Industrial Advisory Board

Spring 2010

April 30, 2010

Welcome

Introducing new members and

guests…

James Bower, Industrial Liaison,

EUV Engineering Research Center

James Bradley, LSI

Michael Kotson, VT Miltope

Susan Hunter, Optidoodle (returning

member)

Michael Miller, Seagate

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Agenda

Department Update & Fall Action Items

Research Spotlight: Professor Kevin Lear

Industry Spotlight: Wolf Robotics

Break

Background on Existing ECE Retention Activities

Breakout Sessions: Student Retention

Discuss Results of Break Sessions

Elections

Lunch and Senior Design Presentations

Next Steps & Closing Thoughts

C o l o r a d o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y

E L E C T R I C A L & C O M P U T E R E N G I N E E R I N G

Department Update

Tony Maciejewski Prof. and Head, ECE Department

Recognition of Service

IAB members with 10 years of service (or

more):

Colin Baldwin

Chuck Duey

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Department News

Chandra named Distinguished Professor of Finland, awarded $1.5 million

Mark Berrill receives prestigious Wigner Post-doctoral Fellowship Award

Pasricha wins Best Paper Award at ISQED 2010 Conference

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Department News Professor Menoni named IEEE Fellow

Update on search for smart-grid faculty candidate

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Department NewsECE in the Media:

www.engr.colostate.edu/ece

ABC World News Tonight – CASA

STEM outreach – Chen’s NSF grant

“Sensing the Killer” – Krapf’s TB research

Best Paper Contest begins next week

Tom Williams named 2010 recipient of

University Distinguished Alumni Award for

the College of Engineering

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Department News

ECE prevailed at 2010 E-Days celebration

ECE Optical Biosensors senior design team won grand prize

Join us for the ECE Centennial Celebration tomorrow, May 1

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Distribution of COE Research Expenditures

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National Engineering Enrollment Trends

International Enrollment Trends

The number of Chinese students majoring in engineering is declining - now below 10% of all graduates.

Preference for majors like economics and finance reflect a new value orientation - average monthly income of graduates in engineering much less than those in finance

Decline is a reoccurring phenomenon within rapidly developing economies - Japanese engineering students dropped from 18% total enrollment in 1986 to 8.7% in 1991 while finance-related majors spiked within the same 5-year period.

Top achievers are tempted by the financial sector with lower-scoring students studying engineering - overall quality drops.

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Source: Global Times, 1/5/10 (“Engineering an endangered major”)

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4/23/09 4/23/10

CpE Applicants 56 59

EE Applicants 52 53

Total 108 112

CpE Confirmed 25 22

EE Confirmed 17 25

Total 42 47

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Persistence & Graduation

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Engineering New Freshmen

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Fall Action ItemsInvestigate feasibility of “Smart-Build” course, i.e. soft skills, IP, business

plans, sales and marketing.

Status: Some of the topics are already being addressed through the

Professional Learning Institute. We are suggesting speakers to

address others.

Share the board’s suggestion for the Master of Management Practice

program with MMP academic adviser to possibly use as a guideline for

engineering students interested in the program.

Status: Information shared with Tonja Rosales. She is eager to

continue working with department to help ECE students succeed with

the right coursework. Would like to create specific track for engineers.

Follow-up on the idea of having board members serve as industry

sponsors for freshmen and sophomore classes.

Status: Discussing retention strategies as part of today’s meeting.

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Fall Action Items

See if there is a business course that could be geared toward engineering

students – a “Business for Engineers” class. Product management and

product lifecycle concepts are particularly important.

Status: The COE and Wade Troxell have been working with the College

of Business to tailor coursework and plans of study for engineering

students interested in business.

Establish a partnership with the COB for senior design projects.

Status: COE senior design faculty to meet with COB faculty to identify

potential team collaborations in Fall 2010

Fall 2011– engineering students ready for COB entrepreneur program

(need to take prerequisite coursework).

C o l o r a d o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y

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Research Spotlight

Professor Kevin Lear

Industry Spotlight

Lance Guymon, Wolf Robotics

Break

Background on Existing Retention

Activities

Professor Louis Scharf and Karen Ungerer

Breakout Session

Facilitator: Michael Coddington, IAB VP, and Tiger Team Members

Breakout Groups

1. Care and Feeding in ECE (Ungerer)

2. Energizing Student Organizations (Siegel)

3. Designing the Freshman and Sophomore Years for

Motivation and Retention (Jayasumana)

4. Summer Internships for Honorable Students (Scharf)

5. Tools and Programming in the ECE Curriculum (Chen)

6. Misc Pedagogical Innovations in the ECE Curriculum

(Maciejewski)

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Considerations for Breakout Session

How do we engage students at the freshman level?

What existing efforts should we continue and/or potentially

expand?

What can the board do to help improve student retention?

How can we revamp our circuits classes to be more

engaging, while providing students with a clearer idea of

how the knowledge can be applied to real-world projects?

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Discuss Results of Breakout Session

Facilitator: Michael Coddington, IAB VP

Elections

Facilitator: Alvin Loke, IAB President

Lunch and Senior Design Presentations

ECE Senior Design Teams

Closing Thoughts

Tony Maciejewski