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Department of

Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

E t l Ad i B d

Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics

External Advisory Board Meeting

State of the Department

October 3, 2007

Department Strategic Plan

m Mission: Prepare Engineering Students for Successful Careers


m 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 Caucusesm Engineering Education Innovation:

Dr. Michele Miller Directorm Multi-Scale Sensors and Sensors:

Dr. Craig Friedrich Directorm Mechanics Multi-Scale Materials:

Dr. Tammy L. Haut Donahue Director m Adv nced Power Systems:


m Advanced Power Systems: Dr. Carl Anderson Director

m Space Systems: Dr. L. Brad King Director

m Extensible Assembled Systems (in progress) Proposed Director Dr. John K. Gershenson

Organization: Technical Areasm Design/Dynamic Systems:

Dr. John Beard Directorm Energy-Thermal-Fluids:

Dr. L. Brad King Directorm M nuf cturing/Industri l Engineering:


m Manu acturing/Industrial Engineering: Dr. William Endres Director

m Solid Mechanics: Dr. Gopal Jayaraman Director

Department Rankings m Graduate Program ranked 54th (top 33%)

Nationally 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

Undergr du te Progr m r nked 22nd NEW


m Undergraduate Program ra ked 22nd NEWNationally amongst the 181 Doctoral GrantingMechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S. by the 2008 U.S. News & World Report: America’s Best Colleges and 2nd in Michigan

Department RankingsNEW

m NSF ranked the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics in Research Expenditures 23rd in FY2005

mo gst ll Mech ic l E gi eeri g


amongst all Mechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S.

FY2004: $8.900 Million(latest rankings)

I expect to ranked higher in FY2006 with $10.238 Million

Department Statistics m The Largest Department at Michigan Tech

m Seventh Largest ME Department in BSME degrees granted in the U.S.

m Among the Seven Largest ME Departments in the U.S. in BSME degrees granted for Twenty Four Consecutive Years


Ye rsm Three Spin-off Companiesm Enrollment (Fall 2007)

1129 Undergraduate Enrollment159 Graduate Students

72 PhD Students* ASEE data

Department Rankings*Rank Number

m BSME Degrees granted 7 222m MS degrees granted: 32 41m PhD degrees granted: tied 27 13g gm Faculty: 15 39m External Res. Exp.: 50 $3.671Km External Res. Exp./Faculty : 94 $94.1Km BS/Faculty: 34 5.69

*ASEE Data:


Faculty Promotions: Spring 2007m The Faculty Development Committee and the

Chair recommended three faculty for promotion from associate professor with tenure to professor with tenure and all three were promoted. They are:


m Dr. John K. Gershenson promoted to professor

m Dr. Mahesh Gupta promoted to professor m Dr. Mohan D. Rao promoted to professor

Status of New Hires and Offersm Tenure-track lines – 8 open lines

• 8 offers• 5 accepted for AY 2007-2008 • 1 will start in Ay 2008-2009 at our request

• Dr. Scott Miers, Argonne National Lab (2 years)


Dr. cott Miers, rgo e N tio l L b (2 ye rs)

• 2 declined

m Lecturer line – 1 open line• One offer and he accepted

Tenure-Track Faculty Offers Accepted

m Dr. Ossama Abdelkhalik: Texas A&MSpace Systems Caucus

m Dr. Bo Chen: U Calif. – DavisMultidisciplinary Engineered Dynamic Systems Caucus


m Dr. Dennis DeShang Meng: UCLAMulti-Scale Sensors and Systems Caucus

m Dr. Fernando Ponta: Univ. IL – UCAdvanced Power Systems Caucus

m Dr. Reza Shahbazian Yasser: Wash State UModeling of Multi-Scale Materials

Non-Tenure-Track Lecturer Offer Accepted

m Dr. Olanrewaju Aluko: Howard Univ


Faculty and Staff Statusm Faculty and Staff Positions and openings

Tenure-Tenure Track Faculty Lines: 44 44AY’06-’07 AY’07-’08

Professors: 12 14Associate Professors: 15 12Assistant Professors: 9 12O Li 8 6


Open Lines 8 6

Lecturers (full-time) (converted TT lines) 2 2Research Professors (JHJ,KJW,QD): 3 3Total 49 49Temporary Instructors 7 9Staff: 25 25

Staff on General Fund $: 9.55 (11) 11(8.85)Staff on Soft Fund $: 15.45 (14) 14(16.15)

Budget Request-FY’07 & FY’08m One Faculty Line in Sustainability (unknown)m Additional Space Requested

F Lahti Building – received• Named: Alternative Energy Research Laboratory (AERL)

m New Building Request


• Proposal to Dr. Dale Tahtinen as part of State Capitol Outlay request – 2nd on listF Reasons:

• Growth in PhD students and faculty research lab requirements

• Safety – can not longer have dynos in our building

Funding our Future m MEEM Campaign Building for the Future - Phase II

“Endowing Excellence” - $54 Million GoalFocus: People

$52 Million for Endowments$ 2 Million for Graduate Research


$ 2 Million or Graduate Research Laboratory Support

As of June 30, 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

Endowed Professor Fundingm The Drake family funded an endowed

professor in such a way that it starts this year.• The John and Cathi Drake Endowed Professor

in Mechanical Engineering• Dr. Gordon G. Parker was appointed to theDr. Gordon G. Parker was appoi ted to the

John and Cathi Drake Professor

Reception to honor Dr. Parker is set for tomorrow, Thursday, at 5:00-6:30 in the Room 105 of MUB. The EAB members are invited. Dinner will follow at the Ramada.


ME-EM Phase II CampaignBuilding for the FutureEndowing Excellence

Faculty Initiatives

GoalRaised as of

06/30/07

# $/Each $/Total $/Total #

Endowed Chairs 4-5 $2-3,000,000 10,000,000 14,675,187 7

Endowed Professorships 3-4 $1-2,000,000 4,000,000 4,500,171 2

Endowed Practitioner Chairs 2 2,000,000 4,000,000


Endowed Associate Professorships 4 500,000 2,000,000 500,000 1

Endowed Assistant Professorships 4-5 $2-300,000 1,000,000 350,000 1

Endowed Visiting Professorships 1 1,000,000 1,000,000

Group Endowed Chair 25,000

Emeriti Endowed Chair 30,100

Quality and Sustainability Lab 50,000

Total Faculty Initiatives 22,000,000 20,130,458 11


Department InitiativesGoal Raised as of 06/30/07

10,000,000 0

Student InitiativesGoal Raised as of 06/30/07

ScholarshipsEndowed Women/Minority 2,000,000 18,930 Endowed Scholars/Honor Program 1,000,000 864,367

Fellowships

Endowed Graduate Fellowships 5,000,000 662,523 E d d W /Mi it 2 000 000


Endowed 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

Total Student Initiatives 20,000,000 2,495,820


GoalRaised as of

06/30/07

Operating Funds 285,571Undesignated Funds 1,711,714


Campaign Total 52,000,000 24,548,987


Addition Verbal Commitments

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

700,000


700,000

Total with Verbal Commitments 25,248,987


Campaign Total Sources

Cash Received 3,193,506

Pledged 2,335,332

In Kind (Software) 937,500

Planned/Deferred Gifts 18,781,859

Interest 133,886


Total 25,248,197

Spent Cash

Henes Chair (272,604)

Fundraising (235,799)

Scholarships (Not endowed) (35,685)

(544,088)

Goal YTD

Number of Endowed Faculty Chairs

17-21 11

Campaign Totals to Date



Number of Endowed Undergraduate Scholarships

8 5

Number of Endowed Graduate Fellowships

10 1


Campaign Expense

Amount Raised Expense Cost/$ Raised


Phase I 3,445,078 214,266 0.0622

Phase II 25,248,197 654,373 0.0259


Campaign Expense

Amount Raised Expense Cost/$ Raised* Includes WWP &


Adv . Off.

Phase I 3,445,078 214,266 0.0622

Phase II* 25,248,197 907,603 0.0359

Student National Competition Results


Students Work in Zero Gravitym NASA Reduced Gravity Flight Student Opportunities

Program, Aug. 18-27, 2007

MTU student teamselected to test theirNanosatellite in zero gravity on the C-9 or


gravity o the C 9 or “Weightless Wonder” airplane @ 36,000 ft.

Aerospace Enterprise TeamTested a device they developed to sweep moon dust off of lunarRovers and similar equipment.

National Student Competitions m SAE Aero East 2007

May 4-6, 2007 Fort Worth, TX

1st Place Overall (out of 51)

2nd Report/Presentation

3rd D i C i ti


3rd Design CommunicationOnly American team in top 4Lift of 24.95 Lbs

m SAE Aero West 2007March 2007, Van Nuys, CA

3rd Place OverallSenior Design Program

National Student Competitions m SAE Mini Baja 2007

National CompetitionsSouth Dakota Race19th & 30th Overall (out of 91)4th & 9th in Design6th in Acceleration


Central Florida Race40th Overall (out of 75)5th in Acceleration

Rochester Race43rd & 81st Overall (out of 141)

Final Ranking: 10th in Nation

Enterprise Program

National Student Competitions m SAE Clean Snowmobile

Challenge 2007(10 Universities)

6th Place Overall2nd in Emissions3rd in Design Paper


g p3rd in Rider Comfort

Enterprise Program

2003 – 2007 Challenges held at Michigan Tech2008 Challenge will be held @ Michigan Tech on March 10-15, 2008

National Student Competitions 2007 Challenge X:Crossover to SustainableMobility (17 Universities)

11th Place Overall 3rd in Acceleration


Lightest Hybrid

Only university to competewith a hybrid for every competition since 1995, initially FurtureCar & thenFutureTruck competition

Enterprise Program

National Student Competitionsm SAE FormulaCar 2007

42nd Overall (out of 136)

34th in Endurance-Economy


Enterprise Program

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