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Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics

Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering MechanicsExternal Advisory Board

MeetingState of the Department

April 23, 2007


Department Strategic Plan

Mission: Prepare Engineering Students for Successful Careers

Vision: Be a nationally recognized mechanical engineering department that attracts, rewards, and retains outstanding faculty, students, and staff: Be a department of choice nationally


Organization: Research CaucusesEngineering Education Innovation: Dr. Michele Miller DirectorMulti-Scale Systems and Sensors: Dr. Craig Friedrich DirectorMultidisciplinay Mechanics and Modeling of Multifunctional and Multi-Scale Materials: Dr. Ghatu Subhash Director Powertrain Systems: Dr. Carl Anderson DirectorSpace Systems: Dr. L. Brad King DirectorSustainable Systems (in the process of being proposed)


Organization: Technical AreasDesign/Dynamic Systems: Dr. John Beard DirectorEnergy-Thermal-Fluids: Dr. L. Brad King DirectorManufacturing/Industrial Engineering: Dr. William Endres DirectorSolid Mechanics: Dr. Gopal Jayaraman Director


Department Rankings Graduate Program ranked 54th (top 33%) NewNationally amongst the 164 Doctoral GrantingMechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S. by the 2008 U.S. News & World Report: America’s Best Graduate Schools and 3rd in Michigan

Undergraduate Program ranked 25th (top 16%) Nationally amongst the 148 Doctoral GrantingMechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S. by the 2005 U.S. News & World Report: America’s Best Colleges and 2nd in Michigan


Department Rankings

NSF ranked the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics in Research Expenditures 26th in FY2004 amongst all Mechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S.

FY2004: $7.517 Million(latest rankings)


Department Statistics The Largest Department at Michigan TechSeventh Largest ME Department in BSME degrees granted in the U.S. and 2nd in MichiganAmong the Seven Largest ME Departments in the U.S. in BSME degrees granted for Twenty Three Consecutive YearsThree Spin-off CompaniesEnrollment (Fall 2006)1178 Undergraduate Enrollment

183 Graduate Students83 PhD Students


Faculty Awards: Spring 2007Dr. Jason R. Blough earned the 2007 SAE Ralph Teetor Education AwardDr. Jaime A. Camelio earned the 2007 SMEKuo K. Wang Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award


Student AwardsSenior Design Project, "A Dynamic Test Stand," First place: Second International Student Capstone

Design Fair, Korean Ministry of Science and Technology and Seoul National University of Technology, November 2006.

Team members: Jeffrey Van Karsen, Karen Hauch, Brad Rush, Kelly Willett and Richard Bellenbaum.

Van Karsen and Associate Professor John Gershenson represented the team and department at the fair, which had 313 entries, including entries from 10 international universities from the U.S., Singapore, China, and Japan.

Project sponsor: Whirlpool


Student AwardsASME Strategic Diversity Workshop paper competition. First Place: Paper title " Envisioning the Future

of Engineering“Team members: Daniel Vanderhoff (Section VP

& junior), Daniel Michalski (ME sophomore), and Nick Dumler (Section President & senior)

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Roshan M D’SouzaAwarded: Travel expenses to present paper at

the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Chicago, IL, November 7, 20006


Faculty Openings: Spring 2007Have seven (7) tenure-track faculty positions to be filled (retirements: Evensen, Ligon, and Young, Arici, Others: Moon, Bettig, Suhash)New tenure-track line from the university: I had requested two, one of which was to support our aerospace initiative with Dr. King and that is the line we received.Total open tenure-track lines: 8Lecturer position: Replacing Dr. Josh Lockus, who wishes to be available only on a temporary basisIn 2 years we could have up to 17-18 untenured faculty (39-40%)


Faculty and Staff StatusFaculty and Staff Positions and openingsTenure-Tenure Track Faculty Lines: 44

Professors: 12 Associate Professors: 15Assistant Professors: 9Open Lines 8

Lecturers (full-time) (converted TT lines) 2Research Professors (JHJ,KJW,QD): 3Total 49

Staff: 25Staff on General Fund $: 9.55 (11 people)Staff on Soft Fund $: 15.45 (14 people)


Status of New Hires and OffersTenure-track lines – 8 open lines

13 interviews (one accepted offer from SCU @$1,2M)

4 offers out (one accepted offer from UC-B)1 says he will accept – offer to go out this week1 offer will go out this week (high prob. of yes)2 offers are planned to go out (one to a female)

• Summary information about these 8 offers:– One minority accepted (Hispanic)– One offer to a women is out– Two additional offers to women will go out


Offers AcceptedDr. Ossama Abdelkhalik: Space Systems Caucus

Dr. Fernando Ponta: Advanced Power Systems Caucus


Lecturer Position StatusTwo interviews:Dr. Debra CharlesworthDr. Olanrewaju Aluko

Both are excellent and wish to make offers to both. Requested an additional lecture line but so far the answer is no.


Budget RequestOne Faculty Line in SustainabilityAdditional Space

11th FloorClassrooms 405,406,407

This needed in short term to support our growth in research and graduate students.

Long Term Space Needs – Need another building: Proposed to locate behind current building and over the hill (like Dow)

Reasons: Growth and Safety – can not longer have dynos in our building


Funding our Future MEEM Campaign Building for the Future - Phase II “Endowing Excellence” - $54 Million GoalFocus: People

$52 Million for Endowments$ 2 Million for Graduate Research

Laboratory Support

As of January 11,2007, raised over $24.6 million (47.3% of Phase II Endowment Goal)

The MEEM Campaign will become part of the University Major Campaign, which starts the silent phase in 2007


ME-EM Phase II CampaignBuilding for the FutureEndowing Excellence

# $/Each $/Total $/Total #Endowed Chairs 4-5 $2-3,000,000 10,000,000 15,675,187 7Endowed Professorships 3-4 $1-2,000,000 4,000,000 2,500,000 2Endowed Practitioner Chairs 2 2,000,000 4,000,000 Endowed Associate Professorships 4 500,000 2,000,000 500,000 1Endowed Assistant Professorships 4-5 $2-300,000 1,000,000 350,000 1Endowed Visiting Professorships 1 1,000,000 1,000,000 Group Endowed Chair 25,000Emeriti Endowment Fund 25,771Quality and Sustainability Lab 50,000

Total Faculty Initiatives 22,000,000 19,125,958 11

Goal Raised as of 1/11/07

Faculty Initiatives



Goal Raised as of 1/11/07Department Endowment 10,000,000 0

Student InitiativesGoal Raised as of 1/11/07

Scholarships

Endowed Women/Minority 2,000,000 18,771Endowed Scholars/Honor Program 1,000,000 824,716

FellowshipsEndowed Graduate Fellowships 5,000,000 750,000Endowed Women/Minority 2,000,000

Program SupportEndowed Student Vehicle Competition 4,000,000 12,500 Endowed Student Design Fund 2,000,000 Endowed Student Leadership Awards 1,000,000 Endowed Computing Technology Teaching Fund 1,000,000

Other Endowed Graduate Student Recruitment Fund 1,000,000 Endowed Engineering Learning Center Fund 500,000 Endowed Senior Recognition /Order of the Engineer 300,000 Endowed Graduate and Undergraduate Recognition Awards 200,000 Software 937,500

20,000,000 2,543,488


Campaign Totals to DateGoal YTD

Number of Endowed Faculty Chairs

17-21 11

Number of Fully Endowed Undergraduate Scholarships

8 4

Number of Endowed Graduate Fellowships

10 1



Goal Raised as of 1/11/07Operating Funds 227,035Undesignated Funds 2,699,192

- 2,926,227

52,000,000 24,595,672



Additional Verbal Commitments

Faculty Initiatives 1,350,000 Student Initiatives 250,000 Software 100,000

1,700,000

Total with Verbal Commitments 26,295,672



Campaign Expense

Amount Raised Expense Cost/$ raisedPhase I 3,445,078 214,266 0.0622Phase II 24,595,672 593620 0.0241


Student National Competition Results


National Student Competitions SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2007(13 Universities)

Enterprise Program

6th Place Overall2nd in Design2nd in Emissions3rd in Rider Comfort

2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Challenges were held at Michigan Tech. The 2008 Challenge will be held @ Michigan Tech


National Student Competitions

SAE Aero East 20073rd Place Overall (out of 27)Lift of 20.4 lbs(max was 2.07 lbs)Senior DesignProgram


Contracts and Grants: 2007Jeffrey S. Allen (Co-PI, ME-EM), John Diebel (PI, Tech and Econ. Dev.), "Fuel Cell Water control System Prototype -Alternative Energy", Sponsor - Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative, Total project amount -$60,979.Jeffrey S. Allen (Co-PI, ME-EM), Satish Kandikar (PI, RIT), "Visualization of Fuel Cell Water Transport and Performance Characterization", Sponsor - Department of Energy, the award is part of a $2.7 million collaborative project with Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), General Motors, and Michigan Tech, Total Michigan Tech project amount - $991,930.Jaime A. Camelio (PI, ME-EM), John W. Sutherland (Co-PI, ME-EM), "Application of Control Theory Principles to Improve the Performance of a Dynamic Trucking Network", Sponsor -Schneider National, Total project amount - $41,000.00.


Contracts and Grants: 2007L. Brad King (PI, ME-EM), "Self-Regenerating Nanotips: Indestructible Field-Emission Cathodes for Low-Power Electric Propulsion", Sponsor -U.S. Department of Defense - Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Total project amount - $324,487.00.Edward Lumsdaine (PI, ME-EM), "2007 Staffing for the C3P ISD", Sponsor - Ford Motor Company, Total project amount - $240,284.00.Michele H. Miller (PI -ME-EM), Gordon G. Parker (Co-PI, ME-EM), Henry A. Sodano (Co-PI, ME-EM), H. Liu and Sarah A. Green, (Co-PIs, Chemistry), Paul L. Bergstrom (Co-PI, EE), "Optimizing Chemo-Mechanical Structure for MEMS Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays", Sponsor -Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Total project amount - $1,362,334.00.


Contracts and Grants: 2007Jeffery D. Naber (PI, ME-EM), John E. Beard (Co-PI, ME-EM), Donna J. Michalek (Co-PI, ME-EM), "Direct Injection Ethanol Flex-Fuel Vehicle Optimization and HC Cold-Start Emissions reductions for Hybrid Applications", Sponsor -General Motors, Total project amount - $272,146.00.Jeffery D. Naber (PI, ME-EM), John E. Beard (Co-PI, ME-EM), Donna J. Michalek (Co-PI, ME-EM), "GDI Ethanol Flex-Fuel Engine Optimization and HC Cold-Start Emissions Reduction for Hybrid Applications", Sponsor -General Motors, Total project amount - $52,052.00.Gordon G. Parker (PI, ME-EM), Jill Blecke, (Co-PI, PhD major, ME-EM), "Switch Bounce Modeling and Control", Sponsor - Sandia National Laboratories, Total project amount - $20,000.00.


Contracts and Grants: 2007Henry A. Sodano (PI, ME-EM), "Biologically Inspired Autonomic Structural Materials with Controlled Toughening and Healing", Sponsor - NSF, Total project amount $281,160.Charles D. Van Karsen (PI, ME-EM), "AVS Engine Noise Identification", Sponsor - Briggs & Stratton Corporation,Henry A. Sodano (PI, ME-EM), "Biologically Inspired Autonomic Structural Materials with Controlled Toughening and Healing", Sponsor - NSF, Total project amount $281,160.Charles D. Van Karsen (PI, ME-EM), "AVS Engine Noise Identification", Sponsor - Briggs & Stratton Corporation,

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