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College of Engineering Annual Report to IIHR
Advisory Board 16 April, 2004
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• Outline of Presentation
• Noteworthy News
• How Were Doing
• Budget Summary
• Challenges and Opportunities
• Questions and Comments

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Noteworthy News
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New Initiative - Ethnic Inclusion Efforts for
Iowa Engineering
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• Active Involvement in Inclusion-Based Programs
• Students, Faculty, Staff Need to Understand
  Diversity Issues and Embrace Diversity
• Iowa Pipeline Development , SECME
• Iowa activity WISE, AISES, SACNAS, NSBE, SHPE,
  SWE, others
• Iowa targeted programs NSF AGEP, DOEd GAANN, GEM
• Directed by Victor Rodgers

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• New CoE Research Initiative
• Biomedical Imaging and Image Analysis
• Vision Make biomedical imaging and image
  analysis a nationally-recognized research program
  in the College and an integral component of any
  campus-wide initiative
• Coordinator Milan Sonka

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New NSF ERC - Center for Environmentally
Beneficial Catalysis
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Lead by Karim A. Malek
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New Program Idea Incubator
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• Goal facilitate focused, strategic, and
  forward-looking discussions of future research
  directions and opportunities

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• Iowa Pollution Prevention Intern Program
• Included seven UI Engineering interns this year
• CNH-Case, Burlington (Environmental)
• Dial Corp., Ft. Madison (Mechanical)
• DuPont Inc., Ft. Madison (Chemical)
• Midwest Industries, Inc. Ida Grove (Industrial)
• Penford Products, Cedar Rapids (Electrical and
  Computer)
• Quaker Oats, Cedar Rapids (Environmental)
• Tone Brothers, Inc., Ankeny (Industrial)

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• International Engineering Service Program
• Internship for students
• Environmentally and economically sustainable
  engineering projects
• Develop long-term plan to improve infrastructure
  of drinking water and waste management systems in
  Xicotepec, Mexico
• Develop engineering graduates with sense of
  international responsibility and personal skills
  to work on a multidisciplinary team
• On-campus component, January-May, one-week site
  visit, March

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Awards and Recognition
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• Named Chairs, Professors and Faculty Fellows
• Larry Weber
• Donald E. Bently Faculty Fellowship
• John Lee
• Donald E. Bently Faculty Fellowship
• Kyung K. Choi
• Carver Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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• Collegiate and UI Faculty Awards
• John Lee and H.S. Udaykumar
• College Teaching Awards
• Christoph Beckermann
• College Service Award
• Kyung K. Choi
• College Research Award
• Bill Eichinger
• M.L. Huit Faculty Award

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• National Recognition
• Witold Krajewski
• AMS Fellow
• AGU Fellow
• Jasbir Arora
• ASME Fellow
• Er-Wei Bai and Ge Wang
• IEEE Fellow
• David Forkenbrock
• AICP Fellow

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• Student Awards and Recognition
• Hellen Fuller (BME)
• Hancher-Finkbine Medallion
• 7 Seniors
• NSF Graduate Fellows
• Karen Reed (BME)
• Clinical Biomechanics Award
• Mohammad Obadat (CEE)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

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• Staff Awards and Recognition
• Anton Kruger (IIHR)
• College Staff Research Award
• Marian Muste (IIHR)
• Senior Scholar Fulbright Award

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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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Tier1
Expenditures 27.5M (Strategic Goal24M!)
Tier2
FY03
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SP Target --Application
SP Target --Awards
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FY-03 Research Expenditures (CoE)27.5 Million
Total335 K/faculty (up 17)
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Budget Summary
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FY-03 Source of Funds (CoE) 39.2 Million(up
12)
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Source of Funds (CoE) - Annual Trends
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GEF Expenditures (CoE) - Annual Trends
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FY-03 GEF Expenditures
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• Budget Realities
• State Support
• State support for public institutions is
  declining nationwide
• Not likely to return to old funding model
• University Support
• Colleges that adjust to new funding model will
  prosper over time
• Enrollment is getting closer scrutiny
• Must be prepared for RCM
• Provosts Tuition Task Force

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• Budget Realities
• Resource Management Committee
• Chandran (Chair), Ettema, Carmichael, Wiencek,
  Andersen
• Must be proactive in defining new resource
  management model that
• Continues high quality academic programs
• Stimulates growth of college
• Makes us less dependent on state resources
• Optimizes use of existing resources

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External Fund Raising
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• Development Support
• Comprehensive Campaign
• Engineering goal 42.9 million (73 to date)
• Students, faculty and programs of national
  distinction
• Campaign goals support Colleges Strategic Plan
• CY-03 Summary
• Outright gifts and future commitments (5.3 M)
• Number of gifts (2,063)
• CTC Endowment (Tom and Nancy Hanson)

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Challenges and Opportunities
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Asset - Top Faculty Staff
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• 20 of faculty are fellows of societies
• 15 of faculty hold special professorships
• 15 of faculty have received NSF PECASE and
  CAREER awards
• Faculty providing interdisciplinary leadership
• Editors and/or editorial board members on gt 60
  journals

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Asset - First Class Facilities
gt 15 facilities
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• Asset - Outstanding Undergraduate Students
• One who thinks and learns outside the box,
  interested in liberal arts, law, business, and
  health sciences
• Top 20th percentile in high school class rank
• Top 10th percentile in ACT score
• High verbal scores
• High math scores
• 74 male, 26 female

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Asset - Success in Graduate Student Recruitment
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• Nine UI Engineering Students Won NSF Graduate
  Fellowships
• Active in NIH and USDA Training programs through
  CBCB

This years CBE graduate student recruitment
class seven have fellowships!!
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• Challenges and Opportunities
• Space
• Resources (Start-up, etc.)
• Reward for faculty and staff
• Aligning and enhancing our graduate programs to
  reflect interdisciplinary nature of our research
• Staying competitive managing risk
• Outreach
• State
• Industry
• Etc.

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• Challenges and Opportunities
• Graduate Programs and Research
• 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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• Questions and Comments ?