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%) 15,950Useable 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