New PresidentSEAS Advisory Council

• BS, Manufacturing Engineering,

Miami, 1982• MS, Engineering Management,

Missouri S&T, 1986

• 25 years experience in consulting and industry leadership roles

• founded (in 2001) and leads ROA Group, an Ohio-based business consulting firm, providing IT and performance improvement services

David Rohe

PresidentROA Group LLC

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

EducationB.A., Economics, Ateneo de Davao University, The Philippines

M.S., Agriculture Economics, West Virginia University

Ph.D., Agriculture Economics, The Pennsylvania State University

Conrado M. (Bobby) Gempesaw

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Career outline

1985 – 2011 University of Delaware

93-99 Chair99-06 Vice Provost04-05 Acting Dean, College of Arts and Science06-10 Dean, Lerner College of Business and Economics

Conrado M. (Bobby) Gempesaw

SEAS Advisory Council Fall MeetingNovember 2, 2012

Marek DollárDean

State of the School Address

SEAS Home Page: MY SEAS tab

SEAS Advisory Council Fall MeetingNovember 2, 2012

1.Highlights of Academic Year 2011-12

2.SEAS priorities in Academic Year 2012-13

3.Budgetary challenges and opportunities

4.SEAS fee proposal

Outline

New tenure-track faculty

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Jessica Sparks

• BS, Pre-medicine and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

• MS, Anatomy, The Ohio State University

• PhD, Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University

• Jessica came to Miami from Wake Forest School of Medicine where she had been an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Eng.

Associate Professor

Chemical & Paper Eng.

Jason Berberich

• BS, Chemical Engineering, the University of Kentucky• PhD, Chemical Engineering, the University of Kentucky

• Jason came to Miami from Pittsburgh where he had been Manager of Enzyme Research for the Chem-Bio Detection Division

Assistant Professor

Chemical & Paper Eng.

D. J. Rao

• BE, Computer Engineering, University of Madras, India

• MS, Computer Science and Engineering, Un. of Cincinnati

• PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Un. of Cincinnati

• D.J. was a visiting assistant professor in the CSE department from 2005-2009

• He came to back to Miami from Elsevier where he had been a Principle Software Engineer

Assistant Professor

Computer Science & Software Engineering

Mazyar Amin

• BS, Isfahan University of Technology, Mechanical Eng.

• MS, University of Tehran, Mechanical Engineering

• MS, University of Washington, Aerospace Engineering

• PhD, University of Washington, Aerospace Engineering

• Mazyar came to Miami from Saint Louis University where he had been a postdoctoral fellow

Assistant Professor

Engineering Technology

Stephanie Nicely

• ADN, Miami University• BSN, Miami University• MSN, Ball State University• EdDc, Northern Kentucky

University, anticipated graduation Spring 2014

• Stephanie came to Miami from Hondros College School of Nursing where she had been teaching since 2009Assistant Professor

Nursing

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Sharon Farra

• BSN, Wayne State University• MSN, Wright State University• PhD, Nursing, Univ. of

Cincinnati

• Sharon came to Miami from Sinclair Community College where she had been teaching since 1998

Assistant Professor

Nursing

New Director of Development

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Col (ret) Clark A. KellyDirector of Development for SEAS

University Advancement -SEAS

• 31 years of leadership experience in multiple organizations within DoD and USAF

• At Miami since 2007

• Commander of Air Force ROTC and Chair in CAS (2007-10)

• Career Coach for STEM students with Career Services (2010-11)

Faculty awards and recognitions

School of Engineering and Applied Science HighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor

Deborah Beyers, NSG

Kumar Singh, MME

Jerome Luczaj, CIT

Steven Keller, CPE

(tenure only)

Keith Frikken, CSE

Andrew Sommers

Assistant Professor

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Arthur Olson Generational Teaching

Excellence Award

Amit ShuklaAssociate Professor

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

SEAS Outstanding Research Award

Distinguished Teaching Award forExcellence in Graduate Instruction & Mentoring

Valerie Cross, Associate Professor

Computer Science & Software Engineering

Faculty Professional Leadership

Anna Dollar, Professor, MME

Chair, Mechanics Division of ASEE

Vipul Ranatunga, Assoc. Professor, ENT

Chair, Emerging Technologies Division,

Amer. Composites Soc.

Ann Sobel, Assoc. Professor, CSE

Associate Editor for IEEE Computer

Alumnus in the spotlight

School of Engineering and Applied Science HighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

C. Michael Gooden – MU National Trustee

• BS, Systems Analysis, Miami Un. MS, Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.

• In 1993, he was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from Miami

• Michael Gooden, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Integrated Systems Analysts, Inc., was named a new national trustee by Miami’s Board of Trustees

C. Michael Gooden

Undergraduate education

School of Engineering and Applied Science HighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

New programs

• BS in Information Technology with a major in Health Information Technology approved by the Ohio Board of Regents and available as a major in January 2012

• A proposal for a new +2 BS program in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology developed and approved

• Bioengineering minor created

• Certificate program in Paper Science and Engineering developed

Curriculum

• Bioengineering Major in its 2nd year – significant revision of the curriculum undertaken, 143 students enrolled this fall

• 16 new courses created and five significantly modified

• First–year experience of SEAS students: successful launch of revised EAS 101 (Computing, Engineering and Society) and transition to department-based EAS 102 (Problem Solving and Design)

• NSG Associate Degree curriculum offered for the last time

Graduate programs and faculty scholarship

School of Engineering and Applied Science HighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

Graduate curriculum

• All SEAS MS programs: non-thesis tracks created; 4+1 BS/MS programs developed and approved

• Graduate Council undertook work on revising MS in CS&E core requirements and significant curriculum changes

• Assessment plans developed for all SEAS MS programs

Graduate Enrollment

Fall 2007

Fall 2009 Fall 2012

Enrollment

33 44 61

Research Assistants

5 n/a 23

Credit Hours

356 426 n/a

PublicationsCalendar year 2011 – Oxford campus

Peer-reviewed journals

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

CSE4 22

CPE10 -

ECE14 31

MME15 19

Total 43 72

PublicationsCalendar year 2011 – regionals

Peer-reviewed journals

Peer-reviewed Conference proceedings

CIT5 11

ENT1 4

NSG4 19

Total 10 34

Implementation of SEAS 2009-2013 strategic plan

School of Engineering and Applied Science HighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

SEAS 2009-13 strategic priorities

Focus on:

• Recruitment

• Experiential learning

• Undergraduate research

• Global presence

Student Enrollment (Oxford)

TermNumber of students

Fall 2007 799

Fall 2008 856

Fall 2009 923

Fall 2010 1036

Fall 2011 1125

Fall 2012 1290

CIT Enrollment

Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

CIT 43 65 76 86 100

CT 19 16 28 23 19

HIT - - - - 80

Total 62 81 104 109 199

Experiential learning

Exit interviews (April 2012)

Category

% of students reporting experienc

e

Internships/co-ops 59

Undergraduate research 39

Service learning 28

Professional organizations 42

Professional training 35

Global experience (Oxford)

Study abroad

2005 2007 2009 2011

SEAS 7% 24% 27% 28%

MU 32% 37% 42% 41%

Study abroad

MU CAS SEAS SEHS FSB SCA

2011 41% 42% 28% 28% 55% 46%

Global experience at regionals:CIT in the spotlight

• CIT/CSE 262: Technology, Ethics and Global Society includes discussion of global implications

• CIT 358 has a weekly “current events in computer

security” component, frequently global in nature

• Lizz Howard spent the fall 2011 semester in Luxembourg and will incorporate her experiences into the entire curriculum as well as into CIT 448 Global and Strategic Issues in Information Technology

Interdisciplinary endeavors

School of Engineering and Applied Science HighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

A sampling of our faculty involvement

• Huge Immersive Virtual Environment (HIVE) – a joint project between CSE (Eric Bachman) and the Department of Psychology (supported by a $1.2M NSF grant)

• Mobile Learning Center led by Jerry Gannod (CSE) – a joint venture between SEAS, AIMS, IT ($156k in funding)

More on M-learning Center at 9:40am

A sampling of our faculty involvement

• Michael Bailey–Van Kuren (MME) – versatile involvement in AIMS and Miami Design Collaborative

• Cathy Almquist (CPE) – faculty affiliate in the Institute for the Environment & Sustainability

• Continued research collaborations with Math, Physics, Chemistry, Psychology, Speech Pathology involving a dozen or so SEAS faculty

External activities

School of Engineering and Applied Science HighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

Development and alumni relations

• SEAS Director of Development hired in January after a 14-month long hiatus

• SEAS Corporate Advancement Team convened with the goal of developing corporate advancement strategy

• Stronger ties with GE Aviation, NASA Glenn, American Axle and Manufacturing established

• Increased presence on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,

Flickr, and Vimeo • Successful CSE Alumni Conference and CIT Forum

Lockheed Martin Leadership Institute

School of Engineering & Applied ScienceHighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

Lockheed Martin Leadership Institute

• Louise Morman selected as Executive Director

• Successful launch event with Lockheed Martin Execs

• Keynote presentation by Dr. Ray O Johnson and student discussion sessions

• Mr. Wilcox – LM VP for Engineering; SEAS commencement speaker

More at 10:40

Off to a great start!

Difficult discussions

School of Engineering & Applied ScienceHighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

Difficult discussions

• SEAS modus operandi: “One school on three campuses” under intense discussions in light of University-wide discussions on the future of regional campuses (more to come)

• Decentralized SEAS IT support in place despite attempts to the contrary

Our students in the spotlight

School of Engineering and Applied Science HighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

Provost’s Student Academic Achievement Award

In the last five years, 13 awards for SEAS (out of 57 at MU)

Choolwe M. Mandona, Chemical Engineering

Jamie T. Morton, Computer Science &

Mathematics

Louis received the Award for his local, regional, and national contributions to the Sexually Transmitted Infections and Pregnancy Prevention program in teenagers

Louis Nicholson, 2012, Nursing and Sociology

President’s Distinguished Service Award

MS CSE Student – 2d place paper at IEEE international conference

• Brian presented his paper at the IEEE International Conference

• All of his competitors were PhD students and first place went to a 5th year doctoral candidate

• Dmitriy Garmatyuk - advisor.

“Target Scene Reconstruction in Indoor Environmentwith Cognitive OFDM Radar”

Brian Jameson, ECE graduate, first-year MSCSE grad student

Team Red Blade

• Team Red Blade, led by Jade Morton, competed in Miami’s 2011- 2012 Technology Development Challenge and won

 

2nd place win at ION’s Robotic lawn mower competition

2nd place win at ION’s Robotic snow plow competition

MME Students at NASAKennedy Space Center in Florida

• The competition was in the on-site mining category of the third annual Lunabotics Mining Competition. Michael Bailey-Van Kuren was their advisor.

• The competition challenges university students to build machines that can collect soil such as the material found on the moon.

MME students placed sixth out of 57 U.S. and international undergraduate and graduate teams

A sampling of undergraduate student research and projects (for details see SEAS Home Page: MY SEAS tab)

School of Engineering & Applied ScienceHighlightsAcademic Year 2011-12

Augmented Reality Research

Matt Hodges demonstrators the ShelvAR Android App

The purpose of this App is to assist in the sorting of library books by indicating which books are not in the correct position, and which direction on the shelf they need to be moved. Bo Brinkman and Matt attended “Posters on the Hill” in Washington, DC where they spoke about their research

ShelvAR – Faculty & UG working together

Bo talked with senior US Senator Sherrod Brown about augmented reality research

Solar Cell Research

• She helped to develop a “small scale working semi-transparent solar cell,” which will automatically change the tinting of the window throughout the day

• Her time was spent at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland with the Photovoltaic and Power Technologies Branch

• An article about her research was published in the OSPE “Ohio Engineer” in October 2011

Lyndsey McMillon – NASA Intern

ENT Senior Design Project

• The team installed a Fanuc M710i robot into the assembly process at the Duramax diesel engine manufacturing facility, DMAX Ltd in Moraine, OH

• The solution they provided to DMAX Ltd will be used for many years in their production of their “World Class Diesel Engine”

Integration of robot into manufacturing process

Students: Todd Wright, Miguel Rojo, and Timothy Bulcher. Gary Drigel was the team advisor.

American Red Cross Nurse Badge project

• In cooperation with the American Red Cross (ARC) Chief Nurse, a group of CSE majors created a badge database and web portal application (Doug Troy – adviser)

• From Dr. Sharon Stanley, Chief Nurse, ARC:

“THANK YOU so much for your efforts to reinstate tracking for Red Cross nurse badges.  This project is near and dear to every Red Cross nurse’s heart and you have made a real difference in saving a part of the Red Cross Nurse legacy”

Capstone team members present their poster at Speed Geeking 2012, during the CSE alumni conference

Engineers without Borders

• Travelled to Ecuador in March to begin a program to improve the quantity and quality of the community’s water         

• Identified problems relating to contamination, shortage and transportation of water

• Will return to Ecuador in December for the implementation phase of their proposed solution

MU EWB team

Project High Flight

• Bob Setlock and four students from varying SEAS disciplines traveled to Wallops Island, Virginia this summer for NASA’s RockOn workshop.

• Over the course of four days, these students constructed two scientific payloads from scratch.

• On June 21, 2012, these payloads were launched into space on a NASA sounding rocket to take measurements during sub-orbital flights.

NASA – RockOn workshop

Naming ceremony September 19, 2012

Dr. James C. Garland Hall

The central section

of the School of Engineering

and Applied Science Building

named in honor of

Dr. Garland (Miami President, 1996 – 2006)

SEAS priorities in AY 2012 - 13

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Undergraduate curriculum

• +2 BS program in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology - seek SEAS and university approval, prepare for implementation

• Bioengineering – mentor new faculty, enhance laboratory infrastructure, implement curricular changes, nurture new student chapter of BMES, engage new CPE Advisory Council

• SEAS First Year Experience - finalize transition to the new model of student engagement

• Engineering Management - develop a long-term plan to retain, enhance, and coordinate viable EGM tracks

Graduate programs

• Implement and market non-thesis tracks and 4+1 programs

• Revise and implement core requirements and course offerings in MS in CS&E

• Develop MS in NSG program with clinical and non-clinical tracks

Other priorities

• University-wide dialogue on Global Miami Plan – advocate changes in math, formal reasoning and technology area

• Global presence – develop and implement an aggressive international agenda; increase the number of students studying abroad: from 28% in 2010/11 to 40% in 2014/15

• New university calendar - prepare for implementation

Other priorities

• Public relation issues - increase SEAS visibility by

engaging external company 160 over 90 and University Communications, and by capitalizing on the establishment of the Leadership Institute and M-learning Center

• SEAS Corporate Advancement Team - finalize and implement corporate advancement strategy

• University Scholars incentive - develop a program aimed at attracting more high-achieving students

Oxford recruitment Three-year goal

Goal 2012/13 2015/16

Increase the number of applications 2,486 2,650

Increase the academic profile of student body by lowering the admission rate

1,817 (73%) 1,650 (62%)

Increase the yield rate – sustain the number of first year students

398 (22%) 398 (24%)

Regional campuses

• sustain and even enhance collaboration between Oxford and regional departments before their transfer to the new division

session at 1:00pm

Context: MU Board of Trustees Resolution, April 27, 2012 • creation of a new division the regional campuses• formation of an implementation committee that

will……coordinate with the University Senate in transferring existing programs and departments located in the regional campuses to the new division

Budgetary challenges and opportunities

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Budgetary matters

• Execute permanent cut of SEAS FY ‘14 budget to the tune of $283,000

• Prepare for implementation of responsibility-center management financial model in FY ‘14

• New revenue opportunities: finalize SEAS revenue enhancing initiatives planning and start implementation phase in the summer of 2013 and, particularly, during the winter session in 2014 (more on one such initiative at 10:25am)

• Seek Board of Trustees’ approval for the implementation of SEAS fee

SEAS fee proposal

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Changes in the numbers of SEAS students and faculty, 2007 -2012

First year students

All students Faculty  

S/F ratio

2007 

234 799 45 18

2008 

276 856 45 19

2009 

231 923 44 21

2010 

319 1036 44 24

2011 

346 1125 42 27

2012 

420 1290 43 30

% change since 2007

80% 61%  -4% 67%

SEAS (Oxford) budget

Fiscal Year Budget in million $

2009 9.5

2013 8.9

2015projected – w/o RCM

8.5

Laboratory and computer equipment allocation for SEAS

Fiscal year Amount ($)2008 123,0252009 114,8602010 64,7002011 55,3702012 72,000

SEAS fee proposal

• $300 per semester fee for all School of Engineering and Applied Science undergraduate students beginning in the fall 2013 semester

• The implementation of the SEAS fee will generate, in its steady state, approximately $800,000 per year ($600 per academic year x 1325 SEAS students).

SEAS fee proposal• The fee is vital in allowing SEAS to hire new faculty

members and to maintain and continuously modernize aging computer and laboratory facilities.

• Preliminary plans for allocation of SES fee revenues

Category Amount6 new faculty members (salaries and benefits)

$650,000

Computer and laboratory facilities

$150,000

Engineering fees at Ohio public institutions

Institution Semester cost Credit Hour cost

Toledo $580 $36

Ohio State $540 $34

Cincinnati $504 $32

Miami $300 $19

Cleveland State $272 $17

Youngstown State $252 $16

Akron $240 $15

Wright State $150 $9

Ohio $97 $6

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