghantasala Andy Kline Pete Parker Abe Poot Sasha Pekarovicova Matt Stoops Slobodan Urdarevik James Yang Past award winners

9. CEAS Outstanding New Educator Claudia Fajardo

10. CEAS Outstanding Educator Tom Swartz

11. CEAS Outstanding Researcher Jun-Seok Oh

12. CEAS Outstanding Staff Peter Thannhauser

13. CEAS Outstanding Service KarlisKaugars

14. College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Tim Greene Provost 17 September 2010

15. College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Tony Vizzini State of the College 17 September 2010

16. State of the College • Largest orientation class at Parkview • Fall 10 enrollment is up ~2% (parallels WMU increase) • Profile of incoming students improved (greater percentage Calculus ready) • FY 10 Research awards are up ~3%

17. Student Accomplishments • SAE – Honeywell 2009 Outstanding Collegiate Branch; 2nd Place at the Student Exhibit Congress • ASCE – Hosted the 2010 North Central Regional Conference; 2nd Place in the Concrete Canoe • TAGA – Phoenix Challenge: Best Technical Writing @ 2010 TAGA Conf • Samantha Hamman (PCI) – AICC Scholarship • Mohamed Elwakil & James Yang (CS) – Best Paper at 8th Intl Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Trento, Italy

18. Accomplishments • Green Manufacturing, DOE – $972K (Patten) • Green Manufacturing Industrial Consortium – Kick-off May • Seismic Risk Reduction for Soft-Story, Wood frame Buildings, NSF – $107K (Shao*) • National Registry of Printed Electronic Materials – $138K (PCI, ECE) • Host University for Microelectronic Printing Press – CAPE • CAViDS Hybrid Electric Applied Research Lab in partnership with EATON

19. Accomplishments • Effective Academic and Student Affairs Collaboration to Enhance Student Success in Engineering and Applied Sciences, NSF - $1.99M (Tsang, Abdel-Qader, Engelmann, Anderson, Darrah) • Meeting the Challenge: the Michigan Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, NSF – (UM, Tsang, et al) • DOE – STEP Consortium, University of Minnesota – (Asumado)

20. Multi-Purpose Room • Seminars • Short courses • Receptions • Dinners • Professional meetings

21. Seminar Seating

22. Banquet Seating

23. CAE Lab • Splash of color • White board wall • Artifacts

24. Wall of Fame • Utilize 2nd Floor lobby to showcase CEAS faculty and staff • Eye-catching, tours, functions • Modular, expandable Tim Witteveen – Alumina Metal Graphics

25. Working Groups • Energy, Environment, and Economics (E3) – John Patten • Medical Engineering – Tycho Fredericks • Infrastructure – Jun-Seok Oh

26. Medical Engineering Working Group

27. Medical Engineering Working Group (Spring 09) • Initial meetings were centered on sharing research being conducted in Healthcare sector • Identified Pockets of Excellence & Strengths • Prototype construction, sensors, health information systems, relationships with industry, educating/training • Discussed academic models

28. Mission Statement To Create Technologies and Develop Professionals to Improve Health

29. Possible Future Directions • Research • Understanding a healthy built environment • Printing bio materials/sensors • Investigating biological mechanisms • Development of functional prototypes • Improving information management • Education/Training • Training for Industry • Certificates in Medical Engineering • Curriculum development for MS in Medical Engineering • Medical Engineering minor • Expansion of Medical Engineering Working Group (University) • Advisory Board

30. Infrastructure Research Working Group Meeting Jun S. Oh

31. Activities • January 27, Kick-off meeting • February 24, Discussed future direction • March 31, Center for Integrated Infrastructure Studies (draft) Center for Integrated Infrastructure Studies (CIIS)

32. Center for Integrated Infrastructure Studies Vision The Center for Integrated Infrastructure Studies (CIIS) is an internationally recognized research center providing solutions to complex interactive infrastructure problems utilizing an interdisciplinary research approach. Purpose The CIIS will focus on providing innovative solutions to transportation, national security and related challenges which involve complex interactions of geographic, social and human factors. This will include the spectrum from personal transportation to mass transit and encompass the design and technology of the vehicles and vehicle systems as well as the airways, roadways and waterways which provide efficient mobility to individuals and the transportation of goods and services.

33. Mission The mission of the CIIS is to assist governmental agencies and private sector in finding solutions to complex infrastructure problems through interdisciplinary collaboration, research and education. In fulfilling the mission the Center will focus on: • Research • Identifying and solving complex infrastructure problems. • Providing unique solutions to National Security concerns. • Addressing efficiency and safety within the transportation sector. • Developing new technological solutions which lead to economic development.

34. Mission – continued • Teaching and outreach • Offering undergraduate research opportunities and courses which provide insight and knowledge in a globally interactive transportation community. • Providing graduate research and education opportunities. • Providing short courses and seminars related to solving infrastructure problems. • Interacting with the K-12 education community to share the diverse opportunities within and education required for futures in this area. • Professional and workforce development and training. • Local government and agency interaction.

35. Roster (23 people)

36. Departmental Workload • Faculty – 24 hours, Specialists – 30 hours of instruction (or equivalent) • Account for actual credit hours (plus 10%) • Acknowledge responsibilities of chair, major service areas • Allow for creative and scholarly endeavors • Support new and Assistant Professors • Account for and support buyout

37. Departmental Workload • CEAS is accountable • Departments are heavily loaded – 96%, 100%, 100%, 104%, 111%, 145%, and 165% efficiencies • No room for further growth – students (undergraduate and graduate), research without additional faculty resources – new faculty, faculty buyout

38. New Faculty • Executive Committee identified three areas for new faculty • Backfill – Address erosion in CEAS • E3 – Driving technological force in Michigan and the nation • Medical Engineering – Dovetail with WMU Medical School (MD-PhD) • WMU FY11 Budget – $2.5M for new faculty to be hired for Fall 11 • CEAS – 2 year plan

39. CEAS Budget • In round figures • $16M – 2400 students, 30 staff, and 90 faculty • >95% personnel costs • Worse case scenario – $470K (2.9%) • Gave back two lines (one retirement, the other was undesignated) • Returned PT monies • Reduced undesignated funds by 50% - limited PT and Terms

40. What’s Missing • With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – • Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. – • Man is only great when he acts from passion. – • It is obvious that we can no more explain passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. – • With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – E. A. Poe • Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. – James Joyce • Man is only great when he acts from passion. – Benjamin Disraeli • It is obvious that we can no more explain passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. – T. S. Eliot Or is it?

41. Hardly Gone • See the excitement • Fall Welcome – Buzz in the building • Helpful individuals, smiling faces • Hear the excitement • Walk by on-going classes • Listen to the students in the hall • Feel the excitement • Spring in your step

42. One More Thought • CEAS hallmark has been that we produce job-ready graduates • Citizens • Contributors • Innovators • We generate career-ready graduates • Professionals • Life-long learners • Leaders

43. Charge for 2010 – 2011 • Celebrate • Wall of Fame, Multi-purpose • Share • Challenge Coins • Grow • Backfill and focus in research areas

44. Take Aways • Great things are happening in the college and great people are in the halls • New opportunities are at our door • I’m a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don’t enjoy – Jack Nicklaus

45. Questions?