Faculty Senate Report

1. Faculty Senate Report Warren K. Wray Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs September 16, 2010

2. Office of Academic Affairs • Strategic and Tactical Planning Activities • Open forum tentatively scheduled for September 27 at 4 pm for presentation by Blue Sky Task Force on their findings. • Curriculum and Accreditation • Reviewed and submitted Interim reports from five engineering programs to ABET. Report on accreditation status of these programs expected during October. • Completed review of draft proposal for MS in I/O Psychology. • Reviewed preliminary proposal for ME in Military Geological Engineering.

3. Office of Academic Affairs • External Partnerships • Members of the Corporate Relations Team are planning a trip to Huntsville, AL to build strategic partnerships with corporations located in that area. • Corporate Development Council (CDC) meeting scheduled for September 20. • Faculty Activities • Faculty Excellence award nominations due September 17. • Other • Submitted report on President Forsee’s initiative on “Outside-In” (the role of UM in meeting employer needs within the state and region)

4. Global Learning Engineering Education Center: • Departments are using 18 courses from the Engineering Education Center in St. Louis to supplement their Rolla course offerings. Two of these 18 serve only on campus students with one being an undergraduate class of over 50 students. Distance and Continuing Education: • General Motors has requested nine Professional Development non-credit courses to be delivered online to begin October 2010.

5. Global Learning Video Communications Center: • S&T has a .75 FTE video production specialist at the EEC in St. Louis to assist faculty that teach their courses from the St. Louis facility. • Three video classrooms have been converted to High Definition video. The rooms are located in Fulton 107, Electrical Engineering 239 and the Library and deliver a much improved image to distance students.

6. Office of Graduate Studies • Met the FS2010 graduate enrollment goal • Communication mapping (internal and external graduate application/admit communications) project completed • Thirty-six thesis/dissertation formatting checks completed for graduating students during the summer and inter-session period • Chancellor's Fellows Welcome Reception- 9/10/10

7. Office of Graduate Studies • Graduate Certificate in Safety Engineering submitted and will likely be approved on Sept 9th, 2010 • E-Graduate Orientation page is now up and running: http://grad.mst.edu/currentstudents/VirtualOrientation.html

8. International Affairs • Celebration of Nations - Rolla’s first celebrationis scheduled for October 9th, with the Parade of Nations kicking off at 11 am from the Havener Center. • Banners will be hung around town, in the downtown area and around the band shell. • Donations from local businesses are coming in. • A sample passport has been printed as a school outreach incentive with businesses expressing interest in sponsoring the cost of printing. • The International Student Club created a website for sign-ups; the Communications department is developing a blog website - nations.mst.edu for future use in electronic communications.

9. Office of Sponsored Programs FY10 activities and a year-over-year comparison are as follows: Proposals awarded in total dollars: $52.3M (up 22.8%) Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 327 (down 10.2%) Proposals submitted in total dollars: $259.1M (up 43.9%) Number of proposals submitted: 528 (down 6.9%) Research expenditures: $44.7M (up 17.4%) F&A recovered: $7.7M (up 10.1%) Number of active awards: 614 (down 1.3%) New all-time highs for proposals awarded and submitted in total dollars, expenditures and F&A recovered

10. Technology Transfer Performance

11. Office of Undergraduate Studies CERTI Clickers Twenty-eight faculty members are using clickers this Fall, with 3,264 students enrolled in classes that are using clickers, as of Sept. 1, 2010. Curator’s Teaching Summit All instructors are invited to the Curators’ Teaching Summit luncheon series this Fall, sponsored by the Center for Educational Research and Teaching Innovation (CERTI). This year’s topic is “Balancing Teaching and Research” and will be held from noon-1 p.m. on three Mondays this semester: Sept. 20, Oct. 18 and Nov. 15. The location is St. Pat’s Ballroom C. The first session on Sept. 20 will be a Q&A discussion with questions from the audience. Lunch is provided and reservations are necessary. Please contact Diane Hagni at hagnid@mst.edu by Sept. 14 to reserve your spot. NEW Comprehensive Calendar Several offices on campus collaborated this summer to provide a comprehensive calendar of events for faculty this semester. Activities hosted by Academic Affairs, the Advising Office, CERTI, Educational Technology, New Faculty Programs and the Office of Sponsored Programs are included on this calendar to help faculty in their Fall planning. You can go here to find it online: http://certi.mst.edu/events.html.

12. Office of Undergraduate Studies Freshmen Engineering As of September 1 there are 1,780 Freshmen Engineers in our files that we are trying to mentor and guide. Drs. Cawlfield and Miller have 10 sections of FE10 students with over 110 students in most of those sections. Student Design & Experiential Learning Center Human Powered Vehicle A team of Missouri S&T students will be racing this month in an effort to set the land speed record for colligate men’s and women’s human powered vehicle racing at Battle Mountain, Nevada.  This team is under the direction of Dr. Keith Nisbett and part of the Student Design and Experiential Learning Center. New Construction! Construction is underway for the new Kummer Student Design Center with a target completion of early January, 2011. Steel Bridge Team – New Advisor Tim Philpot, associate professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, has recently accepted the role of Steel Bridge Team main advisor joining the Student Design and Experiential Learning Center team of advisors.

13. Office of Undergraduate Studies Undergraduate Advising Office New Advising Center Director Aug. 2, we welcomed Anna I. Gaw, Director of Academic Advising. Gaw has over 10 years of advising experience, primarily from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL and earned her second master’s degree in Liberal Arts. Gaw also holds a master’s in Education from Kansas State University and bachelor’s from University of Missouri. She is happy to be back in her home state, looks forward to enjoying the great outdoors of the Ozark region and can be reached at x4735 or agaw@mst.edu. The Academic Alert SystemPresented by: Dr. Harvest L. Collier, Office of Undergraduate StudiesMonday, September 13 Noon – 1:30pm in Havener Center - Missouri/Ozark roomLearn about the updated system and how it supports student academic success. LEAD LEAD offers walk-in peer tutoring in 29 foundational courses. Collaborative learning centers ran by 49 faculty as office hours in 35 courses from Elementary Russian and Financial Accounting to Digital Circuit Design and Introductory Quantum Chemistry. New Learning Centers added to LEAD portfolio - Real-Time Digital Signal Processing (CpE 342) - Nuclear Fuel Cycle (NucE 307) - General Genetics (Bio 231) New LEAD tutoring in - Statics (IDE 50) & Mechanics of Materials (IDE 110) - Intro Differential Equations (Math 204, starts week 4