Electrical and Computer Engineering
Departmental Overview
Prof. Mark E. Law
Department of Electrical and Computer Eng.
Outline
• Agenda
• State of the Department
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Faculty
Graduate
Undergraduate
Campaign
• Conclusions
Agenda Thursday
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11:30 – 1:00 Lunch, Introductions, State of the Department – Law
1:00 – 2:30 Undergraduate Program Issues
1:00 ABET Review Results and Process – Law
1:30 Counseling Assistants – Law
1:45 IPPD – Eisenstadt
2:00 ECE Seminar – Jordan
2:15 ECE Adventures – Arroyo / Schwartz
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 3:45 Research Overviews
NSF Reconfigurable Computing Center – Alan George
NIH Neural Recording Implant – Harris
NSF Entrepreneurship – Harris
4:00 – 5:30 Senior Design Poster / Demos – Rotunda Area
6:30 – Dinner at Hilton Hotel
Agenda Friday
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8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 Capital Campaign – Maltbie
9:30 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 11:00 Graduate Student Panel Q&A
11:00 – 12:30 Research Posters - NEB
12:30 – 2:00 Wrap-Up and Feedback
US News Rankings
• Beauty Contest at the department level
• 31st Best Graduate Program in US
News (2007) Down 2 from 2006
• Unranked Undergrad, same as 2005
ECE Faculty
 Faculty
 42 Tenure Track Faculty and 5 Lecturers
 14 IEEE Fellows
 13 Assistant Professors, 14 untenured
 Relatively Young
Recent Faculty Honors
• Dr. Liuqing Yang received ONR Young Investigator Award
• Dr. Dapeng Wu received NSF Career Award
• Drs. Rakov and Principe selected as a UF Research Foundation
Professors.
• Dr. Mark Law receives SRC Aristotle Award
• Dr. Jenshan Lin received Walter Cox award for service to IEEE MTT
Society
• Dr. Scott Thompson named IEEE Fellow
Recent Faculty Press
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Dr. Martin Uman, Lightning and Climate Change, New York Times
Dr. Martin Uman and Dr. Vladimir Rakov, "Engineers are first to measure lightningcaused polluting gas”
Dr. Alan George, National Science Foundation Research Center Launched at UF
Dr. Alan George, New NSF Center Targets Reconfigurable Computing, HPCwire
Dr. Alan George, UF, Honeywell engineers building first space supercomputer
Dr. Jenshan Lin, For the future hydrogen economy, a tiny, self-powered sensorDr.
Vladimir Rakov, Lightning Sparks Interest at Capitol Hill Educational Luncheon
Dr. W. Eisenstadt, University's Sensor Gets Fresh with Pharmaceuticals and Other
Goods, Electronic Design
Dr. Karl Gugel, New Student-Design System Tracks Firefighters, Special Forces,
April 13, 2006
Hiring Plans and Recruitment
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Target 50 faculty (nearly ten in real growth)
Lost 2 Faculty last year
No New Hires in 05/06
06/07 Search
– Hired Rob Moore - Atmospheric Electricity
– Offers to 3 More
Strategic Goals - ECE
50
47
45
39
40
35
30
24
25
20
17
16
15
10
5
0
Ph.D. Graduates
2002-3
2003-4
2004-5
2005-6
2006-7
• Goal was to double
Ph.D.’s
• Project Steady
State in the mid
30’s
ECE Research Metrics
600
12
Expenditures ($M)
517
10.3
10.1
10
500
449
9.2
8
400
7.75
323
5.75
6
300
242
4.5
4
204
200
171
2
100
0
00/01
01/02
02/03
03/04
Academic Year
04/05
Awards are up, but
expenditures are down
05/06
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00/01
01/02
02/03
03/04
04/05
Publications
Very Rapid Growth
05/06
Strategic Goals - ECE
• Funding Metric on Ph.D.’s - Achieved 05/06
– Support approximately 200 to 240 Ph.D. students
– $10 - $13M / year in external research expenditures
• Publications Metric on Ph.D. - Achieved 05/06
– 120 to 150 journal pubs / year (0.6 / year / Ph.D. student)
– 200 to 240 conference pubs / year (1 / year / Ph.D. student)
• Consistent with recruitment of 50 Ph.D. students / year
Publication Quality
• Classify publication quality
– Benefit junior faculty
– Allow us to present better cases to college, provost
– Strengthen our Evaluation
• Tier Conferences and Journals - 3 tiers
• Top Tier
– Selective, High Impact, Wide Recognition as “best” in a field
• Mid Tier
– Less Selective, Moderate Impact, “Good” Conference
• Low Tier
– Accepts almost all, good for student development, “Workshop” flavor
Publication Quality
• Goal to have in place by end of summer
• 1st Pass Guidelines on definitions
• 2nd Pass Sample publications in each area /
each tier
• 3rd Pass Develop more detail and pub lists
• Looking for volunteers to help in this
process
Number of Students
1000
• Declines in
Undergrad
• Slow recovery
in grad
• More Later
900
800
Number of Students
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
Year
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Grad Applicants, Admission, Enrollment
Fall 2003
Fall 2004
Fall 2005
Fall 2006
• Incoming class recovered
• Achievement Awards
2500
2000
1500
• Fall 2007 to date:
1000
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500
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Applied
Admit
Enroll
Aid
Applied
Admit
Enroll
Aid
Fall ‘03
2011
800
140
70
Fall ‘04
1001
408
91
27
Fall ‘05
780
504
139
43
Fall ‘06
1300
500
137
40
Over 1500 Applicants
Made 89 offers
150 Achievement Awards Offers
More AA’s to come
• Project need 150 students
• Difficulty Recruiting US
250
Graduation Rates
200
150
100
50
0
M.S.
Ph.D.
Attrition
02/03
03/04
04/05
05/06
06/07
138
17
132
204
18
202
150
24
141
96
39
114
132
46
144
• Need a class of 150 to stay even for Fall ‘07
• Applications are up, cautiously optimistic
Grad Student Stipend
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Living Estimate for Gainesville ~$10,500
20% of student stipends are below living costs
Average is now $13,200
Up about 10% from last year
• Graduate Student Panel - Tomorrow
Changes
• Recruiting Grad Students
• Prof. John Harris, Recruiting Coordinator
• Catherine Sembajwe-Reeves, Recruiting
Director
• Active Committee
– Alumni Fellows - increase from 14 to 23
– TA’s
Graduate Student Organization
• Active this year
• Passed a faculty etiquette guidelines
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Clarify what students should do
Clarify student expectations
No “free” labor
Funding Expectations Clear
• Publish C&G monthly, rather than annually
Undergrad Retention / Recruiting
• National Problem
– Enrollment is down in EE, CprE
– Shift to Mechanical
– Retention is poor in the discipline
• Locally
• Half has been in CprE
– Hardware down to 60 students
– Software (CISE) down from 800 to 300
• We have no control over admissions
Impacts
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SCH’s - summer budget, raise pool
Could hurt our budget outright
Leader in improving will help our rankings
Important to the state mission
Lose higher admission standards
• Exceptional High School Students
• UCF, USF get lower quality freshmen (on average)
and do fine
Problems
• Science and Math Based Curriculum for Engineering
– Lose a lot of students in the first two years
– No engineering curriculum
• Diversity is bad
– White, male undergrad body (ok with hispanics)
– Female undergrad percentage is decreasing
• Perceived as difficult
– C+ requirement in math and physics
– Weed out in 3111 / 3135
• 12th Century Teaching Methods
Lots of National Research
• Entry Level Courses
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Project Based Approaches
Team Learning, Alternatives to Lecture
More hands-on, less theory
We can make use of these concepts
• I think we need to begin to seriously adapt
new strategies in entry level classes first
two years
Examples
• Project Based Learning
– Center Circuits I course design and build
– Team Based / New Lecture Models
• Portable Lab
– Students don’t have traditional lab
– Students have 24/7 hour lab access
– In class experiments and experience
Initiatives in Place
• Freshmen / Sophomore Classes
– IEEE / HKN for Outreach
– Freshmen Seminars (Two new courses - more later)
• Improved Starting Sequence
– ECE Analysis Course
– Signals and Systems Coupled
• New Student Groups
– Audio Engineering Society
– Women in ECE
• Counseling Associates (more later)
ABET
• Both CprE and EE got a clean bill of health
• Arduous Process - more later
Publication Quality
• Classify publication quality
– Benefit junior faculty
– Allow us to present better cases to college, provost
– Strengthen our Evaluation
• Tier Conferences and Journals - 3 tiers
• Top Tier
– Selective, High Impact, Wide Recognition as “best” in a field
• Mid Tier
– Less Selective, Moderate Impact, “Good” Conference
• Low Tier
– Accepts almost all, good for student development, “Workshop” flavor
Publication Quality
• Goal to have in place by end of summer
• 1st Pass Guidelines on definitions
• 2nd Pass Sample publications in each area / each
tier
• 3rd Pass Develop more detail and pub lists
• Looking for volunteers to help in this process
Capital Campaign
• Goals
– Grow and Support Ph.D. Production
– Retain and Recruit Top Faculty
– Provide opportunity to top students
• Opportunity to make a difference through the
Campaign
Department Foundation Cash Income
Department Foundation (1811) Cash Income
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60
50
40
$K 30
20
10
0
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
Fiscal Year (July-June)
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007(to
date)
Department Foundation Expenditures
Department Foundation (1811) Expenses
60
50
40
Sub/IEEE/SAE
Meals
Travel
K$ 30
20
10
20
07
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06
20
05
20
04
20
03
20
02
20
01
20
00
20
99
19
98
19
97
19
19
96
0
Fiscal Year (July-June)
Department Foundation Balance
Department Foundation (1811) Balance
250
200
150
K$
100
50
Fiscal Year (July-June)
20
06
20
07
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20
05
20
04
20
03
20
02
20
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20
00
19
99
19
98
19
97
19
96
0
Conclusions
• Hit initial research goals - maintain and grow
• Challenged with enrollment
– Recruit harder, more effectively
– Raise stipends to competitive levels
• Developing Quality Metrics
Action Items for Meeting
• Campaign Plans (Tomorrow)
• Feedback on Undergraduate Initiatives
• Feedback on Research / Graduate Programs