Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartmental Overview

Prof. Mark E. Law

Department of Electrical and Computer Eng.

Outline

• Agenda

• State of the Department– Faculty– Graduate– Undergraduate– Campaign

• Conclusions

Agenda Thursday• 11:30 – 1:00 Lunch, Introductions, State of the Department – Law• 1:00 – 2:30 Undergraduate Program Issues• 1:00 ABET Review Results and Process – Law• 1:30 Counseling Assistants – Law• 1:45 IPPD – Eisenstadt• 2:00 ECE Seminar – Jordan• 2:15 ECE Adventures – Arroyo / Schwartz• 2:30 – 2:45 Break• 2:45 – 3:45 Research Overviews• NSF Reconfigurable Computing Center – Alan George• NIH Neural Recording Implant – Harris• NSF Entrepreneurship – Harris• 4:00 – 5:30 Senior Design Poster / Demos – Rotunda Area• 6:30 – Dinner at Hilton Hotel

Agenda Friday• 8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast

• 8:30 – 9:30 Capital Campaign – Maltbie

• 9:30 – 10:00 Break

• 10:00 – 11:00 Graduate Student Panel Q&A

• 11:00 – 12:30 Research Posters - NEB

• 12:30 – 2:00 Wrap-Up and Feedback

US News Rankings

• Beauty Contest at the department level

• 31st Best Graduate Program in US News (2007) Down 2 from 2006

• Unranked Undergrad, same as 2005

Faculty 42 Tenure Track Faculty and 5 Lecturers 14 IEEE Fellows 13 Assistant Professors, 14 untenured

Relatively Young

ECE Faculty

Recent Faculty Honors• Dr. Liuqing Yang received ONR Young Investigator Award

• Dr. Dapeng Wu received NSF Career Award • Drs. Rakov and Principe

selected as a UF Research Foundation Professors.

• Dr. Mark Law receives SRC Aristotle Award

• Dr. Jenshan Lin received Walter Cox award for service to IEEE MTT Society

• Dr. Scott Thompson named IEEE Fellow

Recent Faculty Press• Dr. Martin Uman, Lightning and Climate Change, New York Times

• Dr. Martin Uman and Dr. Vladimir Rakov, "Engineers are first to measure lightning-caused polluting gas”

• Dr. Alan George, National Science Foundation Research Center Launched at UF

• Dr. Alan George, New NSF Center Targets Reconfigurable Computing, HPCwire

• Dr. Alan George, UF, Honeywell engineers building first space supercomputer

• Dr. Jenshan Lin, For the future hydrogen economy, a tiny, self-powered sensorDr. Vladimir Rakov, Lightning Sparks Interest at Capitol Hill Educational Luncheon

• Dr. W. Eisenstadt, University's Sensor Gets Fresh with Pharmaceuticals and Other Goods, Electronic Design

• Dr. Karl Gugel, New Student-Design System Tracks Firefighters, Special Forces, April 13, 2006

Hiring Plans and Recruitment

• Target 50 faculty (nearly ten in real growth)

• Lost 2 Faculty last year

• No New Hires in 05/06

• 06/07 Search– Hired Rob Moore - Atmospheric Electricity– Offers to 3 More

Strategic Goals - ECE• Goal was to double

Ph.D.’s• Project Steady

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Strategic Goals - ECE

• Funding Metric on Ph.D.’s - Achieved 05/06– Support approximately 200 to 240 Ph.D. students– $10 - $13M / year in external research expenditures

• Publications Metric on Ph.D. - Achieved 05/06– 120 to 150 journal pubs / year (0.6 / year / Ph.D. student)– 200 to 240 conference pubs / year (1 / year / Ph.D. student)

• Consistent with recruitment of 50 Ph.D. students / year

Publication Quality

• Classify publication quality– Benefit junior faculty– Allow us to present better cases to college, provost– Strengthen our Evaluation

• Tier Conferences and Journals - 3 tiers

• Top Tier– Selective, High Impact, Wide Recognition as “best” in a field

• Mid Tier– Less Selective, Moderate Impact, “Good” Conference

• Low Tier– Accepts almost all, good for student development, “Workshop” flavor

Publication Quality• Goal to have in place by end of summer

• 1st Pass Guidelines on definitions• 2nd Pass Sample publications in each area /

each tier• 3rd Pass Develop more detail and pub lists

• Looking for volunteers to help in this process

Number of Students

• Declines in Undergrad

• Slow recovery in grad

• More Later

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• Incoming class recovered

• Achievement Awards

• Fall 2007 to date:– Over 1500 Applicants

– Made 89 offers

– 150 Achievement Awards Offers

– More AA’s to come

• Project need 150 students

• Difficulty Recruiting US

Applied Admit Enroll Aid

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Fall ‘04 1001 408 91 27

Fall ‘05 780 504 139 43

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• Need a class of 150 to stay even for Fall ‘07• Applications are up, cautiously optimistic

Grad Student Stipend

• Living Estimate for Gainesville ~$10,500• 20% of student stipends are below living costs• Average is now $13,200• Up about 10% from last year

• Graduate Student Panel - Tomorrow

Changes• Recruiting Grad Students

• Prof. John Harris, Recruiting Coordinator

• Catherine Sembajwe-Reeves, Recruiting Director

• Active Committee– Alumni Fellows - increase from 14 to 23– TA’s

Graduate Student Organization• Active this year• Passed a faculty etiquette guidelines

– Clarify what students should do

– Clarify student expectations

– No “free” labor

– Funding Expectations Clear

• Publish C&G monthly, rather than annually

Undergrad Retention / Recruiting• National Problem

– Enrollment is down in EE, CprE– Shift to Mechanical– Retention is poor in the discipline

• Locally• Half has been in CprE

– Hardware down to 60 students– Software (CISE) down from 800 to 300

• We have no control over admissions

Impacts• SCH’s - summer budget, raise pool• Could hurt our budget outright• Leader in improving will help our rankings• Important to the state mission• Lose higher admission standards

• Exceptional High School Students • UCF, USF get lower quality freshmen (on average)

and do fine

Problems• Science and Math Based Curriculum for Engineering

– Lose a lot of students in the first two years– No engineering curriculum

• Diversity is bad– White, male undergrad body (ok with hispanics)– Female undergrad percentage is decreasing

• Perceived as difficult– C+ requirement in math and physics– Weed out in 3111 / 3135

• 12th Century Teaching Methods

Lots of National Research• Entry Level Courses

– Project Based Approaches– Team Learning, Alternatives to Lecture– More hands-on, less theory– We can make use of these concepts

• I think we need to begin to seriously adapt new strategies in entry level classes first two years

Examples• Project Based Learning

– Center Circuits I course design and build– Team Based / New Lecture Models

• Portable Lab– Students don’t have traditional lab– Students have 24/7 hour lab access– In class experiments and experience

Initiatives in Place

• Freshmen / Sophomore Classes– IEEE / HKN for Outreach– Freshmen Seminars (Two new courses - more later)

• Improved Starting Sequence– ECE Analysis Course– Signals and Systems Coupled

• New Student Groups– Audio Engineering Society– Women in ECE

• Counseling Associates (more later)

ABET• Both CprE and EE got a clean bill of health• Arduous Process - more later

Publication Quality

• Classify publication quality– Benefit junior faculty– Allow us to present better cases to college, provost– Strengthen our Evaluation

• Tier Conferences and Journals - 3 tiers

• Top Tier– Selective, High Impact, Wide Recognition as “best” in a field

• Mid Tier– Less Selective, Moderate Impact, “Good” Conference

• Low Tier– Accepts almost all, good for student development, “Workshop” flavor

Publication Quality• Goal to have in place by end of summer

• 1st Pass Guidelines on definitions• 2nd Pass Sample publications in each area / each

tier• 3rd Pass Develop more detail and pub lists

• Looking for volunteers to help in this process

Capital Campaign• Goals

– Grow and Support Ph.D. Production

– Retain and Recruit Top Faculty

– Provide opportunity to top students

• Opportunity to make a difference through the Campaign

Department Foundation Cash Income

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Conclusions• Hit initial research goals - maintain and grow• Challenged with enrollment

– Recruit harder, more effectively

– Raise stipends to competitive levels

• Developing Quality Metrics

Action Items for Meeting• Campaign Plans (Tomorrow)• Feedback on Undergraduate Initiatives• Feedback on Research / Graduate Programs