Industrial Advisory Board Meeting Friday, Feb' 10, 2006 Rice Conference Room, 6764BH

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Industrial Advisory Board MeetingFriday, Feb.
10, 2006Rice Conference Room, 6764BH
Status Report MAE Graduate Education
Nasr Ghoniem
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Targets and Goals

• Acceptance rate 20-25 .
• PhD/faculty ratio 5
• PhD degrees 0.8
• (per faculty per year)

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Admissions Timeline
January 5th All applications submitted January
16th Information available on MAE website
January 17th Domestic application
preparation. January 30th The Committee reviews
and finalizes admissions. Early February
Fellowship, Ra-ship and TA-ship recommendations
Mid February Domestic fellowship
offers, February 27th Financial support for
international applicants March 1st 5th Final
Decisions.
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• Ranking according to GPA (50) GRE (50) formula
  as a rough cut
• Reject all foreign students, except when support
  is identified
• Look closely at each file for type of offer -
  allow flexibility in tailoring the offer
• Fulfill department obligations to new faculty
  first
• Maximize resource utilization - TAs (19900
  funds) versus Fellows (Grad school Dean Growth
  funds)

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Fall FY05
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Fall FY06
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Fall FY05
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Fall FY06
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Fall FY05
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Fall FY06
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Fall FY05
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Fall FY06
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Fall FY05
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Fall FY06
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Current Enrolled for winter 06 MS 92 Current
Enrolled for winter 06 PhD 111 PhD/
Faculty 3.5 grad/ Faculty 6.4
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2004-05 MAE Fellowship Offers

• 15K Fellowship 12 Offers (Financial
  Package 28,633.00 )
• 15,000.00 Stipend, Registration Fees (1 quarter
  TA.)
• ACCEPTED 6
• 5K Fellowship 27 Offers (Financial
  Package 28,063.00 )
• 5,000.00 Stipend, Registration Fees (3
  quarters TA.)
• ACCEPTED 11
• TA Fellowship 7 Offers (Financial Package
  15,375.34 )
• 2 quarters Registration Fees (2 quarters TA.)_
  ACCEPTED 3
• Faculty Fellowships 12 Offers (Financial
  Package 38,269.88 )
• Stipend equal to RAship, Registration Fees
• and 3 quarters NRT.
• ACCEPTED 7
• Faculty RA Fellowships 8 Offers
• ACCEPTED 2

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FY06 MAE Funds and Cost Offers

• MAE FundsGraduate Division Allocation
  505,500
• HSSEAS Special GSR 165,000Total
  670,500

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A New Approach to Recruitment
Resources 22 Resident GSRs 28 TAs

• Distribute resources evenly amongst faculty
• Ask faculty to recruit top students who are
  assigned to them
• Guarantee a maximum of two years for entering
  students
• Keep 15 TA slots for advanced graduate students