Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Overview

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Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartmental
Overview

• Prof. Mark E. Law
• Department of Electrical and Computer Eng.

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Outline

• Agenda
• State of the Department
• Faculty
• Graduate
• Undergraduate
• Campaign
• Conclusions

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Agenda Thursday

• 1130 100 Lunch, Introductions, State of the
  Department Law
• 100 230 Undergraduate Program Issues
• 100 ABET Review Results and Process Law
• 130 Counseling Assistants Law
• 145 IPPD Eisenstadt
• 200 ECE Seminar Jordan
• 215 ECE Adventures Arroyo / Schwartz
• 230 245 Break
• 245 345 Research Overviews
• NSF Reconfigurable Computing Center Alan
  George
• NIH Neural Recording Implant Harris
• NSF Entrepreneurship Harris
• 400 530 Senior Design Poster / Demos
  Rotunda Area
• 630 Dinner at Hilton Hotel

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Agenda Friday

• 800 830 Continental Breakfast
• 830 930 Capital Campaign Maltbie
• 930 1000 Break
• 1000 1100 Graduate Student Panel QA
• 1100 1230 Research Posters - NEB
• 1230 200 Wrap-Up and Feedback

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US News Rankings

• Beauty Contest at the department level
• 31st Best Graduate Program in US News (2007) Down
  2 from 2006
• Unranked Undergrad, same as 2005

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ECE Faculty

• Faculty
• 42 Tenure Track Faculty and 5 Lecturers
• 14 IEEE Fellows
• 13 Assistant Professors, 14 untenured
• Relatively Young

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Recent Faculty Honors

• Dr. Liuqing Yang received ONR Young Investigator
  Award
• Dr. Dapeng Wu received NSF Career Award
• Drs. Rakov and Principe selected as a UF Research
  Foundation Professors.
• Dr. Mark Law receives SRC Aristotle Award
• Dr. Jenshan Lin received Walter Cox award for
  service to IEEE MTT Society
• Dr. Scott Thompson named IEEE Fellow

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Recent Faculty Press

• Dr. Martin Uman, Lightning and Climate Change,
  New York Times
• Dr. Martin Uman and Dr. Vladimir Rakov,
  "Engineers are first to measure lightning-caused
  polluting gas
• Dr. Alan George, National Science Foundation
  Research Center Launched at UF
• Dr. Alan George, New NSF Center Targets
  Reconfigurable Computing, HPCwire
• Dr. Alan George, UF, Honeywell engineers building
  first space supercomputer
• Dr. Jenshan Lin, For the future hydrogen economy,
  a tiny, self-powered sensorDr. Vladimir Rakov,
  Lightning Sparks Interest at Capitol Hill
  Educational Luncheon
• Dr. W. Eisenstadt, University's Sensor Gets Fresh
  with Pharmaceuticals and Other Goods, Electronic
  Design
• Dr. Karl Gugel, New Student-Design System Tracks
  Firefighters, Special Forces, April 13, 2006

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Hiring Plans and Recruitment

• Target 50 faculty (nearly ten in real growth)
• Lost 2 Faculty last year
• No New Hires in 05/06
• 06/07 Search
• Hired Rob Moore - Atmospheric Electricity
• Offers to 3 More

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Strategic Goals - ECE

• Goal was to double Ph.D.s
• Project Steady State in the mid 30s

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ECE Research Metrics
Expenditures (M)
Awards are up, but expenditures are down
Publications Very Rapid Growth
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Strategic Goals - ECE

• Funding Metric on Ph.D.s - Achieved 05/06
• Support approximately 200 to 240 Ph.D. students
• 10 - 13M / year in external research
  expenditures
• Publications Metric on Ph.D. - Achieved 05/06
• 120 to 150 journal pubs / year (0.6 / year /
  Ph.D. student)
• 200 to 240 conference pubs / year (1 / year /
  Ph.D. student)
• Consistent with recruitment of 50 Ph.D. students
  / year

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Publication Quality

• Classify publication quality
• Benefit junior faculty
• Allow us to present better cases to college,
  provost
• Strengthen our Evaluation
• Tier Conferences and Journals - 3 tiers
• Top Tier
• Selective, High Impact, Wide Recognition as
  best in a field
• Mid Tier
• Less Selective, Moderate Impact, Good
  Conference
• Low Tier
• Accepts almost all, good for student development,
  Workshop flavor

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Publication Quality

• Goal to have in place by end of summer
• 1st Pass Guidelines on definitions
• 2nd Pass Sample publications in each area / each
  tier
• 3rd Pass Develop more detail and pub lists
• Looking for volunteers to help in this process

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Number of Students

• Declines in Undergrad
• Slow recovery in grad
• More Later

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Grad Applicants, Admission, Enrollment

• Incoming class recovered
• Achievement Awards
• Fall 2007 to date
• Over 1500 Applicants
• Made 89 offers
• 150 Achievement Awards Offers
• More AAs to come
• Project need 150 students
• Difficulty Recruiting US

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Graduation Rates

• Need a class of 150 to stay even for Fall 07
• Applications are up, cautiously optimistic

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Grad Student Stipend

• Living Estimate for Gainesville 10,500
• 20 of student stipends are below living costs
• Average is now 13,200
• Up about 10 from last year
• Graduate Student Panel - Tomorrow

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Changes

• Recruiting Grad Students
• Prof. John Harris, Recruiting Coordinator
• Catherine Sembajwe-Reeves, Recruiting Director
• Active Committee
• Alumni Fellows - increase from 14 to 23
• TAs

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Graduate Student Organization

• Active this year
• Passed a faculty etiquette guidelines
• Clarify what students should do
• Clarify student expectations
• No free labor
• Funding Expectations Clear
• Publish CG monthly, rather than annually

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Undergrad Retention / Recruiting

• National Problem
• Enrollment is down in EE, CprE
• Shift to Mechanical
• Retention is poor in the discipline
• Locally
• Half has been in CprE
• Hardware down to 60 students
• Software (CISE) down from 800 to 300
• We have no control over admissions

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Impacts

• SCHs - summer budget, raise pool
• Could hurt our budget outright
• Leader in improving will help our rankings
• Important to the state mission
• Lose higher admission standards
• Exceptional High School Students
• UCF, USF get lower quality freshmen (on average)
  and do fine

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Problems

• Science and Math Based Curriculum for Engineering
• Lose a lot of students in the first two years
• No engineering curriculum
• Diversity is bad
• White, male undergrad body (ok with hispanics)
• Female undergrad percentage is decreasing
• Perceived as difficult
• C requirement in math and physics
• Weed out in 3111 / 3135
• 12th Century Teaching Methods

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Lots of National Research

• Entry Level Courses
• Project Based Approaches
• Team Learning, Alternatives to Lecture
• More hands-on, less theory
• We can make use of these concepts
• I think we need to begin to seriously adapt new
  strategies in entry level classes first two years

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Examples

• Project Based Learning
• Center Circuits I course design and build
• Team Based / New Lecture Models
• Portable Lab
• Students dont have traditional lab
• Students have 24/7 hour lab access
• In class experiments and experience

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Initiatives in Place

• Freshmen / Sophomore Classes
• IEEE / HKN for Outreach
• Freshmen Seminars (Two new courses - more later)
• Improved Starting Sequence
• ECE Analysis Course
• Signals and Systems Coupled
• New Student Groups
• Audio Engineering Society
• Women in ECE
• Counseling Associates (more later)

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ABET

• Both CprE and EE got a clean bill of health
• Arduous Process - more later

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Publication Quality

• Classify publication quality
• Benefit junior faculty
• Allow us to present better cases to college,
  provost
• Strengthen our Evaluation
• Tier Conferences and Journals - 3 tiers
• Top Tier
• Selective, High Impact, Wide Recognition as
  best in a field
• Mid Tier
• Less Selective, Moderate Impact, Good
  Conference
• Low Tier
• Accepts almost all, good for student development,
  Workshop flavor

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Publication Quality

• Goal to have in place by end of summer
• 1st Pass Guidelines on definitions
• 2nd Pass Sample publications in each area / each
  tier
• 3rd Pass Develop more detail and pub lists
• Looking for volunteers to help in this process

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Capital Campaign

• Goals
• Grow and Support Ph.D. Production
• Retain and Recruit Top Faculty
• Provide opportunity to top students
• Opportunity to make a difference through the
  Campaign

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Department Foundation Cash Income

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Department Foundation Expenditures

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Department Foundation Balance

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Conclusions

• Hit initial research goals - maintain and grow
• Challenged with enrollment
• Recruit harder, more effectively
• Raise stipends to competitive levels
• Developing Quality Metrics

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Action Items for Meeting

• Campaign Plans (Tomorrow)
• Feedback on Undergraduate Initiatives
• Feedback on Research / Graduate Programs