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1 College of Engineering Annual Academic Report for 201415 201415 ANNUAL REPORTS 1. Goal: Provide a transformative educational experience for all learners. Describe impactful programs that: Enhance the learning environment to raise and equalize student success Faculty in CBEE received a prestigious 5year $2M NSF RED (Revolutionizing Engineering Departments) grant “Shifting Departmental Culture to ReSituate Learning”. With this support CBEE and the OSU RED team will explore education that better incorporates both curricular and realworld experiences. Problembased learning, cultural inclusion, and consequential work will hopefully improve the student experience and aid retention, recruitment and graduate numbers. Curricular redesign will take place in the coming years through nine sophomore and juniorlevel fundamental engineering classes taken by all chemical engineers, bioengineers, and environmental engineers. Make highimpact learning a hallmark of undergraduate education (resulting in responsible citizenship and global competitiveness) The Leadership Academy in the College of Engineering supplements traditional college curriculum with a cocurricular structure that consists of seminars/workshops delivered with participation of industry partners in collaboration with program staff, mentoring interactions with professionals, and completion of a professional internship with required reading. The program was codeveloped with an advisory board that represents a crosssection of engineering industry in Oregon. Hundreds of students participate in the annual Engineering Expo (as part of their culminating experience) presenting their capstone project results to the public, faculty and industry representatives. The Center for Applied Systems and Software (CASS) was established by joining two existing OSU programs—the Open Source Lab (OSL) and the Business Solutions Group (BSG). CASS is designed as a practicum program, where students work with external clients on realworld problems and tasks under the supervision and mentorship of experienced professionals. Oregon State has established a relationship with Air Force Research Laboratory to help engineers graduate with skills critical to supporting Air Force technologies. Advance learning through course design, assessment and faculty development (in degree programs as well as the BACCORE) The Oregon Power Engineering Education Project (OPEEP) combines the strengths of the power engineering programs at Portland State University and OSU. Each institution bring unique strengths to the collaboration which, taken together, provide power engineering education opportunities that address the needs of the regional industry.

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College of EngineeringAnnual Academic Report for 

2014‐15 

 2014‐15 ANNUAL REPORTS 

1. Goal: Provide a transformative educational experience for all learners.  

Describe impactful programs that: 

Enhance the learning environment to raise and equalize student success  Faculty in CBEE received a prestigious 5‐year $2M NSF RED (Revolutionizing 

Engineering Departments) grant “Shifting Departmental Culture to Re‐Situate Learning”.  With this support CBEE and the OSU RED team will explore education that better incorporates both curricular and real‐world experiences. Problem‐based learning, cultural inclusion, and consequential work will hopefully improve the student experience and aid retention, recruitment and graduate numbers. Curricular redesign will take place in the coming years through nine sophomore and junior‐level fundamental engineering classes taken by all chemical engineers, bioengineers, and environmental engineers. 

Make high‐impact learning a hallmark of undergraduate education (resulting in responsible citizenship and global competitiveness)  The Leadership Academy in the College of Engineering supplements traditional 

college curriculum with a co‐curricular structure that consists of seminars/workshops delivered with participation of industry partners in collaboration with program staff, mentoring interactions with professionals, and completion of a professional internship with required reading.  The program was co‐developed with an advisory board that represents a cross‐section of engineering industry in Oregon.   

Hundreds of students participate in the annual Engineering Expo (as part of their culminating experience) presenting their capstone project results to the public, faculty and industry representatives. 

The Center for Applied Systems and Software (CASS) was established by joining two existing OSU programs—the Open Source Lab (OSL) and the Business Solutions Group (BSG).  CASS is designed as a practicum program, where students work with external clients on real‐world problems and tasks under the supervision and mentorship of experienced professionals. 

Oregon State has established a relationship with Air Force Research Laboratory to help engineers graduate with skills critical to supporting Air Force technologies.   

Advance learning through course design, assessment and faculty development (in degree programs as well as the BACCORE)  The Oregon Power Engineering Education Project (OPEEP) combines the 

strengths of the power engineering programs at Portland State University and 

OSU.  Each institution bring unique strengths to the collaboration which, taken 

together, provide power engineering education opportunities that address the 

needs of the regional industry.

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The NSF‐funded National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) has chosen Oregon State University as one of 25 U.S. university teams to take part in the second cohort of Epicenter’s Pathways to Innovation Program. The program helps institutions incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship into undergraduate engineering education and guides teams of faculty and administrators through a two‐year process to design and implement unique plans for each institution.  

Grow online education and explore new pedagogical models  This year, CCE developed a new online Statics course that was offered fall and 

spring terms.  The completely online MEng in Industrial Engineering with an Engineering 

Management option administered through OSU Ecampus has 18 graduate student enrolled, primarily from the west and Pacific Northwest. This program was introduced in fall 2014. 

The online Post‐baccalaureate Computer Science Degree, initiated in 2012, continues to grow.  After just three years, nearly 1,000 students with degrees such as English, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, business, engineering, and law are enrolled in the program.  This year 135 students graduated with a BS degree in computer science through this program.  The program has allowed the college to double the number of graduates in this high demand degree area and has dramatically increased the number of women enrolled in computer science at Oregon State, going from 54 in 2012 to 248 in 2014—a 460% increase. 

Enhance our comprehensive Healthy Campus Initiative  CCE has led the college by with academic advisors and staff participating in the 

Healthy Campus Initiative as part of their professional development activity.   

Expand strategies to recruit diverse and high‐achieving students (Corvallis, Cascades, Ecampus)  The College of Engineering helped to organize a STEM specific OSU Night 

Experience targeting high‐achieving students admitted to OSU from the Portland Area.  We bring faculty and current students who identify and connect with our three target recruitment populations (women, minorities, and high‐achievers).  The focus of the night is to showcase unique experiential learning opportunities and encourage students to commit to OSU.   

Programs such as Seniors Exploring Engineering at OSU: SEE OSU (for women) and LSAMP Preview (for URM students) brought 120 underrepresented high school seniors along with their parents to campus for an all‐day Saturday program. Students met with research faculty and participated in hands‐on activities, while parents met with COE student services staff and OSU Admission personnel. 

In order to increase the successful transfer of a greater number of URM, rural, and female students, WME offered regularly scheduled advising sessions every week at two feeder community colleges, LBCC and Chemeketa.   

ENGR 199‐Foundations for Engineering Success is a course designed to enhance a student success by engaging them in activities that promote self and discipline awareness, understanding academic requirements and planning, and to apply new found knowledge to real‐world, contemporary problems.   We offered 3 

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sections Fall 2014 and expanding to 4 sections for Fall 2015 after assessing similar cohorts of students at OSU.  We found the cohort of student who participated in ENGR 199 had a 41% higher retention rate with a 0.20 higher GPA. 

Through the Women and Minorities in Engineering (WME) Program, the College of Engineering implemented a number of activities to support women and underrepresented minorities (URM). Initiatives for incoming first year underrepresented students include orientation programs offered prior to the beginning of the school year. The 2‐week LSAMP Summer Bridge Program hosted 61 in‐coming URM STEM students. The Women in Engineering Orientation Program (WEOP) hosted 80 female students for a 3‐day event. The goal for both programs was to assist students connect with peers, mentors, faculty/staff, and the wide array of campus resources.  The orientation programs were followed with a 1‐credit fall term class and the opportunity to participate in a paid research experience.  

In order to reach a greater number of underrepresented students, all incoming URM STEM students, including community college transfer students, were invited to a 2‐day pre‐fall term Leadership Academy. The 101 participants attended workshops on research/internship opportunities, academic success, and effective communication with advisors. 

In other ways advance student success.  College of Engineering has successfully transitioned 1st year advising and 

student services to a centralized model to increase the access to advising, support services, study abroad conversations/exploration and leadership development.  Under the Office of Student Services (OSS) umbrella we have also launched Learning Assistant/Teaching Assistant training, a structured tutoring and academic coaching program, as well as more offerings for discipline specific study tables.  OSS increased our presence through a living and learning community to bring faculty mentors, advisors, and strength based trainings to engineering residence in Hawley and Buxton halls.   

The centralized first‐year advising improved the students per advisor ratios in the schools allowing the schools to provide more focused advising on the other non‐first‐year students.   

2. Demonstrating leadership in research, scholarship and creativity while enhancing preeminence in the three signature areas of distinction.   Describe impactful programs/efforts across foundational areas as well as signature areas to: 

Attract and retain high quality faculty o The college successfully completed 18 hires – 10 of which are women.  

Many of the hires were in collaboration with other units to accommodate dual career hiring opportunities.   

o We implemented a “New Faculty 101 Workshop Series” to actively mentor the incoming assistant professors through a series of workshops that range from faculty panels, to NSF Program Directors, and companies.  The topics in FY14‐15 series included: 

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Resources, Expectations & Success Metrics; Proposal basics: selling your ideas, establishing needs statements, structuring proposals; NSF proposal writing & success strategies; Assessment and accreditation; STEM learning and cognition; NSF CAREER Workshop; Mentoring GRAs and GTAs; Time management and Mentoring 

Expand and cultivate transdisciplinary research (on campus or through partnerships) 

o The Department of Homeland Security funded the development and implementation of a Nuclear Forensics (NF) program utilizing faculty expertise from across the college.   The first graduate student funded through this program is currently finishing her master’s degree in nuclear chemistry through OSU’s Department of Chemistry.  

o CEOAS, NSE and NOAA are collaborating on characterizing Fukushima radionuclides in marine species in the North Pacific.   

o Dorthe Wildenschild won a new MRI grant that will establish a high resolution tomography facility at OSU customized for dynamic 4D imaging in multidisciplinary research and education.  

Increase the quality, capacity and impact of graduate programs   The college moved Medical Physics students and programmatic home to the 

OHSU campus to increase their clinical training opportunities and maximizes success in their board certification examinations 

NSE is undertaking an evaluations and upgrade of the graduate Radiation Health Physics distance degree in cooperation with Ecampus 

 

In other ways advance leadership in research, scholarship and creativity. o Dr. Chris Hagen, assistant professor and director of the Energy Systems 

Laboratory, OSU‐Cascades, is leading a year‐long research project that will benchmark home natural gas‐fueled generators and provide insight on the current state of commercially available generator performance. The research was awarded a $500,000 grant, which is part of a $10 million program called Innovative Development in Energy‐Related Applied Science ‐ or “IDEAS” from ARPA‐E (Advanced Research Projects Agency ‐ Energy), U.S. Department of Energy. 

o Dr. K. Higley, Head Nuclear Science and Engineering, was appointed as a Council Member to the Congressionally Chartered National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP).  The work of NCRP has a significant impact on almost all activities in the United States which utilize or create radiation. 

o COE hosted the inaugural college‐wide industry showcase in Portland with over 620 registered participants (370 internal and 250 external participants).  Over 200 Grad Students presented posters at the event.  Attendance included prospective undergrad and grad students, alumni, academic partners, and industry representative.   

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3. Strengthen impact and reach throughout Oregon and beyond.  

Provide a brief summary of key initiatives that: 

Position OSU’s outreach and engagement programs as learning laboratories that promote high‐impact learning and effectively utilize university research  CBEE leads of numerous student success and outreach programs that span 

CBEE, COE and the university, both pre‐college and undergraduate.  These programs include the Johnson Scholars program and summer programs such as SESEY (Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youth). 

The college continues to showcase the Wave Laboratory for youth‐centric events as well as for visiting dignitaries.  

A significant number of the more than 200 senior capstone projects are sponsored by industry providing students with opportunities to engage in real world problem solving and interactions with practicing professionals.    

Grow rural and urban regional centers to advance social progress  COE and Extension collaborated in an all‐day event in April entitled OSU 

Extension Reconsidered: Humanitarian Engineering to catalyze partnersips around the state in the area of Humanitarian Engineering. 

 

Drive economic development  NSE provides the testbed for the development of the small modular reactor 

design designed by NuScale.  NuScale Power, LLC received a $226M matching grant from the US DOE to support the design certification process. Nuscale now has 180 patents in force or pending in 19 countries. It now employs nearly 600 employees, with 300 in Oregon. 

In response to a shortage of medical radionuclides (an annual market estimated to be worth about $600M), Radiation Center Staff and NSE faculty and students designed a proprietary target that could be used to produce this important diagnostic radionuclide in research reactors.  This concept was the basis for the launch of a startup company called Northwest Medical Isotopes, LLC.  In 2015 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received an application from NMI for a construction permit for a medical radioisotope production facility located in Columbia, Missouri. 

Increase study abroad and strategic international research partnerships  For the second consecutive summer, the COE launched a new international 

internship program offering students professional experience in a multicultural environment.   Six students completed these internships at Meyer Corporation in Thailand in 2015.   

COE formalized a dual PhD option in Nuclear Engineering in collaboration with Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, creating both student mobility and research collaborations between the two institutions.   

Student participation in the Global Engineering Education Exchange consortium increased by 50% from the 2013‐2014 AY and saw students study engineering in the UK, Australia, and Singapore.   

OSU’s Society of Automotive Engineers GFR team, with their wins in 2014‐15 racing season, took their fifth national title in six years in Michigan, and swept 

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their third consecutive international victory in Germany. This dynasty of race car engineers is advised by Dr. Bob Paasch. 

Engage alumni and other external partners to advance our goals  The development of the COE Strategic Plan engaged a number of alumni and 

external industry partners.  Their participation was critical to developing a comprehensive plan that is mindful of the needs of our external stakeholders.  

Nearly every school in the college has an intern and/or corporate relations coordinator that focus on the external relations and visibility of the school.  These activities are coordinated by the Director of Leadership and Professional Development.  

We have added staff to our college‐level Communication and Marketing group and established a new organizational structure that links the college group to the schools’ communication and marketing personnel.  

Advance impact and reach in other ways.  PRISM (managed by COE’s Chris Daly) became the official source of weather and 

climate data for the US crop insurance program, which insures $130 billion in crop value in the US each year. 

 

4. In addition to these goals the Strategic Plan also establishes a commitment to three essential features our OSU.  

 

Enhancing diversity o Increasing diversity of faculty, staff and students 

The first goal of the recently developed Strategic Plan focuses on the creation and celebration of an inclusive and collaborative community and recognizes the resultant strengths from such a community.  We are committed to recruiting diverse pools of students, staff and faculty.  We were successful in the most recent faculty recruitment cycle hiring 18 faculty; ten of whom were women.   

MIME was selected as one of five universities to join the 18‐month TECAID project (Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity) funded by NSF and led by WEPAN (Women in Engineering Pro‐Active Network) and ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).  This project is implementing the humanitarian engineering program as a means of increasing enrollment of women and underrepresented groups across the college.   

EECS offered $1,000 scholarships to all first‐year women who were 

accepted to OSU and enrolled as an electrical and computer engineering 

or a computer science major.  Twenty‐one women are expected to 

enroll in EECS this fall. 

EECS helped sponsor a ChickTech weekend. Founded by alumnus, Janice Levenhagen‐Seeley, the organization’s mission is to retain women in the technology workforce and increase the number of women pursuing technology‐based careers.  Nearly 100 high school girls participated in the augural event meeting industry mentors and engaged in hands‐on technology‐centric events designed to increase their confidence, build community and develop leadership skills. 

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Stewardship of resources o Enhancing resources through private philanthropy 

Ground‐breaking and construction started on Johnson Hall as the future home of CBEE education and research and a focal point for first‐year students across the college.  Johnson Hall is on track for occupancy prior to fall term of 2016. 

The 2015 Schuette bequest establishes a professorship, student fellowships, and laboratory renovations.  

MIME alumnus Dick Evans and his wife (an OSU alumnus) Gretchen Evans gave a $1.5M gift to establish the Dick and Gretchen Evans Professorship in Humanitarian Engineering.  Dr. Kendra Sharp is the inaugural holder of the Professorship and leads the development of the humanitarian engineering minor and program at OSU. 

COE/MIME completed its role on the transitional board of the Northwest Collaboratory for Sustainable Manufacturing (NWCSM) as the group transitioned to consortium status with an industry member board of directors in July 2015.  The NWCSM supported the hire of three MIME faculty and equipment purchase with over $750K of support. 

o Develop an integrated infrastructure recapitalization plan  The Boora Architects Report catalyzed a focused evaluation of 

infrastructure renovation opportunities resulting in the relocation of the small wave laboratory to Hinsdale and the driver simulator to B‐11 as well as significant renovations to Graf Hall.  Additional renovations are planned for the next two years as we repurpose space released as Johnson Hall opens. 

o Provost sustainable built and natural environments  Work under way to design new facility to be located behind Hinsdale 

labs.  The new laboratory facility will focus on improving the built environment and improved performance of existing built systems. 

o Balance economic and environmental improvements in the region.  Oregon BEST is funding phase II testing of Puralytics storm water 

treatment technology, as well as construction of a new outdoor green storm water research lab, with CBEE faculty Tyler Radniecki. 

Technology as a strategic asset o Share relevant information to make effective decisions 

The implementation of the Strategic Plan envisions dashboard indicators for all key performance indicators (KPI).  These indicators inform interested parties, inside and outside the college, of our progress towards our goals and inform decision making going forward. 

o Invest in information technology to enable educational innovation  The college and other university partners negotiated an agreement with 

the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) to acquire their complete database (about 25 TB) of research‐grade light detection and ranging (LIDAR) datasets. This data is housed on a COE maintained server maintained by the College of Engineering.  The data is available to any OSU student or researcher and the general public via ftp.  The data facilitates teaching and research and provides the 

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opportunity for use in a wide array of activities to the benefit of the students, faculty, and the state of Oregon. 

o Enhance the quality of service in administrative processes  The COE introduced two new cloud‐based databases to improve 

administrative processes.  We will use Salesforce™ to better track alumni and prospective donors and track students’ accomplishments within our Leadership Academy.  We began a college‐wide implementation of Digital Measures™ to better track faculty accomplishments; including teaching loads, eSET scores, research, publications, etc.  The implementation will allow automated production of P&T dossiers and annual performance review materials.  We expect full implementation by the close of FY 16.    

5.  College‐level metrics. 

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College‐Level Metrics  

 

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