Engineering at Santa Clara 1912-2005-… Dr. Mark Ardema Professor mardema@scu.edu http://www.scu.edu/engineering Vision To be known and treasured, in Silicon Valley and beyond, for the impact of our graduates and faculty on improving the human condition through engineering education, practice, and scholarship Students Undergraduates: ~500 – ~24% women Graduate students: ~700 – 25% fulltime – 75% part-time Faculty Permanent: 40 – >25% women (#5 in the U.S.) Adjunct: ~80 – 100% Silicon Valley Dedicated teaching scholars Teach all the classes Degrees BS: electrical, mechanical, civil, computer, general MS: above plus software engineering, engineering management and leadership, applied mathematics 5-year BS/MS: electrical, mechanical, computer Engineer: electrical, mechanical, computer Ph.D.: electrical, mechanical, computer Class Sizes Mean: 26 students Maximum: 60 students Fewer than 20 students: 48% More than 50 students: 2% Impacted: 0% Program Strengths Civil: seismic design, enviro/sustainable Mechanical: mechatronics, thermo, enviro/sustainable Electrical: interconnections in ICs, nanotech, analog/testable design, complex systems Computer: parallel computing, multimedia, information security, software engineering Community Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Associated General Contractors (AGC) Associated Graduate Engineering Students (AGES) Engineering and Business Alliance (EBA) Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (ChALESS) Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) Design Center State-of-the-art design tools Unix, Linux, Windows Hot SV hardware Center for Nanostructures Field-emission scanning electron microscope Top-of-the-line measurement gear Fashionable attire Excitement Senior design projects Junior design contest Underwater robotics Undergraduate research El Salvador trips, projects Recognition Ranked #14 in the U.S.! US News and World Report September 2005 Distinctiveness Small classes Close faculty contact Teamwork Interdisciplinary discovery Engineering for social justice Silicon Valley jobs, guidance, etc. Liberal arts, ethics, religion too Don’t you wish you could go again?