1. Sarah A. Rajala Dean James & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering
Convocation Fall 2014
Sarah A. Rajala
Dean
James & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering

2. Welcome and Introduction

3. Presentation Outline Update on Goals for 2013-2014 Financial Update
New Faculty and Staff
Named Faculty Positions
Patent Awards
Faculty and Staff Awards

4. Goals for : UPDATES
Deliver a high quality education to all of our students
Hillary Kletscher, senior in biological systems engineering, and Mike Hoefer, senior in industrial engineering, are the president and vice president, respectively, of Iowa State’s Government of the Student Body.
Team PrISUm won Best Mechanical Design Award and placed third overall in the American Solar Challenge.
Cyclone Space Mining won the Best Design and Innovation Award during the NASA Robotic Mining Competition.
Michael Solberg (BSME’14) received Iowa State’s Student Employee of the Year Award.
Augustine Villa, senior in chemical engineering, was named Cargill Scholar.
Cimone Wright, senior in computer engineering was one of six statewide winners of the Alliant Energy/Erroll B. Davis Jr. Achievement Award.
Four Iowa State University Honors students with ties to the College of Engineering received Goldwater Scholarships: Jacob Harry, senior in aerospace engineering; William Lindemann, senior in materials science engineering and mathematics; Rachel Philiph, senior in materials science engineering; and Thomas Knief, senior in physics who does research in materials science and engineering.

5. Goals for : UPDATES
Hire at least 17 new, diverse, high-quality faculty members
Successful searches all with strong applicant pools
Hired 22 tenure/tenure track faculty, including 6 as part of the Presidential High-Impact Initiative (4 in big data and 2 in translational health)
Added 5 new lecturer positions

6. Goals for : UPDATES
Develop a new model for Engineering Online to encourage growth, new pedagogical development and sustainability
Collaborating across campus to provide faculty support
Awarding grants for online course development (up to $9,000 per course)
Developing funding model for blended/flipped course support

7. Goals for : UPDATES
Increase the number of graduate students who have enrolled or accepted admission by 5%
1,200+ graduate students expected for fall 2014
Graduate research student increase initiative provides recruitment funds to increase numbers — college and departments provide funds 1st year; supported by researchers in 2nd year
Accelerating Collaboration in Research Initiative provides funds to develop new ideas and/or increase collaboration not pursued by others due to lack of time or resources

8. Goals for : UPDATES
Expand research portfolio and increase expenditures by 7.5%
research proposal dollars submitted: $207.8M – 8.6% increase from
$225.4M
$207.8M
$191.3M

9. Engineering Research Expenditures
$83.9
$78.5
$79.7
$74.4
$70.6

10. Goals for 2013-14: UPDATES Significant research awards include:
Renewal of Center for Biorenewables Chemical (CBiRC)
Comprehensive-driven program analysis (CPA) for malware detection in Android phones
In-situ, wireless, energy-harvesting soil moisture/nutrient sensors
A unified framework for cyber attack-resilient power grid
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation grant to research developing new tools for the quantitative investigations of networks of plants.

11. Goals for 2013-14: UPDATES Digital Lab for Manufacturing
Create an Innovative Ecosystem Increase the innovative capacity of OEMs and their suppliers through digital integration and strategic collaboration.
Commercialize Research Move ideas from TRL 4-7 through a network of physical and virtual demonstration sites.
Strengthen the U.S. Economy
$100B in value to OEMs per year
$30B in value potential to DoD per year
75,000 jobs created in the first 5 years
Source: McKinsey Global Institute and team analysis
Source: McKinsey Global Institute and team analysis
Source: McKinsey Global Institute and team analysis

12. Goals for 2013-14: UPDATES The Digital Lab Guiding Approach
Three Technology Focus Areas
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE (AME)
INTELLIGENT MACHINING (IM)
ADVANCED ANALYSIS (AA)
Agile and robust manufacturing strategies and integrated capabilities that dramatically reduce the cost and time of producing complex systems and parts.
Integration of smart sensors and controls to enable equipment to automatically sense and understand current production environment in order to conduct “self-aware manufacturing”.
Utilization of high-performance computing to model materials, products and processes to enable “design with manufacturing in mind”.
OPEN SOURCE PLATFORM
HUB & SPOKE MODEL
DIGITAL
COMMONS
An open source technology system across the entire manufacturing value chain.
NATIONAL NETWORK
A 'hub and spoke' model, where the 'hub' will be the Digital Lab for Manufacturing based in Chicago, and the 'spokes' will be all the applied research on the manufacturing floors of our partners across the US.

13. Goals for : UPDATES
Develop a new plan for renovation and expansion of CoE space
Planning is ongoing
Existing spaces
Marston
Sweeney
Gilman
Mechanical engineering space study
New space
Student Innovation Center
Elings Hall & Sukup Hall and Atrium

14. Goals for : UPDATES
Develop a new plan for renovation and expansion of CoE space MARSTON HALL - office relocations
Student Services – Howe Hall
International Programs – Howe Hall
Engineering Research Institute – Durham Center
Technology Support – Durham Center
Dean’s Office – Memorial Union
Career Services – Memorial Union
College Relations – Lab of Mechanics
Development – ISU Foundation Bldg.
K-12 Outreach – Industrial Ed II
More information: Follow ‘Marston Hall Renovation’ link on CoE homepage

15. Goals for : UPDATES
MARSTON HALL RENOVATION

16. Goals for 2013-14: UPDATES Raise $22M in new private gifts
$29.3M ($10.6M gifts and pledges; $18.7M deferred commitments)
Best fundraising year ever in college
Marston Hall fundraising $6.5M+ committed
Gifts support scholarships, fellowships, named faculty positions, building renovations and college programs

17. Movement of Research Centers
Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
Microelectronics Research Center
Information Assurance Center
CIRAS

18. CIRAS Update
In 2013, 1,280 businesses from 94 counties in the state received assistance on projects or attended educational workshops from CIRAS staff and partners. Companies responding to surveys reported $446 million of total economic impact:
$383 million in sales gained or retained
$50 million in new investments
$13 million in costs saved or avoided
6,795 jobs added or retained
Over the past 5 years, CIRAS and partners reported impact totaling over $2 billion with 29,390 jobs added or retained

19. General Fund Revenue Budget $99 Million

20. College of Engineering General Fund
$99M
$86M
$76M
$69M
$67M

21. Goals for
Vision: In the best traditions of a land-grant institution, we will be the premier engineering program among public universities known for value and commitment to education, research, and engagement.
Goals:
Deliver a high quality education to all of our students
Hire at least 20 new, diverse, high-quality faculty members
Increase the number of graduate students by 5%
Expand the research portfolio by seeking larger scale projects and increasing expenditures by 5%
Finalize space plan and continue renovation and expansion of CoE space
Raise $25M in new private gifts

22. Faculty and Staff Importance of high quality faculty and staff
More than 400 faculty and staff critical to our success
All are dedicated to student achievement

23. Welcome New Engineering Faculty
ABE Shweta Chopra – Asst. Professor Adina Howe – Asst. Professor AerE Clayton Anderson – Senior Lecturer Zarechnyy Oleg – Lecturer Paul Schafbuch – Adj. Assoc. Professor Patrick Vogel – Lecturer Leifur Leifsson – Asst. Professor Pradip Sagdeo – Lecturer Liming Xiong – Asst. Professor Peng Wei – Asst. Professor CBE Wenzhen Li – Assoc. Professor Matthew Panthani – Asst. Professor Yue Wu – Assoc. Professor
CCEE
Michael Pawlovich – Lecturer
Omar Smadi – Assoc. Professor
Anuj Sharma – Assoc. Professor
In Ho Cho – Asst. Professor
Peter Savolainen – Assoc. Professor
Alice Alipour – Asst. Professor
Behrouz Shafei – Asst. Professor
ECPE
Long Que – Assoc. Professor
IMSE
Mingyi Hong – Asst. Professor ME
Jonathan Claussen – Asst. Professor
Adarsh Krishnamurthy – Asst. Professor
Sonal Padalkar – Asst. Professor
ME cont’d
Rafael Radkowski – Asst. Professor
Soumik Sarkar – Asst. Professor
Shan Hu – Asst. Professor
MSE
Martin Thuo – Asst. Professor

24. Welcome New Engineering Staff
ABE Jennifer Grouwinkel – Accountant Benjamin McCarty – Student Services David Webber – Assoc. Scientist AerE Brad Eilers – Academic Adviser Robert Martin – Program Manager Jacqueline Kester – Program Asst. CBE Bellinda Hegelheimer – Program Asst. Austin Hohmann – Asst. Scientist Nacu Hernandez – Assoc. Scientist Kathy McKown – Program Coord. CCEE Ryan Simpson – Research Assoc. ERI Joel Severinghaus – Program Coord.
CIRAS
Melissa Burant – Program Coord.
Jodi Essex – Program Coord.
Jeff Eckhoff – Communications
Paul Dunnwald – Program Manager
Paul Berge – Industrial Specialist
Adam Boesenberg – Asst. Scientist
ECPE
Ravi Hadimani – Assoc. Scientist
Robert Thompson – Academic Adviser
Ethalinda Cannon – Assoc. Scientist
Career Services
Shari DuBois – Program Asst.
Mayra Ramirez – Program Asst.
ELO
Susan Bailey – Instructional Support
Rema Nilakanta – Instructional Dev.
Student Services
Holly Dunlay-Lott – Student Services
Lisa Hurley – Admin. Specialist
Jennifer La Gesse – Program Coord.
Ashley Ransom – Academic Adviser
IMSE
Alyssa Speake – Admin. Specialist
Kathy Weaver – Academic Adviser ME
Alyssa Mittleider – Academic Advisor
Susan Olson – Program Coord.
Lisa Phillips – Academic Adviser
Taylor Shire – Program Asst.
Neely Bushore – Admin Specialist
John Howell – Teaching Lab Coord.
Hazel Peterson – Secretary

25. Promotions in the Engineering College
Michelle Soupir, ABE – Assistant to Associate Professor Wei Hong, AerE – Assistant to Associate Professor Laura Jarboe, CBE – Assistant to Associate Professor Jenny Baker, CCEE – promoted to Senior Lecturer David White, CCEE – to Full Professor Timothy Bigelow, ECPE – Assistant to Associate Professor Nicola Elia, ECPE – to Full Professor Ayman Fayed, ECPE – Assistant to Associate Professor Nathan Neihart, ECPE – Assistant to Associate Professor
Alexander Stoytchev, ECPE – Assistant to Associate Professor
Rick Stone, IMSE – Assistant to Associate Professor
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, ME – Assistant to Associate Professor
Matthew Hagge, ME – promoted to Senior Lecturer
James Heise, ME – promoted to Senior Lecturer
Shankar Subramaniam, ME – to Full Professor
Sriram Sundararajan, ME – to Full Professor
Song Zhang, ME – Assistant to Associate Professor
Scott Beckman, MSE – Assistant to Associate Professor

26. New Named Faculty Positions
Named faculty positions established with private support enable the college to attract and retain world-class professors and researchers
Thank you to the donors who established these prestigious positions

27. Sourabh Bhattacharya Henry Black Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering Established by Henry Black, 1929 Mechanical Engineering graduate

28. Matthew Panthani Herbert L
Matthew Panthani Herbert L. Stiles Faculty Fellow in Chemical Engineering Established by Herbert Stiles, Chemical Engineering graduate

29. Anupam Sharma Walter W. Wilson Faculty Fellow in Engineering Established by Walter Wilson, Electrical Engineering graduate

30. Kathryn Stolee Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professor Established by Murray and Ruth Harpole, Murray graduate in 1943 with a degree in Electrical Engineering

31. Manimaran Govindarasu Ross Martin Mehl and Marylyne Munas Mehl Computer Engineering Professorship Established by Ross and Marylyne Mehl, friends of the College

32. Alex King Bergdahl Professorship of Materials Science Established by Karl and Anne Bergdahl, Karl graduated in 1931 with a degree in Ceramic Engineering

33. R. Chris Williams Gerald and Audrey Olson Professor in Civil Engineering Established by Gerald and Audrey Olson. Gerald received his B.S. degree in and M.S. in 1958, both in the area of civil engineering.

34. Yue Wu Herbert L. Stiles Professorship in Chemical Engineering Established by Herbert Stiles, Chemical Engineering graduate

35. Inaugural named faculty positions
To be named later this year:
Richard C. Seagrave Professorship Established by former students to honor Richard Seagrave.
Cerwick Faculty Professorships (2) Established by Joel and Judy Cerwick, Joel graduated with a B.S. in civil engineering in 1966 and M.S. in 1968.

36. Patent Awards
Patents are valued scholarly contributions and prestigious forms of recognition

37. Iver Anderson Dispersoid reinforced alloy powder and method of making

38. Stuart Birrell Double shear material chopper

39. Robert Brown Bio-oil fractionation and condensation Asphalt materials containing bio-oil and methods for production thereof

40. Jien (Morris) Chang Bandwidth recycling in networks

41. Kristen Constant Multi-channel polarized thermal emitter

42. Ahmed Kamal Network protection using network coding

43. Ratnesh Kumar Semantic translation of time-driven simulink diagrams using input/output extended finite automata

44. Mani Mina Sagnac interferometric switch utilizing Faraday rotation

45. Arun Somani Depth-optimal mapping of logic chains in reconfigurable fabrics

46. Xiaoli Tan High cure temperature ternary piezoelectric ceramics

47. Srikanta Tirthapura Computing time-decayed aggregates under smooth decay functions

48. David White Polymer Mortar Composite Pipe Material and Manufacturing Method

49. Alan Russell and Iver Anderson Aluminum/alkaline earth metal composites and method for producing

50. Joseph Shinar, Ruth Shinar and Kristen Constant Soft lithography microlens fabrication and array for enhanced light extraction from organic light emitting diodes (OLEDS)

51. Faculty and Staff Awards
Honoring faculty and staff from the college

52. Kevin Brownfield Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

53. Lindsay K. Diers Superior Engineering Advisor Award

54. Stephanie Loveland Superior Engineering Teaching Award

55. Gloria Starns Superior Engineering Teaching Award

56. Kurt Rosentrater Superior Engineering Extension Award

57. Michelle Soupir Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

58. Namrata Vaswani Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

59. Song Zhang Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

60. Surya Mallapragada D.R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Award for Research

61. Thank You Join us for refreshments