Fall 2015 ConvocationSarah A. Rajala

Dean, James & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering

Welcome and

Introduction

Presentation Outline• Update on Goals for 2014-15• Financial Update• Goals for 2015-16• New Faculty and Staff• Named Faculty Positions• Patent Awards• Faculty and Staff Awards

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATES

Team PrISUm earned its first ever overall win at the Formula Sun Grand Prix.

Iowa State Steel Bridge placed second in ASCE Midwest Region Student Steel Bridge Competition.

Deliver a high quality education to all of our students

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATESDeliver a high quality education to all of our students

Catherine Meis, senior in MSE, was named a 2015 Goldwater Scholar. 

Hillary Kletscher, BSE/MBA student, was named Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior. 

Joshua Moreno, AERE senior, selected for Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. 

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATES

Hire at least 20 new, diverse, high-quality faculty members

• Successful searches all with strong applicant pools

• Hired 17 tenure/tenure track faculty, including 5 as part of the Presidential High-Impact Initiative

• Added 7 new lecturer positions

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATES

Increase the number of graduate students who have enrolled or accepted admission by 5%• 1,363 graduate students expected for fall 2015 — 7.6% increase

• Graduate research student increase initiative provides recruitment funds to increase numbers — college and departments provide funds 1st year; supported by researchers in 2nd year

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATESExpand research portfolio and increase expenditures by 5%

• 2014-15 research proposal dollars submitted: $295.8M – 42.3% increase from 2013-14

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

$225.4M$191.3M $207.8M

$295.8M

Engineering Research Expenditures

FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014

$74.4 $78.5 $83.9 $79.7 $82.5

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATES

• CoE faculty associated with 12+ significant research awards in the $1M to $5M range, the top six include:• Center for Biorenewable Chemicals

(CBiRC) awarded maximum funding

• EPSCoR: Sustainable energy systems

• Information Assurance Scholarship

• Demonstration Scale Production Of Biobased Thermoplastic Elastomers

• INTRANS: Highway Research

• CIRAS: Industrial Services

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATESEngineering space cleanup

• Worked extensively with all departments and units on massive cleanup

• Removed 100 tons of metal scrap from properties and found 10,000 square feet of space (worth $4M)

• Moving student organizations to reactor warehouse

• Cleaned Spangler Hall and Fisk Observatory and turned back over to university

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATESEngineering space planning

• Student Innovation Center: Approved• Coover: Developing plans to upgrade the HVAC, sprinkler and life safety

systems. Consider lighting and interior upgrades; window replacement underway

• Town: Developing plans for an undergraduate advising center and an active learning center

• Marston: Renovation continues

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATESMARSTON HALL RENOVATION

Goals for 2014-15: UPDATES

Raise $25M in new private gifts

• $30.0M in new private gifts ($11.2M gifts and pledges; $18.8M deferred commitments)

• Best fundraising year ever in college

• Marston Hall fundraising $9.4M committed

• Gifts supported scholarships, fellowships, named faculty positions, building renovations and college programs

Impacting the Iowa Economy• Over 550 ISU engineering interns were employed by over

250 different Iowa employers located in over 90 communities in 60 counties

• In 2014, 1,548 businesses from 97 Iowa counties received assistance on projects or attended educational workshops from CIRAS staff and partners. Companies reported $386 million of total economic impact:

• $329 million in sales gained or retained• $45 million in new investments• $12 million in costs saved or avoided• 5,154 jobs added or retained• Over the past five years, CIRAS and partners reported impact totaling over

$2 billion dollars with 29,290 jobs added or retained

General Fund Revenue Budget FY16$101 Million

Undergraduate Tuition - $50 Million

Graduate Tuition - $12 Million

Indirect Cost Recovery - $4 Million

State Appropriations - $35 Million

College of Engineering General Fund

FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016

$69M$76M

$86M$99M $101M

Goals for 2015-16

Goals :• Deliver a high quality education to all of our students• Hire at least 20 new faculty members and 2 new department chairs• Increase the number of graduate students by 5%• Expand the research portfolio by seeking larger scale projects and increasing

expenditures by 5%• Continue space planning, renovation and building in 2015-16• Raise at least $25M in new private gifts• Continue preparation for comprehensive campaign

Vision: In the best traditions of a land-grant institution, we will be the premier engineering program among public universities known for value and commitment to education, research and engagement.

Faculty and StaffMore than 500 faculty and staff critical to our success

Welcome New Engineering FacultyABE

Stephen Bell – Lecturer

Ronald Leonard – Assoc. Professor

Timothy Shepherd – Lecturer

Mehari Tekeste – Asst. Professor

AerE

Benjamin Ahn – Asst. Professor

Norbert Meyendorf – Assoc. Professor

Mary Wickham – Adj. Assoc. Professor

CBE

Karen Haman – Lecturer

Thomas Mansell – Asst. Professor

CCEE

Ashley Buss – Asst. Professor

Bora Cetin – Asst. Professor

Kristen Cetin – Asst. Professor

Kaoru Ikuma – Asst. Professor

Aliye Karabulut – Lecturer

Michael Lustig – Lecturer

ECpE

Neil Zhenqiang Gong – Asst. Professor

Chinmay Hegde – Asst. Professor

Swamy Ponpandi – Lecturer

Zhaoyu Wang – Asst. Professor

IMSE

Scott Berry – Lecturer

Cameron MacKenzie – Asst. Professor

Quenten Meyer – Lecturer

ME

Chao Hu – Asst. Professor

Jamie Juarez – Asst. Professor

Owen Kolstad – Sr. Lecturer

Barbara Lograsso – Sr. Lecturer

Margaret Mathison – Lecturer

Scott Merkle – Sr. Lecturer

James Michael – Asst. Professor

Juan Ren – Asst. Professor

MSE

Peter Collins – Assoc. Professor

Jun Cui – Assoc. Professor

Tim Cullinan – Lecturer

Welcome New Engineering StaffABE Robert Hartmann – Teaching Lab Coordinator

AerE Wenli Su – Grant Coordinator

CBE Ashley Augspurger – Lab Supervisor II Tonia Baxter – Academic Adviser II John Burnett-Larkins – Communications Specialist Kimberly Ohge – Secretary II Michelle Stotts – Operations Manager

CCEE Seth Loyd – Academic Adviser II Sebastian Speer – Academic Adviser II

IMSE Deborah McDonough – Secretary III Dennis Mowery – Associate Director, Center for e-Design

ECpE Nadine Anderson – Secretary III Luann Huss – Department Fiscal Coordinator Anne Kimber – Program Manager I David Nicholas – Teaching Lab Coordinator Stacey Ross – Secretary II Donald Schlagel – System Analyst I Sherry Xie – Grant Coordinator

ME Kristin Clemens – Graduate Programs Assistant Jim Shelledy – Teaching Lab Coord. Patricia Thrasher – Grant Coordinator Jessie Vosseller – Academic Adviser II

MSE Aimee Burch – Comm. Specialist I Karen Knight – Account Clerk Patrick Morton – Academic Adviser II

CBiRC Diana Loutsch – K-12 Program Asst.

CNDE Robert Grandin – Associate Scientist Cheryl Sansgaard – Fiscal Coordinator

MRC Rita Mueggenberg – Secretary II

CIRAS Andrew Alexander – Program Manager I Joy Donald – Industrial Specialist Laurel Kelch – Business Manager I Mary Zimmerman – Finance & Strategic Projects Manager

Welcome New Engineering Staff – cont’d

Engineering Administration Stacy Kilstofte – Coordinator of Continuous Learning and Career Advancement Sarah Wilson – Staff Recruitment Coordinator

ELO Ritushree Chatterjee – Instructional Development Specialist Alicia Jenner – Instructional Support Specialist Cindy Manning – Clerk III Callie Morrow – Academic Advisor II Roger Suski – Manager, Collaborative Technology Services Mark Woolley – Manager, Administration for ELO

Student Services Lori Bushore – Secretary II Roxanna Nwachukwu – Coordinator for Graduate Recuitment/on-line Student Services Shateisha Bruce – Academic Adviser II

Promotions in the Engineering CollegeKenneth Bryden, ME – to full Professor

Halil Ceylan, CCEE – to full Professor

Kristen Constant, MSE – Morrill Professor

Sebastien Feve, ME – promoted to Senior Lecturer

Beth Hartmann, CCEE – promoted to Senior Lecturer

Kurt Rosenstrater, ABE – Assistant to Associate Professor with Tenure

Derrick Rollins, CBE – University Professor

Diane Rover, ECE – University Professor

Brent Shanks, CBE – Distinguished Professor

Pranav Shrotriya, ME – to full Professor

Jiming Song, ECpE – to full Professor

Dennis Vigil, CBE – to full Professor

Zhengdao Wang, ECE – to full Professor

New Named Faculty Positions

• Named faculty positions established with private support enable the college to attract and retain world-class professors and researchers

• Thank you to the donors who established these prestigious positions

In-Ho Cho – CCEEBlack & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering

Established by Black & Veatch

Shan Hu – MEBlack & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering

Established by Black & Veatch

Mingyi Hong – IMSEBlack & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering

Established by Black & Veatch

Ran Dai – AEREBlack & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering

Established by Black & Veatch

Soumik Sarkar – MEBlack & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering

Established by Black & Veatch

Martin Thuo – MSEBlack & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering

Established by Black & Veatch

Mark Mba-Wright – MEBlack & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering

Established by Black & Veatch

Surya Mallapragada – CBEDavid R. Boylan Eminent FacultyAward Endowment

Established by the Marston Club in the College of Engineering to honor David Boylan, Emeritus Dean and Professor

Say-Kee Ong – CCEECerwick Faculty Professorship

Established by Joel Cerwick, who graduated in 1966 and 1968 with degrees in civil engineering

James Alleman – CCEECerwick Faculty Professorship

Established by Joel Cerwick, who graduated in 1966 and 1968 with degrees in civil engineering

Wenzhen Li – CBESeagrave Professorship

Established by former students to honor Richard Seagrave.

Meng Lu – ECpE/MENorthrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green

Established in honor of Fred W. O'Green, who graduated in 1943 with a degree in electrical engineering

Kaitlin Bratlie – MSE/CBEMichael and Denise Mack Fellow

Established by Michael and Denise Mack; Michael graduated in 1979 and 1981 with degrees in mechanical engineering

Larry Cormicle – CCEEWeitz Faculty Fellowship

Established by the Weitz Company, Inc.

Arun Somani – ECpESproul Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Established by the late Philip and Virginia Sproul, Philip graduated in 1937 with a degree in Electrical Engineering

Degang Chen – ECpEJerry R. Junkins Chair Professor

Established in honor of Jerry Junkins, Jerry graduated in 1959 with a degree in Electrical Engineering 

Patent Awards

• Patents are valued scholarly contributions and prestigious forms of recognition

Iver Anderson – MSEDispersoid reinforced alloy powder and method of making

Nicola Bowler – MSE/ECpE Concentric coplanar capacitive sensor system with quantitative model

Robert Brown – ME/CBE/ABE Selective temperature quench and electrostatic recovery of bio-oil fractions

Ayman Adel Fayed – ECpESystem and method for providing power via a spurious-noise-free switching device

Brian Gleeson – MSEPt metal modified γ-Ni+γ'-Ni3Al alloy compositions for high temperature degradation resistant structural alloys

David Grewell – ABE Gowrishankar Srinivasan – CIRASDepolymerization of polylactic acid

Ratnesh Kumar – ECpESemantic translation of stateflow diagrams into input/output extended finite automata and automated test generation for simulink/stateflow diagrams

Balaji Narasimhan – CBEAntimicrobial polyanhydride nanoparticles

Arun Somani – ECpEDynamic advance reservation with delayed allocation

Sivalingam (Sri) Sritharan – CCEEWind turbine tower system(2 separate patents awarded)

Srikanta Tirthapura– ECpEComputing time-decayed aggregates in data streams

Akhilesh Tyagi – ECpEReconfigurable block encryption logic

Faculty and Staff Awards

• Honoring faculty and staff from the college

Nancy Qvale – CCEE Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

Beth Hartmann – CCEE Superior Engineering Advisor Award

John Wagner – ME Superior Engineering Advisor Award

Monica Lamm – CBE Superior Engineering Teaching Award

Matt Rouse – CCEE Superior Engineering Teaching Award

Matthew J. Darr – ABE Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

Wei Hong – AERE Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

Balaji Narasimhan – CBE D.R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Award for Research

Thank You

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