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George R. Brown School of Engineering Administrators’ Forum

George R. Brown School of Engineering Administrators’ Forum. Ned Thomas, Dean of Engineering, May 15, 2012. NEW FACULTY AS OF JULY 1, 2011. 1 new dean, 1 professor, 4 assistant professors Dean Ned Thomas, NAE, MEMS Materials for extreme environments, phoXonics (X = t + n)

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George R. Brown School of Engineering Administrators’ Forum

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  1. George R. Brown School of Engineering Administrators’ Forum Ned Thomas, Dean of Engineering, May 15, 2012

  2. NEW FACULTY AS OF JULY 1, 2011 1 new dean, 1 professor, 4 assistant professors Dean Ned Thomas, NAE, MEMS Materials for extreme environments, phoXonics (X = t + n) Herbert Levine, NAS, BIOE Biological physics Swarat Chaudhuri, CS Programming languages, logic in computing Rouzbeh Shahsavari, CEE Atomistic and multi-scale modeling, nano mechanics Caleb Kemere, ECE Neuroengineering Ashok Veeraraghavan, ECE Computational imaging, computer vision, robotics Aydin Babakhani, ECE High-speed wireless communication, medical imaging and bio sensing

  3. Richard Tapia, National Medal of Science

  4. Tony Mikos elected to NAE 2012 Antonios G. Mikos, Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  5. 2012 Marshall, Udall, Truman, Goldwater Scholarships!

  6. Some 2011 OEDK Winning Design Teams Electric Owl: First place, Texas Instruments Analog Design Competition ($10,000!) InfantAIR: Multiple competition winner now field testing in Malawi Equiliberators: National Top Five Finalist (highest honor), RESNA Student Design Competition Team Dragon: Third place, mobile game design in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup International Competition

  7. GRB Vision Statement (2012) • Make a difference. Develop leading research and educational programs in areas where Rice is well-positioned to make a difference: health, energy, water, and information technology and processing. • Enhance our strengths in computational engineering, biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials science and robotics. • Develop leaders. Be pre-eminent in engineering education and the education and development of tomorrow’s leaders and entrepreneurs. • Be open. Open ourselves to the world by building on our unique strengths to increase our opportunities in the US and abroad while improving our rankings.

  8. A Glimpse at Current GRB SoE Finances and Projects • $38.8M FY 2012 Annual Budget • $50M FY 2011 Research Expenditures (Rice: ~ $100M) • $5M OEDK Design Facility 2009 • $5M Brochman Hall for Physics 2011: (SoE Faculty and GS offices and research labs, 20K ft2) • BRC: BIOE Space: Lab 46K ft2, office 18K ft2 • Rice Capital Budget Projects Completed • UG Bioengineering Dry Lab 2009 ($150K) • Abercrombie space renovated for RCEL 2011 ($340K) • 2012: expansion of OEDK II ($600K+ $200K endowment)

  9. OEDK II Expansion Plans

  10. Enrollments

  11. Enrollments

  12. ME and MSCI are low

  13. ~ 20% Improvement in a decade

  14. and ~ 8% + growth this current year… $50M

  15. Relatively few PhDs from MEMS

  16. USNWR Graduate School Rankings – GRB School of Engineering~25% decline since 2000 34 Competition is getting better faster…

  17. RICE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE PREPARES YOU FOR YOUR FUTURE • Learn how to learn—quickly! • Design systems and devices to solve real-world problems • Create new knowledge through research • Take fundamental discoveries out of the lab into the World • Understand engineering in global/social context • Develop leadership and teamwork abilities

  18. OK, how do we do better? • Strategy and Tactics • Planning – early, sustained • Down-select, Focus, and… • Key Attitude: • Make It Happen No Matter What ! Question: What is “It” ?

  19. Energy, Environment, Health, Energy & Health Some aspects of Health related research going strong Energy/Environment research is still in small pieces here and there… But! TAMU, UT, others (even UH) are strong, getting stronger! • Rice is in catch-up mode & now Federal funding is contracting… • How we can succeed: • Focus on a few key areas • Place bets on future areas and hire accordingly • Go after industry and DOE funding • Inspire donor(s) for chairs and more . . . • Inspire the Graduate Students !! • Inspire the faculty !!

  20. Science and Engineering Collaboration Collaboration is a Force Multiplier Rice Initiatives Wiess School of Natural Sciences Brown School of Engineering Nanotechnology Computation Applied Physics Biomedical (New) Energy-Environment (New) Health-Energy Bioengineering Biochemistry & Cell Biology Chemical and Biomolecular Eng. Chemistry Civil & Environmental Eng. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Computational & Applied Mathematics Computer Science Earth Science Electrical & Computer Eng. Mathematics Mech. E and Materials Science Physics & Astronomy Statistics

  21. Oil & Gas Energy Research Ongoing Expanding Emerging Chevron Shell PEMEX AbuDhabi Schlumberger Saudi Aramco AbuDhabi Schlumberger Baker-Hughes BG BP Petrobras Lots of relevant MEMS challenges: Materials in Extreme Environments Mechanical Properties Mechanics – Vibrations/Sensing

  22. The Path Forward (GRB SoE) • Select a few focused research thrusts: Energy, Environment, Health, Energy-Health • Combine Engineering and Science + others • State Objectives and Metrics for Success • What is the delta @ (2, 5 and 10 yrs)? • Make Donors/Supporters care about success and the delta • Develop Business Plan for each Center • Nucleation funds t = 0 to 24-36 months • Steady-state faculty generated funding in out years (or die) • Make It Happen ! • Example: PSSB launches Fall, 2013 • Physical Systems and Synthetic Biology

  23. The Path Forward GRB SoE • Upgrade Infrastructure, Facilities and Equipment • Planning is time well spent; 5 – 10 year Scope • Continue to recruit minorities and women to engineering • Create Advisory/Review Boards - (SoE, Departments, Centers) • Measure, benchmark, evaluate, act and get better • re-measure… “What gets measured, matters.” • Emphasize professional communication, leadership and entrepreneurial skills at both UG and Glevels, “T-shaped” Engineers • Create undergraduate & graduatelinks to Business/Entrepreneurship • Continue Hands On – Design, Teamwork and Leadership with local and global implementation (SoS, SoA want in…)

  24. Summary • Rice (SoE) can help solve society’s biggest challenges • Rice excellent in • Nano/Materials/Medical/Computation • Rice is highly collaborative: Multidisciplinary faculty teams • Key is to connect People + Ideas -> Impact • Remember: How to succeed - • Focus on a few key areas • Place bets on future areas and hire accordingly • Create new unit(s) with high visibility (Rice is doing something new) • Go after industry, foreign government and DOE funding • Inspire donor(s) for chairs and more . . . • Promote Leadership and Entrepreneurship

  25. Questions? Thank you !

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