Faculty Recruitment Plan - 2011-2013 -

Jacobs School of Engineering

University of California, San Diego

Frieder Seible Dean

Jeanne Ferrante and Charles Tu

Associate Deans

Steve Ross Assistant Dean

June 30, 2011

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The key to the success of the Jacobs School is the focused execution of our vision and mission through the excellence of our faculty. Maintaining and renewing that excellence via select recruitments, which advance our diversity, is critical and we appreciate the opportunity to plan the next three year’s recruitments. In response to your call for recruitment plans we requested our departments to focus on their highest priorities and submit the most critical needs to us. We received requests for 28 positions from the departments. This past year, one position in the Jacobs School of Engineering was designated for an excellent faculty member who has already demonstrated strong contributions to increasing diversity in science and engineering fields and who will help shape and expand the school’s diversity initiatives. It was open to faculty applicants in any of the six departments in the school, thereby ensuring a broad pool of applicants. Our experience this year demonstrated that this was a successful approach to finding extremely strong candidates in both research and contributions to diversity and we wish to continue to make an FTE available for this program each of the next three years. The addition of three FTE for this purpose brings our total request to 31 positions. We anticipate that the 31 recruitments will leave the School with a net increase of 14 FTE over the three years due to the current and anticipated retirements (Fig 1). The 17 separations projected are based on faculty who will be 70 or older during the next three years. It does not include any losses we may have due to retention or other separations.

Fig 1 Jacobs School Faculty FTE Summary

                     

            Estimates for Fall 2011  Three Yr Requests

   Fall 2006  Fall 2007  Fall 2008  Fall 2009Fall

2010 Hires Seps Net  LRF  Est SepsFall

2014

BE   14.34    15.34    17.34    18.33   21.96   2.00     23.96    3.00    (2.00)  24.96 

CSE   41.67    45.67    44.67    43.67   44.67   1.00   (0.50)  45.17    3.50    (2.00)  46.67 

ECE   51.99    50.99    51.99    50.33   48.33     (3.00)  45.33    8.50    (5.00)  48.83 

MAE   36.50    37.50    42.99    36.52   36.85   2.00     38.85    6.00    (5.00)  39.85 

NE        9.81    10.81   14.65       14.65    3.00    (1.00)  16.65 

SE   15.00    17.00    18.00    20.00   21.00   1.00     22.00    4.00    (2.00)  24.00 

Any                      3.00      3.00 

   159.50    166.50    184.80    179.66   187.46   6.00   (3.50)  189.96    31.00    (17.00)  203.96 

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Research Needs Four years ago, the faculty of the Jacobs School came together and formulated three core research focus areas (Fig. 2). Primarily using contribution towards these three core research focus areas, as well as impact on faculty diversity, and needs of our graduate and undergraduate educational program

Fig 2 Jacobs School Research Focus Areas

In the discussions on the strategic foci for Academic Affairs, the areas of Systems Biology, Advanced Entergy Technology and Design (Fig 3) are emerging as critical future directions.

Fig 3 UC San Diego Research Focus Areas under discussion

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In mapping these emerging directions with the strategic cores of the Jacobs School it is clear a vibrant, strong School of Engineering is critical to all three areas. In particular our near term faculty recruitment plans directly support the combined goals (Fig 4). To be successful in our strategic research goals we must reinforce the faculty in the School.

QuantitativeSystemsBiology

Design

AdvancedEnergyResearch

EngineeringinMedicine 2,7 2,5,7

2

InformationTechnology&

Applications2,3,7 2,3,5,6

2,3,6

Energy,Environment&Sustainability

2 1,2,4,6,8

2,4,6,8

Fig 4 Strategic Research Focus & Recruitment Mapping (numbers correspond to the prioritized

2011/2012 FTE request)

Fig 5 Prioritized 2011/2012 FTE Request Department ResearchArea 1. StructuralEngineering AviationSafety

2. School‐Wide Excellence

3. ElectricalandComputerEngineering HighFidelityInformationAccess

4. NanoEngineering MaterialsinEnergy

5. ComputerScienceandEngineering HCI/Computing&MachinesforReal

WorldInteractions

6. ElectricalandComputerEngineering Energy/Power

7. Bioengineering BioSystemsEngineering

8. MechanicalandAerospaceEngineering Energy

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Instructional Needs While we can and do make use of LSOE positions for some teaching the majority of the instructional efforts of the School are at the upper division and graduate level where research based faculty are most critical in providing the education our students expect from a research university. The demand for an engineering education has continued to grow as illustrated in the following enrollment graphs. The record amount of new undergraduates entering the pipeline is particularly striking in light of the reduced or flat enrollments on campus. We will be seeing a UG majors to faculty ratio of over 24 this fall and with a graduate student to faculty ratio of close to 8 we will have a total student to faculty ratio of 32. This level of students to faculty is unsustainable if we wish to remain a top level Engineering school. The recruitment of additional faculty as well as controls on UG enrollment are needed.

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