Dean’s Report

BU ECS Board of Advocates

Friday, April 28, 2006

Today’s Agenda

Sessions/Reports- 3 Carry-over– Global/Communication/Business in curriculum– Retention thread (guest)– Marketing thread (guest)

Leadership students (guests) Board Session Engineering Senior Design (guests) Wrap up

Dean’s Report

ACM ICPC World Finals success

ABET EAC accreditation update (& SACS)

ECS Career Fair

Dean’s leadership education

Facilities needs report

Faculty/Student/Staff happenings

Advocate Board Scholarship

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The 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finalswith the Baylor Bear Touch!

BRIEFINGpresented toThe ECS Board of Advocates

byDr. William B. Poucher, Ph.D., ACM FellowBaylor Professor of Computer ScienceICPC Executive Director

14 October 2005Baylor University

ICPC Champions Mr. Shawn Sedate- HEB

Liaison Dr. Bill Poucher- Executive

Director Ms. Marsha Poucher-

UCPC Manager Dr. Don Gaitros- Contest

Director Mr. Pat Hynan- Host

Operations Ms. Leigh Ann Marshall-

BU Public Relations Dr. Jeff Donahoo-

Headquarter Services

Dr. Larry Johnson- Chief Wrangler Washer

Prof Cindy Fry- Volunteer Coordination

Dr. David Sturgill- Host Java Challenge Coord

Prof Bill Booth- Compet-itive Learning Workshop

Dr. Amanda Sturgill- Host Activities Chair

Dr. Mike Korpi- Digital Media Team Producer

Dr. Ben Kelley- Steering Committee Chair

ABET EAC Update (& SACS)

Preparation/Assessment continuous– Rationale for Fall departmental breakouts

Peer-Evaluation team visits Fall 2006 Self-Study report due 30-June-06

– Describe programs; BU & ECS details– Assess according to a-k & PEOs

4 primary authors; 100% faculty involved On track, yet time consuming

Last visit Fall 2001; Three programs evaluated: ECE, ME, EGR

Wed, 15-Feb-06 in Science Building Atrium

– Day after BU Career Fair (Ferrell Center)

– 19 Industry recruiters

– Next event- 8-Feb-07

– Refine preparation

– Later hours

– Grow size & selectivity

Science Engineering Technology Career Fair

Dean’s Leadership Training

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People– Fall-Winter 2005

Harvard Institute for Management and Leadership in Education– 2 weeks on site (June 17-29)– How well-positioned is my organization to meet

current and future challenges?– How effective is my own leadership?

Mentioned at Fall ’05 Board meeting

Facilities Expansion/Needs

Space limits affecting performance Expansion plans back to 1998 Internal space recovery helped

– ECS occupies 70% of 3rd floor

Faculty/staff committee brought to Fall ’05 Advocate Board meeting

Report completed Jan 2006– Noted need for faculty, research space & classrooms

Continued from Fall ’05 Board meeting

Identified Space Challenges

Function Space (ft2)

Classrooms 3,500

Offices & research space

15,250

Teaching/Research labs 17,500

Other 7,500

Shell/Future 20,000

Common areas (25%) 15,950

Useable space needs 79,700 (Rogers Building) (60,000)

By the Faculty/Staff Committee (Jordan, Marshall, Maurer, Thornton) plus Kelley

Facilities- next steps

Insert into BU hopper

– Load into project-request system

– Sell to administration (as settles in) Upper administration & Regents Development arm

– Architectural detail and costing

– Initiate fund-raising campaign

Faculty/Student/Staff

Team wins ASME design event

Speegle & Van Treuren promoted

Business plan won

ASEE Best paper

Teams back to Kenya

Grants submitted, funded, and planned

Budget resurrection

Student demand remains high

Eunjee Song joining CS faculty (?)

Agenda for fall retreat– T&P refine, software

engr, adm standards

Farison ASEE Fellow

For BU, new President/CEO and Provost/EVP

ECS Board of Advocates Endowed Scholarship

Book Value: $34,708.38

Market Value: $46,791.40