uic college of engineering strategic plan update 2004-2007

April 20, 2007 UIC College of Engineering 1

UIC College of EngineeringStrategic Plan Update

2004-2007

Prith BanerjeeDean, College of Engineering

University of Illinois at [email protected]


University of Illinois at Chicago

Started as University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) in 1965

Merged with UI Medical Center in 1982 to become University of Illinois at Chicago

UIC is part of University of Illinois System Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Springfield

UIC is a premier “public, urban, research university” UIC currently ranks among the nation's top 50

universities in federal research funding with $300 million in research funding

UIC is Chicago's largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges

Has the state's major public medical center Known for its diverse student population


UIC College of Engineering Six Departments with graduate and undergraduate programs

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Materials Eng., Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Eng., and Mechanical/Industrial Eng.

Faculty 114 Faculty in 6 departments 47 Professors, 37 Assoc. Prof, 24 Asst. Prof, 6 Lecturers 13 are women and 3 minorities 2 NAE, 43 Fellows, 21 NSF Career/PYI

Students 1624 B.S. students enrolled in 2006-07, 342 B.S. graduates in 2005-06 23.4% women, 6.4% African, 17.5% Hispanic, 33% Asian 406 Ph.D. students in 2006-07, 47 Ph.D. graduates in 2005-06 410 M.S. students in 2006-07, 217 M.S. graduates in 2005-06

Alumni 18,000 alumni

Research Research expenditures: $20.1 million for 2005-06 Publications: 80 books and book chapters, 465 journals and 500

conferences


Strategic Plan for 2010

Issues Year 2005 Year 2010

Faculty size 114 130

Research Funding $20 million $40 million

Undergraduate Students Enrolled 1550 1900

Undergraduate students graduated per year

364 B.S. 450 B.S.

Graduate Student Enrolled 426 Ph.D, 425 MS, 850 total 600 Ph.D, 400 MS, 1000 total

Graduate students graduated per year

41 Ph.D., 200 M.S. 100 Ph.D., 200 M.S.

Space 267,000 sq ft 417,000 sq ft (including new building)

Alumni and Corporate Fund Raising

$75 million total ($5 million cash) $50 million total ($38 million cash)

College Funding from State $16.7 million $18.2 million

Indirect Cost Funds from Research 30% ICR ($2 million) 50% ICR ($6 million)


Key Elements of Strategic Plan Increase faculty from 114 to 130, recruit NAE members, recruiting

more women Recruited 12 new faculty from top 10 universities, including 5 women Recruited two members of the National Academy of Engineering (Rodica and Subrata) Received a $3.3 million ADVANCE grant from NSF for recruiting women faculty

Increase undergraduate engineering enrollment from 1550 to 1900 Increased undergraduate enrollment from 1550 to 1625 (expected to be 1700 in

2007) while increasing the ACT scores of freshmen. Emphasize graduate education with Ph.D., increase the number of

Ph.D. graduates from 35 to 100. Developed direct PhD program, 5 year funding model for supporting Ph.D. students Increased the number of Ph.D. graduates from 35 to 60.

Increase research funding from $20 million to $40 million, create cross-disciplinary areas, create large centers

Developed four cross-disciplinary themes of research: Bio, Nano, Info, Energy/ Infrastructure along with a quad chart view of all the faculty’s research interests

Organized several research retreats to prepare for Engineering Research Centers. UIC engineering faculty received five large collaborative center grants

Create Technology Centers to bring in short-term industry projects The model provides a WIN-WIN-WIN situation for industry, students and university. Received Tech Center projects worth $640,000 in first year


Faculty Action Plan Increase faculty size from 114 to 130 faculty

Allocate faculty resources based on enrollment, research funding, Ph.D. graduates

Create strategic selective areas of excellence, clusters of 3-4 faculty each

Recruit excellent faculty Hire 15 new and 15 replacement faculty in selective areas

of excellence Proactively recruit fresh Ph.D.s from top 20 universities Recruit some NAE members

Increase standards for Promotions and Tenure Create salary and other incentives for faculty Create policy for teaching and research loads Create 4 endowed Chairs and 12 Professorships for

senior faculty.


Faculty Status in 2007

Faculty Distribution

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114 Faculty, 13 women and 3 minority43 Fellows of Societies, IEEE, ASME, ASCE, ACM21 NSF Career Award, NYI, PYI AwardeesTwo members of the National Academy of Engineering


Faculty Promotions Update Increased standards for Promotions and Tenure

Quality and quantity of publications, research funding Teaching accomplishments Soliciting additional letters of reference at College level Measured impact of publications through citation indices

10 cases considered for promotions in 2006-07 (8 promoted) Promoted five faculty to the rank of Full Professor

Robert Kenyon (CS) Jie Liang (BioE) Bing Liu (CS) Dan Schonfeld (ECE) David Yang (ECE)

Promoted three faculty to Associate Professor with tenure Yang Dai (BioE Danilo Erricolo (ECE) Laxman Saggere (MIE)


Faculty Promotions (Contd) 12 cases were considered by College in 2005-06 (8 promoted) Promoted 3 faculty to the rank of Full Professor

Derong Liu (ECE) Krishna Reddy (CME) Bob Sloan (CS)

Promoted 5 faculty to Associate Professor with tenure Houshang Darabi (MIE) Amid Khodadoust (CME) Sudip Mazumder (ECE) Michael Scott (MIE) Lenore Zuck (CS)

9 cases considered for promotions in 2004-05 (6 promoted) Promoted 4 faculty to Associate Professor with tenure

Michael Cho, (BioE) Bhaskar DasGupta (CS) Karl Rockne (CME) Milos Zefran (ECE)

Promoted two faculty to the rank of Full Professor Ashfaq Khokhar ( ECE and CS) John Regalbuto (ChE)


Developed Guidelines for Faculty Recruiting Faculty allocation function of

TEACHING (60%) Undergraduate headcount by major past two years (15%) Graduate headcount by major past two years (15%) Course enrollments in undergrad and grad courses past

two years (30%) RESEARCH (40%)

Total research funding for all faculty in department past two years (10%)

Average research funding per faculty in department past two years (10%)

Average research funding per NEW faculty in past 5 years (10%)

Ph.D. student graduation two years (10%)


Faculty Recruiting Six new faculty joined in 2005-06, three women

Rodica Baranescu, MIE, Elisa Budyn, MIE, Tanya Berger-Wolf, CS, Subrata Chakrabarti, CME/MIE, Randy Meyer, ChE, Alex Yarin, MIE

Two members of the National Academy of Engineering Two new faculty joined in 2006-07, one woman

Dr. Elodie Adida, Ph.D. MIT, Assistant Professor, MIE, (woman) Dr. David Eddington, Ph.D. Wisconsin, postdoc, Harvard-MIT,

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Four new faculty in 2007-08, one woman

Craig Foster, Ph.D. Stanford, Assistant Prof. Civil Engineering Eduard Karpov, Ph.D. Southampton, postdoc Northwestern, Asst Prof.

Civil Ying Liu, Ph.D. Princeton, Asst. Prof. Chemical Eng (woman) Philip Yu, Ph.D. Stanford, Senior Manager from IBM Watson Center,

Wexler Chair of Information Technology in CS/ECE department Two other searches ongoing for 2007-08

Learning Sciences search, Asst. Prof. CS Ongoing search for Assistant Prof., Bioengineering


Wexler Chair in Information Technology College of Engineering received a $2 million Chair

in Information Technology from Peter and Deborah Wexler in Dec. 2005

Search Committee co-Chaired by Ouri Wolfson (CS) and Gyungho Lee (ECE) interviewed four candidates and identified two finalists

Philip Yu, Senior Manager of IBM TJ Watson Center, was our top choice, accepted our offer Feb. 14, 2007

Will join as Wexler Chair in IT in Jan. 1, 2008 with 75% appointment in CS, and 25% in ECE

Expected to lead some large collaborative research Center grants in Databases and Networking


Biography of Philip Yu Education

B.S. Degree in E.E. from National Taiwan University M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in E.E. from Stanford University M.B.A. degree from New York University.

Work Experience Manager of the Software Tools and Techniques group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Publications Published more than 450 papers in refereed journals and conferences. Holds or has applied for more than 250 U.S. patents.

Awards and Honors Dr. Yu is a Fellow of the ACM and Fellow of the IEEE. Associate editor of ACM Transactions on the Internet Technology and ACM Transactions on

Knowledge Discovery in Data. Member of the IEEE Data Engineering steering committee and is also on the steering

committee of IEEE Conference on Data Mining. Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2001-2004). Received several IBM honors including two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, an

Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, two Research Division Awards and the 85th plateau of Invention Achievement Awards.

He received a Research Contributions Award from IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in 2003 and also an IEEE Region 1 Award for "promoting and perpetuating numerous new electrical engineering concepts" in 1999.

Dr. Yu is an IBM Master Inventor.


Faculty Awards and Honors Fellows of Societies during 2005-07

Derong Liu, ECE, became Fellow of IEEE Sabri Centinkunt, Farid Amirouche, Suresh Aggarwal, Farzad Mashayek,

Tom Royston, became Fellows of ASME Prith Banerjee, Gyungho Lee became Fellows of AAAS Brings total number of Fellows in College to 43

CAREER Awards in during 2005-07 Laxman Saggere, MIE, received NSF CAREER Award in 2005 Sudip Mazumder, ECE, received ONR Young Investigator in 2006 Daniela Tuninetti, ECE received NSF CAREER Award in 2006 Brings total number of NSF CAREER Awards in College to 21

Named Professorships in 2005-07 Ouri Wolfson, CS and Ahmed Shabana, MIE and Michael Stroscio, ECE/BIOE

named Richard and Loan Hill Professors of Engineering in 2006, 2007 Wally Minkowycz, MIE, named James Hartnett Professor of Energy

Engineering in 2006 Phillip Yu, CS was appointed Wexler Chair in Information Technology in

2007 Brings total number of Professorships in College to 4, also 4 UIC

Distinguished Professors


Implemented Faculty Incentives

New uniform teaching load policy Normal teaching load for COE tenure track faculty is four courses per year

for reasonable amount of scholarly activity Faculty who are active in research (at least $50,000 of research

expenditures per year) will have a reduced load of three courses per year. Allow faculty to reduce teaching load to two courses

Paying 11% (1/9) of their academic year salary or $10,000, whichever is higher. Having $350,000 of research expenditures per year Supporting two 25% TA per year

Appoint faculty who are teaching four courses to teach additional fifth course. These faculty will be provided 1/9 of their salary or $7,500, whichever is lower.

New policies for Research, Teaching and Advising awards $500 Bronze Awards for $100,000 in research expenditures, $1000 Silver

Awards for $200,000, $1500 Gold Award for $300,000, $2000 Diamond Awards for $400,000, and $2500 Platinum Award for $500,000 or higher

Six $500 Best Teaching awards Six $500 Best Advising Awards Awards given in Fall 2006


Research Program• Research done in six departments and eight centers

• Research expenditures: $20.1 million for 2005-06• Publications: 80 books and book chapters, 465 journals and 500 conferences• 406 Ph.D. students, 47 Ph.D. graduates in 2005-06

Research Expenditures 2005-06

$2,599,403 , 13%

$3,272,384 , 16%

$2,723,405 , 14%$6,364,349 ,

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$619,853 , 3%$1,436,709 , 7%

$3,112,885 , 15%

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Research Productivity Published 80 books and book chapters in

2005-06 compared to 78 in 2004-05

Published 465 journal publications in 2005-06 compared to 371 in 2004-05

Published 500 conference publications in 2005-06

compared to 441 in 2004-05 Graduated 47 Ph.D. students in 2005-06

Compared to 41 in 2004-05 Research expenditures: $20.1 million for 2005-

06 compared to $21.6 million in 2004-05


Accomplishments in Research

Four Interdisciplinary thrust areas were created Biotech, Nanotech, Info Tech, Infrastructure/Energy Tech

Created Quad chart view of the research expertise of the faculty in 6 departments by 4 clusters on COE Web page

Several large collaborative research proposals were submitted Several large collaborative research grants were funded

O. Wolfson, P. Nelson and R. Sloan received a $3.2 million NSF IGERT award on “Computational Transportation Systems”

M. Ashley, K. Rockne, S. Forman received a $2.5 million NSF IGERT award on “Ecology, Management and Restoration of Integrated Human/Natural Landscapes"

C. Takoudis and S. Ghosh received a $1.2 million NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams grant

Ahmed Shabana received a $2.7 million grant from Federal Highway Administration on “Enhancement and Development of Railroad Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Capabilities“

A. Nehorai and D. Erricolo received a $5.5 million grant from MURI on “Adaptive Waveform Diversity for Signal Processing”

One NSF REU grant and one NSF RET grant were also funded


$3.2 Million Research Grant from NSF IGERT

National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education Research Training (IGERT) grant on “Computational Transportation Science”

Led by Professors Ouri Wolfson (PI), Peter Nelson, and Robert Sloan from the Computer Science department

Collaboration with Professors Aris Ouksel from College of Business, and Piyushimita Thakuriah from the College of Urban Planning

This IGERT award supports the establishment of a graduate training program in the Information Technology aspects of Transportation Science.

Funding $3.2 million over 5 years, 2006-2011. The doctoral students in the program will investigate technologies in

which sensors, traveler-devices such as PDAs, in-vehicle computers, and computers in the static infrastructure are integrated into a collaborative environment.

Basic research in information management, communications, software architectures, modeling tools, human factors, traffic prediction, and transportation planning is essential for founding a new discipline that will integrate millions of disparate, highly mobile computers and sensors into a collaborative system.


$2.5 Million Research Grant from NSF IGERT National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education Research

Training (IGERT) grant on “Ecology, Management and Restoration of Integrated Human/Natural Landscapes.”

Led by Professors Mary Ashley and Steve Forman from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor Karl Rockne from the Civil and Materials Engineering department

Collaboration with the Chicago Botanic Garden Funding $2.5 million over 5 years, 2006-2011. The goal of this project is to develop a new doctoral program called

LEAP -- Landscape Ecological and Anthropogenic Processes -- that is set on promoting and preserving biodiversity in cities, suburbs and other areas dominated by humans.

The premise for the program is that we need more research on ecological processes occurring amid human activities and better-trained students for careers that integrate biodiversity and human activities.


$3.3 Million ADVANCE grant from NSF National Science Foundation grant on “ADVANCE

Institutional Transformation Award: Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation (WISEST)”

PIs: Meena Rao, Chris Comer, Claudia Morrissey, Mo-Yin S. Tam, and Prith Banerjee

Collaboration between Office of Provost, College of Engineering and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Funding $3.3 million for 5 years, 2006-2010 Will support hiring 11 women and minority faculty in STEM

disciplines 5 sciences and 6 engineering departments Provide $90,000 startup funding per faculty Provide $20,000 per year support for postdocs (cost sharing

by College for additional $20,000) 3 faculty and 5 postdoc searches for this year


$2.7 Million Research Grant from FHA Federal Highway Administration grant on “Enhancement and

Development of Railroad Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Capabilities”

Led by Professors Ahmed Shabana of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department

Funding $2,761,345 for 5 years, 2006-2010 This research project will develop and enhance comprehensive

computational algorithms and capabilities for the nonlinear dynamic simulations of large scale high speed railroad vehicle systems.

The goal of this research project is to provide FRA and the railroad industry with new capabilities for accurate prediction of the nonlinear dynamics behavior, vehicle critical speeds, vibration characteristics, and derailment and accident scenarios for high speed rail systems subjected to different dynamic loading and disturbances.


$3 Million Motorola Innovation Center Received a $3 million grant for 2007-08 from Motorola on

an Innovation Center College of Engineering, Business, Art/Architecture PI: Prith Banerjee, Stefanie Lenway, Judith Kirshner, Michael

Tanner Identified three interdisciplinary projects on “Re-inventing

the phone” Each project will have one faculty and one grad student

each from COE/CBA/CAA Total 9 faculty, 9 grad student support

Engineering faculty: Dan Schonfeld (ECE), Ouri Wolfson (CS), Pat Banerjee (MIE), Michael Scott (MIE)

Business faculty: Al Page Art and Architecture faculty: Marcia Lausen, Stephen

Melamed 10,000 sq ft space identified


Interdisciplinary Research Clusters

Chemical(biopharmaceutical)

BioEng (Neural Eng)

Civil

Electrical(Imaging)

Com. Sci(Bioinformatics)

Mechanical(Biosensors)

Medicine(Genetics)

Liberal Artsand Sciences(Neurosciences)

Business(Biotech

companies)

Education(K-12 education)

College of Engineering

Biotechnology

Nano-technology

Info technology

Energy / Env technology


Example Information Technology: The OptIPuter ProjectTom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Tom Moher, Oliver Yu, Bob Grossman, Luc Renambot

Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, UIC

Problem Statement and Motivation

Technical Approach—UIC OptIPuter Team Key Achievements and Future Goals—UIC Team

The OptIPuter, so named for its use of Optical networking, Internet Protocol, computer storage, processing and visualization technologies, is an infrastructure that tightly couples computational resources and displays over parallel optical networks using the IP communication mechanism.

The OptIPuter exploits a new world in which the central architectural element is optical networking, not computers.

The goal of this new architecture is to enable scientists who are generating terabytes of data to interactively visualize, analyze, and correlate their data from multiple storage sites connected to optical networks.

• Deployed tiled displays and clusters at partner sites• Procured a 10Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) private network UIC to

UCSD• Connected 1GigE and 10GigE metro, regional, national and

international research networks into the OptIPuter project. • Developed software and middleware to interconnect and

interoperate heterogeneous network domains, enabling applications to set up on-demand private networks using electronic-optical and fully optical switches.

• Developed advanced data transport protocols to move large data files quickly

• Develop high-bandwidth distributed applications in geoscience, medical imaging and digital cinema

Design, build and evaluate ultra-high-resolution displays

Transmit ultra-high-resolution still and motion images

Design, deploy and test high-bandwidth collaboration tools

Procure/provide experimental high-performance network services

Research distributed optical backplane architectures

Create and deploy lightpath management methods

Implement novel data transport protocols

Design performance metrics, analysis and protocol parameters


Preparation for NSF ERC Centers

Organized four research retreats at College level among faculty during 2005-06 Identified themes

UIC strengths (medicine, visualization, sensors) Nations needs (energy, security, infrastructure) Strengths of Principal Investigators (NAE members)

Issued Call for Proposals for Seed Funding within College of Engineering Identified five such Collaborative Projects, provided seed funding Spring 2006

Center for Sensor-Enriched Secure Urban Infrastructure Center for Integrated Networks of Nanoscale Sensors Center for BioFuels Based Engine Systems For Multigrids Center for Scalable Therapeutic Simulation Center for Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security

Continuing seed funding with two centers in Fall 2006 Center for Sensor-Enriched Secure Urban Infrastructure

Directors: Subrata Chakrabarti (CME/MIE) and Ming Wang CME) Center for BioFuels Based Engine Systems For Multigrids

Directors: Rodica Baranescu (MIE) and Bill Worek (MIE)


MARKET PLACE

FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE

Cross-disciplinaryCross-disciplinaryresearch andresearch and

curriculacurricula

Develop future Develop future leaders in leaders in

alternate and alternate and renewable energy renewable energy

systemssystems

EDUCATION

Component-levelComponent-levelinterdisciplinary interdisciplinary

coursescourses

IMPACT

• Enhanced Enhanced sufficiency in sufficiency in

energy generationenergy generation

•Graduates trained Graduates trained in alternate and in alternate and

renewable energy renewable energy systemssystems

•Cleaner Cleaner environmentenvironment

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Robust and Robust and Efficient IC Efficient IC EnginesEngines

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIESENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

Biofuel basedBiofuel based energy systemsenergy systems

PROTOTYPESPROTOTYPES

ENGINEERING SYSTEMSENGINEERING SYSTEMS

MICROGRIDMICROGRID Industry & University Industry & University

Pilot systemsPilot systems

FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCEFUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE

Biofuel Biofuel ResearchResearch

Robust and Efficient Robust and Efficient Electronics and Electronics and ElectromechanicsElectromechanics

BiofuelsBiofuels

Systems on Systems on Module Power Module Power ElectronicsElectronics

•Reduced Reduced vulnerability to vulnerability to blackouts and blackouts and brownouts and brownouts and

energy security energy security •Enhanced power Enhanced power

qualityquality

• Cost-competitive Cost-competitive power systems power systems

Phenomena, simulation, Phenomena, simulation, structures, materials, structures, materials, and propertiesand properties

SCIENCESCIENCECombustion and Combustion and Emissions Emissions ResearchResearch

Biofuel based Energy Systems for MicrogridBiofuel based Energy Systems for Microgrid Strategic Research PlanStrategic Research Plan

Power Dense Power Dense Alternator DesignsAlternator Designs

flexibilityefficiency

power densityreliabilitycost


Technology Elements

Fundamental Insights

Center for Sensor-Enriched Secure Urban Infrastructure

SystemRequirements

Knowledge Base

Technology Base

Technology Integration

Products and Outcomes

Requirements

Environment/Marketplace

Robustness & longevityof infrastructure

Asset management& life cycle cost

Advancedenvironmental

chambers for sensors

Data modeling& decision making

Data analysis& fusion

Computationalmechanics

Sensor materialsscience & modeling

Sensor technologyfor infrastructure

Data management &decision-making softwareInfrastructure

safetyData base for

design & maintenance

Test BedsBuildings

TransportationShoreline structures

Durable &smart sensors

High performanceCost effectiveinfrastructure

Life-cyclecost

System Architecture


Technology Centers Given that UIC is located in the heart of Chicago, it should be possible for

the College to create Technology Centers Bring in shorter term research and development contracts Similar to model of Energy Resources Center at UIC or Information Sciences

Institute at USC, GTRI at Georgia Tech, APL at Johns Hopkins University Win for Industry and national labs

Normal cost of outsourcing of contracts is $150 per hour Outsourcing of projects to India/China is cheap but faces difficulty of remote

management UIC is uniquely positioned in being one hour from local industry Can be done at competitive prices $40 per hour involving senior undergrads and

Master’s students Win for Students

Provide alternate source of financial support for students Provide Co-Op Experience locally at UIC Prepare them for future employment

Win for UIC and College of Engineering Increase total funding, helps rankings Increase ties between faculty and industry May lead to more research funding


Tech Center Update Prepared Updated Business and Operating

Plan for Tech Centers Master Agreement for Technology Services

developed by UIC legal Includes students, faculty and postdocs

About $640,000 of contracts in place for first year

Motorola, JSC, Baxter, Lisle Tech, etc. Marketing brochure and web page developed Received approval from Board of Trustees in

March 13, 2007 meeting


UIC Graduate Eng Program• 406 Ph.D. students in 2006-07, 47 Ph.D. graduates in 2006406 Ph.D. students in 2006-07, 47 Ph.D. graduates in 2006• 410 M.S. students in 2006-07, 217 M.S. graduates in 2006410 M.S. students in 2006-07, 217 M.S. graduates in 2006

Grad Enrollment AY 06 by Departments

BIOE, 149, 18%

CME, 83, 10%

CS, 258, 32%CHE, 48, 6%

ECE, 168, 21%

MIE, 110, 13%BIOE

CME

CS

CHE

ECE

MIE


Accomplishments in Graduate Program Implemented Direct Ph.D. program for all 6

departments Ph.D. students are not allowed to switch to MS program

Increased number of TAs in College from 58 to 92 Implemented TA Allocation policies in departments

Student heacount, course enrollment, Ph.D. graduates, Number of RAs supported

Implemented financial support for Ph.D. students 2 years of TAship with 3 years of matching RAship

Increased Ph.D. graduations to 47 in 2006 (from 35 in 2004 to 41 in 2005), expected to graduate 60 Ph.D. in 2007


TA Allocation Across Departments Provide incentive based allocation

Increase UG enrollment, increase RA support, increase Ph.D program

TA allocation policy (60% teaching, 40% research) 35% course enrollment (Spr 06, Fall 06) 25% undergraduate headcount (Fall 06) 20% RA support (Spr 06-Fall 06) 10% Ph.D. enrollment (Fall 06) 10% Ph.D. graduates (AY05, AY06)


TA Allocation for 2007-08

Dept

AY08 TA allocation

AY07 TA Allocation

AY06 TA Allocati

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BioE 13.6 12.5 12.0

ChE 6.3 5.5 4.5

CS 16.5 16.5 18.0

ECE 23.8 27.5 27.5

CME 12.8 12.0 11.0

MIE 19.5 18.5 19.5

COLLEGE 92.5 92.5 92.5


UIC Undergraduate Eng. Program

• 1624 total undergraduate students in 2006-07• Average ACT score of freshmen students 25.6• 342 B.S. graduates in 2005-06

23.4% women, 33% Asian, 6.4% African, 17.5% Hispanic

BIOE, 178, 11%

CME, 239, 15%

CS, 206, 13%

CHE, 112, 7%ECE, 477, 29%

MIE, 407, 25%

AY06-07

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Accomplishments in Undergraduate Programs Recruited students from High Schools and Community Colleges Had 4 major Open Houses for Recruiting Students Recruited engineering student applicants from Univ. Illinois Urbana Increased enrollment to 1624 in Fall 2006 (from 1550 in Fall 2005)

without lowering our standards (ACT increased from 25.4 to 25.6) Expected to have 1700 in Fall 2007 Have 333 new freshmen and 157 new transfer students enrolled into

Engineering for Fall 2006 (compared to 230 freshman and 120 transfer)

Developed Freshman courses in Engineering Intro to Bioengineering, Intro to Electrical and Computer Engineering, Intro

to Chemical Engg Streamlined the ECE and CS Curriculum to remove course overlaps Increased number of TAs in College from 58 to 92 Started program for upgrading Instructional Labs $200,000 per year Developed improved undergraduate advising program


Professional Master’s Program UIC COE has an Online Master’s Program

(MENG) in ECE, CS, and MIE departments UIC COE also has two International

Master’s Programs (Turin and Milan) in ECE, CS, and MIE

Created two LIVE MS programs for people in Chicago area Masters in Energy Technology (Fall 2007) Masters in Information Technology (Fall 2008)


Marketing Updates New brochures developed for all 6 departments to recruit

graduate students Sent to all Deans and Department Heads

Announcement of Hill and Hartnett Professorships Sent to all Deans and Department Heads

New Research Report for 2004-05 and 2005-06 Sent to all Deans and Department Heads

Engineering News Alumni magazine for 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

EN received UIC award for best magazine Sent to all Deans and Department Heads

Monthly COE Newsletter to faculty, students, staff and alums

Remodeling of SEO Lobby and Vestibule area (plasma TV screens, Directory, COE facts, wooden paneling, rugs, sofas) welcome students and visitors


UIC COE Fund Raising Plan

UIC COE Plan $50 million

Endowed Chairs $8 million Four chairs at $2 million each for Biotech, Nanotech, Infotech, Infratech

Professorships $6 million 12 total at $500,000 each

Graduate Fellowships $3 million 12 total at $250,000 each

Undergraduate Fellowships $1.8 million 12 total at $150,000 each

Research Funds $2 million Facilities $16 million

Classroom, lab renovation $1 million New building $15 million

Annual Giving $700,000 $100,000 per year (currently $45,000 per year)

Gift in kind $12 million


Fund Raising Update

Endowed Chairs $8 million Received one $2 million Chair in Infotech from Peter Wexler Appointed Philip Yu, Senior Manager from IBM Watson Center to Wexler

Chair Professorships $6 million

Received 3 $500,000 Professorships from Rick Hill, one from James Hartnett

Appointed Ahmed Shabana, Ouri Wolfson, Mike Stroscio, Wally Minkowicz to Professorships

Undergraduate Fellowships $1.8 million Received one $100,000 scholarship from Glenn Neland, one $100,000

scholarship from Bill Unger, $50,000 scholarship from E. Eugene Foundation, $25,000 from Nancy Holmes

Research Funds $2 million Received $720,000 grant from DOE on Integrative Bioengineering Institute Received $3.3 million NSF ADVANCE Grant for Women in Science and

Engineering Received $3 million grant from Motorola on Innovation Center

Facilities $16 million $50,000 from Chris Burke for Hydraulics Lab

Annual Giving $700,000 $100,000 per year

Gift in kind $12 million


Conclusions UIC Engineering is poised to become a major

player in Illinois and the country Future of engineering is having strong ties to

industry Leverage location of Chicago effectively Recruit, promote and retain the best faculty Train our students for the 21st century Form interdisciplinary, collaborative centers of

research excellence MESSAGE – “Exceptional Engineering in the

Heart of Chicago!”

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