An Introduction toRose-Hulman Institute of

Technology

Rick StamperInterim Dean of the Faculty

November 5, 2012

Prepared for the ABET Visit Team

Total Enrollment:• 2094 undergraduate students• 87 graduate students

Humanities and Social Sciences

Undecided

Chemistry

Math

Physics and Optical Eng.

Civil Eng.

Applied Biology and Biomedical Eng.

Computer Sci. and Software Eng.

Chemical Eng.

Electrical and Computer Eng.

Mechanical Eng.

1

9

28

39

107

160

196

256

289

340

669

Undergraduate Enrollment by Department

Bachelor of Science Degrees: Applied Biology Biochemistry Biomedical Engineering Chemical Engineering Chemistry Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science Economics Electrical Engineering Engineering Physics Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Optical Engineering Physics Software Engineering

Master of Science Degrees: Biomedical Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Engineering Management Mechanical Engineering Optical Engineering Software Engineering

Rose-Hulman’s Mission:

“… to provide our students with the world’s best undergraduate education in engineering, mathematics and science in an environment of individual attention and support.”

Start of School: Opening Day Symposium

Past Speakers:Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent:Engaging Multiple Learning Styles in the Classroom

Norman FortenberryCenter for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education

Karl SmithAdvancing the Practice of Engineering Education

Start of School: Teaching Workshop

Annual 1.5 day workshop in August First activity for new faculty joining Rose-Hulman Fall 2012 Attendees:

18 new faculty 24 established faculty

Start of School: Teaching Workshop Topics in 2012

Who are our students Student Cognitive Development Writing Learning Objectives Classroom Assessment Techniques Writing Exams Learning Styles Active Learning Motivating Our Students Conflict Resolution Feedback: Written and Verbal First Day Fundamentals Developing and Growing as a Teacher and Learner How People Learn

Branam Innovation Center 16,000 ft2 project

space Competition Teams:

EcoCar Rose GPE (Formula SAE) Rose High Efficiency

Vehicle Team Rose Motorsports Concrete Canoe Human Powered Vehicle Robotics Chemical Car

Human Powered Vehicle

Many strong finishes Several awards for innovation, sportsmanship, and

team spirit Hosted the 2010-2011 ASME HPVC East at the

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Rose-Hulman Ventures Industry project

center where students work on engineering projects as a paid intern for client companies

35,000 ft2

14 full-time staff 50-80 students

Clients from 2011Acell

CLM Pallets

Concordance Health Solutions

Cook Inc.

Cook Urological

Cummins

Cyan Optics

Cybermetrix Healthcare

Dow

Emerson Climate Technologies

Exide

FAST Diagnostics

GE

Glas-Col

Hologic

LaKuna

LyGo

Midwest Compliance Labs

MindFrame

NICO

Notre Dame Light Solution

ON Semiconductor

Peerless Pump

Precision Planting

Qi Systems

RosE Portfolio

SCP

Simma Software

Specialty Rims

STIMULUS Engineering

Synergy Health

Thornberry GeoEstimator

Treck

Unlimited Juice

Vextec

Warden Throwing Device

Project Example: NICO

February 2008:• Client approaches Rose-HulmanVentures

with an idea for a medical device to remove brain tumors

Project Example: NICOMarch 2008 (1 month after start):• Prototype completed to explore the concept

Project Example: NICO

June 2008 (4 months after start):• Demonstration prototype completed• 1st cadaveric testing

Project Example: NICO

August 2008 (6 months after start):• Clinical prototype completed• 1st patient treated in November 2008

Project Example: NICO

March 2009 (13 months after start):• Client launches production

Project Example: NICOMarket Reaction:

Project Example: NICOMarket Reaction:

Homework Hotline Provided 13,950 hours of free mathematics

and science tutoring in 2011-12 Total number of calls 11-12: 39,245

Online tutoring sessions 11-12: 1,574

(beginning Jan. 2012)

Busiest time: 7:00-7:29 p.m.

Busiest month: January 2010 (6,695 calls)

Most calls ever answered in an evening: 506

Most frequent questions in 2011-2012:

Math (approx. 82%)

• Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry

Percopo Hall Partnership between the Learning

Center and Student Affairs Six tutors live in Percopo Hall

Approach re-applied to Lakeside Residence Hall that opened in September 2012

Career Services 98% placement for those that graduated in May 2012 92% of AY1112 seniors had at least 1 internship or research experience Top employers of Rose-Hulman graduates:

Caterpillar Cook Medical Cummins Eli Lilly Ford GE Halliburton Interactive Intelligence Microsoft Schlumberger Texas Instruments UOP Honeywell

Average starting salary: $63,694

Career Services

Sports at Rose-Hulman

27 consecutive years with at least one Academic All-American: the longest streak in NCAA Division III and the 6th longest among all US colleges

RHIT has led the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference in Academic All-Conference Student-Athletes every year since 2006.

So far Rose has been what Greg expected and is a great deal of hard work. He is doing well and just as importantly is happy. He and I also love football. We love the strategy of it, the coaching, the sport, playing and everything else about it. However, when I saw Greg this weekend he told me that his coaches were upset with him. We have been communicating regularly and have been following and going to the JV games and Varsity games and thought Greg was playing extremely well. It turned out his coaches were not upset with his playing ability but his calculus grades. As a parent I cannot express to you how important that is to me. Here we have a coach whose full time job is managing football players but has a stronger interest in their academics than there playing ability. The longest conversation Greg has had with his coaches is not about his playing but about his academics. Other schools talk about how academics are always more important than athletics but giving the conflicting interests it does not always work out that way.

So far Rose has been what Greg expected and is a great deal of hard work. He is doing well and just as importantly is happy. He and I also love football. We love the strategy of it, the coaching, the sport, playing and everything else about it. However, when I saw Greg this weekend he told me that his coaches were upset with him. We have been communicating regularly and have been following and going to the JV games and Varsity games and thought Greg was playing extremely well. It turned out his coaches were not upset with his playing ability but his calculus grades. As a parent I cannot express to you how important that is to me. Here we have a coach whose full time job is managing football players but has a stronger interest in their academics than there playing ability. The longest conversation Greg has had with his coaches is not about his playing but about his academics. Other schools talk about how academics are always more important than athletics but giving the conflicting interests it does not always work out that way.

So far Rose has been what Greg expected and is a great deal of hard work. He is doing well and just as importantly is happy. He and I also love football. We love the strategy of it, the coaching, the sport, playing and everything else about it. However, when I saw Greg this weekend he told me that his coaches were upset with him. We have been communicating regularly and have been following and going to the JV games and Varsity games and thought Greg was playing extremely well. It turned out his coaches were not upset with his playing ability but his calculus grades. As a parent I cannot express to you how important that is to me. Here we have a coach whose full time job is managing football players but has a stronger interest in their academics than there playing ability. The longest conversation Greg has had with his coaches is not about his playing but about his academics. Other schools talk about how academics are always more important than athletics but giving the conflicting interests it does not always work out that way.

So far Rose has been what Greg expected and is a great deal of hard work. He is doing well and just as importantly is happy. He and I also love football. We love the strategy of it, the coaching, the sport, playing and everything else about it. However, when I saw Greg this weekend he told me that his coaches were upset with him. We have been communicating regularly and have been following and going to the JV games and Varsity games and thought Greg was playing extremely well. It turned out his coaches were not upset with his playing ability but his calculus grades. As a parent I cannot express to you how important that is to me. Here we have a coach whose full time job is managing football players but has a stronger interest in their academics than there playing ability. The longest conversation Greg has had with his coaches is not about his playing but about his academics. Other schools talk about how academics are always more important than athletics but giving the conflicting interests it does not always work out that way.

So far Rose has been what Greg expected and is a great deal of hard work. He is doing well and just as importantly is happy. He and I also love football. We love the strategy of it, the coaching, the sport, playing and everything else about it. However, when I saw Greg this weekend he told me that his coaches were upset with him. We have been communicating regularly and have been following and going to the JV games and Varsity games and thought Greg was playing extremely well. It turned out his coaches were not upset with his playing ability but his calculus grades. As a parent I cannot express to you how important that is to me. Here we have a coach whose full time job is managing football players but has a stronger interest in their academics than there playing ability. The longest conversation Greg has had with his coaches is not about his playing but about his academics. Other schools talk about how academics are always more important than athletics but giving the conflicting interests it does not always work out that way.

U.S. News and World Report Ranking

Princeton Review 300 Best Professors

Strategic Plan Goal 1:Rose-Hulman will support and recognize

excellence in teaching, learning, innovation, and intellectual growth - both in and out of the classroom.

Goal 2:Rose-Hulman will give students a vision of the breadth of their possible futures and will prepare them to achieve these futures.

Goal 3: Rose-Hulman will foster a culture of lifelong connection with all of our constituents.

Goal 4: Rose-Hulman will be a diverse, globally-connected, sought-after community in which to live, learn, and work.

Goal 5: Rose-Hulman will be a model of a fiscally sustainable and affordable private institution focused on science, engineering, and mathematics education.

Goal 6: Rose-Hulman will have global name recognition for the excellence of our education.

Goal 1: Rose-Hulman will support and recognize excellence in teaching, learning, innovation, and intellectual growth - both in and out of the classroom. Strategy 1A: Establish a named Innovation Fund to support creative, innovative, or timely new educational initiatives.  Strategy 1B: Create an endowed Center for Technologically Enhanced Education to support development of online and hybrid courses and to support and inform all activities related to science, engineering, and mathematics education.  Strategy 1C: Increase the number of ways Rose-Hulman supports, and recognizes excellence in teaching, professional development, and learning.  Strategy 1D: Establish endowed faculty chairs to recognize and support excellence in scholarship, teaching, or professional skills. Strategy 1E: Construct a state-of-the-art, LEED-certified teaching and learning center to provide advanced classrooms and laboratories, as well as flexible spaces for projects.

Goal 2: Rose-Hulman will give students a vision of the breadth of their possible futures and will prepare them to achieve these futures. Strategy 2A: Convey the message to current and prospective students that a science, engineering and mathematics education can lead to a diverse range of futures that can positively impact the world. Strategy 2B: Provide students with instruction and experiences that will instill confidence in their science, engineering and mathematics fundamentals, professional and success skills, and ability to rise to difficult challenges.

Strategy 2C: Require every Rose-Hulman student to have at least one meaningful international experience.  Strategy 2D: Empower students with the skills required to deal with complexity.

Goal 3: Rose-Hulman will foster a culture of lifelong connection with all of our constituents. Strategy 3A: Establish a “Forever Rose” initiative to provide increased opportunities for alumni to partner with Rose-Hulman, from participating in recruitment and admissions to enhancing a culture of connectedness and philanthropy.

Strategy 3B: Enhance and expand continuing education and other learning opportunities that can be offered on-line and in person to constituents. Strategy 3C: Coordinate constituent information to ensure accessibility and transparency, and to strengthen relationships with these constituents.

Goal 4: Rose-Hulman will be a diverse, globally-connected, sought-after community in which to live, learn, and work. Strategy 4A: Enhance the campus cultural environment of inclusiveness and achieve goals for the diversity of our student body, faculty, and staff.Strategy 4B: Provide more opportunities for community members to experience the world and its diversity.  Strategy 4C: Become a globally connected community with a physical presence outside the United States. Strategy 4D: Be a great place to work and the employer of choice for prospective employees. Strategy 4E: Build a next generation, LEED-certified student life center that will include dining options, meeting space, student organization space, and informal gathering areas.

Goal 5: Rose-Hulman will be a model of a fiscally sustainable and affordable private institution focused on science, engineering, and mathematics education. Strategy 5A: Launch a comprehensive, five-year fundraising campaign, which will include specific goals for current, capital, and endowment support and a specific focus on student scholarship/financial aid support.  Strategy 5B: Increase the percentage of average demonstrated student financial need met by 15% over the course of the next five years.Strategy 5C: Adjust the Institute’s revenue mix and cost structure to enhance significantly the affordability of a Rose-Hulman education and thereby strengthen the long-term sustainability of the Institute.  Strategy 5D: Expand alternative educational offerings and revenue sources to support the core mission of the Institution.

Goal 6: Rose-Hulman will have global name recognition for the excellence of our education.  Strategy 6A: Create and launch an integrated, strategic marketing plan to enhance recognition of Rose-Hulman’s excellence and accomplishments through both earned and paid media.  Strategy 6B: Create “Ambassadorship Programs” to empower alumni, faculty, staff, and students to promote Rose-Hulman. Strategy 6C: Encourage and support faculty, staff, and students in activities that bring recognition to Rose-Hulman, such as assuming leadership roles in national and/or international academic and professional organizations.

Conclusion unified sense of mission across the

Institute focused on the student and engineering, math and science

look forward to having you help inform what we do and how we serve our students and society