Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Overview

1. Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartmental Overview Prof. Mark E. Law Department of Electrical and Computer Eng.

2. Outline • Agenda • State of the Department • Faculty • Graduate • Undergraduate • Campaign • Conclusions

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. ECE Faculty • Faculty • 42 Tenure Track Faculty and 5 Lecturers • 14 IEEE Fellows • 13 Assistant Professors, 14 untenured • Relatively Young

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Strategic Goals - ECE • Goal was to double Ph.D.’s • Project Steady State in the mid 30’s

11. ECE Research Metrics Expenditures ($M) Awards are up, but expenditures are down Publications Very Rapid Growth

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Number of Students • Declines in Undergrad • Slow recovery in grad • More Later

16. Grad Applicants, Admission, Enrollment • 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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)

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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. Department Foundation Cash Income 

32. Department Foundation Expenditures

33. Department Foundation Balance

34. Conclusions • Hit initial research goals - maintain and grow • Challenged with enrollment • Recruit harder, more effectively • Raise stipends to competitive levels • Developing Quality Metrics

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