Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI

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Purdue School of Engineering and Technology,
IUPUI

• Deans Industrial Advisory Council
• June 7, 2007

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Agenda

• Meeting Convened
• Introduction of New Member
• Update on Joint Board of Advisors Retreat
• Department Overviews of Research Activity
• Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research
  Institute (MURI)
• Subcommittee Meetings
• Subcommittee Reports
• Wrap-Up

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Introduction of New Member

• John Haarlow
• Vice President, Power Delivery, Indianapolis
  Power and Light Company

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Joint Board of Advisors Meeting

• Innovation and Diversity in a Global Economy
• Friday, September 14, 1200 pm 500 p.m.
  Rolls-Royce Training Center
• Similar format to previous years
• Poster Session with Students and Faculty
• Keynote Presentation Uday Sukhatme, Executive
  Vice Chancellor and Dean of Faculties invited
• Dr. Eugene White, Superintendent, Indianapolis
  Public Schools invited
• Bruce Parkinson, Director of Human Resources,
  Delphi Corporation confirmed
• Student Presentations
• Panel presentation on Innovation in IT
  (highlighting successful university/industry
  collaborative effort with commercialization,
  etc.)

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Deans Report

• June 7, 2007 DIAC Meeting

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School Update

• Enrollment
• Both credit hours and headcount are slightly more
  as compared to June 2006 numbers
• Number of admitted students increased by 32
• Expecting a surge of international student
  registration in August
• Students from Saudi Arabia for engineering and
  ECET programs
• Students from Canada for CEMT and MS Technology
  programs
• Students from Iran for engineering programs

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School Update -2

• Budget
• Reduced student credit hour projection for
  2007-08 from 44,000 to 42,000
• Eliminated three faculty positions from 2006-07
  base budget
• Used the salary raises and indirect cost recovery
  funds from grants and contracts to balance the
  budget
• Our school assessment (taxes) increased
• We project only 0.5-0.9 raise for the base
  salaries and some one time cash bonuses

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School Update -3

• Action Groups
• Fifteen faculty/staff groups were charged with
  specific tasks during spring 2007
• DIAC members, alumni, and students were included
  in the groups
• Reports were submitted by March 31, 2007
• Implementations
• Marketing
• Industrial relations
• Grants and contracts process improvements
• Realignment of programs

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School Update -4

• Realignment and reorganization
• Four of the fifteen groups worked on realignment
  issues
• Freshman technology unit created similar to
  freshman engineering unit to improve academic
  advising and retention
• Combined five technology departments and two
  academic programs into three large technology
  departments
• ABET accredited engineering technology programs
• Design and communication technology programs
• Computer and information technology.
  Organizational leadership and supervision

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School Update -5

• New and continuing initiatives
• IU/HBCU program
• I-STEM by Biocrossroads
• Pathways to Engineering with IPS
• Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy
  (LCRE)
• Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI)
• Motorsports curricula development
• IUPUI Center for Innovation

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Department Research Overviews
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Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research
Institute (MURI)

• Hasan Akay, Chancellors Professor and Chair,
  Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Subcommittee Meetings

• DIAC Education and Awareness
• Health and Life Sciences
• Industry Resources and Programs
• Research

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Subcommittee Reports

• DIAC Education and Awareness
• Health and Life Sciences
• Industry Resources and Programs
• Research

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Wrap-UpImportant Dates

• Please place on your calendars
• September 14, 2007 Joint Board of Advisors
  Retreat, Rolls-Royce Training Center, 1200 p.m.
  500 p.m.
• September 21, 2007 ET Alumni Association Golf
  Classic, 1200 p.m., Saddlebrook Golf Course
• December 6, 2007 DIAC Meeting, Walker Plaza,
  330 630 p.m.