Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartmental Overview

Prof. Mark E. Law

Department of Electrical and Computer Eng.

Outline

• Agenda

• Background on the Department

• State of the Department– Changes in the last year, progress toward goals– Challenges

• Conclusions

Agenda Thursday• 12:00 Lunch, Registration, Welcome• 1:00 Department Overview - Update on Directions and Issues• 2:00-2:30 Break / Atrium• 2:30-2:55 Toshi Nishida - Self Powered Sensors• 2:55-3:20 Oscar Boykin - Quantum Computing• 3:20-3:45 Jose Principe - Brain Machine Interfaces• 3:45-4:10 Jian Li - Breast Cancer Detection• 4:10-4:35 Martin Uman - Lightning and X-Rays• 4:35-5:00 Break• 5:00-7:00 Graduate Student Poster Session from

Interdisciplinary Topics / Hors' D'oeuvres• 7:00 Dinner

Agenda Friday• 8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast• 8:30-8:55 Jing Guo - Nanodevice Transport and Modeling• 8:55-9:20 Tan Wong - Wireless Networks and Communications• 9:20-9:45 Liuqing Yang - Ultrawideband Communications• 9:45-10:10 Alan George - High Performance Computing and

Networks• 10:10-10:35 Rizwan Bashirullah - Wireless Interface Electronics

for Bio-implantable Devices• 10:35 – 11 Break• 11 - 1 Graduate Student Posters from Core Research / Lunch• 1-2 Wrap-up / Recommendations

Faculty 46 Tenure Track Faculty and 4 Lecturers 14 IEEE Fellows 13 Assistant Professors

750 Undergraduates and 420 Graduate students

• 29st Best Graduate Program in US News (2005) Up from 31 in 2004

ECE Vital Statistics

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• Grad Enrollment - More Later

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Hiring Plans and Recruitment• Target 50 faculty (nearly ten in real growth)• 46 up from 42 one year ago• Last Year Hires

– Rizwan Bashirullah, Electronics, NC State

– Oscar Boykin, Computing and Networks, UCLA

– Jing Guo, Devices, Purdue

– Tao Li, Computing, UT Austin

– Liuqing Yang, Communications, U Minnesota

Strategic Goals - ECE

• Target - Double Ph.D. production department wide– 17 and 18 Ph.D. Graduates last two years– 2004/2005 academic year should be at 24– Projected 40 / year at the end of 5 years– 200 RA’s and 50 TA’s employed

Strategic Goals - ECE

• Funding Metric on Ph.D.’s - Achieved this Year!– Support approximately 200 to 240 Ph.D. students– $10 - $13M / year in external research expenditures

• Publications Metric on Ph.D. - Achieved this Year!– 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

Changes

• Divisions

• Ph.D. Program Enhancements

• Faculty Academic Year Salary and Teaching Load

• Recruiting Grad Students

Computer Engineering - 13 Faculty

grid computingmiddleware

• software• simulation services• educational resources

softwareapplications

computing resources

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3) results

Linux cluster

Kapadia, Fortes, Lundstrom, Adabala, Figueiredo et al

Devices - 13 Faculty

S. Thompson, IEDM

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Jerry Fossum won the2004 J.J. Ebers Award

Electromagnetics and Energy Systems - 9 Faculty

• Camp Blanding Triggered Lightning Facility - Unique in the World

Electronics - 14 Faculty

• A 6 mm x 7 mm integrated circuit containing a receiver with an integrated antenna has been fabricated in a 0.18m CMOS process for intra-chip wireless communication with the support of Semiconductor Research Corp. and NASA (Ken O)

Signals and Systems - 15 Faculty

• Jian Li and Fred Taylor Named IEEE Fellows

UF systems are integrated with MIT, SUNY, and Plexon hardware/software and are interfaced with primates at Duke University (Nicolelis BMI Group)

Ph.D. Program Enhancements

• First Year Ph.D. Students– Department Support – Students take heavy class loads– Students teach / grade

• Written Exam in first year– Undergraduate material based– Students choose 3 of 8 undergrad areas

Ph.D. Exam Results

• 41 attempted, 36 passed (88%)• Statistics:

– Overall average was 76 of 100– US Citizens 17 - 70.65– International Students 24 - 80.25– UF UG 8 - 73.19– M.S. Degree - 76.52– B.S. Degree - 76.13

• Small Sample - should get more rigorous in the future

Faculty Teaching Load

• Teaching Assignments made on research productivity– Number of grad students

– Publications

– Funding

• Academic Year buy-out reduced from 25% to 15%

• Should free more dollars and time for research

Graduate Recruiting

• National Problem– Applications were down 36% for ‘04– Visas– Global Economy– US Reputation

Applicants, Admission, Enrollment, Aid

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• Incoming class down 50• Higher Yield from admits• Did this with far fewer aid

packages• Difference in incoming class could

be attributable to aid changes• Fall ‘05 expect to have 50 financial

aid offers

• Incoming Class Makeup– BS/MS enrollment up from 5 to 18– Ph.D. enrollment up from 36 to 40– MS enrollment down from 99 to 36

• Fraction of enrolled/admitted is up from 1 in 6 to 1 in 5

Applied Admit Enroll Aid

Fall ‘03

2011 800 140 70

Fall ‘04

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Graduation Rate in 2003/4

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Summer '03 Fall '03 Spring '04

• Total of 186 students left (91 incoming, down 95)

• Total of 16 Ph.D.’s

• Half the enrollment drop was decrease in new students

• Half the enrollment drop was graduation increase

• Fall 2003 - we had 120 students on TA appointments - mostly terminal Master’s

Summer Fall Spring

Left w/ Masters 26 64 80

Ph.D. 4 4 8

Comparison of Graduation Rates

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• Graduated 17 Ph.D. students - above last year’s total with spring to come

• Graduated 20% fewer students than last year at this time

• Removed most of the bubble created by paying Master’s students - 45 returning TA’s fall 2004‘03 ‘04

Left w/ Master’s 90 62

Ph.D. 8 17

Summer and Fall comparison only

Some Analysis / Conclusions• Incoming Students

– Paying customers were flat from ‘03 to ‘04– B.S./M.S. is picking up - advertising is helping?– Double financial aid offers from ‘04 to ‘05– Applications are down, most have historically come in

Dec/Jan

• Graduation Rates– Ph.D. graduation showing signs of increasing– Master’s graduation rate slowing - bubble has mostly

burst

Grad Student Stipend - Current Data

• Living Estimate for Gainesville ~$10,500• 79 of 180 do not make enough to cover living expenses• Some may have fellowship supplements

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New Activities• Recruiting Coordinator

– Recruiting / Admissions Committee– Chair - John Harris– Staff responsible

• Exchange lists throughout SECEDHA• Obtained Physics Lists• Open House for B.S. / M.S. eligible• Recruiting round-robins UCF, USF on board• Achievement Awards - Reduced Tuition

Conclusions• Making good progress on research goals• Streamlining program faculty responsibilities to

increase research productivity• Challenge with graduate enrollment

– Recruit harder, more effectively

– Raise stipends to competitive levels