Overview of the UIC College of Engineering

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Overview of the UIC College of Engineering

• Prith Banerjee
• Dean, College of Engineering

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UIC College of Engineering

• Six Departments with graduate and undergraduate
  programs
• Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and
  Materials Engineering, Computer Science,
  Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
  Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
• Faculty
• 114 faculty including 11 women and minorities in
  2004
• 41 Professors, 36 Assoc. Professors, 29 Asst.
  Professors, 8 Lecturers
• Students
• 1,684 undergraduate students, 387 BS graduates in
  2004
• 422 Ph.D. students, 35 Ph.D. graduates in 2004
• 438 M.S. students, 300 M.S. graduates in 2004
• Alumni
• 16,000 alumni
• Research
• Research expenditures 21 million for 2004
• Publications 365 journal publications and 373
  conference publications

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Faculty
114 Faculty, 11 women and minority 41 Fellows of
Societies, IEEE, ASME, ASCE, ACM 21 NSF Career
Award, NYI, PYI Awardees 11 Editor-in-Chief of
Journals
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Faculty Action Plan

• Increase faculty size from 114 to 130 faculty
• Allocate faculty resources based on student
  enrollment, research areas and funding
• 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
• Additional letters of reference at College level
• Salaries and other incentives
• Salary raises based 40 on teaching (undergrad,
  PhD students), 40 on research (publications and
  funding) and 20 on service contribution
• Yearly Research and Teaching Awards
• Teaching and Research Loads
• Allow research active faculty to reduce teaching
  loads, and teaching faculty to take on higher
  teaching load
• Diversity of faculty
• Ensure that at least 10 of our faculty are
  women or minority of the 30 new faculty, at
  least 15 should be women or minority
• Increase Funding to create four endowed Chairs
  and 12 Professorships for senior faculty.

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Research

• Research done in six departments and eight
  centers
• Research expenditures 21 million for 2004
• 365 journal publications and 373 conference
  publications
• 422 Ph.D. students, 35 Ph.D. graduates in 2004

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Research Areas

• Bioengineering Bio-informatics, Bio-mechanics,
  Biomedical Imaging, Cell and Tissue Engineering,
  Neural Engineering, Rehabilitation Engineering.
• Chemical Engineering Continuum and Molecular
  transport phenomenon, Macroscopic and microscopic
  thermodynamics, Chemical Kinetics, Process
  Systems Engineering and Analysis, Chemical
  Engineering Applications to Biomedical problems.
• Civil and Materials Engineering Structural
  Design, Transportation, Environmental
  Engineering, Materials Engineering
• Computer Science Bioinformatics, Databases and
  Datamining, Artificial Intelligence and Learning
  Technologies, Electronic Visualization,
  Networking, Software Engineering, Theory, Formal
  Methods, Kernel Security, Electronic Design
  Automation.
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Bioelectronics and Bio-mimetics, Information
  Systems including Signal and Image Processing,
  Device Electronics and Physics, Computer
  Engineering
• Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  Combustion, Biomechanical Technology, Vehicular
  Technology, Manufacturing, Virtual Engineering.

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Research Action Plan

• Increase the Quality of Publications
• Encourage publications in high impact journals
  and conferences
• Increase Research Funding from 21 million to
  40 million
• Our faculty (size 114 in 2004 growing to 130 in
  2010) should collectively bring in 40 million in
  funding by 2010, average of 300,000 per faculty
• Organize Research into Interdisciplinary Areas
• Bio-technology, Nano-technology, Information
  Technology, and Infrastructure and
  Energy/Environmental Technology.
• Submit several large interdisciplinary,
  collaborative research proposals per year to NSF,
  NIH, and DARPA be successful in at least one per
  year.
• Increased Interactions with Industry
• Increase number of Ph.D. students to 600,
  graduates to 100 Ph.D. per year
• Incentives to Faculty for increased research
• Research awards, reduced teaching loads
• Provide Seed Funding for New Projects
• 500,000 for ten projects of 50,000 each
• Cost Sharing for Research Projects
• Allocate 2 million for 40 million research
  program
• Larger Startup Funding for New Faculty Hires
• Allocate 1.8 million per year for 6 hires

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Interdisciplinary Research Clusters
BioEng (Neural Eng)
Medicine (Genetics)
College of Engineering
Biotechnology
Chemical
Liberal Arts and Sciences (Neurosciences)
Civil
Nano-technology
Electrical (Imaging)
Business (Biotech companies)
Info technology
Com. Sci (Bioinformatics)
Energy / Env technology
Education (K-12 education)
Mechanical (Biosensors)
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Undergraduate Program

• 1684 total undergraduate students
• 387 B.S. graduates in 2004
• Average ACT score 25.8
• 20 of students are under-represented
  minorities, 30 women

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Undergraduate Action Plan

• Increase enrollment from its current 1684
  students to 1900 students without lowering our
  standards for admission.
• Increase average ACT score of freshmen students
  from 25.8 to 27
• Develop better recruiting strategies
• Freshman students from high schools
• Transfer students from Junior colleges
• Transfer students from other UIC Colleges
• Develop exciting and streamlined undergraduate
  curriculum
• Develop freshman courses in engineering
• Develop design and communication courses in
  engineering
• Involve undergraduate students in research
• Develop exciting instructional labs
• Develop student internship and career placement
  opportunities
• Make sure that diversity is reflected in the
  student population ensure that at least 20 of
  our students are members of minority groups at
  least 30 of our students are women.
• Raise funding for 12 full undergraduate
  scholarships in the College of Engineering (to be
  used for recruiting)

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Graduate Program

• 422 Ph.D. students, 35 Ph.D. graduates in 2004
• 438 M.S. students, 300 M.S. graduates in 2004

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Graduate Program Action Plan

• Increase the total number of graduate students
  from 860 students to 1000 students
• Change the mix of students in favor of more Ph.D.
  students than M.S. students
• Target M.S. enrollment at 400, Target Ph.D.
  enrollment at 600
• Decrease number of M.S. graduates per year from
  300 to 200
• Increase the number of Ph.D.. graduates per year
  from 35 to 100
• Improve the quality of our Ph.D. students
• Financial support of Ph.D. students
• Matching support of two years of TAship with 3
  years of RAship
• Improve the retention and graduation rate of our
  Ph.D. students
• Develop a direct Ph.D. program, eliminate
  possibility of MS
• Develop student internship and career placement
  opportunities
• Provide students with access to an exciting,
  relevant and interdisciplinary graduate
  curriculum in engineering
• Ensure that diversity is reflected in the student
  population. Ensure that 10 of our graduate
  students are minority Ensure that 20 of our
  graduate students are women
• Raise funding for 12 full graduate fellowships in
  the College of Engineering.

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Space Plans

• College of Engineering space is currently spread
  across five buildings
• SEO, ERF, SEL, Chemical, College of Medicine
• Total current space 267,000 sq ft
• 21 million in research funding, 1684 undergrad
  and 860 grad students, 114 faculty
• Will need total 400,000 sq ft for
• 40 million in research, 1900 undergrads, 1000
  grads, 130 faculty
• Planning a new engineering building of
  approximately 150,000 Sq. Ft to support this new
  strategic plan for growing the College of
  Engineering.
• Institute for Nano and Biotechnology.
• The cost of a new engineering building of about
  150,000 sq ft would be about 45 million,
  assuming a construction cost of 300 per square
  foot.
• We plan to raise about 15 million through
  fundraising, and would like to request the
  Federal Government and State of Illinois for the
  additional 30 million

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Corporate and Alumni Relations Plan

• Corporate Relations Support of Career Placement
• Companies interested in UIC because of students,
  secondary is research
• Tie Industry support with placement, internship,
  co-op
• Try to place UIC students in top 30 companies
• Created new position of Associate Dean of
  Corporate Relations and Career Placement
• Corporate On-campus Involvement
• Motorola Day, Caterpillar Day, Agilent Day
• Relationship Building with Key Companies
• Cultivation with Alumni and Major Gift Prospects
• Identification and cultivation of non-alumni gift
  prospects

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Alumni and Corporate Fund Raising Plan

• UIC has started a Capital Campaign during
  2003-2010
• College of Engineering Plans
• 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
• Software and equipment donation

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Accomplishments in 2004-05 (Faculty)

• Faculty Recruiting
• Dr. Subrata Chakrabarti, President of Off-Shore
  Structure Analysis, Inc, hired as Professor of
  CME and MIE department, Aug. 2005
• First member of the National Academy of
  Engineering on faculty
• Seven new faculty joined in 2004-05
• Christophe Darnault, CME, Lenore Zuck, CS, V.
  Venkatakrishnan, CS, Danilo Erricolo, ECE, Masud
  Chowdhury, ECE, Kaijie Wu, ECE, Yingwei Yao, ECE
• Faculty Awards and Honors
• Derong Liu, ECE, became Fellow of IEEE
• Sabri Centikent, MIE and Farid Amirouche, MIE
  became Fellow of ASME
• Laxman Saggere, MIE, received NSF CAREER Award
• Sudip Mazumder, ECE, received ONR Young
  Investigator
• Ouri Wolfson, CS and Ahmed Shabana, MIE named
  Richard and Loan Hill Professors of Engineering
  today

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Accomplishments (Research)

• Arye Nehorai and Danilo Erricolo of the ECE
  Department have received a 5.5 million dollar
  MURI (Multi-University Research Initiative) award
  from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Project title Adaptive Waveform Diversity for
  Full Spectral Dominance.
• Led by University of Illinois at Chicago
• Partners Arizona State, Harvard, Princeton
  University, Purdue, and Maryland.
• Five Proposals for NSF Engineering Research
  Centers have been developed
• Center for Engineering Design of Biotherapeutics
• UIC, Boston, UCSD
• Center for Global Multimedia Mobile
  Communications
• UIC, UIUC, Northwestern, Purdue, Motorola
• Cyber-Transportation by Ubiquitous Computing
• UIC, UC Irvine, UCLA, CMU
• Center for Distributed Alternate and Renewable
  Energy Systems
• UIC, U Central Florida, GATech, Wisconsin
• Center for Metropolitan Security
• UIC, Northwestern, IIT, Argonne
• Electronic Visualization Labs GEOWALL project
  reported in the New York Times, Mar. 3, 2005

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Accomplishments (Undergraduate)

• Undergraduate Programs
• Meetings between Dean and undergrad students of
  all six departments during January and March 2005
• Excellent feedback from students about
  curriculum, labs, plan
• Appointed Denise Hayman as Assistant Dean of
  Recruiting
• Engaged faculty and current students in
  undergraduate recruiting from high schools and
  two year colleges
• Organized visits to high schools, letters, and
  phone calls with admitted students
• Developing freshman courses in engineering
• Introduction to Electrical and Computer
  Engineering, Introduction to Chemical Engineering
• In the process of revising curriculum
• 364 B.S. graduated in 2005

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Accomplishments (Graduate)

• Graduate Programs
• Meetings between Dean and graduate students of
  all six departments during January and March,
  2005
• Excellent feedback from students about plan
• Created a new financial policy for supporting
  Ph.D. students
• Direct line Ph.D. program
• TA support for Ph.D. students only
• Two years of TAship, matched with 3 years of RA
• Increased TA support by 50 from 58 TAs to 92 TAs
  in College by reallocating resources
• Created a uniform TA allocation policy based on
  undergraduate enrollment (35), course enrollment
  (25), RA support (25), Ph.D. graduations (15)
• 200 M.S. graduates, 7 MENG graduates and 41 Ph.D.
  graduates in 2005

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Accomplishments (Corporate and Alumni)

• Corporate and Alumni Relations
• Multiple Meetings between Dean and alumni about
  Strategic Plan
• Feedback on strategic plan from alumni
• Appointed Ralph Pini as Associate Dean of
  Corporate Relations and Career Placement
• Created Office of Career Placement within College
  of Engineering
• Company Visits
• Agilent (March 2005)
• Caterpillar (April 2005)
• Motorola (April 2005)
• Novellus (June 2005)

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Accomplishments (Marketing)

• Marketing, Publicity, Rankings
• New web page for College and departments, uniform
  for all departments
• Dynamic web pages, showing latest news and events
• New printed brochures for recruiting
  undergraduate and graduate students
• New DVD consisting of a video introduction to
  College
• One page (quad chart) presentation of research
  from faculty
• Alumni News Magazine
• Send information to companies and various
  universities
• Visits from companies to see UIC COE and labs
• Latest US News 2005 rankings of Engineering
  ranked UIC 59th in Engineering out of 200 plus
  schools