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ANNUAL RE PORT

2013

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Message from the Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Statistical Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Engineers of the Month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Funding and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Engineering a Better Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Joint Co-op Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12CEAS Inventors Honored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14CEAS Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

CONTENTS

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COLLEGE ADMINISTRATIONTeik C. Lim, DeanFrank M. Gerner, Senior Associate DeanA. Allen Arthur, Associate DeanMark T. Bowers, Assistant DeanJoseph H. Nevin, Assistant Dean

COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCILB

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

This March, after serving as interim dean for more than a year and a half, I was officially appointed Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science — a role I am honored and excited to fill. It has been a privilege working with our dedicated faculty and staff to achieve success for our students and College. Together, we have significantly improved the college’s finances, awarded more undergraduate scholarships, increased freshmen enrollment to an historic high, strengthened the Emerging Ethnic Engineers (E3) program, initiated faculty hiring, and launched the UC/Chongqing Joint Co-op Institute. Building on that momentum, we plan to continue to increase faculty hiring, enhance student experience and strengthen our research. Specifically, we plan to hire at least 50 tenure track faculty members in five years — an initiative that Provost Beverly Davenport has coined “50 in 5.” This will significantly enhance our ability to provide the best possible learning experience for our students, bolster our research capacity and substantially improve our national and global reputation. As we move forward, we are negotiating a number of challenges. We have been anticipating the decline in federal funding for a number of years and have been developing contingency plans. We have been working on strengthening our ties with industry and the State of Ohio. One example is the University of Cincinnati Research Institute (UCRI) that has its genesis in our college and grew out of a partnership with GE Aviation and the Ohio Third Frontier. Throughout our 100+ years of practicing co-op we have built an extensive network of industry partners loyal to UC because they have benefitted from hiring our students as co-ops and full-time employees. We are rolling out several initiatives to enhance diversity within the CEAS community: 1) working closely with area high schools to create a pipeline of female and under-represented minority students; 2) proactively seeking female and underrepresented minority candidates in our ongoing faculty searches; and 3) formulating faculty and staff development plans that will have a very strong component in enhancing diversity and inclusiveness at CEAS. These program priorities will help us to achieve our vision to become a destination of choice for students in Ohio, the U.S. and abroad. I want CEAS to be known as a vibrant community of scholars where learning and research flourish. And I want to have engineering and applied science curricula that embrace entrepreneurship and commercialization concepts. Finally, I want to see us become one of the top engineering and applied science colleges in the world.

Teik C. Lim, PhD, Dean Herman Schneider Professor 5

Teik C. Lim

 

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ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCESTUDENT ENROLLMENT BY MAJOR | FALL 2013

Fire & Safety Engineering Technology 60 Mechanical Engineering 536Mechanical Engineering Technology 245

Architectural Engineering Technology* 41Computer Engineering Technology* 22Materials Engineering* 10

Freshman Engineering Program (undeclared major) 139EASE Program (preparatory) 136

Total 3,494* no new admits

Undergraduate Programs Aerospace Engineering 312 Architectural Engineering 84 Biomedical Engineering 272Chemical Engineering 436Civil Engineering 301Computer Engineering 169 Computer Science 179Construction Management 159Electrical Engineering 261Electrical Engineering Technology 97Environmental Engineering 35

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STATISTICAL SNAPSHOT

Graduate Programs (Fall 2013) MS MEng PhD Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics 58 12 49 Biomedical Engineering 5 10 24 Chemical Engineering 15 6 29 Civil Engineering 35 4 14 Computer Engineering 49 11 - Computer Science 89 29 - Computer Science Engineering - - 56 Electrical Engineering 56 31 42 Environmental Engineering and Science 42 10 42 Materials Science and Engineering 20 13 32 Mechanical Engineering 129 55 75 Sub totals 498 181 363

TOTAL 1042*Includes Industrial Engineering and Nuclear Engineering

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STUDENTENROLLMENT

OhioRes.92.2%

OhioRes.30.7%

Non-res.

7.8%

Enrollment by Residency - Fall 2013

Non-res.69.3%

Male85.2% Male

77.2%

Female22.8% Female

14.8%

Enrollment by Gender - Fall 2013

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STATISTICAL SNAPSHOT

Undergraduate % Graduate % Alaskan Native/Am Indian .1 .1 Asian 2.7 1.6 Black 2.8 1.4 Hispanic 1.6 .9 White 84.4 26.6 Two or more races 1.6 - Non-resident Alien 4.1 66.1 Other/Unknown 2.7 3.3 Total 100% 100%

Asian Black

Hispanic2 or more races

Non-resident Alien

Other/Unknown

White

Undergraduate

AsianBlack Hispanic

White

Non-resident Alien

Other/Unknown

Graduate

Enrollment by Ethnicity - Fall 2013

Over the course of the academic year CEAS recognizes 12 of its highest achieving junior and senior undergraduate students as an Engineer of the Month. These students displayed leadership in the classroom, on the job, in professional organizations, around campus and in the community.

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Undergraduate Programs Aerospace Engineering 77 Architectural Engineering 12 Biomedical Engineering 68 Chemical Engineering 116 Civil Engineering 60 Computer Engineering 31 Computer Engineering Technology 3 Computer Science 27 Construction Management 31 Electrical Engineering 53 Electrical Engineering Technology 6 Mechanical Engineering 151 Mechanical Engineering Technology 48 Total 683

Students enrolled for Professional Practice (co-op) sections – Autumn 2013

CO-OPENROLLMENT

AUGUST. Nicholas Schwartz, aerospace engineering senior in the ACCEND™ program, is a member of several organizations including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the UC Racquetball Organization, and he is a volunteer for Cincinnati Parks.

SEPTEMBER. Michael Cline, mechanical engineering senior in the ACCEND™ program, is a member of several organizations including the Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Honor Societies. Michael also volunteers at the SPCA Cincinnati.

OCTOBER. Cameron Ingram, biomedical engineering senior, acts as president, communications chair, and treasurer of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). He has also served as a CEAS ambassador and worked with the Tribunal as part of the Freshman Engineer Leadership Program.

NOVEMBER. Thaddaeus Voss, electrical engineering junior, is an IEEE executive member, serving as secretary and class of 2015 representative. He has served as vice president, events chair and creative chair for UC CEAS Ambassadors and is the Eta Kappa Nu Honors Society vice president.

DECEMBER. Peter Strawman, construction manage-ment senior, is involved as a student leader in several organi-zations, serving as president of the UC Design Build Institute of America and secretary for the Construction Student Asso-ciation and the American Concrete Institute.

JANUARY. Elizabeth DeBenedictis, mechanical engi-neering senior, serves as a correspondent for Tau Beta Pi, a peer tutor and teaching assistant for the Freshman Engineer-ing Program and as a middle school outreach volunteer with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

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STATISTICAL SNAPSHOT

DEGREES AWARDED

Undergraduate Programs Aerospace Engineering 77 Architectural Engineering 12 Biomedical Engineering 68 Chemical Engineering 116 Civil Engineering 60 Computer Engineering 31 Computer Engineering Technology 3 Computer Science 27 Construction Management 31 Electrical Engineering 53 Electrical Engineering Technology 6 Mechanical Engineering 151 Mechanical Engineering Technology 48 Total 683

Construction Management 44 Electrical Engineering 36 Electrical Engineering Technology 20 Fire & Safety Engineering Technology 22 Materials Science and Engineering 11 Mechanical Engineering 90 Mechanical Engineering Technology 48

Total 551

Undergraduate Degrees Awarded (2012– 2013) Aerospace Engineering 48 Architectural Engineering Technology 30 Biomedical Engineering 41 Chemical Engineering 68 Civil Engineering 55 Computer Engineering 12 Computer Engineering Technology 8 Computer Science 18

Graduate Degrees Awarded (2012 – 2013) MS MEng PhD Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics 21 3 4 Biomedical Engineering - 6 9 Chemical Engineering 3 1 2 Civil Engineering 7 6 - Computer Engineering 21 3 - Computer Science 22 15 - Computer Science & Engineering - - 7 Electrical Engineering 16 9 6 Environmental Engineering and Science 10 1 3 Industrial Engineering 1 Material Science and Engineering 9 2 8 Mechanical Engineering 56 7 5 Sub totals 165 53 45

TOTAL 263

Federal $9,565,456Industry 5,869,839Local Government 41,287Other, Non Profit 770,621 State of Ohio 1,316,525 TOTAL $17,563,728

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GRANTS & CONTRACT AWARDS BY SOURCE

ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE

Federal

Industry

Local Government

Other/Non-Profit

State of Ohio

Federal

Industry

StateLocal Gov’t

Other/Non-ProfitofitFY13

FEBRUARY. James Lucas, chemical engineering senior, is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and has served as president of ChemE Car and as chair of the ChemE Car Competition during the AIChE Conference.

MARCH. Kyle Flenar, aerospace engineering junior in the ACCEND™ program, is actively involved in the Relay for Life, Masters Swim Team, Engineering Ambassadors, the Engineering Tribunal and AIAA.

APRIL. Ryan Stanley, mechanical engineering senior in the ACCEND™ program, serves as treasurer on the University Funding Board, is a member of the Resident Hall Association, the Engineering Tribunal, the Technology Committee and the Collegiate Affairs Committee.

MAY. Paul Keppler, electrical engineering technology senior, is president of the Basic Utilities Club in CEAS and tutors students to prepare for the Lego Robotic Competition.

JUNE. Yue Zhao, computer engineering senior, is a dedicated tutor to UC students and to homeless high school students through Boys Hope Girls Hope Cincinnati AmeriCorps. He is the founder of the Asian Volunteer Organization, and helped to rebuild apartments destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

JULY. Alex Stenger, construction management junior, is the president and founder of the college’s first student chapter of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), a member of the Tau Alpha Pi and Phi Sigma Theta national honor societies and is an Eagle Scout.

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BiomedicalEngineering$3,729,117

FY13

FUNDING & RESOURCES

GRANTS & CONTRACT AWARDS BY DEPARTMENT

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CEAS Non-School

$131,700

Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

$4,927,546

Electrical Engineering & Computing Systems

$3,143,970 Mechanical & Materials Engineering$3,903,323

Biomedical, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

$4,576,590

Federal

Industry

Local Government

Other/Non-Profit

State of Ohio

FY13

CEAS researchers are leading the field with numerous discoveries and cutting-edge inventions. Mark Schulz, mechanical engineering professor, sums up the college’s accomplishments best by saying, “UC is trailblazing and road-mapping innovation, translating discoveries to industry, and training a next generation workforce that will be in high demand. Persistence and patience is what spurs innovation.”

Schulz, Vesselin Shanov and Joe Sprengard’s CEAS spin-off company—General Nano LLC—was recently named a finalist in the prestigious Business Courier Innovation Awards. Founded in 2009 and based in Norwood, the firm specializes in developing carbon nanotube materials for aerospace and defense applications. Their customers include the Department of Defense, NASA, and numerous aerospace and defense original equipment manufacturers and Prime Contractors. The young company also licenses inventions from UC. General Nano previously won the Engineering Innovation Award at the 2013 Business Courier Innovation Awards.

Also named a finalist in this year’s Business Courier Innovation Awards is A&B Sensor Technologies, a novel biosensor company founded in 2009 by Anastasios Angelopoulos, CEAS chemical engineering associate professor, and Jonathan Bernstein, MD, College of Medicine. The company brings unique catalyst-based optical sensing devices to the market. In particular, the researchers have developed a non-invasive breath analysis method of measuring blood-glucose in diabetics.

Engineering a Better way

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Engineering Education

$37,131

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Biomedical, Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Civil & Architectural Engr and Construction Management

Electronic Engineering and Computing Systems

Engineering Education

Mechanical and Materials Engineering

CEAS Non-school UCRI FY13 AWARDS $1,087,800EXPENSES 334,327

*FY13 expenses are being reported under the new FY14 department names. Note: For FY13 the Materials program is included with the programs in the Department of BCEE.

Civil & Architectural Engineering and Construction Managment

$843,468

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COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT

Cash Gifts$3,268,820*

Pledges$305,870

Planned Gifts$1,198,559

Annual Giving$836,590

Gifts in Kind $91,077

Private SupportFiscal Year 2013Total $5,700,916

Gift Range Number of Gifts

Gifts of $10,000 or more in FY13

$10,000-25,000 12$25,000-50,000 8$50,000-100,000 5$100,000-500,000 4$500,000+ 2

FoundationThe University of Cincinnati

For information on how you can become involved or make a gift, please go to GIVE to CEAS or contact the CEAS Development Officeat 513-556-6279.

Joint Co-op Institute —UC & Chongqing University

An agreement signed July 8, 2013 established a Joint Co-op Institute (JCI) between UC and Chongqing University. The agreement calls for UC to provide experience and expertise in establishing a mandatory co-op program at Chongqing as part of two engineering majors while also establishing UC’s curriculum and offering UC faculty instruction in two majors — mechanical engineering and electrical engineering — at Chongqing. The agreement is the first to establish a Joint Co-op Institute between universities in the U.S. and China. With it, Chongqing University will become the first in China with a mandatory cooperative education model – a model ideally suited to Greater Chongqing’s role as a major educational and economic center in southwest China. CEAS welcomed its first class from Chongqing in the fall. Nearly 70 electrical and mechanical engineering students are pursuing the UC engineering curriculum in Chongqing.

*Includes one-time anonymous gift of $3 million

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General Funds: include salaries, benefits, graduate assistantships, operating, scholarships (UGS & non-UGS)

Local Funds: includes designated, gift/endowment, other non-grant

Grants: does not include F&A expense

Annual Expenditures – FY13Total $70,054,811

* Excludes visiting scholars, emeriti, corporate employees, students and volunteers.

Faculty SalariesStaff Salaries Graduate AssistantsStudent workersFringe Benefits Operating (includes equipment)

Non-UGS ScholarshipsUniv. Graduate Scholarships (UGS)

Faculty Tenure Track 126 Non-Tenure Track, Field Service, Professor Educators, Research, Visiting 23

Administration & Staff Dean, Associate/Assistant Deans 5 Staff *(including research funded) 100 Postdoctoral Fellows 18

Faculty & Staff Fall 2013

FUNDING & RESOURCES

COLLEGE BUDGET

General Funds$43,036,972

Local Funds$7,834,763

Grants$19,183,076

$20,566,337$9,002,258

$11,095,061

$11,373,441$6,955,878

$2,293,703

$7,559,527

$1,208,606

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CEAS inventors honored for

patents

UC’s Office of Research and the Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs and Technology Commercialization recognized 2013 patent recipients during the Feb. 6 men’s basketball game. Seven of UC’s fourteen 2013 patent awardees are from the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

CEAS patent honoreesAnastasios Angelopoulos• Multifunctional nanocoatings with mixed nanoparticles and process for

fabricating same

Effie Gutmark • Rotary drill bit with nozzles designed to enhance hydraulic performance

and drilling fluid efficiency

Daewoo Han• Methods for electrospinning hydrophobic coaxial fibers into

superhydrophobic and oleophobic coaxial fiber mats• G-protein coupled receptor kinase-5 polymorphism

Jay Lee• Methods and systems for energy prognosis

Teik C. Lim• Multi-channel active noise control system with channel equalization

Sang-Young Son• Continuous droplet generator devices and methods

Andrew Steckl• Methods for electrospinning hydrophobic coaxial fibers into

superhydrophobic and oleophobic coaxial fiber mats• Light emitting device having a specific dimension of phosphor layer

Mingming Lu, environmental engineering associate professor, is garnering global attention for her innovative Waste Grease Extraction (WGE) process and also for her novel approach to converting waste coffee grounds into energy sources such as biodiesel and activated carbon. Lu’s research has earned her numerous awards including: a UC Invents initiative grant, the Innovation Quest Elevator Pitch (IQ E-Pitch) Award, the NCIIA (National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance) Stage One E-team, and the Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development.

Furthering UC’s strong cross-disciplinary collaboration, Ian Papautsky, CEAS electrical engineering associate professor, heads a team of researchers who have developed a portable sensor that measures metal levels in humans using a combination of lab-on-a-chip sensing and microfluidics. Additionally, Papautsky’s full proposal for the Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics (CADMIM) was recently awarded a major grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, along with partner University of California – Irvine, will have 13 companies on the inaugural CADMIM Industrial Adivsory Board.

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Engineering a Better way

Pictured from left:Erik Nelson, MED; James Lockey, MED;

Teik C. Lim, CEAS; Jay Lee, CEAS;William Heineman, A&S

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CEAS CENTERS

Research Centers & Institutes CEAS faculty lead and collaborate with other units on a number of centers and institutes dedicated to areas of specialized research. Many of these work closely with industry, other institutions and the community in developing new products and capabilities. Among the centers are:

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• Acoustic Liners Research Facility• Advanced Materials Characterization Center• Center for Imaging Research• Center for Intelligent Propulsion and Advanced Life Management of

Systems (CIPALMS)• Center for Medical Device Innovation & Entrepreneurship (MDIEP)• Center for Micro/Nano Fabrication - Clean Room• Center for Surgical Innovation• Collaboratory for Medical Innovation and Implementation • Environmental Analysis Service Center• Large Scale Test Facility (Concrete and Structural Testing Center)• National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for

Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials• National Science Foundation Industry University Cooperative

Research for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS)• National Science Foundation Multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research

Center for Membrane Applied Science and Technology (MAST)• Ohio Center for Microfluidic Innovation• PACE Global Design & Manufacturing Center• Point-of-Care Center for Emerging Neurotechnologies (POC-CENT)• Polymer Research Center • UC Center for Robotics Research• UC Nanoworld: Smart Materials and Nano Devices• UC Simulation Center• Vontz Center for Molecular Studies

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