State of School of Engineering 2011

2011 STATE OF THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Godfrey MungalDean

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2011

The School of Engineering will be known and treasured, in Silicon Valley and beyond, for the impact of its graduates and faculty on improving the human condition through engineering education, practice, and scholarship.…while supporting SCU’s Strategic Plan:

1. Excellence in Jesuit Education2. Global Understanding3. Engagement with Silicon Valley4. Justice and Sustainability5. Academic Community

…and celebrating our past, present and future

“Engineering With a Mission”


1. Excellence in Jesuit Education

T-model of education

Values-based education

Project-based learning

Innovation and entrepreneurship


Educate leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion

T-Model of Education Deep technical core (hard skills – left brain)

– Math, Science,– Engineering, Design, …

Broad range of soft skills (right brain)– Communication– Ethics, Integrity– Entrepreneurial mindset– Creativity– Global view…

Consistent with:– Jesuit education of the whole person– Engineering in the context of a liberal arts

education– ABET accreditation


Values-based education

Core curricula designed to educate the whole person Student research focused on doing good in the world International travel: study abroad, immersion trips, senior design Graduate core; minor in Science, Technology, and Society


“It’s gratifying seeing our students’ work put to such good use in the world.”Mark Aschheim, chair, civil engineering

Project-based learning: Senior Design Projects

Manufacturing test fixture for Sadra Medical’s prosthetic aortic heart valves

Stem cell research for muscle regeneration

Gravity-fed water distribution system in Malawi

Web-based satellite mission operations dashboard

LED optical wireless communication

Autonomous network of robotic kayaks for environmental research


I love the Senior Design project. People say you learn more in a week on the job than you do in all your classes; this gives you the opportunity of having that ‘week

on the job’ type of experience you don’t get in class or lab.”Nick Bergseng ’11

Nick Bergseng and Ricky Franchi developed a traffic controller that could save millions of hours of productivity from

being lost and tons of auto emissions from entering our air.

Innovation and entrepreneurship focus - KEEN

$1.142M KEEN grant; network of 20 universities nationwide

Chris Kitts and Ruth Davis co-direct KEEN Program

Expanded curricula, speakers, mentoring, co-ops

Quarterly undergraduate challenges (BMW, nVIDIA)

Interdisciplinary, hands-on engineering; collaboration with business students

Produce real products and services for real customers

Building a culture of innovation and entrepreneurial thinking


“I love these innovation challenges—I’m going to do every one!”Joe Burke ’14

Innovation and entrepreneurship focus

Pathway for Undergraduates – Design Thinking; The Digital Age– Technical innovation, design process, enterprise strategies

Kuehler Undergraduate Research– Summer research with faculty

Graduate Education– Core curriculum supports entrepreneurship

Collaboration with Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speakers

– New Methods for Solar Energy Conversion– Adobe Co-founder Chuck Geschke

Ring Knockers – Networking opportunities– Encouraging and promoting entrepreneurship


Building a culture of innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.

2. Engagement with Silicon Valley


Increase learning, service and research opportunities

Faculty research and scholarship– Applied Technology Council– Ecological Building Network– HP Labs– NASA/Ames– SolarTech

Speakers from Industry– Rick Wallace, KLA-Tencor– Cloud Computing Panel – Chuck Geschke, Adobe

Adjunct Faculty from Industry Outreach

More Engagement with Silicon Valley

Department Advisory Boards Student field trips to area companies

– BAE Systems– Cisco– eBay– Google– HP– Tigo …and more

Senior design collaboration– Local partners from industry (Sadra, PEAK, Walden West)– Alumni mentors– 100+ alumni judges

Need to optimize our alumni network


OutreachMore demand than we can supply

Summer Engineering Seminar (SES)– Acquaints high school students with engineering, university

life

Spring Engineering Education Days (SEEDS)– High school students explore engineering Saturdays in April

Get Set – 4-year mentoring program for underrepresented H.S. girls – Sponsored by SWE

Girls Achieving in Non-traditional Subjects (GAINS)– Success Camp hosted by SCU’s Student Chapter of EWB

One Step Ahead– Female high school students explore hands-on engineering

Third Street Community Center– Engineering undergraduates volunteer at after-school

program

Summer Alice Program– Training for high school computer science teachers– Computer camp for high school students


3. Global Understanding and Engagement

Undergraduate Experience

Graduate Curricula

Faculty Research

Faculty Exchange

Frugal Innovation Lab


Provide global learning opportunities, partner with other universities

Global Understanding and Engagement: Undergraduate Experience

Strong, affordable homes for Haiti

Lab-on-a-chip for safe water in rural areas

Sustainable construction for Ghana

Water distribution system for Malawi

Water filtration system for Nicaragua

Engineers Without Borders Student Chapter


Hands-on, meaningful projects:

Global Understanding and Engagement: Undergraduate Experience

Collaborators: BlueEnergy

California Expanded Metal Company

EBNet (Ecological Building Network)

Necessity Housing

Sureboard USA

WellBilt International

World of Good Organization


Global Understanding and Engagement: Graduate Curricula

ENGR 271 Global Environmental Change

ENGR 302 Managing in the Multicultural Environment

ENGR 304 Building Global Teams

ENGR 336 Engineering for the Developing World


An expanding array of courses:

Global Understanding and Engagement: Faculty Research Partners

Australian National University BMW, Germany Cambridge University, UK Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina Catholic University of Uruguay IIT Delhi IT Research Center of Ajou University, South Korea Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Monash University, Australia National Technical University of Athens


National University of Ireland, Galway Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago Southeast University, China St. Xavier’s Colleges, Mumbai and Kolkatta, India Swedish Defense Research Agency Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Universidad Centroamericana, El Salvador University of Granada, Spain Xavier Institute of Engineering, Mumbai, India

Global Understanding and Engagement: Faculty Exchange

SCU Faculty Guest and Consulting Professors at:– National University of Singapore– Shanghai Jiao Tong University– Zhejiang University

Visiting Researchers from:– Chungnam National University, South Korea– Hitachi Center for Nanostructures– Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China– Southeast University, Nanjing, China– Institute of Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland


Global Understanding and Engagement: Faculty Education

China Trip– 15 faculty– 2 weeks – The Beijing Center– Beijing & Shanghai

Presentation to Deans of Jesuit Universities Cordoba, Argentina

– The Profile of an engineer of a Jesuit University: competencies and abilities


Global Understanding and Engagement: Frugal Innovation Initiative

Collaboration with CSTS, Business School Addresses need for products and services in emerging countries Ruggedization, simplification, sparing use of local, raw materials Not high-tech — appropriate tech


“… a tremendous opportunity to innovate for social impact.”Radha Basu, dean’s executive professor

Global Understanding and Engagement: CSTS Funding – 2010 Roelandts Fellows

Faculty– Daniel Strickland, Mechanical Engineering: develop a portable solar/hydrogen fuel cell generator for off-grid

electrification

11 Student Projects– Bamboo Truss and Frame Connection Design/Construction Project – Compressed Air Powered Bicycle– Detection of Pathogens Using Electrochemical DNA Sensors in a Microfluidic Setting – EBNet Haiti Natural Masonry Program – Efficient Cook Stove – Fair Trade Mobile Application – LED Optical Wireless Communication – Mud Brick Press – Passive Water Management System for Fuel Cells – SCU Solar Water Purifier 2011 – Sustainable Design in Ghana


4. Justice and Sustainability

Solar Decathlon

Graduate Certificate and Master’s Degree in Sustainable Energy


Enhance curricula, promote research, be a model for other academic institutions

Solar Decathlon

2007 – 3rd Place Overall

2009 – 3rd Place Overall

2011 – Taking a needed break

2013 – Planning a bid – with USF ??


Building the future.

Master’s Degree in Sustainable Energy Education for a sustainable future

– Help professionals update skill set– Serve Silicon Valley employers

Technical Courses– Alternative Energy Systems– Intro to the Smart Grid– Power Systems

Sustainability Core– Quality of life; Economic financial models– Energy and ethical issues

Specialization Electives– Civil, Mechanical, Computer and Electrical


5. Academic Community

Program Snapshots

Faculty Achievements

Student Achievements

More Partnerships

Alumni Achievements


Excellence in teaching and scholarship, partnerships, alumni network

Applied Mathematics Honors Mathematics Courses: 22 students enrolled

– Honors Differential Equations – 7 students– Honors Probability and Statistics – 15 students

Master’s Degree with Concentration in Mathematical Finance– 7 enrolled, 1 graduating as first degree conferral this June– Graduate courses in Applied Mathematics and Leavey School of Business


Bioengineering

100+ Students - 18 seniors, 18 juniors, 70 freshmen and sophomores

Specialization tracks: Medical Device and Biomolecular / Pre-Med

Minor in Bioengineering (or Biomedical Engineering)

$357,416 in faculty grants

New Faculty Hire: Prashanth Asuri, Fall ’11

5 Advisory board members: Medical device, medical imaging, biotechnology, clinical research


Civil Engineering

Undergraduate Program– 160 declared B.S. students– New focus Construction Management 2011/12– Competitions: steel bridge and concrete canoe

Graduate Program– 18 M.S. students

New Faculty, Lab Improvements


Civil Engineering - Faculty Hires

Assistant Professor– Hisham Said will expand our offerings in Construction

Management. Post-doc at Purdue; Ph.D. from University of Illinois.

Academic Year Lecturers:

– Tonya Nilsson; previously tenured at CSU Chico, PhD from UC Davis. Licensed P.E.

– Sikandar Khatri; previously Associate Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Australia, PhD from University of New South Wales, Australia. Licensed P.E.


Civil Engineering - Laboratories New Structures Test Lab

– built this summer– on-site testing of intermediate size structural components

Off-site Structures Laboratory Annex– high-bay servo-hydraulic test facility for structural components up to 26 ft high.

New Surveying Equipment– one GPS-based RTK (Real Time Kinematic) system– three total stations– three digital theodolites– three automatic levels

New instructional shake table for earthquake simulation


Computer Science and Engineering B.S.CSE 115, B.S.WDE 22

216 M.S. students, 25 Ph.D. students

Total New External Funding: $2.356M

New Tenure-Track Faculty Member – Ahmed Amer

Senior Design Lectures– Intellectual Property – Ethics – Entrepreneurship – Societal/Economic/Political concerns

ACM Field Trips to Local Companies

Design Center Equipment Upgrades


Computer Science and Engineering 1 Mac Lab (Solaris Lab being converted Summer ’11)

– COEN 10, 11, 12, 70, 174

2 Linux Labs

Windows Labs (shared)

General Design Center upgrade – Summer ’11


Electrical Engineering

Students– 73 declared B.S., 112 M.S., 27 Ph.D.

New Equipment totaling $180,000– Communication and Microwave Lab– Senior Design Lab

New MSEE Core New Graduate MS Degree in Sustainable

Energy– Begins Fall 2011, coordinated by S. Mourad

Sponsored Projects Expenditures in 2009-10– $1.1 Million

Latimer Energy Lab– Expansion to 600 sq. ft. providing for three

complete measurement stations


Robotics Systems LaboratorySatellite Mission Control

Latimer Energy Lab

EC 100 Lab

Atomic Force Microscope

Engineering Management & Leadership 247 M.S. students

Developing the management skills required to compete in a global marketplace

Applying the knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering in the management of projects and complex systems

Added new courses in Advanced Leadership and Technology Entrepreneurship


Mechanical Engineering

230 B.S.! 76 M.S., 5 Ph.D. students

$166,649 of internal funding

$801,000 of external funding

8 journal articles, 22 conference papers

2 patents (Beitelmal)

1 new faculty hire, fall 2010 – Dan Strickland

1 additional faculty hire for fall 2011


Mechanical Engineering

Laser Flash System– characterize thermal conductivity and

heat capacity up to 1000C – TSC funding and Dean's matching

funds ~$150K.

Launch and mission control of 4 satellites:– 2 NASA satellites for which we are

performing mission control– 2 student-built satellites developed with

UT Austin


Electrochemical Device Lab

Ongoing projects:

Bubble-actuated micropumps for biomedical applications

Dramatically simplified reversible fuel cells for energy storage

Simplified fuel cells for efficient energy conversion

Directed by Professor Dan Strickland

Equipment:• 4-axis milling machine for rapid prototyping• Full chemical wet lab• State-of-the-art fuel cell characterization test stand


New Plan for Leadership

Transition from School of Engineering

Alternate between SoE and College of Arts & Sciences

Rich Barber, Professor of Physics, Fall ’11

Facilities and New Equipment

Mask Aligner in EC 100

Electron beam deposition in S-3700 SEMs

Completion of Thermal Reflectance Measurement Apparatus for temperature profiling

Center for Nanostructures


24 total publications, one

among top 20 monthly

downloaded from Applied Physics

Letters

Undergraduate Snapshot

~ 807 undergraduate students

~ 219 women students; 27%

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Undergraduate Enrollment

May 1 Applied Admitted Deposited Enrolled

2007 998 725 136 179

2008 1072 843 199 213

2009 1104 807 147 187

2010 1490 1076 282 278

2011 1940 1220 175 ???

Undergraduate Enrollment

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2011 Admitted Student Majors

ABET - Update Evaluation Team visited SoE October, 2010

Evaluated 4 undergraduate engineering degree programs– Civil Engineering– Computer Science and Engineering (2X)– Electrical Engineering– Mechanical Engineering

Concerns and weaknesses identified (no deficiencies)– Related to available resources

SoE has responded and is addressing noted areas


Graduate Programs

Enrollment Trends

Master’s Degree in Sustainable Energy

New Interdisciplinary Courses

International Collaboration: China, India and South America


Enrollment History and TrendsENROLLED UNITS

19952011

15,155

12,918

11,015

10,094

13,967

12,470

11,631

12,562

14,916

11,413

9,929

12,042

11,471

13,727

15,32315,719

9000

10000

11000

12000

13000

14000

15000

16000

FY 95/96

FY 96/97

FY 97/98

FY 98/99

FY 99/00

FY 00/01

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FY 09/10

FY 10/11


AMTH, 25 CIVIL, 18

COEN, 185

SOFT, 31

ELEN, 112EMGT, 247

MECH, 76

CERTIFICATE, 43(ALL DEPTS)�

OPEN UNIVERSITY, 83

M.S. Student Summary FY 2010-2011(820 Total – Reflects currently enrolled students only)


AMTH, 25

CIVIL, 18

COEN, 185

SOFT, 31

ELEN, 112

EMGT, 247

MECH, 76

M.S. Students by Department, FY 2010-2011(694 Total – Excludes certificate and open university; reflects currently enrolled students only)


COEN, 25

ELEN, 27

MECH, 5

Ph.D. Students by Department(57 Total – Reflects currently enrolled students only)


New Interdisciplinary Courses

Designed to help students gain a deeper understanding of the influence that engineering has on society (and vice versa)

Primary focus in 2010 -11: sustainability and frugal innovation

Courses developed and taught in 2010-11:ENGR 261 Nanotechnology and SocietyENGR 310 Engineering EthicsENGR 334 Energy, Climate Change and Social JusticeENGR 336 Engineering for the Developing WorldENGR 337 Sustainability and Green Information TechnologyENGR 338 Mobile Applications for Emerging Markets


International Collaborations

ChinaShanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)An MOU has been in place since the fall of 2009. In the fall of 2011, we expect to host a faculty exchange visitor from (SJTU), who will be working with Dr. Nam Ling in Computer Engineering.

South AmericaCatholic University of UruguayOne student is completing her MSEE degree at SCU in June, and another visited in the fall quarter of 2010. We expect a third Master’s student in the fall of 2011.


International Collaboration (ctd.)Catholic University of Cordoba

In December of 2010, professor Shoba Krishnan from the Department of Electrical Engineering visited the Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina, where she taught a short in course in analog design.

India Memorandum of Understanding was signed with IIT Delhi, which

focuses on the exchange of faculty and Ph.D. students.

This spring, we are hosting faculty visitors from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkatta, and the Xavier Institute of Engineering, Mumbai.

Possible MoU with St. Xavier’s College, Kolkatta, is currently being discussed.


International Conferences BAIPAEIC

– April 22-23, 2011– 50 international experts – Bioengineering applications in the performing arts and

and entertainment industry – Health, efficiency and performance safety, focus on voice

“Bridges to Infinity: Humankind, God and the Scientific Enterprise”– May 6-7, 2011– Jesuits from: Argentina, Colombia, India, U.S., Uruguay– How can Jesuit universities facilitate dialogue on science, religion– Explore global science and religion training for Jesuit universities


2010 School of Engineering Faculty Awards

Aaron Melman, Researcher of the Year

Reynaud Serrette, Award for Teaching Excellence

Michael Thorburn, Adjunct Lecturer of the Year

Warren Garrison, Gerald E. Markle Award


Faculty Achievement

Tim Hight – SCU President’s Recognition Award for Solar Decathlon Leadership

Dan Lewis – SCU Brutocao Family Foundation Award for Curriculum Innovation; SJUSD Advisory Committee for Career-Technical Education

Sarah Kate Wilson – Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor


Faculty Achievement

Nam Ling, IET Fellow

Ed Maurer – 2011 Google Science Communication Fellow (21 selected); Fulbright Visiting Scholar Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Terry Shoup – Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame; ASME Distinguished Service Award

Sally Wood – ABET EvaluatorSCHOOL OF ENGINEERING - 2011

Staff Achievement

Scott AndrewsSenior Assistant Dean

LeAnn MarchewkaDirector of Records and Operations, Graduate Programs

Stacey Tinker Director of Admissions and Marketing, Graduate Programs

Heidi WilliamsDirector of Communications


Adjunct Faculty Achievement Arun Banerjee presented a seminar at UC Davis (mech)

Rance DeLong is serving on the External Oversight Group for the DARPA Crashworthy Trustworthy Systems Research and Development project (coen)

Kim Parnell is chair of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section (mech)

Marian Stetson-Rodriguez was a featured author at Venture Outsource (engr)

Peter Woytowitz presented a paper at Nanomechanics Symposium of the Society of Engineering Science’s 47th Annual Meeting, Ames, Iowa (mech)


Faculty Publications

Advances in Engineering Education (Wood) Biochemical Journal (Yan) Civil Engineering Magazine (Maurer) Combustion and Flame (Mungal) Current: The Journal of Marine Education (Kitts) Engineering Structures (Aschheim) EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Wilson) Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences (Maurer) Journal of the American Water Resources Association (Maurer) Journal of Communications and Networks (Figueira, Holliday) Journal of Applied Physics (Lee) Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship (Kitts)


More than 110 papers and journal articles, 8 book chapters, 1 patent submitted, 2 patents granted

Faculty Presentations AAS/ AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, New Orleans (Ayoubi, Banerjee, Goodarzi)

AIAA-ASM 49th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando (Mungal)

APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Singapore (Pantoja, Ling)

Coastal Engineering Practice Conference, San Diego (Khatri)

IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Sedona (Wood)

IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology, Chengdu, China (Yan)

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, in Hong Kong (Ogunfunmi)

IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Ling)

IEEE Green Computing Conference, Chicago (Figueira, Tseng)

International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, New Delhi, India (Singh)

Oceans Innovations Conference, St. John’s, Newfoundland (Kitts)

World Steel Association, Tokyo, Japan (Serrette)


Faculty Grants


Chris Kitts and Ruth Davis - $1.142M KEEN Grant promoting an entrepreneurial mindset

Unyoung (Ashley) Kim (and others) - $500,000, Fletcher Jones Foundation; “Advanced Bioscience Initiative”

Dan Lewis and Ruth Davis – $380,928 (3 year $988,593 grant) NSF; "Special Project: Expanding the Impact of Computer Science in Silicon Valley High Schools and Facilitating Adoption of the ECS Curriculum Elsewhere"

Nam Ling - $125,000, Droplet Technology, Inc.; "Adaptive Bit-Rate Control for Wavelet-Based Video Coding"

School of Engineering Summer Engineering Seminar - $30,000, The Verizon Foundation

Yuling Yan - $53,505, UC Berkeley; "High-Contrast Imaging of Single Molecules in Live Cells"

Other PartnershipsOn Campus: Center for Science Technology and Society Leavey School of Business Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education

Off Campus: Milwaukee School of Engineering St. Louis University Stanford University University of Alaska UC Berkeley UC Davis UC San Diego

…and many more


Student Achievement Ryan Hinds ’11 (mech) – scholarship and internship from NASA for aeronautics research

Mark Allison, Haley Dickson, Urvashi Reddy selected for Business School’s Global Fellows Program

Sophomores Suzanne Lien and Samantha Pham selected to the Computer Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research

Guy Hotson ’11 accepted Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

PharmaSat Mission Team – NASA Group Achievement Award for engineering excellence in design and operation of PharmaSat spacecraft

Freshman engineers take 3 of 7 top prizes in Engineering Education Service Center’s “Sing the Song of Engineering” contest


Alumni Achievement

Richard P. (Rick) Wallace (MS EMGT ’89): CEO KLA-Tencor, SCU 2010 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award

James Foley (BSCE ’68): NCEES Distinguished Service Award for dedicated service to the engineering and surveying professions

Todd Goolkasian, S.E. (BSCE ’85): ASCE Award for Outstanding Civil Engineer in Community Service

Vishal Gurbuxani (MSCOEN ’03): Co-founder Mobclix

Vijay Reddy (BSCOEN ’03): Ph.D. from Harvard; 7 interviews, 6 offers, including Georgia Tech, Brown, UT Austin, and Duke

2007 Solar Decathletes successfully sold their start-up Valence Energy to Serious Materials


More Great News! Professor Ahmed Amer (computer engineering) was

sworn in as a United States citizen

Michael Neumann ’03, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, started a library in Tanzania

SoE is #1 for percentage of women tenured/tenure track faculty in engineering (ASEE Profiles in Engineering Programs)

Engineering dominates the list of top-paid majors, according to NACE’s Spring 2011 salary survey

SCU is #33 overall in Businessweek’s ranking of 850 American colleges and universities by “return on investment”

Anne Mahacek (mechanical engineering graduate student) won a competition for the CBS television show Big Bang Theory


Conclude: we have a strategic plan and vision that produces exceptional engineers

Just look at what combining an excellent Jesuit education, with active engagement with Silicon Valley, a focus on global understanding and

engagement, and a commitment to justice and sustainabilitybrings about


…now just imagine what the next 100 years will bring!


THANK YOU for your contributions to our success

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