State of
Ishwar K. Puri
Professor and Department Head
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Metrics
Human Resources
Source,
Institutional Reports
Faculty
45
Maturity
40
35
Obstacles
Faculty FTE
30
25
Rejuvenation?
20
Growth
15
10
5
0
1930
Recent Source:
Institutional Reports
Introduction
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Undergraduate"Enrollment"
ESM BS Enrollment
200"
Recent Source:
Institutional Reports
About 130 in
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year 137
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69
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Institutional Reports
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ESM B.S. Degrees Awarded
ESM BS Degrees
50
Stability(
15
10
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Academic Year
0
National Research Council
Expectations
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Publications per allocated faculty
Citations per publication
Percent faculty with grants
Awards per faculty
Percent (students) 1st Yr. Full Support
Percent Completing in 6 yrs. or less
Median Time to Degree
Students with Academic Plans
Collects Outcomes data
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Percent Students Minority
Percent Students Female
Percent Students International
Percent Interdisciplinary
Average GRE-Q
Number of PhDs 2002-2006
Student Workspace
Student Health Insurance
Student Activities
Recruiting
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71 70
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73 72
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75 74
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77 76
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79 78
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81 80
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Institutional Reports
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Institutional Reports
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Combined MS+PhD enrollment
180
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Institutional Reports
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PhD Degrees
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Research & Education, ’10
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Institutional Reports
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Movement in the
right direction,
will it last?
Citations to Scholarly Work
1179
675
728
189
0
535
149
HA
3159
277
IKP
1426
5020
AHN
RCB
33203
6264
483
265
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1134
322
KPG
RLM
393
3001
LL
Source:
Scopus, 3/14/12
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Data includes that
for some emereti
who continue to be
“active” in citations
Benchmarking, SCH/FTE, 2010
!800!!
Engineering!Science!and!
Mechanics!
Student'Credit'Hour/FTE'
!700!!
Aerospace!and!Ocean!Engineering!
Chemical!Engineering!
!600!!
Civil!and!Environmental!
Engineering!
!500!!
Computer!Science!
Engineering!EducaDon!
!400!!
Electrical!and!Computer!
Engineering!
!300!!
Industrial!and!Systems!Engineering!
!200!!
Materials!Science!and!Engineering!
Mechanical!Engineering!
!100!!
Mining!and!Minerals!Engineering!
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Institutional Reports
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Future
Vision Statement
The Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) will remain unique at Virginia
Tech and within its College of Engineering by integrating established and emerging scientific
theories into transformative approaches for engineering principles, analyses,
simulations, design and practices. Its role is to expand the curriculum
beyond classical continuum mechanics by assimilating advances in the
sciences into new approaches and tools. Thus, ESM strives to be an
internationally recognized focal program for the learning and discovery of
multiscale interdisciplinary systems.
The Vision 2025 effort was initiated due to the 2010 Graduate Program Review Committee’s
challenge for the ESM Faculty to “reach a strong consensus on the identity and mission” of the
department. This was discussed at an annual ESM Advisory Committee Meeting and a suggestion
was made to recruit a small but distinguished team of ESM alumni to assist with this task.
Engineering Fee: State-of-the-Art Motion Tracking for Biomechanics
In the top right image, students
and instructor prepare a
volunteer for testing.
At lower right, the system is
used to track the motion of a
volunteer for a class
assignment.
Students in ESM 4204 Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
discuss the capabilities of a new stateof-the-art motion tracking system.
Engineering Fee: A Multi-camera High-speed Video
System for Biomechanics Education
Core system: Two Photron APX-RS high speed video cameras,
lenses and tripods. Compatible for expansion with other ESM
Photron cameras
Capabilities: Synchronized video recording up to 250,000 frames
per second
Implementation:
Biomotion: Life in Moving Fluids (Spring
2010, 2011)
Senior Design (2010-2011; Ralph
Navarette, Oliver Raj, Matt Paluzcek)
Graduate Student Research (Sarah
Dellinger, Myles Simon)
Testing the setup with a human jump
Impact on 50+ undergraduate and graduate Recording the complex wingbeat
students
patterns of a locust
Gifts
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Kevin Granata Faculty Fellowship
Liviu Librescu Faculty Prize
Liviu Librescu Graduate Scholarship(s)
Hassan Aref Memorial Endowment
Bechtel Travel Fellowship(s)
Alfriend Travel Fellowship(s)
Shout outs
About half of the ESM Faculty has
served on search committees
Shout out to hiring
Army YI
IGERT
CAREER
CAREER NSF
NSF
EFRI
Co-PI
Ten new hires since 2006:
• Fluid dynamics, chaos
• Dynamical systems
• Soft matter
• Organismal biomechanics
• Nanoscience
• Bioinspiration
CAREER
ONR
One additional hire in 2013
Top 20 Virginia Tech Teachers
COE Teaching Excellence
Out of roughly 340 instructors
Recent COE Faculty Fellows
To Students (& Mentors)
College of Engineering
Outstanding Doctoral Student
Virginia Tech
Graduate Man of the Year
Virginia Tech
Honorable Mention
Outstanding Dissertation
Science & Engineering
Jefferson Goblet Award for
best student paper at 52nd
AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC
SSDM Conference
Undergraduate Research
Communication in Nonlinear Science and
Numerical Simulation, 2012
j.esm.vt.edu
Shout Out to Team Effort
An improved
web presence
An exemplary
departmental
newsletter
An international
interdisciplinary
presence
Mechanics in Extreme
Environments
AmeriMech 2013? Materials Genomic Initiative? Invasive dynamical events?
Shout Out: Behind All This
’09 Virginia Tech
Leadership Award
Virginia Tech Staff Employees of the Week, ’09-’11
What We Set Out To Do
ESM Strategic
Thinking Committee,
2004
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Challenges
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Improve the undergraduate and graduate curricula
Strengthen the PhD program
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Process, analytical and communication skills
Recruiting
Raise support for research (raise expenditures)
We are solving: what is mechanics and what is engineering science?
Challenges
•
We are addressing perceived need for the department
•
ESM-type departments have been merged nationwide
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Keep strengthening!
Curriculum
So, we’ve done a lot, yet a lot
remains to be done
Thank You!