Annual Report
Academic Year 2005-06
Department of Mechanical Engineering
1) Introduction
The end of the 2006-07 academic year finds the Department of Mechanical
Engineering in excellent shape. We are witnessing growth in our undergraduate
program, considerable progress in our graduate program and funded research,
and a positive “climate” change that is characterizing every aspect of our
mission.
The mechanical engineering program is the largest in the College as measured
by undergraduate enrollment. The performance of the mechanical engineering
students on the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (FE) has been the best in
the College in recent years. The passing rate is very close to a 100%, running
about 10% above the national average.
In the Fall of 2005 we established a five-year, BS in Physics – MS in Mechanical
Engineering program (PhysME). PhysME is a streamlined program that provides
an opportunity to undergraduate physics students to continue their studies in
Mechanical Engineering. In addition, the department established the BS/MS
program in Mechanical Engineering. This program is designed to provide highly
qualified students the opportunity to work towards both the BS and MS degrees
in ME. These students are admitted to the BS/MS-ME program during the
second semester of their junior year of their BS program. Early planning of the
graduate portion of a student's education provides more flexibility and should
result in reduction of the time required for obtaining the B.S. and MS. degrees.
We have been very active in establishing and promoting the “International
Option” for our ME students. We now have an “International Curriculum” that is
designed to accommodate undergraduate students who want to spend a
semester or two working as interns in the industry or studying at an institution
abroad. As a result of the exchange agreements we signed in 2005, two
Japanese students attended UW during the past academic year. Mr. Keisuke
Ishita from Saitama University attended classes in Chemical & Petroleum
Engineering, while Jun-Ichi Hosokawa from Tohoku University attended classes
in Mechanical Engineering. Two of our students, Colin Reutter from Physics and
Andrew Blair from Computer Science are now completing their year-long studies
at Tohoku University.
Our graduates find employment in a variety of industries. Recent employers
include aerospace manufacturers (Cessna, Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin),
energy companies, particularly oil and gas field service companies (Baker
Hughes, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Encana Oil & Gas), various Department of
Defense facilities (Pudget Sound Naval Shipyard, Naval Air Warfare Center), and
some local companies (IDES, Well Dog Inc.). In addition, approximately one fifth
of our graduates enroll directly to graduate school upon graduation.
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The Department’s research effort continues to grow in both quantity and quality.
Our funded research effort is no longer dependent upon one or two faculty with
very large programs. We now have several faculty members who have built or
are building quality programs. Research is no longer part of the job description of
the very few and a “hobby” for the rest.
We believe that our decision to concentrate on the strengths of each one of our
faculty and not propose a single model for everyone provides the right path to
success for a University like UW. We see our Mechanical Engineering program
as part of the college and UW and not as an entity that is in competition with
other UW units. This approach is helping us as a Department and as a College
and is probably the only reasonable approach for UW, given our limited
resources.
2) Planning Implementation
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(Action Item 4) Emphasize writing and oral communication in existing curricula.
Mechanical Engineering students are required to take COJO 1010, the Public
Speaking Course. In the Spring of 2006, we re-established the connection
between ME 2020 (the first ME lab course) and English 2005 (the technical
writing course). ME is providing funds to the English department for an instructor
who is teaching the class for our students, both in the Fall and Spring.
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(Action Item 21) …streamline bachelor’s-plus-master’s programs.
In the Fall of 2005, the department established the BS/MS and Phys/ME
programs, with the approval of the Academic Affairs and the Graduate School. In
the BS/MS program, we currently have two students enrolled and two who plan
to enroll in the Fall. There is one student in the Phys/ME program.
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(Relevant to Action Item 33) Support the proposed Science & Engineering of
Materials interdisciplinary graduate program. This is a University priority, which
provides a unique opportunity for our department to contribute knowledge and
expertise.
Little progress has been made on this front. We had some serious setbacks with
the EPSCoR proposal, the departure of Dr. Yarger, and the death of Dr.
Armstrong. Nevertheless, the university’s academic plan continues to emphasize
materials science. We will continue to work towards the establishment of the
SEM program. The department has recently hired two junior faculty members in
this research area.
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(Relevant to Action Item 34) Support the UW efforts in the area of Computational
Science.
We continue to build on our computational capabilities. With the support of the
University, we are doubling the computational capabilities of our Linux research
cluster. Last year we hired Prof. Sukky Jun, a computational materials scientist.
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(Action Item 40) Support summer residential programs for high-school students.
Prof. Dennis Coon of Mechanical Engineering is leading this effort in
Engineering.
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(Action Item 55) Develop graduate-program goals for all graduate degrees.
The department has submitted a draft vision statement to the Graduate School.
This document was finalized in the Fall of 2006.
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(Action Item 72) Support summer opportunities for students to study, work, and
travel abroad.
In today’s global engineering environment, it is becoming quite clear that in order
to compete in the global marketplace for products, services, and careers, one
must be technically, culturally and linguistically literate.
The International Engineering Option offered by Mechanical Engineering
provides our students with an opportunity to spend one or two semesters abroad.
They will have the benefit of studying the language and culture of another
country, while completing their engineering degree at UW. Students in the
program may takes classes at a number of foreign institutions or participate in an
internship.
An international experience involves more than just international study or an
internship. Integration and immersion into another society removes cultural and
linguistic barriers. Once these barriers have been breached, engineers and other
technical professionals can begin to understand the perspectives and viewpoints
held by others around the world. With this understanding, our students will not
only benefit from the newly gained knowledge of international issues, practices,
and opportunities, but they will also enhance their understanding of domestic
issues and challenges.
The study of a foreign language and the study-abroad experience satisfy the
cultural context requirements of the University Studies Program. As a result,
there is only a slight increase in the total number of required credits for the BS
degree in Mechanical Engineering. For students without any prior knowledge of
the relevant foreign language, the total number of credit hours is 134.
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(Action Item 85) Discontinue unused courses that lack justification.
During the past two years we eliminated several unused courses from our
undergraduate and graduate curricula.
3) Teaching Activities
The department has revisited its Mechanical Engineering curriculum and has
made a number of changes. They resulted in more than ten course action
requests. An international engineering option has been added. A new
undergraduate course in engineering computations has been developed. The
introductory course sequence of our graduate program has been revised. All
graduate students are now required to take the first course in each departmental
discipline.
Professor Paul Dellenback, who recently assumed the duties of the Department’s
Undergraduate Coordinator, has already made significant contributions. We are
looking forward to his continuing success.
Our well-established assessment process provides the guidance for curricular
improvements. We assess our program every year and present the relevant
information to our External Advisory Board for their evaluation and approval.
Such information include “stoplight” charts resulting from the available data,
detailed assessment results, and an assessment summary report.
Community college articulation is handled through the Dean’s Office.
4) Research Activities
The department continues to strengthen its research productivity in a variety of
measurable ways. The number of archival, journal publications has increased.
The research expenditures in 2006 have exceeded $100K per faculty, the
highest in the history of the department. More importantly, these expenditures
come mainly through federal, competitive grants, and are the result of the
involvement of several faculty and not just one or two. We now have about 15
PhD students; more than half are supported through external grants and
contracts.
The department has been a leader in supporting several of the University’s
research initiatives including materials and the computational sciences and has
been effective in engaging other departments to generate interdisciplinary
research activities. We currently have several interdisciplinary research projects
with departments outside the College of Engineering, like the Department of
Mathematics and the Department of Chemistry.
One of our faculty members, Prof. Dimitri Mavriplis was instrumental in the
discussions that eventually lead to the selection of UW and Wyoming as primary
partners in the NCAR Supercomputer Center. This new formal partnership
between NCAR and UW will not only greatly enhance our access in Mechanical
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Engineering and across the UW campus to state-of-the-art computational
facilities, but will foster a strong collaboration between UW, NCAR and other
Front Range Institutions in the important multidisciplinary area of Computational
Science and Engineering.
The department’s success with DEPSCoR awards continues. After securing two
such awards in 2004 and one in 2005, we recently received another from
AFOSR. This is an extraordinary achievement if one considers the fact that 16 of
those awards were given nationally in FY 2007 (about 25 States are eligible).
This department has received seven such awards since 2000. This must be the
highest DEPSCoR success rate in the country for any department, whether in
Engineering or the Sciences.
It is important that the progress we have witnessed in this area is maintained in
the future. Research productivity and success in graduate education come
together; this is a fact that our department understands. We will continue to
mentor our new faculty and help them establish their research programs. As long
as success in research is rewarded and the current positive climate is
maintained, we expect that we will continue to improve. The main challenge we
face is the availability of qualified graduate students. It’s a difficult problem, faced
by the vast majority of universities in the US. We will continue to work on
improving our recruitment.
5) Service, Extension and Activities
Our faculty continue to contribute significantly in the service activities at the
university and the professional community at large. In addition to committee
memberships at every level, several of our faculty made seminal contributions in
areas like economic development (Garnich, Hansen & Walrath through STTR
and SBIR programs and the Laramie Economic Development Corporation), the
establishment of the Hathaway Scholarship and the Capital Facilities planning,
among others (Hansen, through his service as a Presidential Faculty Fellow).
In addition, our faculty serve in national and international professional
organizations, which include the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and
the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, among others.
6) Student Recruitment and Retention Activities and Enrollment
Trends
During the AY 2000-01 to AY 2005-06 period, the OIA data suggest an overall
increase in the number of students enrolled in Mechanical Engineering. In the
Fall of 2000, the enrollment number was 240, while it reached 271 in the Fall of
2004. It dropped to 252 in 2005 and increased to 286 in 2006. The most
significant change has occurred in the number of doctoral students. The number
of PhD students has increased from 2 in 2000 and 1 in 2001, to 11 in 2004 and
15 in 2005. The MS-level numbers have dropped from 20 in 2000 to 11 in 2004.
We had 14 MS students in 2006 and we expect 19 in the Fall of 2007. The
number of MS students will continue to increase as a result of initiatives that
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include a joint Physics-ME program, a 5-year BS/MS degree, and a Plan-B (nothesis) MS degree.
7) Development activities and public relations, including the use and
maintenance of your departmental website
The development activities are coordinated through the Development Office of
the College of Engineering. These include the biennial report and the College
and departmental brochures.
Every fall, the department sends a letter to the alumni, informing them of the
latest news and events. The department regularly mails “thank you” letters to our
alumni who contribute to the department’s development fund.
Our department’s External Advisory Board (current members are listed in the
Appendix) has expressed an interest in assisting with alumni communications.
They started in 2005 in an effort to create an event to invite alumni back to the
Department. The aim is to increase Departmental visibility to reconnect alumni to
the Department, build visibility and reputation of the Department, and encourage
company hiring. They saw a limited response to initial contact with a few selected
alumni, response insufficient to achieve the desired outcomes.
The Departmental web site is updated several times a year. A better job could be
done in this area, if additional effort and resources are allocated to this important
task.
8) Classified and Professional Staffing
Mr. Steve Ownbey (Senior Computer Information Specialist) continues to provide
excellent support for the Mechanical Engineering computer systems. In addition
to the faculty and student computers, he is now in charge of our 64-node Linux
cluster. The size of this cluster was doubled last summer. Mr. Ownbey is
responsible for the Department’s web pages.
Our Office Associate, Ms. Louise Abe, retired last summer after many years of
dedicated service to the Department and the College of Engineering. Our Senior
Accounting Associate, Ms. Julie McGinnis, left our Department last summer also
to join the UW Art Museum. They were replaced by two very competent staff
members, Ms. Gale Bandsma and Ms. Debbie Stark. Both have had substantial
experience at the University, which allowed us to move forward through a
seamless transition.
Student advising is handled exclusively by faculty.
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9) Assessment of Student Learning
1. What are your program goals and/or student learning outcomes? Where can they be
found? Are they available to students? If so, how?
The Mechanical Engineering Department has developed 6 Program
Outcomes, which are:
ME OT 1 –Formulate engineering problems including identification of
missing information and development of experimental data.
ME OT 2 –Apply the fundamentals of mathematics, science, and
engineering to the design and realization of mechanical systems.
ME OT 3 –Effectively communicate including presentation and
interpretation of engineering information.
ME OT 4 – Contribute to multidisciplinary teams in the development of
engineering solutions.
ME OT 5 –Maintain competence in a technologically evolving profession.
ME OT 6 – Recognition of the professional, ethical, and societal
responsibilities of the mechanical engineering profession.
These Program Outcomes are available to students. These Program Outcomes
are given to students as part of the syllabus in 2000 and 3000 level ME courses.
2. Provide a brief summary of your assessment activities for this past year. What did
you accomplish? Please describe what data were collected or analyzed. If you
analyzed data, what are you doing with the results? What changes have you made
because of what you learned?
The Mechanical Engineering Department has a comprehensive and mature
assessment process aligned closely with accreditation standards. The process
has been implemented by the Mechanical Engineering Department Continuous
Improvement Committee. MEDCIC is comprised of the Department Head, a
Coordinator, one solid mechanics faculty, and one fluid mechanics faculty. At the
beginning of each semester, faculty are notified by the Coordinator of
assessment activities and student materials to be collected for assessment. The
Coordinator collects the assessment materials and arranges assessment of
materials as appropriate. The Coordinator archives the assessment results, and
provides a draft annual assessment report to MEDCIC members in late March
each year. MEDCIC reviews the report, revises as necessary, and releases a
summary of the report to both the department faculty and the Department’s
External Advisory Board in early April each year. The complete report and the
summary are available on a secure Web site for examination by faculty and the
External Advisory Board.
Any required course, process, or program
modifications are discussed and scheduled for implementation the following year.
Each year, student work is collected from select sophomore, junior, and senior
level courses. This student work is assessed by a faculty other than the course
instructor. Students are asked to provide a self-assessment using an exit survey,
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and alumni survey, preparedness surveys in select junior level courses, and
teamwork assessment in a senior level course. In addition, external entities
including the Department’s External Advisory Board, external judges for the
Department’s Senior Design Symposium and the national Fundamentals of
Engineering Exam are used to assess demonstration of Program Outcomes.
The total assessment process results in 155 separate data points distributed as
follows:
Assessment
by faculty
Self
assessment
by students
Assessment
by external
entities
(number of data points)
ME OT 3 ME OT 4 ME OT 5
ME OT 1
ME OT 2
ME OT 6
12
13
19
1
1
1
4
52
5
5
3
5
3
27
3
0
0
1
The data is tracked using standard control chart methods, and the control charts
are updated, analyzed, and summarized annually. A stoplight chart (attached)
has been developed to graphically convey the summary information. The
modifications to be implemented in calendar year 2007 are attached in a
separate file.
3. What efforts has your program/department made to follow students once they have
graduated and/or left the university? Please answer separately for undergraduate,
masters, and doctoral students.
Both the Department and College maintain a database of contact information.
This information is update when new contact information is available. The
information is quite accurate for recent graduates, and considerably less
accurate for graduates that left UW some time ago.
Graduates are asked to respond to an online survey in the third and sixth
years after graduation. Both this alumni survey and the exit survey are
administered by the Dean’s Office. In addition, the Mechanical Engineering
Department Head meets one-on-one with each graduating senior to discussion
their experiences, future, and specific comments relative to the Department’s
educational performance. Results of both the surveys and one-on-one meetings
are provided to MEDCIC annually and these results are used as part of the
annual assessment process.
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4. Please respond to the feedback/suggestions provided to you from the Assessment
Coordinators last year. What have you done to address these concerns?
The Department is unaware of any specific feedback from the Assessment
Coordinators last year.
5. What problems, challenges, or issues regarding assessment does your department
still have? What can be done for these issues to be resolved within the next
academic year? What resources or assistance do you need?
Last year, the Department faced two challenges: increasing the response
rate for alumni surveys, and explanatory comments from the exit survey of
graduating seniors. The Department and College implemented an online alumni
survey to facilitate survey completion, and hopefully increase response rate. We
should now see an increased response rate by Fall 2007 if this modification is
successful. The Department Head implemented one-on-one meetings in Fall
2006 with each graduating senior to facilitate explanatory comments. These
one-on-one meetings have been quite successful in communicating both positive
and negative aspects of a student’s experience.
Issues that have been identified from the Calendar Year 2006 (file attached)
include poor communication of graphical and numerical engineering information
in a sophomore-level course, poor discussion of teamwork issues in a seniorlevel report, and poor discussion of how engineering solutions integrate with
problems from a broader view in a senior-level course. Each of these issues has
been discussed by the Department faculty, and a modification to address each
issue has been proposed. All modifications are scheduled for implementation by
Fall 2007. In addition, MEDCIC has identified areas requiring careful
consideration in the Calendar Year 2007 dataset.
The resources are sufficient to administer and implement the annual
assessment process in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Graduate Program: The Department has submitted a “Graduate Program Vision
Statement” to the Graduate School. This document was finalized and approved
by the faculty during the last academic year. It defines various methods, criteria,
and metrics used for internal assessment of the graduate program in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering. Reasonable, constructive assessment is
vital to the continuing welfare of our graduate program, and this Vision Statement
is provided to minimize any ambiguity with regard to this process. Using the
verifiable benchmarks described in this document, the Department will conduct a
recurring graduate program review that will be interactive, forward thinking, data
based, peer-focused and consequential, with the ultimate goal being to improve
the overall quality of our graduate program.
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10) Diversity
Professor Coon, a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering, has served as the
Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the NSF-funded CSEMS (Computer
Science, Engineering, and Mathematics) Scholarship Program. The focus of this
program is recruiting of under-represented groups.
Major effort has been directed towards increasing the enrollment of female
students. Nationally, female students’ enrollment in Mechanical Engineering trails
the other engineering disciplines. The Department is very involved in the
Engineering Science Program (ESP) of the College. This two-week summer
program brings to the College 14-16 high-potential, female HS juniors. It involves
engineering mini-projects aimed at exposing the students to the engineering
discipline. About 50% of these students enroll in engineering.
The Hewlett CE3 is another project where Mechanical Engineering is deeply
involved. In an effort to enhance the image of engineering in public schools, girls
from the 6th to 8th grade are invited to participate in a science camp, modeled
after ESP. last year we had eight participants.
Dr. Nancy Peck, another member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty, serves
as a MSLI (Minority Student Leadership Initiative) Steering Committee member
and faculty mentor and as a Selection Committee member for the Computer
Science, Engineering, Mathematics Scholarship (CSEMS) program. She also
serves as the College of Engineering Representative on Women’s Studies
Committee.
During the past two years, we had the opportunity to search for two new faculty,
at the Assistant Professor level. We were fortunate to attract an excellent scholar
in the area of computational mechanics and materials, Prof. Sukky Jun.
Professor Jun is the first non-Caucasian faculty member in our department.
Recently, we were also able to recruit Prof. Yong Zhu who has a solid
background in experimental mechanics. Dr. Zhu’s held a post-doctoral
appointment at UT-Austin and will be replacing Prof. Bill Armstrong who passed
away so unexpectedly last August.
11) Accomplishments of the Department
At this point in its history, the department is enjoying a second “renaissance”
after the prosperous days of the early eighties. This is due to the hard work of the
faculty, the success of our students, and the excellent financial condition of the
Wyoming State government. Five faculty members have joined the group since
2001. Our enrollment has been steadily increasing. The number of archival
journal publications has more than doubled since 2000. This year, we received
the seventh DoD EPSCoR award since 2000; we believe that this is the highest
number of awards received by any eligible department in the US. In addition, our
research expenditures have recently exceeded $100K per faculty.
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A few of the Departments accomplishments are highlighted below:
PhysME – In the Fall of 2005 we established a five-year, BS in Physics – MS in
Mechanical Engineering program (PhysME). Both departments have a lot to gain
from this cooperation, with our students being the primary beneficiaries. PhysME
is a streamlined program that provides an opportunity to undergraduate physics
students to continue their studies in Mechanical Engineering. At the end of the
fourth year, students would be able to receive a BS in Physics Plus and
automatically (after fulfilling the Graduate School requirements) enroll in the
Mechanical Engineering MS program. This approach will enable them to receive
their MS graduate degree in ME within a minimum of one year. This integrated
program becomes possible by taking advantage of similar courses in the
curricula of the two departments and by utilizing a number of carefully selected
engineering courses as electives within the Physics BS Plus degree.
International Engineering -- During the past three years, we have been very
active in establishing an “International Option” for our ME students. We now have
an “International Curriculum” that is designed to accommodate undergraduate
students who want to spend a semester or two at an institution abroad. Given our
very limited interaction with universities in Asia, we worked towards establishing
exchange agreements with several Japanese universities. For this purpose, we
wrote proposals to the College and University that were funded. The support
allowed us to visit Japan in May of 2005 where exchange agreements with
Tohoku University and Saitama University were negotiated. Both agreements
were completed in the summer of 2005, providing our students the opportunity to
spend one to two semesters at Tohoku or Saitama during their junior year. The
agreements will also simplify the research collaboration between our faculty and
their colleagues at the two Japanese universities. In 2005, D. Kouris was
awarded a Research Fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of
Science, which allowed him to spend four weeks in Japan, having the opportunity
to enhance our collaboration with our Japanese colleagues. He recently visited
Saitama and Tohoku where he met our students currently studying in Japan. The
exchange agreements with Saitama University will soon become university-wide
agreements.
BSMS-ME -- The joint BS/MS program in Mechanical Engineering (ME) is
designed to present highly qualified students with the opportunity to work towards
both the BS and MS degrees in ME. These students will be admitted to the
BSMS-ME program during the second semester of their junior year of their BS
program.
This program allows for early planning of the graduate portion of a student's
education and provides more flexibility in the order in which courses are taken.
The more efficient and better-planned use of time should result in reduction of
the time required for obtaining the B.S. and MS. degrees.
As a result of the better coordination of courses within the ME Department than is
usually possible for students who come to UW from other institutions to pursue
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the MS degree, up to six credit hours may be counted toward both the BS and
MS degree programs (see Overlapping Credit below). By completing successfully
up to six credit hours of graduate classes during their senior year, these
exceptional students would have demonstrated their ability to do graduate level
work as undergraduates, easing their transition to ME’s graduate program.
External Advisory Board -- The most recent meeting of our External Advisory
Board took place in Laramie, April 27-28, 2007. As it does every year, the Board
reviewed the “state of the department” and provided the following
commendations:
1. The EAB commends the ME Department for the quality of the faculty and their
ability to continually recruit tier 1 professors.
2. The EAB commends the Department for the research level per faculty
member of $100K average research funding. Most of the funding results from
successful proposals for competitive Federal funds. Commendation recognizes
the department’s efforts to focus on research productivity and not on just
capturing research dollars.
3. The EAB commends the Department for successfully adding the new
programs of PhysME, BS/MS, and Plan B MS as recommended by the EAB.
The Department now has several students enrolled in these programs.
4. The EAB commends Dr. Dennis Coon and the Department for its efforts in
preparing the ABET self-assessment tool and the power it provides in tracking
progress and managing outcomes through identification of issues and tracking
how the corrective actions track back to the outcome.
5. The EAB commends the Department’s successful efforts to gather student
enrollment history by year, semester, and gender as requested by the EAB.
6. The EAB commends the Department for maintaining a diverse EAB with a
wide background of experience. This year the Department Head added three
new members: Annette Lynch, Rowland Linford, and Don Boyer.
7. The EAB commends the pivotal involvement of Dr. Dimitri Mavriplis in
establishing the relationship with NCAR that led to selection of Wyoming for the
location of the new NCAR super computing facility.
8. The EAB commends the department and specifically Dr. Paul Dellenback for
his efforts to improve the undergraduate program including development of
marketing tools to help recruit undergraduate students.
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Appendix: External Advisory Board Members (As of March 2007)
Pat Burns (Oct. 01) Chair of the Board
Vice President & General Manager
M. A. Mortenson Company
8729 Bitterroot Court
Lorton VA 22079
Peter Davis (April 06)
Consultant, PRD Consulting
P. O. Box 826
Sheridan, WY 82801
William Dolling (April 06)
Vice President of ATK Launch Systems, retired
2089 South 100 West
Perry, Utah 84302
Frank Fair (Oct. 01)
Project Engineer- Cessna Aircraft Co.
Dept - 367
One Cessna Blvd
Wichita, KS 67215
Paul S. Fussell, PhD (Oct. 01) Past Chair of the Board
Senior Manager, Math Modeling
Mathematics & Computing Technology
The Boeing Company
P. O. Box 3707 MC 7L-21
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
Stan Graves (April 2004)
Quality, Safety, and Environmental
ATK Launch Systems
P.O. Box 707, M/S 800
Brigham City, UT 84302
Maureen Hand (March 2005)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
1617 Cole Blvd., MS 3811
Golden, CO 80401
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Christopher Key (Oct. 01)
Manager, Computational Mechanics Group
Engineering Technology Center
Anteon Corporation
240 Oral School Road, Suite 105
Mystic, CT 06355
Dan Kohlhaas, (Oct. 02) Vice Chair of the Board
Executive Vice President
Avanco International, Inc.
1751 Pinnacle Drive, Suite 425
McLean, Virignia 22102
Keith Miller (Oct. 01)
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1125
Manuel D. Salas (April 2004)
Senior Scientist
Configuration Aerodynamics
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton VA 23681-2199
Don Slaughterbeck (April 2004)
Consulting Engineer
Science Applications International Corporation
20 Mountain Road
Jelm, WY 82063
Patrick Shea (March 2005) (student member)
(307) 742-2590
Email: prshea77@uwyo.edu
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