1. Friday, September 9th, 2016
CEE Faculty Meeting

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8. Welcome Back! 8

9. Agenda Pre-1:30 Coffee/Pastries
1:30 Welcome to New Faculty: Drs. Colin Gleason
and Kara Peterman
1:35 Department Head Discussion
Calendar
State of the Department, Trends in Enrollment,
Graduation, Research, Space Issues
Comments from Leadership Meeting
2:05 Department Needs and Goals
2:15 Comments from the Associate Head
2:30 Adjourn 9

10. Department Calendar Currently Scheduled Faculty Meetings Fall 2016
Friday, September 9th Higgins Room
Friday, October 7th Kellogg Room
Friday, November 4th Kellogg Room
Friday, December 2nd Kellogg Room 10

11. Department Calendar
September 15th Freshman Orientation, 5:30 pm September 23rd Advisory Council Meeting & Inaugural Academy of Distinguished Alumni Banquet October 6th Feng Lecture October 14th Career Fair October 16th Engineering Open House October 20th College-wide Faculty and Staff Meeting – 4 pm November 2nd CEE Pre-registration 11

12. Department Calendar - AFRs
Now APWS Link:
September 19 Faculty member completes Sections II-V
October 24 DPC completes Section VII
November 22 Department Head completes section VIII and returns form to faculty member.
November 28 Faculty member completes Section IX (optional) and submitted to Dean
February 1 Dean adds any comments before submitting to Provost
AFRs will remain in the system, visible to you, and will be available for import into reappointment, promotion, and tenure files.
October 10 Faculty sabbatical for requests due to DH via APWS link 12

13. State of the Department13

14. Civil and Environmental Engineering (2015-2016)
Faculty Activities
New Faculty - Dr. Kara Peterman, Dr. Colin Gleason, Dr. Emily Kumpel
Awards
Sergio Brena: ASCE Teacher of the Year Award
Scott Civjan: COE Outstanding Teacher
Michael Knodler: CEE Advisory Council Faculty Service Award
David Reckhow: Sanjay Arwade: CEE Research Award
Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship Award
Daiheng Ni: TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs
Simos Gerasimidis: Open Education Initiative Award, UMass
Baystate Roads/Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
The Massachusetts Traffic Safety Research Program (UMassSafe)
The Massachusetts Cooperative Research Program

15. Civil and Environmental Engineering (2015-2016)
Awards, Continued
Michael Knodler: CEE Advisory Council Faculty Service
Eleni Christofa: Named Innovation Fellow 2016 (UMass Amherst) 
Song Gao and Eleni Christofa: team with faculty at MIT for a Department of Energy ARPA-E
Daiheng Ni in collaboration with Dr. Doug Looze in ECE co-advised a team that won first place in the Runway Safety/Runway Incursions/Runway Excursions design challenge category.
Dr. A. Lutenegger Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Baystate Roads/Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
The Massachusetts Traffic Safety Research Program (UMassSafe)
The Massachusetts Cooperative Research Program

16. Civil and Environmental Engineering (2015-2016)
Noted Research
Guoping Zhang and Don DeGroot with Drexel University , NSF Grant, “Multiscale Investigation of Thixotropy in Soft Clays” total $548,991; UMass Portion $348,991.
Guoping Zhang received from Jin Coal Group a grant on “Fly ash-based geopolymers” for $200,000.
The UMass Transportation Center receives an Interdepartmental Service Agreement (ISA) of $6,141,551 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) 
"Mobility Electronic Market for Optimized Travel (MeMOT)"; UMass portion: $500,000. 
Daiheng Ni (PI). The State of the Practice of UAS Applications in Transportation. Sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). August-December 2016. $51,700.
Sanjay Arwade on BOEM/BSEE on CFD modeling of breaking waves, MassCEC on mooring systems for offshore wind, and MassCEC on building Massachusetts research capacity for offshore wind
Baystate Roads/Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
The Massachusetts Traffic Safety Research Program (UMassSafe)
The Massachusetts Cooperative Research Program

17. Civil and Environmental Engineering (2015-2016)
Student Activities
Matthew Sparks: 21st Century Leader Award
Radha Gomez, Francis Tainter, Aaron Keegan: ITE 2016 Northeastern District Award Best Student Poster
Nicholas Fournier: ITE 2016 Northeastern District Award Best Student Research Paper:
Zachary Bartula, Tracy Donoghue, Michael Morano, and Daniel McLoughney: 2016 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition 6th place (out of 33 teams):
Lauren Gonynor: William F. Field Alumni Scholar Award
Michael Morano and Tracy Donoghue: ASCE Student Award
Tracy Donoghue won the 2016 Bertram Berger Memorial Scholarship awarded by BSCES
The ASCE Chapter assisted Habitat for Humanity building a home in Amherst
Nicholas Fournier, Cole Fitzpatrick, and Joshua Wolfgram received the 2016 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship for the upcoming academic year ($5,000, $11,500, and $31,900 respectively)
Farnoush Khalighi was awarded the 2016 Claire Barrett Memorial Scholarship by the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) Boston Chapter ($6,000)
Cole Fitzpatrick was selected 2015 New England UTC Outstanding Student of the Year ($1,000)
If room can add scholarships

18. Continued…. Cole Fitzpatrick was awarded an Isenberg Fellowship
Mahour Rahimi was awarded the Graduate Student Scholarship from the Rhode Island Chapter of WTS.
Mahour Rahimi was awarded a Dissertation Scholarship from the UMass Amherst Graduate School.
Marie Louis received the Selig Award from the UMass CEE Department
Nicholas Fournier won the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) 2016 Northeastern District Best Paper Award for his paper: "A Seasonal Bicycle Demand Model Using A Sinusoidal Function"  and is advancing to the National Competition.
Francis Tainter came 3rd in the ITE 2016 Northeastern District Best Student Research Paper
The UMass team placed 1st in the 2016 ITE Northeastern District Collegiate Traffic Bowl and will be competing in the Grand Championships in Anaheim, California
The UMass Amherst Student Chapter of the ITE was recognized at the ITE 2016 Northeastern District Annual Meeting in Portsmouth, NH, as the district's Chapter of the Year.
UMass team co-advised by Daiheng Ni won 1st place for their Airport Secure Perimeter Control System (ASPECTS) design on the Runway Safety/Runway Incursions/Runway Excursions, a category in the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. 18

19. State of the Department
Students Completing Degrees
Year 20xx 
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04-05
05-06
06-07
07-08
08-09
09-10
10-11
11-12
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13-14
14-15
15-16
Undergraduate 31 39 46 40 51 56 73 81 88 99 91 78
Graduate
Master's 20 23 21 13 26 38 48 37
Doctoral 3 4 1 6 7 2 8
Total 24 27 14 32 41 54 44
Total Degrees 65 70 67 75
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21. State of the Department21

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23. Graduated Students by Program (During 2014-2015)
Total
Masters
Ph.Ds.
EWRE 11
Transportation 10 8 2
Geotechnical 6
Structure and Mech. 14
Graduated Students by Program (During )
Program
Total
Masters
Ph.Ds.
EWRE 16 12 4
Transportation 6 3
Geotechnical 5
Structure and Mech. 1 23

24. Enrolled Students by Program (Fall 2015)
Total
Masters
Ph.D.s
EWRE 58 30 28
Transportation 11 17
Geotechnical 19 7 12
Structure and Mech. 21 9
Enrolled Students by Program (Fall 2016)
Program
Total
Masters
Ph.D.s
EWRE 56 32 24
Transportation 33 18 15
Geotechnical 9
Structure and Mech. 14 10 24

25. Research Activity 2006-2007 $6,724,920 $4,308,162 $5,844,541 2007-2008
Proposed
Funded
Expenditures
$6,724,920
$4,308,162
$5,844,541
$3,949,582
$5,760,997
$5,150,850
$14,749,933
$9,009,944
$5,311,643
$9,262,9264
$4,605,272
$5,909,932
$7,596,384
$4,449,422
$6,056,717
$15,559,424
$9,642,413
$6,360,225
$8,950,755
$6,529,026
$6,404,695
$11,048,781
$7,219,215
$6,746,673
$13,823,965
$20,207,269
$8,755,483
$26,791,593
$14,865,426
$8,820,621 25

26. Research Expenditures by Program, Total (Direct + Indirect) -2014-201526

27. Research Expenditures by Program, Total (Direct + Indirect) -2015-201627

28. Change in Total Sponsored Research Expenditures 2012-2013 to 2013-201428

29. Change in Total Sponsored Research Expenditures 2013-2014 to 2014-201529

30. Staff Support
Ways to support our staff in grants and graduate assistantships:
Please provide ample time for the staff to put students on the payroll, deadlines have been more forward, June for the Fall.
Please do not ask students to work when funding is not in place
Make use of the Pre-Establish Options for proposals that you know are going to be funded
Faculty should provide clear documentation on who is funded on what, instead of sending students to the staff
Proposals, please provide time 30

31. Leadership Retreat No new strategic planning requirements
For Engineering, SRTI go on-line Spring 2017
Graduate Revenue, next slide
INNOVATE, next slide
Issues of concern to other department heads
Staff, Promotion packages (letters), 31

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34. Other Issues Searches Space Transportation – Restarted
Program Coordinators are attempting to identify locations/students
Increase in student fees will provide more money for facility and laboratory improvements
Makerspace 34

35. Other Issues Staff Changes Winter Retreat Sabbatical Leaves 2016-2017
David Glazier – retired – party TBD
Technician Position – Job description is finished and is currently being leveled over at Human Resources, Lead by Don DeGroot
Brooke Stebbins – new Assistant to Department Head
Kathy Whynott – retiring as of October 14 but will be working part-time for Erich Hinlein on MDOT Grant
Koren Berrio – new accountant in Business Office
Winter Retreat
Will ask Program Coordinators to develop list of topics and speakers
Would like to focus on “Futures Talk”
Sabbatical Leaves
Carl Ho (Fall)
Sergio Brena (Spring)
CONTE Award – David Reckhow – Research only 35

36. Associate Department Head
David’s Comments 36

37. Graduate Program Director
Sanjay’s Comments 37