1 Strategic Plan Update Oleh Tretiak Drexel ECE Advisory Council Meeting December 3, 2002.

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Strategic Plan Update

Oleh Tretiak

Drexel ECE Advisory Council Meeting

December 3, 2002

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Contents

• Mission and Vision

• Benchmark School Update

• Doctoral Program Initiatives

• ECE Faculty Fellowship

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ECE Mission

The ECE Department prepares men and women to lead productive and rewarding professional lives at the forefront of Engineering in the 21st century and pursues research to advance the state-of-the-art in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering Education.

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ECE Vision

The ECE Department aspires to be ranked first in the Delaware Valley and among the top 25 national departments.

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Benchmark Institution Update95 NRC Graduate Ranking for Dept

98-99 00-01 98-99 00-01 98-99 00-01 98-99 00-01 98-99 00-01 98-99 00-01 98-99 00-01Faculty size 28 39 37 40 39 39 17 17 30 31 38 34 23 15Undergraduate enrollments 297 356 478 453 444 563 74 189 617 794 289 404 318 166BS degrees awarded 127 129 123 153 158 202 28 34 97 106 63 98 58 85Graduate enrollment, MS 78 101 129 114 155 159 11 173 120 487 170 72 42Graduate enrollment, PhD 118 140 142 151 104 136 82 85 13 41 89 95 82 35No of MS's awarded 81 71 75 88 72 67 10 34 48 29 157 55 21 14No of PhD's awarded 20 20 30 30 32 23 7 8 9 3 10 14 4 10Research expenditures (M$) $15.30 $1.45 $14.38 $15.33 $3.30 $3.30 $2.63 $2.03 $3.55 $8.35 $13.48 $5.53 $3.46 $1.26

Res/FAC, K$ 546 37 389 383 85 85 155 120 118 269 355 163 150 84PhD Students/Faculty 4.2 3.6 3.8 3.8 2.7 3.5 4.8 5.0 0.4 1.3 2.3 2.8 3.6 2.3PhD Degrees/Faculty 0.7 0.5 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.7

UG SFR 11 9 13 11 11 14 4 11 15 19 8 12 14 11

USNews UG ranking for College 7 7 7 7 14 17 14 14 46 53 74 63 32 32SAT of admitted students (Univeristy) 1350 1365 1380 1370* 1250 1275 1390 1390 1150 1150 1150 1155 1250 1274Graduation rate (University, USNews) 90% 90% 73% 76% 70% 75% 89% 85% 54% 56% 50% 50% 81% 84%

College Faculty 136 136 174 165 98 98 96 96 89 108 84 84 76 76USNews grad ranking for eng 9 9 8 8 19 25 24 20 59 64 40 41

Res Exp per faculty, K$ $576 $569 $509 $552 $358 $379 $438 $376 $117 $165 $240 $147 $288 $261PhD Students per faculty 3.5 3.7 3.1 3.5 3.3 3.4 3.7 4.7 0.4 1.4 1.8 1.8 2.2 2.0PhD Degrees per faculty 0.6 0.7 0.6 1.0 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.6

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Johns Hopkins Drexel Northeastern Lehigh

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Cornell Carnegie Mellon RPI

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ECE and COE comparison for Drexel and benchmark universities. Department Data are from ASEE web site. College and university data are from USNews reports.April 16, 2002

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Goals for 2004

• PhD Enrollment per Faculty– 1999: 0.4; 2001: 1.3; Goal 5. Goal Valid

• PhD Awards per Faculty– 1999: 0.3; 2001: 0.1; Goal 0.5. Goal Valid

• Research Expenditures per Faculty– 1999: $118k; 2001: $269k; Goal 350k; Goal

Valid

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Comments About Statistics

• Three types of statistics– Department– College– University

• Thinking outside the box:– Reputation, reputation, reputation– Clever ploy?

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Doctoral Initiatives

Senior Engineer PhD InitiativeThe ECE Department proposes an initiative to encourage senior engineers to pursue PhD degree studies and research. This initiative is aimed at individuals who have achieved research, patent or publication records. The program to be completed are no different from that pursued by other students. The initiative is to consist of:

A committee to publicize this program and to recruit candidates.

Additional oversight for mentoring candidates in this program.Next step: Recruit candidates

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Doctoral Initiatives

Entrepreneurial PhD initiativeThe ECE Department proposes an initiative to facilitate integration of business and “entrepreneurial” studies with a PhD degree. Targeted student populations are professionally younger people who have recently finished their BS and/or MS degree and who wish to pursue a combined technical/business oriented PhD.

To develop of this initiative we will pursue contacts with the Baiada Center, the Engineering Management program, and with professionals in technology companies in the area.

Next step: Establish planning board.

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PhD Requirements

• Formal requirements– Candidacy Exam– Thesis research and Thesis Defense– 45 credits post Masters (can be Research,

Independent Study)

• Substantive requirement– Research accomplished while pursuing PhD

studies

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What They Don’t Say

• Not a diploma mill– Could hurt our reputation

• Productive work relationship– Mentoring– Transfer credit for senior engineers

• Who will pay the bill?

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The Need

• Outstanding doctoral candidates with BS degrees from US universities

• Potential leaders of our profession– Top researchers– Outstanding teachers– Individuals who would be sought by

universities

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Why Fellowships?

• Fellowships convey an honor and recognition not present in Teaching or Research assistantship

• Fellowships provide flexibility for aggressive recruiting

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Logistics

• Goal: Two fellowships at $30 K per year.

• Endowment needed $1.2 M

• Funds can attract more than two students, since highly qualified individuals can obtain NASA, NSF, DOD fellowships once in house

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First Steps

• Fellowship fund has been started through pledges from ECE Faculty

• Plan: solicit further funds from other sources

• Need: contacts for fundraising

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Rating Game

• Rating bodies and criteria

• Some data

• Questions

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Rating Bodies and Criteria

• US News & World Report– http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/cohome.htm

• Categories– Best universities– Top undergraduate engineering schools– Top graduate engineering schools

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Best Universities

• Drexel in 3rd tier– 100-150

• MCP-Hahnemann was 2nd tier

• One fewer competitor

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Top Undergraduate Engineering

• Criterion: Opinion of Engineering Educators

• Drexel: – 1999: 46; – 2001: 53

• More later

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Top 50 Graduate Engineering Programs

• Criteria: 11criteria. Highest weights:– Peer opinion—25%– Opinion of recruiters—15%– Total research funding—15%– Research/faculty—10% – PhD students/faculty—7.5%– %NAE members—7.5%– Number of PhD’s granted—6.25%

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Top 50

• Drexel in 99: 59• Drexel in 01: 64• Comparison: Top 50 UG vs top 50 Grad

– 7 UG not on grad list: Dartmouth College, University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt University, Yale University, Colorado School of Mines, University of California–Irvine, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.

– 5 Grad not on UG list: University of New Mexico, University of Delaware, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst, University of Rochester, Rutgers–New Brunswick

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Prognoses

• Our UG rating will improve this year– Eli Fromm’s Gordon Award

• Graduate rating will go up over the years– Ayre Rosen’s Election to NAS– MCP/Hahnemann merger– Increases in funding– Increase in graduate enrollment

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