ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting July 16-17, 2010 Lamberton Hall, Lehigh University

Fil BartoliECE Dept. Chair and Chandler Weaver Chair P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science

ECE

ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting Attendees

About Lehigh

• Private institution founded in 1865; 35th among National Research Universities in U.S. News & World Report• ~4700 undergraduate students (59% m, 41% f)• ~2100 graduate students (56% m, 44% f)• 432 full-time tenure track faculty• 1,600 acres on 3 contiguous campuses; half preserved as open space• ~150 buildings with >3.6 million square feet of classroom, lab, office and living space; 180 acres of playing fields

Robert Alexander Lamberton (Third Lehigh President: 1880-1893) Previous graduated of Dickinson College, Prominent lawyer in Harrisburg, Pa., and Lehigh trustee.

Beginning of Electrical Engineering Program at Lehigh

Golden Gate BridgeHoward H. McClintic & Charles D. Marshall,

1888

Lehigh Engineering: A tradition of unconventional thinking

Panama Canal Howard H. McClintic & Charles D. Marshall,

1888 Francis R. Dravo, 1887

Packard Automobile

James Ward Packard, 1884

Ford Mustang:

Lee Iacocca, 1945

EscalatorJesse Reno, 1883

Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh Today

• Degree programs: BS, MS, PhD in EE and CompE (joint with CSE)

• Faculty• 20 full-time faculty

(30% hired in last 7 years)• 2 Professors of Practice

• Bachelors’ Programs• 130 undergraduate students• 50 B.S. degrees granted each year

• Masters’ & Doctoral Programs• 110 FT graduate students• 25 M.S. & 10 Ph.D. degrees granted each

year(>20% of RCEAS graduate degrees)

• Educational Opportunities: • Co-op program & industrial internships• Research experiences for undergraduates, &

others

Lehigh Engineering -Today

• 7 Academic departments• 130 full-time faculty

• 30% hired in last 7 years• 17 Bachelors’ Programs

• 1670 undergraduate students; some 33% of Lehigh undergrads

• 400+ B.S. degrees conferredeach year

• 21 Masters’, 13 Doctoral Programs• 650 graduate students• 135 M.S. & 50 Ph.D. degrees granted

each year• More than 50% of Lehigh’s Ph.D.

degrees; 65% of research expenditure

ECE Enrollment Trend

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 20100

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Lehigh ECE UG Enrollment

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15-Year Enrollment Trend

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• Optical Technologies

• Microelectronics and Nanotechnology

• Bioelectronics Engineering

• Wireless Communication, Networking & Sensing

• Energy and the Environment

• Computer Engineering

Undergraduate Research Opportunities in ECE

Environmental/EnergyEngineering

Life Science/Biotechnology

Information/ CommunicationsTechnologies

Central Themes• Improving undergraduate enrollments

• First-year experience

• Innovation and leadership development

• Redefining ECE in interdisciplinary world

• Interdepartmental programs

• ECE meeting societal challenges in 21st century

• Increasing the number of US doctoral students

• ABET Issues and best practices

ECEDHA Mid-Atlantic Meeting

Twenty Engineering Achievements That Transformed our LivesElectrification

Automobile

Airplane

Water Supply and Distribution

Electronics

Radio and Television

Agricultural Mechanization

Computers

Telephony

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

Highways

Spacecraft

Internet

Imaging

Household Appliances

Health Technologies

Petroleum/Petrochemical Technologies

Lasers and Fiber Optics

Nuclear Technologies

High Performance Materials

Broad Impact of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sustainability, Health, Security, Joy of Living

1.Make solar energy economical2.Provide energy from fusion3.Provide access to clean water4.Reverse-engineer the brain5.Advance personalized learning6.Develop carbon sequestration

methods7.Restore/improve urban

infrastructure8.Engineer tools of scientific

discovery9.Advance health informatics10.Prevent nuclear terror11.Engineer better medicines12.Manage the nitrogen cycle13.Enhance virtual reality14.Secure cyberspace

NAE Engineering’sGrand Challenges

Source: National Academy of Engineering

Engineering Innovators– Cross-functional technical

leaders and innovators – Undergraduate research– Integrate undergraduate

and master’s engineering education

The Dual Mission ofLehigh Engineering

Cross-Disciplinary Professionals– Liberal education for the 21st

Century– Career preparation in

– Health/medicine– Business/Finance– Entrepreneurship– Design/Architecture– Legal Studies– International Relations– Technical Journalism

Where Have All The Jobs Gone?

• Most jobs created in the U.S. over the past two decades are in Housing, Finance, and Service

• Most of the jobs lost are not coming back to the level they were; not any time soon

• How are new jobs created in the future?

We will have much to discuss following the presentations to come….

Thank You!

Questions?