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Convocation Fall 2013

Convocation Fall 2013. Sarah A. Rajala Dean James & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering. Welcome and Introduction. Goals for 2013-14. D eliver a high quality education to all of our students Hire at least 17 new, diverse, high-quality faculty members

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Convocation Fall 2013

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  1. ConvocationFall 2013 Sarah A. Rajala Dean James & Katherine MelsaProfessor of Engineering

  2. Welcome andIntroduction

  3. 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

  4. Role of Educating Students • Educating tomorrow’s engineering leaders • Focus on strong academics • ABET accreditation • Global and engaged learning

  5. Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment

  6. Engineering Graduate Enrollment

  7. 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

  8. Welcome New Engineering Faculty ABE Norman Muzzy - Lecturer CBE Zengyi Shao - Assistant Professor CCEE JunwonSeo- Research Assistant Professor Jiehua J Shen- Associate Professor An Chen - Assistant Professor ECpE IkennaNlebedim– Adjunct Assistant Professor SiddarthaKhaitan– Research Assistant Professor Meng Lu - Assistant Professor (ECpE/ME) Kathryn Stolee- Assistant Professor IMSE Caroline Krejci- Assistant Professor ME XianglanBai- Assistant Professor Ming-Chen Hsu- Assistant Professor Travis Sippel - Assistant Professor MSE EliseodeLeon - Lecturer AnjaMudring- Professor Ruifeng Zhang - Research Assistant Professor

  9. Welcome New Engineering Staff ABE Tamara Kerns – Academic Advisor Joshua Kruse - AccountantDana 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

  10. Welcome New Engineering Staff ME 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 RelationsAnn 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

  11. Promotions in the Engineering College • Hui Hu (AERE) to Professor • Eric Cochran (CBE) to Associate Professor • Nadia Gkritza (CCEE) to Associate Professor • RanganGopalakrishnan (CCEE) to Senior Lecturer • DionysiosAliprantis (ECpE) to Associate Professor • SumitChaudhary (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

  12. General Fund Revenue Budget$86 Million 35% 50% 4% 11%

  13. Engineering Budgets for Academicand Administration $48.6 $44.0 $39.1 $35.5 $32.6 $15.4 $15.5 $12.4 $11.4 $10.9

  14. Engineering Research Expenditures $83.9 $78.5 $74.4 $70.6 $67.5

  15. Engineering Facilities Update

  16. 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

  17. Ashraf BastawrosGrace Miller Wilson and T. WilsonEndowed Engineering Faculty Fund

  18. SumitChaudharyNorthrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green

  19. Kristen Constant Wilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering

  20. Randall Geiger Tunc and LaleDolucaProfessorshipin Electrical and Computer Engineering

  21. Caroline HayesLynn Gleason Professorship in Interdisciplinary Engineering

  22. Andrew Hillier Wilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering

  23. Charles JahrenW.A. Klinger Teaching Professorship

  24. SurajKothari Willard & Leitha Richardson Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

  25. Richard LesarLynn Gleason Professorshipin Interdisciplinary Engineering

  26. AnjaMudringGlenn MurphyProfessor of Engineering

  27. Krishna RajanWilkinson Professorof Interdisciplinary Engineering

  28. Janis TerpennyJoseph Walkup Professorship in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

  29. Song Zhang William and Virginia BingerProfessorship inMechanical Engineering

  30. Patent Awards • Patents are a prestigious form of recognition • Recognize 11 recipients

  31. Sang Wu Kim Cooperative Spatial Multiplexing

  32. Shihwu Sung Micro-Aeration of Sulfide Removal from Biogas

  33. AtulKelkarPneumatic Vibration Isolation Device

  34. SrikantaTirthapuraComputing Time-decayed Aggregates in Data Streams

  35. ArunSomaniLogic Element Architecture for Generic Logic Chains in Programmable Devices

  36. Jaeyoun Kim Elastomeric Device for Tunable Imaging

  37. Thomas LograssoMagnetostrictive Materials, Devices and Methods Using High Magnetostriction, High Strength FeGa and FeBe Alloys

  38. BalajiNarasimhanAntimicrobial Compositions and Methods

  39. RanaBiswas and Kristen Constant Manufacturing Method of Photonic Crystal

  40. Stuart BirrellCombination Residue Spreader and Collector for Single Pass Harvesting Systems

  41. Faculty and Staff Awards • Honoring faculty and staff from the college • Recognize 6 recipients

  42. Leslie Potter Superior EngineeringTeaching Award

  43. Konstantina (Nadia) GkritzaEarly Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

  44. Iver E. Anderson David R. BoylanEminent Faculty Research

  45. Melissa Skinner Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

  46. DeAnn Pitman Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

  47. DevnaPopejoy-Sheriff Superior Engineering Advisor Award

  48. Thank You

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