Announcements
 Dr. C.B. Carter, AAAS Fellow
 Dr. A. Faghri, ASME Jacob Award
 Dr. Ali Gokirmak, NSF CAREER
 New CT Academy of Science &
Engineering Members
 Dr. Pamir Alpay
 Dr. Radenka Maric
 Dr. Prabhakar Singh
 Drs. Amy Howell & Steve Suib
 Paul Adams, Pete Halvordson &
Martin Seifert
 Mr. Eric Knight, Springboard Director
CT Women of Innovation Finalists
 Dr. Leslie Shor (CMBE)
 Ms. Chaitanya
Sankavaram (ECE Ph.D.
student of Dr. Pattipati)
 Ms. Heather Leask
(ChEG Undergraduate
student)
 Ms. Ramona Georgescu
(ECE Ph.D. student of Dr.
Willett)
Inauguration of EIWR
Professors
Gebremichael,
Accorsi, AtkinsonPalumbo,
Anagnostou, Wang,
Bagtzoglou & Osleeb
Grant Announcements (partial list)
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Ms. Donna Shea, DOT: Technology
Transfer Program
Drs. Brian Willis & Yong Wang,
DoD: Chemical Sensing
Dr. Ross Bagtzoglou, DEP: Fenton
Optimization
Dr. Krishna Pattipati, DoD:
Unmanned Undersea Systems
Dr. Hancheng Huang, DoE:
Nanorods
Drs. Shvartsman, Laurent, Kiayias,
Russell, US/CT: Electronic Voting
Teaching Evaluations
Evaluations of 9.5 or Higher
 Ahmad, Rais
 Ammar, Reda
 Ayers, John
 Bagtzoglou, Amvrossios
 Bansal, Rajeev
 Bar-Shalom, Yaakov
 Bergman, Theodore
 Chandy, John
 Crow, David
 Donkor, Eric
 Epstein, Howard
 Fei, Yunsi
 Hebert, Rainer
 Jackson, Eric
 Khalil, Yehia
 Li, Baikun
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Lownes, Nicholas
Lu, Tianfeng
Luby, Marie
Mandoiu, Ion
Maric, Radenka
McCartney, Robert
Mhadeshwar, Ashish
Murphy, Kevin
Nelson, Craig
Pattipati, Krishna
Peterson, Donald
Rajasekaran, Sanguthevar
Rossetti, George
Shahbazi, Zahra
Shaw,Leon
Wang ,Bing
Wu, Yufeng
ABET Team
 BME: Don Peterson and Lisa Ephraim
 CEE: Ross Bagtzoglou, Marisa Chrysochoou, John
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Ivan, Guiling Wang, Althea Lozefski, Jessica Zoldak
CMBE: Pamir Alpay, Hal Brody, Dan Burkey, Mark
Aindow, Ranjan Srivastava, Leah Winterberger
CSE: Reda Ammar, Alexander Russell, Deb
Mielczarek
ECE: Rajeev Bansal, John Chandy, Mary McCarthy
ME: Baki Cetegen, Mike Renfro, Emily Jerome
MEM: Bi Zhang, Raju Thakur, Manuel Nunez
SOE: Robert McCartney, Marty Wood, Kimberly
Duby
ABET Visit Team (May 7-8)
PEV
Richard Warder
Steven Schreiner
David DiBiasio
Thomas Sheahan
Cherrice Traver
Kevin Huggins
Joel Falk
David Chin
Chittaranjan Sahay
Bopaya Bidanda
Rudolph Buchheit
Institution
U Memphis
College of NJ
WPI
Northeastern
Union College
USMA
U Pittsburgh
U Miami
U Hartford
U Pittsburgh
Ohio St
Program
Team Chair
BME
CHEG
CIVIL
Comp E, EAC
CS, CAC
Electrical
ENVE
Mechanical
MEM
MSE
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Upcoming Events
Honors Scholars Day, March 21
BRIDGE 25th Anniversary, March 21
Awards Ceremony for Scholarship & Fellowship
Recognition, March 22
Innovation Connection in Stamford, March 29
EUROTECH Banquet, April 2
Academy of Distinguished Engineers, April 3
Gail Evans Book Discussion, April 12
Open House for Prospective Students, April 14
Senior Design Presentation Day, April 27
Connecticut Invention Convention, April 28
UG and Graduate Commencement, May 5
ABET Visit, May 7-8
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HuskyDM Implementation @ UConn
Engineering School, 2/29/2012
SURESH NAIR, Ph.D.
Interim Exec Director, Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Provost’s Office
Professor, School of Business
University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
HuskyDM
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Online system that will enable faculty to enter and
record their activities – intellectual contributions,
awards, service, etc.
Prof. Suresh Nair, University of Connecticut
HuskyDM
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Prof. Suresh Nair, University of Connecticut
This year’s target – Creating Provost
Annual Report (PAR) via HuskyDM
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The Provost has asked that all PAR this year be
created by HuskyDM
 Faculty
will not need to fill the 97 question Excel sheet,
AA will not need to aggregate for all faculty in Dept
 HuskyDM will automatically create this for Dept and
School.
 Will eliminate double counting of publications, patents,
grants, etc.
 Only
one author or PI enters information in HuskyDM
 Co-authors/Co-PIs get to see that the information is entered
Prof. Suresh Nair, University of Connecticut
Future Targets for HuskyDM
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Create draft PTR document via HuskyDM
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time for next year’s PTR process
Create vitas for NSF, NIH, etc.
Automatic updates of school websites for Research
pages
Engagement and Outreach information for the
Provost and President
Prof. Suresh Nair, University of Connecticut
Plan for HuskyDM Rollout
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3 Step process
Meet each school’s leadership (met Engg, Phar, Law, SSW,
CLAS)
 Present in each school faculty meetings in Spring
 Training sessions in Konover Auditorium (Apr 10, 18; May 2)
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Training materials online
We will send reminder e-mails to each faculty who
has not updated HuskyDM in April.
For PAR, only 2011-2012 information needs to be
entered
Prof. Suresh Nair, University of Connecticut
Contact & Information
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Suresh Nair
 Interim
Executive Director, Office of Institutional
Effectiveness, Suresh.Nair@uconn.edu
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Alexander del Campo
 School
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of Business, IT Services, Alexander.delCampo@uconn.edu
Liming Liu
 OIR,
Liming.Liu@uconn.edu
Prof. Suresh Nair, University of Connecticut
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Research Expenditures
Research Expenditures
(YTD Comparison)
$20,000,000
$18,000,000
$16,000,000
$14,000,000
$12,000,000
$10,000,000
Expenditures
$8,000,000
$6,000,000
$4,000,000
$2,000,000
$FY2009
FY2010
FY2011
FY2012
Major Proposals
in the
School of Engineering
GAANN Proposals
7 submitted this year
John Chandy
Mun Choi
Barry Carter
Chun-Hsi (Vincent)
Huang
Don Peterson
Allison MacKay
Bi Zhang
NSF-MRI
Three from the School
(2 acquisition, 1 development):
Barry Carter, Mu-Ping Nieh
Rich Christenson
Pre-proposal to be submitted to NIST
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in
Cyberspace (NSTIC).
Aggelos Kiayias
Connecticut’s Department of
Administrative Services and UITS
Pre-proposal to be
submitted to the USAID
Mekonnen Gebremichael
Full proposal to be submitted to NSF’s (PIRE).
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Manos Anagnostou
Full proposals to be submitted
to NSF’s (EFRI) program
Horea Ilies
Mehdi Anwar
Full proposal to be submitted to DOE
Material Genomics
.
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
Convergence Engineering Building
Planning
~
70 to 80,000 ft2
Building
1. Core Instrumentation
2. Hood Intensive Wet Labs
 Biological
 Non-Biological
3. Cyber-Physics Labs
4. Advanced Computing
5. Central IT
Time lines
– Architects are selected
– Planning ……………..
Has started
– Design …………………
Has started
Will continue until Fall 2012
– Construction ………. Starts early 2013
– Occupancy …………. Starts Jan 2015
3 year Application Data
BME
CHEG
CE
COMPE
CS
CSE
EGPHYS
EGUN
EE
ENVE
ME
MEM
MSE
Totals
Applicants
as of
2.16.12 for
Fall 2012
616
315
410
217
362
196
47
832
324
170
797
56
42
4384
Applicants
for 2.16.11 Applicants
for Fall
for 1.26.09
2011
Fall 2010
609
414
236
195
362
337
142
121
265
210
138
156
54
44
773
600
176
130
151
121
616
512
29
35
31
22
3582
2897
3 year Admission Data
BME
CHEG
CE
COMPE
CS
CSE
EGPHYS
EGUN
EE
ENVE
ME
MEM
MSE
Totals
Admits as of Admits for Admits as of
2.16.12 for 2.16.11 for
2.9.10 for
Fall 2012
Fall 2011
Fall 2010
278
287
256
147
101
127
121
98
122
43
24
41
107
69
74
59
35
63
15
21
19
333
285
327
57
43
56
79
62
57
244
192
205
17
7
16
17
16
11
1517
1240
1374
2012 Application to Admits Data
Applicants
as of
2.16.12 for
Fall 2012
BME
616
CHEG
315
CE
410
COMPE
217
CS
362
CSE
196
EGPHYS
47
EGUN
832
EE
324
ENVE
170
ME
797
MEM
56
MSE
42
Totals
4384
Average SAT score1221
Admits as
of 2.16.12
for Fall
2012
278
147
121
43
107
59
15
333
57
79
244
17
17
1517
Admission
Percentage
45.1%
46.7%
29.5%
19.8%
29.6%
30.1%
31.9%
40.0%
17.6%
46.5%
30.6%
30.4%
40.5%
34.6%
Males
147
101
83
36
96
50
13
246
51
36
208
12
11
1090
Females
131
46
38
7
11
9
2
87
6
43
36
5
6
427
% Female
Admits
47.1%
31.3%
31.4%
16.3%
10.3%
15.3%
13.3%
26.1%
10.5%
54.4%
14.8%
29.4%
35.3%
28.1%
Admission Data
Average
SAT Score
by
Program
1347
1333
1274
1281
1335
1303
1350
1315
1310
1289
1322
1294
1371
BME
CHEG
CE
COMPE
CS
CSE
EGPHYS
EGUN
EE
ENVE
ME
MEM
MSE
Totals
Average SAT score
1320
Admits as
of 2.16.12
for Fall
2012
278
147
121
43
107
59
15
333
57
79
244
17
17
1517
Males
147
101
83
36
96
50
13
246
51
36
208
12
11
1090
Females
131
46
38
7
11
9
2
87
6
43
36
5
6
427
Current Enrollment
Distribution by major & gender
ME
BME
CE
CHEG
EE
CSE
MSE
CS
EGUN
ENVE
MEM
COMPE
EGPHYS
Totals
Current
Enrollment
February 27,
2012
Number of
Female
Students
482
323
227
219
170
162
115
97
75
73
54
37
22
2056
51
107
45
62
16
21
29
6
6
31
17
3
3
397
Percentage
of Females
10.6%
33.1%
19.8%
28.3%
9.4%
13.0%
25.2%
6.2%
8.0%
42.5%
31.5%
8.1%
13.6%
19.3%
ABET Preparation Timeline
• 12-18 months before ABET Visit – Fall 2013
– Collect examples of student work such as exams,
quizzes, projects, homework, syllabi, etc.
– Focus on Assessment Planning
– Review program curriculum – improve if needed
– Complete a preliminary Self Study
– Schedule a Dry Run Visit – May 7 & 8
• 12 months before ABET Visit – Fall 2013
– Repeat above steps for the real visit
ABET Dry Run
Program Evaluators (PEV)
Person
Richard Warder
Institution
U Memphis
program to visit
Team Chair
Steven Schreiner
David DiBiasio
Thomas Sheahan
College of New Jersey
WPI
Northeastern
BME
CHEG
Civil
Cherrice Traver
Union College
Comp E, EAC side of CSE
Kevin Huggins
Joel Falk
USMA
U Pittsburgh
CS, CAC side of CSE
Electrical
David Chin
U Miami
ENVE (invited)
Chittaranjan Sahay
U Hartford
Mechanical
Bopaya Bidanda
U Pittsburgh
MEM (IIE and SME)
Rudolph G. Buchheit
Ohio St
MSE
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Graduate Application
1,600
10% increase
1,500
1,400
1,300
1,200
1,100
1,000
'06-'07
'07-'08
'08-'09
Total Applicants
'09-'10
'10-'11
Graduate Enrollment
750
13.5% increase
700
650
600
550
500
450
Fall 2007
Fall 2008
Fall 2009
Total Enrollment
Fall 2010
Fall 2011
Enrollment (Breakdown)
Year
Total
Ph.D.
Domestic
Female
2011
731
425
342
183
2010
709
402
321
172
2009
625
350
262
152
2008
573
306
237
137
Total increase: 28%; Ph.D.: 39%; Domestic: 44%; Female: 34%
Graduate Fellowship
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Spring 2009
Spring 2010
US Fellowship
Spring 2011
Spring 2012
Intl. Fellowship
Increase: 2010-2011; 39%; 2011-2012: 44%; # in Spring 2012: 82
Initiatives/Programs (1)
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UPGRAD: Undergraduate Pipeline to Grad School
 Offer research seminars to engineering UG students
 Engage students to consider UG research & graduate school
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Pre-Grad Fellows Program
 Collaborate with Honors office and Scholarship office
 Encourage UG students to explore graduate school,
fellowship opportunities and research opportunities
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GRE-prep Class
 Collaborate with Honors office
 Support 20 students to GRE-prep class by Princeton Review
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Other projects/activities:
 GRE-email, open house, recruiting trips
Initiatives/Programs (2)
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Graduate Professional Development
 Hold workshops for proposals, teaching, presentation,
writing, leadership, entrepreneurship, etc
 Enhance students’ career path planning
 Well received by students (based on surveys &
feedbacks)
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(Engineering) Tech Forum (planning)
 May 17, 2012 (joint with Innovation Connection)
 Expect strong participation from industry, academia
(including foreign countries), and government
 Showcase not just your students’ work but also yours
 Please encourage & support your students’ participation
Announcement
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Outstanding Faculty Adviser & Career Outstanding Faculty
Mentor Award
 Nomination due TODAY
 Awards to be presented at April’s faculty meeting
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International Collaboration Program
3+2 program with Xian Jiaotong University, China
Aim to attract top international students
Suggest other potential universities
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