Dean’s Report BU ECS Board of Advocates Friday, April 28, 2006

Today’s Agenda Sessions/Reports- 3 Carry-over – Global/Communication/Business in curriculum – Retention thread (guest) – Marketing thread (guest) Leadership students (guests) Board Session Engineering Senior Design (guests) Wrap up

Dean’s Report ACM ICPC World Finals success ABET EAC accreditation update (& SACS) ECS Career Fair Dean’s leadership education Facilities needs report Faculty/Student/Staff happenings Advocate Board Scholarship

4 The 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finals with the Baylor Bear Touch! BRIEFING presented to The ECS Board of Advocates by Dr. William B. Poucher, Ph.D., ACM Fellow Baylor Professor of Computer Science ICPC Executive Director 14 October 2005 Baylor University

ICPC Champions Mr. Shawn Sedate- HEB Liaison Dr. Bill Poucher- Executive Director Ms. Marsha Poucher- UCPC Manager Dr. Don Gaitros- Contest Director Mr. Pat Hynan- Host Operations Ms. Leigh Ann Marshall- BU Public Relations Dr. Jeff Donahoo- Headquarter Services Dr. Larry Johnson- Chief Wrangler Washer Prof Cindy Fry- Volunteer Coordination Dr. David Sturgill- Host Java Challenge Coord Prof Bill Booth- Compet- itive Learning Workshop Dr. Amanda Sturgill- Host Activities Chair Dr. Mike Korpi- Digital Media Team Producer Dr. Ben Kelley- Steering Committee Chair

ABET EAC Update (& SACS) Preparation/Assessment continuous – Rationale for Fall departmental breakouts Peer-Evaluation team visits Fall 2006 Self-Study report due 30-June-06 – Describe programs; BU & ECS details – Assess according to a-k & PEOs 4 primary authors; 100% faculty involved On track, yet time consuming Last visit Fall 2001; Three programs evaluated: ECE, ME, EGR

Wed, 15-Feb-06 in Science Building Atrium – Day after BU Career Fair (Ferrell Center) – 19 Industry recruiters – Next event- 8-Feb-07 – Refine preparation – Later hours – Grow size & selectivity Science Engineering Technology Career Fair

Dean’s Leadership Training The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Fall-Winter 2005 Harvard Institute for Management and Leadership in Education – 2 weeks on site (June 17-29) – How well-positioned is my organization to meet current and future challenges? – How effective is my own leadership? Mentioned at Fall ’05 Board meeting

Facilities Expansion/Needs Space limits affecting performance Expansion plans back to 1998 Internal space recovery helped – ECS occupies 70% of 3 rd floor Faculty/staff committee brought to Fall ’05 Advocate Board meeting Report completed Jan 2006 – Noted need for faculty, research space & classrooms Continued from Fall ’05 Board meeting

Identified Space Challenges FunctionSpace (ft 2 ) Classrooms3,500 Offices & research space15,250 Teaching/Research labs17,500 Other7,500 Shell/Future20,000 Common areas (25%)15,950 Useable space needs79,700 (Rogers Building)(60,000) By the Faculty/Staff Committee (Jordan, Marshall, Maurer, Thornton) plus Kelley

Facilities- next steps Insert into BU hopper – Load into project-request system – Sell to administration (as settles in) Upper administration & Regents Development arm – Architectural detail and costing – Initiate fund-raising campaign

Faculty/Student/Staff Team wins ASME design event Speegle & Van Treuren promoted Business plan won ASEE Best paper Teams back to Kenya Grants submitted, funded, and planned Budget resurrection Student demand remains high Eunjee Song joining CS faculty (?) Agenda for fall retreat – T&P refine, software engr, adm standards Farison ASEE Fellow For BU, new President/CEO and Provost/EVP

ECS Board of Advocates Endowed Scholarship Book Value:$34, Market Value:$46,791.40