1. Sarah A. Rajala Dean, James & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering
Fall 2015 Convocation
Sarah A. Rajala
Dean, James & Katherine Melsa Professor of Engineering

2. Welcome and Introduction

3. Presentation Outline Update on Goals for 2014-15 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
Team PrISUm earned its first ever overall win at the Formula Sun Grand Prix.
Iowa State Steel Bridge placed second in ASCE Midwest Region Student Steel Bridge Competition.

5. Goals for : UPDATES
Deliver a high quality education to all of our students
Joshua Moreno, AERE senior, selected for Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. 
Catherine Meis, senior in MSE, was named a 2015 Goldwater Scholar. 
Hillary Kletscher, BSE/MBA student, was named Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior. 

6. Goals for : UPDATES
Hire at least 20 new, diverse, high-quality faculty members
Successful searches all with strong applicant pools
Hired 17 tenure/tenure track faculty, including 5 as part of the Presidential High-Impact Initiative
Added 7 new lecturer positions

7. Goals for : UPDATES
Increase the number of graduate students who have enrolled or accepted admission by 5%
1,363 graduate students expected for fall 2015 — 7.6% increase
Graduate research student increase initiative provides recruitment funds to increase numbers — college and departments provide funds 1st year; supported by researchers in 2nd year

8. Goals for : UPDATES
Expand research portfolio and increase expenditures by 5%
research proposal dollars submitted: $295.8M – 42.3% increase from

9. Engineering Research Expenditures
$83.9
$82.5
$78.5
$79.7
$74.4

10. Goals for : UPDATES
CoE faculty associated with 12+ significant research awards in the $1M to $5M range, the top six include:
Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC) awarded maximum funding
EPSCoR: Sustainable energy systems
Information Assurance Scholarship
Demonstration Scale Production Of Biobased Thermoplastic Elastomers
INTRANS: Highway Research
CIRAS: Industrial Services

11. Goals for 2014-15: UPDATES Engineering space cleanup
Worked extensively with all departments and units on massive cleanup
Removed 100 tons of metal scrap from properties and found 10,000 square feet of space (worth $4M)
Moving student organizations to reactor warehouse
Cleaned Spangler Hall and Fisk Observatory and turned back over to university

12. Goals for 2014-15: UPDATES Engineering space planning
Student Innovation Center: Approved
Coover: Developing plans to upgrade the HVAC, sprinkler and life safety systems. Consider lighting and interior upgrades; window replacement underway
Town: Developing plans for an undergraduate advising center and an active learning center
Marston: Renovation continues

13. Goals for : UPDATES
MARSTON HALL RENOVATION

14. Goals for 2014-15: UPDATES Raise $25M in new private gifts
$30.0M in new private gifts ($11.2M gifts and pledges; $18.8M deferred commitments)
Best fundraising year ever in college
Marston Hall fundraising $9.4M committed
Gifts supported scholarships, fellowships, named faculty positions, building renovations and college programs

15. Impacting the Iowa Economy
Over 550 ISU engineering interns were employed by over 250 different Iowa employers located in over 90 communities in 60 counties
In 2014, 1,548 businesses from 97 Iowa counties received assistance on projects or attended educational workshops from CIRAS staff and partners. Companies reported $386 million of total economic impact:
$329 million in sales gained or retained
$45 million in new investments
$12 million in costs saved or avoided
5,154 jobs added or retained
Over the past five years, CIRAS and partners reported impact totaling over $2 billion dollars with 29,290 jobs added or retained

16. General Fund Revenue Budget FY16 $101 Million

17. College of Engineering General Fund
$99M
$101M
$86M
$76M
$69M

18. 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 faculty members and 2 new department chairs
Increase the number of graduate students by 5%
Expand the research portfolio by seeking larger scale projects and increasing expenditures by 5%
Continue space planning, renovation and building in
Raise at least $25M in new private gifts
Continue preparation for comprehensive campaign

19. Faculty and Staff
More than 500 faculty and staff critical to our success

20. Welcome New Engineering Faculty
ABE Stephen Bell – Lecturer Ronald Leonard – Assoc. Professor Timothy Shepherd – Lecturer Mehari Tekeste – Asst. Professor AerE Benjamin Ahn – Asst. Professor Norbert Meyendorf – Assoc. Professor Mary Wickham – Adj. Assoc. Professor CBE Karen Haman – Lecturer Thomas Mansell – Asst. Professor
CCEE
Ashley Buss – Asst. Professor
Bora Cetin – Asst. Professor
Kristen Cetin – Asst. Professor
Kaoru Ikuma – Asst. Professor
Aliye Karabulut – Lecturer
Michael Lustig – Lecturer
ECpE
Neil Zhenqiang Gong – Asst. Professor
Chinmay Hegde – Asst. Professor
Swamy Ponpandi – Lecturer
Zhaoyu Wang – Asst. Professor
IMSE
Scott Berry – Lecturer
Cameron MacKenzie – Asst. Professor
Quenten Meyer – Lecturer ME
Chao Hu – Asst. Professor
Jamie Juarez – Asst. Professor
Owen Kolstad – Sr. Lecturer
Barbara Lograsso – Sr. Lecturer
Margaret Mathison – Lecturer
Scott Merkle – Sr. Lecturer
James Michael – Asst. Professor
Juan Ren – Asst. Professor
MSE
Peter Collins – Assoc. Professor
Jun Cui – Assoc. Professor
Tim Cullinan – Lecturer

21. Welcome New Engineering Staff
ABE Robert Hartmann – Teaching Lab Coordinator AerE Wenli Su – Grant Coordinator CBE Ashley Augspurger – Lab Supervisor II Tonia Baxter – Academic Adviser II John Burnett-Larkins – Communications Specialist Kimberly Ohge – Secretary II Michelle Stotts – Operations Manager CCEE Seth Loyd – Academic Adviser II Sebastian Speer – Academic Adviser II IMSE Deborah McDonough – Secretary III Dennis Mowery – Associate Director, Center for e-Design
ECpE
Nadine Anderson – Secretary III
Luann Huss – Department Fiscal
Coordinator
Anne Kimber – Program Manager I
David Nicholas – Teaching Lab Coordinator
Stacey Ross – Secretary II
Donald Schlagel – System Analyst I
Sherry Xie – Grant Coordinator ME
Kristin Clemens – Graduate Programs Assistant
Jim Shelledy – Teaching Lab Coord.
Patricia Thrasher – Grant Coordinator
Jessie Vosseller – Academic Adviser II
MSE Aimee Burch – Comm. Specialist I
Karen Knight – Account Clerk
Patrick Morton – Academic Adviser II
CBiRC
Diana Loutsch – K-12 Program Asst.
CNDE
Robert Grandin – Associate Scientist
Cheryl Sansgaard – Fiscal Coordinator
MRC
Rita Mueggenberg – Secretary II
CIRAS
Andrew Alexander – Program Manager I
Joy Donald – Industrial Specialist
Laurel Kelch – Business Manager I
Mary Zimmerman – Finance &
Strategic Projects Manager

22. Welcome New Engineering Staff – cont’d
Engineering Administration Stacy Kilstofte – Coordinator of Continuous Learning and Career Advancement Sarah Wilson – Staff Recruitment Coordinator ELO Ritushree Chatterjee – Instructional Development Specialist Alicia Jenner – Instructional Support Specialist Cindy Manning – Clerk III Callie Morrow – Academic Advisor II Roger Suski – Manager, Collaborative Technology Services Mark Woolley – Manager, Administration for ELO Student Services Lori Bushore – Secretary II Roxanna Nwachukwu – Coordinator for Graduate Recuitment/on-line Student Services Shateisha Bruce – Academic Adviser II

23. Promotions in the Engineering College
Kenneth Bryden, ME – to full Professor Halil Ceylan, CCEE – to full Professor Kristen Constant, MSE – Morrill Professor Sebastien Feve, ME – promoted to Senior Lecturer Beth Hartmann, CCEE – promoted to Senior Lecturer Kurt Rosenstrater, ABE – Assistant to Associate Professor with Tenure
Derrick Rollins, CBE – University Professor
Diane Rover, ECE – University Professor
Brent Shanks, CBE – Distinguished Professor
Pranav Shrotriya, ME – to full Professor
Jiming Song, ECpE – to full Professor
Dennis Vigil, CBE – to full Professor
Zhengdao Wang, ECE – to full Professor

24. 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

25. In-Ho Cho – CCEE Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Established by Black & Veatch

26. Shan Hu – ME Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Established by Black & Veatch

27. Mingyi Hong – IMSE Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Established by Black & Veatch

28. Ran Dai – AERE Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Established by Black & Veatch

29. Soumik Sarkar – ME Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Established by Black & Veatch

30. Martin Thuo – MSE Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Established by Black & Veatch

31. Mark Mba-Wright – ME Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Established by Black & Veatch

32. Surya Mallapragada – CBE David R
Surya Mallapragada – CBE David R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Award Endowment Established by the Marston Club in the College of Engineering to honor David Boylan, Emeritus Dean and Professor

33. Say-Kee Ong – CCEE Cerwick Faculty Professorship Established by Joel Cerwick, who graduated in 1966 and 1968 with degrees in civil engineering

34. James Alleman – CCEE Cerwick Faculty Professorship Established by Joel Cerwick, who graduated in 1966 and 1968 with degrees in civil engineering

35. Wenzhen Li – CBE Seagrave Professorship Established by former students to honor Richard Seagrave.

36. Meng Lu – ECpE/ME Northrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W
Meng Lu – ECpE/ME Northrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green Established in honor of Fred W. O'Green, who graduated in 1943 with a degree in electrical engineering

37. Kaitlin Bratlie – MSE/CBE Michael and Denise Mack Fellow Established by Michael and Denise Mack; Michael graduated in 1979 and 1981 with degrees in mechanical engineering

38. Larry Cormicle – CCEE Weitz Faculty Fellowship Established by the Weitz Company, Inc.

39. Arun Somani – ECpE Sproul Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Established by the late Philip and Virginia Sproul, Philip graduated in with a degree in Electrical Engineering

40. Degang Chen – ECpE Jerry R
Degang Chen – ECpE Jerry R. Junkins Chair Professor Established in honor of Jerry Junkins,  Jerry graduated in 1959 with a degree in Electrical Engineering 

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

42. Iver Anderson – MSE Dispersoid reinforced alloy powder and method of making

43. Nicola Bowler – MSE/ECpE Concentric coplanar capacitive sensor system with quantitative model

44. Robert Brown – ME/CBE/ABE Selective temperature quench and electrostatic recovery of bio-oil fractions

45. Ayman Adel Fayed – ECpE System and method for providing power via a spurious-noise-free switching device

46. Brian Gleeson – MSE Pt metal modified γ-Ni+γ'-Ni3Al alloy compositions for high temperature degradation resistant structural alloys

47. David Grewell – ABE Gowrishankar Srinivasan – CIRAS Depolymerization of polylactic acid

48. Ratnesh Kumar – ECpE Semantic translation of stateflow diagrams into input/output extended finite automata and automated test generation for simulink/stateflow diagrams

49. Balaji Narasimhan – CBE Antimicrobial polyanhydride nanoparticles

50. Arun Somani – ECpE Dynamic advance reservation with delayed allocation

51. Sivalingam (Sri) Sritharan – CCEE Wind turbine tower system (2 separate patents awarded)

52. Srikanta Tirthapura – ECpE Computing time-decayed aggregates in data streams

53. Akhilesh Tyagi – ECpE Reconfigurable block encryption logic

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

55. Nancy Qvale – CCEE Dean’s Staff Excellence Award

56. Beth Hartmann – CCEE Superior Engineering Advisor Award

57. John Wagner – ME Superior Engineering Advisor Award

58. Monica Lamm – CBE Superior Engineering Teaching Award

59. Matt Rouse – CCEE Superior Engineering Teaching Award

60. Matthew J. Darr – ABE Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

61. Wei Hong – AERE Early Career Engineering Faculty Research Award

62. Balaji Narasimhan – CBE D.R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Award for Research

63. Thank You Join us for refreshments and United Way activities