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College of Engineering Annual Report to Faculty
and Staff 29 October, 2002
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• Outline of Presentation
• Noteworthy News
• How Were Doing
• Budget Summary
• Challenges and Opportunities
• Audience Feedback

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Noteworthy News
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• New Faculty
• Zhiqiang Liu (ECE)
• Research Interests Wireless Communication,
  Space-Time Coding, Multi-carrier Transmission
  Techniques, and Channel Estimation and
  Equalization

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• New Faculty
• Linda Boyle (MIE and Public Policy Center)
• Research Interests Modeling driver behavior
  user acceptance of new technology commercial
  vehicle operations and transportation safety

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• New Faculty
• James Schmiedeler (MIE and CCAD)
• Research Interests Mobile robots, legged
  locomotion, biomechanics, design of robotics
  systems

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• New Faculty
• Allan Guymon (CBE)
• Research Interests Polymer Reaction Engineering
  UV Curable Coatings Polymer/Liquid Crystal
  Composites Controlled Release Templated and
  Ordered Polymerizations

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• New Faculty
• Terry Braun (BME and Ophthalmology Visual
  Sciences)
• Research Interests Genetics, Bioinformatics and
  computational genetics, Macular degeneration

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• New Faculty
• Oguz Poroy (BME and Otolaryngology)
• Research Interests Electrical stimulation of the
  auditory nerve, speech processing strategies for
  cochlear implants

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• New Interdisciplinary Center
• Center for Bioinformatics and Computational
  Biology
• Mission An interdisciplinary center for enabling
  medical and basic life science research, through
  the use of modern computational and engineering
  methods, techniques and technologies
• Director Tom Casavant
• Administrative Oversight Colleges of Medicine
  and Engineering

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• Hydraulics Laboratory Renovation

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Awards and Recognition
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• Named Chairs and Professorships
• Gregory Carmichael
• Karl Kammermeyer Professor of Chemical and
  Biochemical Engineering
• Jasbir Arora
• F. Wendall Miller Distinguished Professor of
  Engineering
• Gene Parkin
• Donald E. Bently Professor of Engineering

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• Named Chairs and Professorships
• Jerald Schnoor
• Allen S. Henry Chair of Engineering
• Witold Krajewski
• Joseph and Rose Summers Professor of Water
  Resources Engineering

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• Faculty Awards and Recognition
• David Murhammer
• College Teaching Award
• Gregory Carmichael
• College Service Award
• Sudhakar Reddy
• College Research Award

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• Faculty Awards and Recognition
• Julie Jessop
• NSF CAREER Award
• Allan Guymon
• PECASE Award
• Jasbir Arora
• ASME Fellow
• Milan Sonka
• IEEE Fellow
• Christoph Beckermann
• ASME Fellow

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• Faculty Awards and Recognition
• Forrest Holly
• President of International Association of
  Hydraulic Engineering and Research
• Allen Bradley
• ASCE Award for Student Chapter
• Wilf Nixon
• Director, UI Center for Teaching
• Tom Casavant
• Director, Center for Bioinformatics and
  Computational Biology

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• Faculty Awards and Recognition
• Jerald Schnoor
• Editor, Environmental Science and Technology
• Jeffrey Marshall
• Author, Inviscid Compressible Flow
• Gregory Carmichael
• Editor, Atmospheric Modeling

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• Faculty Awards and Recognition
• Sharif Rahman
• Junior Research Prize in Stochastic Fatigue,
  Fracture and Damage Mechanics
• K.K. Choi
• Maurice Simpson Technical Editors Award for
  Design, Test and Evaluation
• Christoph Beckermann
• American Metalcasting Consortium Chairmans Award

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• Student Awards and Recognition
• Kristi Schmitt (IE)
• Hancher-Finkbine Medallion
• Laura Breeher and Karsten Temme (BME, ME)
• NSF Graduate Fellows
• Diane Tran (BME)
• Goldwater Scholar
• Karsten Temme (BME)
• Hancher-Finkbine Student Leader Award

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• Student Awards and Recognition
• Steve Mitchell (ECE)
• Best Student Paper at 2002 Medical Imaging
  Symposium
• Byeng-Dong Youn (ME and CCAD)
• ASME Black and Decker Best Paper Award
• Samsung Thesis Award
• AIChE Student Chapter
• Student Chapter Award 10th straight year

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• Staff Awards and Recognition
• Connie Mutel (IIHR)
• NEH grant to document history of Upper
  Mississippi Valley
• Certificate of Commendation from the American
  Association for State and Local History
• Tatsuaki Nakato (IIHR)
• Manager, Lucille A. Carver MRERS
• Iowa Board of Regents Award for Staff Excellence

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• Staff Awards and Recognition
• Marian Muste (IIHR)
• IAHR Schoemaker Award Outstanding Paper in JHR
• Fellowship from Japan Society for Promotion of
  Science
• Blair Greimann (IIHR)
• IAHR Schoemaker Award Outstanding Paper in JHR

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How Were Doing
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Student Perception of Our Teaching
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Strongly Agree
Moderately Agree
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FY-02 Research Expenditures (CoE)23.5 Million
Total297 K/faculty
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National Trends
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• AY 2000-01 National Trends
• BS Degrees Awarded
• National (up 1.9)
• UI-CoE (no change)
• BS Degrees Awarded to Women
• National (20)
• UI-CoE (24)
• Undergraduate Enrollment
• National (up 4.3)
• UI-CoE (up 5.1)
• PhD Enrollment
• National (up 5)
• UI-CoE (up 10)

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• AY 2000-01 National Trends
• Highest of BS Degrees by Discipline
• National (ECE, 31)
• UI-CoE (ECE, 22)
• Highest of PhD Degrees by Discipline
• National (ECE, 30)
• UI-CoE (ME, 33)
• Women Tenure and Tenure-track Faculty
• National (9)
• UI-CoE (6)
• Research Expenditures ( Federal)
• National (64)
• UI-CoE (64)

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Placement Statistics
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• Placement Statistics
• Average Starting Salary
• BME (49,000)
• CBE (55,750)
• CEE (39,529)
• ECE (52,185)
• IE (46,200)
• ME (50,200)
• Signing Bonuses
• 3,700 average

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Budget Summary
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FY-02 General Education Fund (UI)416 Million
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FY-02 Source of Funds (CoE)35 Million
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Source of Funds (CoE) - Annual Trends
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GEF Expenditures (CoE) - Annual Trends
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• Development Support
• Comprehensive Campaign
• Engineering goal 42.9 million (54 to date)
• Students, faculty and programs of national
  distinction
• Campaign goals support Colleges Strategic Plan
• CY-01 Summary
• Outright gifts and future commitments (5.4 M)
• Number of gifts (1,644)
• Excellent results considering USA economy

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• Endowed faculty positions 12.0 million
• Scholarships/fellowships 5.0 million
• Programs of National Distinction 9.0 million
• Annual sustaining support 5.9 million
• Seamans Center campaign 11.0 million
• Working Goal 42.9 million

The University of Iowa College of Engineering
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Challenges and Opportunities
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• Leadership Transition
• President and Provost
• Associate Dean for Academic Programs
• Director of IIHR
• Director of CCAD
• Dean, College of Medicine

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• Budget Realities
• State Support
• State support for public institutions is
  declining nationwide
• Not likely to return to old funding model
• Colleges that adjust to new funding model will
  prosper over time
• Student-based Revenue
• Surcharge proposal on hold
• Regents to vote at November meeting on computer
  fee
• Enrollment is getting closer scrutiny

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• Budget Realities
• Faculty Hirings
• Must be in support of Colleges Strategic Plan
• Resource sharing is essential
• External Support
• We will continue to work hard at private fund
  raising
• We need your support
• Donors pay close attention to current state of
  affairs in College
• Help sell the College as an organization on the
  move

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• Challenges and Opportunities
• Undergraduate Programs
• Everyone must work on recruitment and retention
• Graduates are viewed by industry as very strong
• Our best people come from UI
• Include global perspective in core?
• Everyone must sell strengths of College

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• Challenges and Opportunities
• Graduate Programs and Research
• Facilities are now very good some of the best
  !!
• New initiatives introduced by Greg Carmichael
• NSF Fellow Program
• Graduate Student Recognition Luncheon
• Interdisciplinary areas have potential for
  tremendous growth
• CBCB, CGRER
• PPC, NADS
• Great partnerships with other units on campus
• Leverage strength of College of Medicine

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• Building Success Requires

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• Questions and Comments ?