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New Advisory Board
Member OrientationOctober 16, 2003
John F. Carney III
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
WPI – The University of Science and Technology. And Life.
WPI – The University of Science and Technology. And Life.
Who We AreWho We Are A university with a core
focus on science, engineering, and the management of technology that grants bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in 30+ disciplines.
Undergraduate ProgramUndergraduate Program
WPIWPI A University of Engineering, Science, Management, and Humanities
The Two Towers Tradition The WPI Plan
The WPI ExperienceThe WPI Experience
Learning to Learn Incorporation of Outcomes Assessment Real World Projects Appreciation for Social Responsibility Depth in the Humanities
The WPI Experience (Cont.)The WPI Experience (Cont.)
Assume Responsibility in a Professional Environment
Develop Own Program of Study Non-Punitive Grading Cooperative Environment
WPI Degree RequirementsWPI Degree Requirements
The MQP The IQP The Sufficiency Social Sciences Departmental Distribution Requirements Physical Education
Engineering Enrollments (Fall ‘03)Engineering Enrollments (Fall ‘03)
0
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97 99 01 3 97 99 01 3 97 99 01 3 97 99 01 3 97 99 01 3 97 99 01 3
Grad.
Undergrad
BE CEE CM ECE FPE ME
10/02
Science Enrollments (Fall ‘03)Science Enrollments (Fall ‘03)
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97 99 01 03 97 99 01 03 97 99 01 03 97 99 01 03 97 99 01 03
Grad.
Undergrad.
BB CHBC CS MA PH
10/02
Other Enrollments (Fall ‘03)Other Enrollments (Fall ‘03)
0
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100
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97 99 01 03 97 99 01 03 97 99 01 03 97 99 01 03 96 98 00 02
Grad.
Undergrad.
SSPS HU&A Inter MG EN
10/02
Undergraduate Enrollment by CategoryUndergraduate Enrollment by Category
0
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75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03
Total Engineering Total SciencesTotal Other Total Undecided
Student Course & Project Units for AY 02/03Student Course & Project Units for AY 02/03
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track
Full-Time Staff Part-Time Non-Tenure Track
1997/1998 1998/1999 1999/2000
2000/2001 2001/2002 2002/2003
10/02
Sponsored Program ActivityApplications Submitted
50
55
60
65
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75
2002 2003
Fiscal Year
204
230
Am
ount
($M
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ons)
Sponsored Program ActivityAwards Received
0
2
4
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2002 2003
Fiscal Year
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128
Am
ount
($M
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Extramural Support for Academic Sponsored ProgramsExtramural Support for Academic Sponsored ProgramsExtramural Support for Academic Sponsored ProgramsExtramural Support for Academic Sponsored Programs
ORA is the Office of Research Administration – Federal agencies, industry contracts, some foundations.CFR is the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations – Foundation grants and corporate support for education and research.
Sponsored Programs: FY02 FY03
– Research Center Memberships $1,761,000 $1,204,000
– Project Center Fees 162,000 154,000
– Corporate Sponsored Student Projects
138,000 150,000
– Research/Education (ORA) 7,834,000 10,904,000
– Research/Education (CFR) 2,225,000 1,787,000
Gifts:
– Corporate In-Kind Support 1,106,000 5,588,000
Total $13,226,000 $19,787,000
Faculty HiringFaculty Hiring
96/97 16 3 5
97/98 11 4 3
98/99 14 7 3
99/00 14 3 5
00/01 14 0 4
01/02 5 1 1
02/03 18 4 2
03/04 7 2 3
Total 99 24 26
Academic New Year Hires Minorities Females
Faculty StatisticsBase Year– 1998/1999Faculty StatisticsBase Year– 1998/1999
By 2010/11– Faculty Additions
203 220+
218Underrepresented Minorities
11% 15% 12/14%
Women 13% 25% 17%
– Faculty Salaries– Promotion and Tenure Criteria
What Makes Us DifferentWhat Makes Us Different
Our pioneering approach to undergraduate education through which students learn how to learn and
– obtain professional-level experience before they graduate by applying their knowledge to the solution of real-world problems,
– discover how creativity is expressed in nontechnical fields by exploring, in depth, an area of the humanities and arts,
– learn to consider the impact on society of their professional work through field projects, conducted globally, in teams, in close collaboration with faculty mentors.
AccreditationAccreditation
NEASCAACSBABET/CAC
Faculty ResponsibilitiesFaculty Responsibilities
Teaching
Scholarship
Service
WPI - Faculty Elected Committees WPI - Faculty Elected Committees
Committee on Academic Operations Committee on Academic Policy Committee on Administrative and Financial
Policy Committee on Appointments and Promotions Faculty Review Committee Committee on Graduate Studies and Research Committee on Governance Committee on Advising & Student Life Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom
Admissions Office Class of 2007 - (633)Admissions Office Class of 2007 - (633)Geography
New England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 (Mass 314)Mid Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Midwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Far West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
10/02 ??
Admissions Office Class of 2007 (633)Admissions Office Class of 2007 (633)
Class Rank by Decile.Decile # of Students 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
No Rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Median SAT ScoresVerbal and Math Combined
Median SAT ScoresVerbal and Math Combined
1050
1100
1150
1200
1250
1300
75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03
Global Perspective Program EnrollmentGlobal Perspective Program Enrollment
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WPI has sent over 4000 students off-campus since 197450% of graduates have an international experience
Strategic Plan GoalsStrategic Plan Goals
Enhance the Quality of WPI’s Academic Programs
Develop WPI’s Position as a National University
Establish WPI as a Leader in Global Technological Education
Improve WPI’s Campus Culture and Community Presence
Expand WPI’s Educational Resources
www.wpi.edu/Stratplan/Progress/www.wpi.edu/Stratplan/Progress/
Challenges Facing WPIChallenges Facing WPI
Reputation (e.g.: USNews, NRC, etc.) The Globalization of Engineering Increasing Access to Under-Represented Populations
Maintaining Laboratory Currency High School Graduates’ Interest in Engineering
Importance of Graduate Research Program to WPIImportance of Graduate Research Program to WPI
Enhances our national recognition Attracts top quality faculty to University Keeps instruction at cutting-edge Provides opportunities for fruitful
interaction among undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty
Enriches the intellectual environment of University
Degrees Awarded - FY 03
Master’s Degrees
(Includes M.S., M.B.A., M. Eng., MME) 309
Ph.D. 17
TOTAL 326
Graduate Degrees Awarded
0
50100
150200
250300
350
Fiscal Year
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egre
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Master's PhD10/02
Graduate Student BreakdownGraduate Student Breakdown
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85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02
Academic Year
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Sciences Engineering Management Other*
*includes IDs, ENs, and Undeclared
Graduate Enrollment for Fall 2003Graduate Enrollment for Fall 2003
Full-time Graduate Students 423 Part-time Degree Seeking
390 Part-time Non-Degree Seeking
190
TOTAL 1003
Faculty Perspectives on Graduate Education and Research
Advisory Board PresentationThursday, October 16, 2003
Dave Adams, Ph.D.Professor, Biology and Biotechnology
Chair, Committee on Graduate Studies and Research (CGSR)
Why perform graduate education at WPI?
Why perform research at WPI?
CGSR Open ForumCGSR Open Forum
The Integration of Undergraduate Education with Graduate Education and Research
– Goal stated explicitly by major funding organizations like NSF (REU program) and NIH (AREA program).
– Goal stated explicitly in President Parrish’s Whitepaper-3.
– Goal stated by President Parrish in his opening remarks at the open forum.
WPI is Well Suited for This IntegrationWPI is Well Suited for This Integration
MQP ProgramInvolve MQP students in funded activities:
– Enhances the Ph.D. program by providing Ph.D. students with excellent mentoring opportunities.
– Provides MQP student with up-to-date training.– Helps obtain data for future grant submissions.– Active environment will help recruit future graduate students.– Funded summer MQPs would help establish a year-round
scholarly environment at WPI, and greater utilization of our facilities during the summer.
– Challenge: Faculty need to design experiments related to grants that are actually doable by undergraduates, and that are also extendable into graduate projects.
Factors That Affect School Rankings*Factors That Affect School Rankings*
Faculty Resources– Strongly influenced by the number of Ph.D.’s granted per faculty.
Research Activity– Strongly influenced by the amount of external research support.
School Reputation – Determined by 2 surveys to engineering school Deans, and to practicing
engineers. Opinion polls, so influenced by familiarity with WPI faculty, programs, and alumni.
– Strongly correlates with acceptance rates.– Strongly correlates with per faculty funding.– Our competitors listed in the top 50 also have graduate programs in the
top 50.
*U.S. News & World Report
ChallengesChallenges
Our best researchers can sometimes be the most mobile.
Some of our best researchers already have “fully funded” programs.
Some faculty see the undergrad and graduate programs as having competing interests, while we argue that both are critical for WPI’s long-term success.
How Do We Get There?How Do We Get There?
Increase Faculty External Research Support, and Ph.D. Graduation Rate:
– Should engage all departments.– We are pleased to note that the per capita support has risen
from $35K (FY 2000) to $50K (FY 2003).
New Ph.D. and M.S. Programs:– New one-year post-B.S. M.S. degrees. Could expand the MS
program with more tuition-paying students.– New joint Ph.D.’s with other universities. Recent CGSR motion
to the faculty.– New joint Ph.D’s with industry. Increase the participation of MQP
groups in funded research activities, including summer projects.
How Do We Get There, ContinuedHow Do We Get There, Continued
Increase MQP Participation:– on projects extendable into M.S. degrees.– in funded research activities, including summer projects.
Increase research topics in the classroom:– Infuses the latest knowledge into the lecture.– Places traditional text information into the perspective of rapidly
growing fields, or changing hypotheses.– Energizes the lecture, and helps give it a focus.– NSF has curriculum development grants for exactly this goal.
ConclusionsConclusions WPI must maintain a quality undergraduate
program, while expanding and strengthening our graduate program.
CGSR believes that increasing research activity is one of the best ways to raise WPI’s reputation, and is a model that will support the vertical integration of undergraduate education with graduate education.
WPI’s Global Project
Program
Paul Davis
Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies
Advisory Boards, 16 October 2003
OverviewOverview Global
– 500 students per year at 22 project centers– 13 countries– 6 foreign exchange programs
Projects– Student consulting teams solve real problems– Exemplify theory and practice
Program– Projects are required of all undergraduates– In humanities or arts; society-technology; major
discipline
Project centers and programsProject centers and programs Hong Kong, PRC Bangkok, Thailand Melbourne, Australia NASA Goddard Limerick, Ireland London, UK San Jose, Costa Rica Venice, Italy Windhoek, Namibia Lincoln Laboratories
Washington, DC Zurich, Switzerland Wall St., New York Worcester, MA Silicon Valley Nancy, France Madrid, Spain Boston, MA Copenhagen, Denmark San Juan, Puerto Rico Pratt & Whitney, CT
Real problems solved on siteReal problems solved on site Public response to air quality information
(Environmental Protection Agency, Australia) Intelligent software for master-worker multiple
satellite deployment (NASA, USA) Commercial full-duplex speaker-phone feasibility
(Analog Devices, Ireland) Mode hop suppression in tunable lasers (New
Focus, Inc, USA) Analysis of Customer Relations Management for
a brokerage operation (Morgan Stanley, USA)
Impact on Thai village of power plantImpact on Thai village of power plant
What clogs the canals of Venice?What clogs the canals of Venice?
Outcomes of global projectsOutcomes of global projects Students
– Experience global society and culture– Integrate theory and practice
Sponsors– Problems solved– Potential employees
University– Educational vision and leadership– Global partnerships
RecognitionRecognition
TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence (faculty development)
NAFSA Association of International Educators, one of 10 exemplary programs (International education)
American Association of Colleges and Universities, one of 16 Greater Expectations Leadership Institutions (liberal education leadership)
Some measuresSome measures More science and engineering students studying
abroad than any other U.S. university Second-highest percentage of graduates with
international experience among all majors at U.S. doctoral universities
About 5,000 students in 1,600 global projects over 28 years
50% of undergraduates have international experience, more than 70% off-campus
Full financial aid, free passport
“If I went to another school I would find out what I was going to be, what occupation. At WPI, I am really defining who I am.”
Anna Matzal, ‘99 London Humanities Project
Venice Technology-Society Project
OutcomeOutcome
WPI Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division
