ITechKnow

1. ITechKnow Terry Boult Nina Polok Don Kraft

2. Today’s Agenda • 9-9:20 Photos for web-pages (& donuts) • 9:20-10:05 Introductions • 10:05-10:15 Bio-break • 10:15-11:40 Why study & what is Engineering • 11:45-12:45 Lunch • 12:45-2:30 Instruction for campus hunt • 2:30-2:45 The Campus Quiz + bioBreak • 2:45-3:30 The syllabus and class structure • 3:30-5 Online work in computer lab

3. Nina Polok

4. Some Basic Info About Me • Education • B.S. Aerospace Engineering from CU Boulder • M.B.A. Information Systems from UCCS • Ph.D. Organization Development from CU Boulder • Have Worked at: • Digital Equipment, University of Colorado, Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies • My consulting company: New Perspectives, LLC • Married 35 years (to the same man!) • 2 grown children, both married, all four graduates of UCCS

5. Terry Boult • First in family to go to college.. • Paid my way though Columbia Univ. • BS Applied Math 83, MS CS 84, Ph.DCS 86 • 8 Years on faculty at Columbia Univ. • 9 year on faculty at Lehigh Univ. • Chair IEEE PAMI TC, • VP IEEE Biometrics Council • On my 3rd startup company involvement.

7. What is Innovation? Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. - Theodore Levitt Harvard Business School Research is the transformation of money into knowledge — Innovation is the transformation of knowledge into money! Ray Mears, 3M,"Protect and Survive" Design Council Business Network Surgery, 2001 And I have grudgingly come to realize that invention is often the easy part of innovation. The hard part is usually the implementation. J. S. Brown Chief Scientist Xerox, director Xerox PARC Innovation is broadly defined as people and organizations creating value by perpetually adapting and developing new processes, ideas, and products. Berkley School of Business Innovation is transforming ideas into impact – T. Boult

8. Innovation at UCCS • Did you know that last year… • UCCS produced 1.77 invention disclosures (IDs) per million of research funding. CU Denver (including Health Sciences) produced 0.34 per million. CU Boulder produced 0.39 per million. • UCCS produced 1.5 times as many IDs per faculty as CU Boulder, and 1.75 times CUD. • Over past 8 years UCCS produced 3x as many startup companies, per million of R&D funding, as CU Boulder and almost 6x CUD/HS. • UCCS is smaller, but we do innovation well.

9. Boult’s “Innovation” funding • Focus is having research with use & “Impact” • Currently 16 ongoing Contracts/Grants • NSF Partner for Innovation grant (600K) • ONR MURI (1.3M for UCCS) • ONR C2Fuse (1.7M) • 3 Smaller grants/contracts. • 3 Phase II SBIR/STTRs with Securics (DOD, NSF, ONR) • 2 Phase II SBIRs/STTRs with others (Army, Navy) • 5 Phase I SBIRs (NIH, DOD, DHS, DOC/NIST) • Over past 4 years have helped local companies win more than 8M in SBIR R&D funding.

10. Privacy Enhance Biometrics Dr. Boult’s biometrics work highlighted in congressional testimony in June

11. GeoZigbee: wireless low-power Geo-tracking of trauma patients

12. Web-supported Trauma Treatment

13. Sail Boat Vessel orShoreline? Speed Boat Vessels ONR SBIR on portable omni-directional surveillance and ship protection from fusion of omni-directional and acoustic. (Remote Reality + UCCS) Now transitioning into FPGA hardware to be used by Navy submarine fleet Shoreline No Wake Maritime Surveillance Glare

14. IED detection from micro UAV Geo-reference UAV imagery Real-time Object Recognition/Tracking (Context dependent) UIGUI-specified Filtering & Triggers On Object & CD data Imagery, Context, Object GeoDB Warp/Align DB Imagery Image-based Change detection DDMCMC/MRF Recognize and Geo-tag context. (Offline)

15. Long-Range Biometrics FPGA-based Intensified-Image Networked Detector with Embedded Recognition Tech Goals: Recognition with standoff 1km+ for operator/uplink Face recognition, Camera standoff (placement distance): Daytime 250m (threshold), 500m (objective) Night: 100m (threshold), 250m (objective) Networking Options: Long-range 802.11b/g or Zigbee (up to 1km) SWAP: Objective <10kg (with 24-48hr battery)

16. Embedded Video systems • Previous work deployed both within DOD and commercially. (My second startup involvement acquired last year). • Have work with 4 small companies on SBIR/STTRs. • Privacy-enhance video surveillance and face-recognition will be deployed this fall in “assisted living” facilities.

17. Low-power Networking Socom BAA, Army STTR and NIST SBIR with NIST SBIR with Navsys ONR SBIR with CombatTrainingSolutions + Direct Company funded project. • Work in Protocols for Mobile networking and video surveillance on low-bandwidth networks. • Current effort in novel packet-merging network protocols. • Ongoing efforts in low-power sensor-networks, system design, sensor integration and evaluation.

18. Why Study?

19. Questions for you • What is the lifetime value of College? • What’s the “value” of studying? • What is the life-time value of Engineering vs other fields?

20. On average, the more education you complete, the more money you earn.

21. $100,000 Average $81,380 $80,000 Earnings $64,532 $54,714 $60,000 $38,012 $40,000 $30,056 $22,100 $20,000 $0 < HS H.S. Grad A.A. Bachelor's Master's Doctorate 0% ($20,000) ($40,000) 5% ($60,000) Average 10% Unemployment Rate ($80,000) 15% ($100,000) Education reduces unemployment

22. The Value of a College Education • Bachelor’s degree holders earn on average 75% more than high school graduates. • This adds up to about $1 million over a lifetime. • Engineers make much more on average with lower average unemployment. Source: US Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March 2003 Demographic Supplement

23. Lifetime Value Careers that require a college degree are far more likely to have benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, and paid vacations. Adding these to salary, it is easy to imagine a college degree worth several million dollars over your lifetime.

24. The Value of a College Education A college degree also has many non-monetary benefits that lead to a higher quality of life. Longer life expectancy and better health Women with college degrees live on average 4 years longer than women with high school degrees. Greater participation in community and volunteer activities College grads are active in their communities 50% more than those with only a high school degree. Much greater participation in arts and leisure activities College grads are more than 50% more likely to go to the movies at least once per year. Source: “Why College? Private Correlates of Educational Attainment” Postsecondary Education Opportunity, March 1999

25. The Value of a College Education is Increasing • For full-time male workers between the ages of 35 and 44, the earnings premium associated with having a bachelor’s degree versus a high school diploma has risen from 38% in 1980-84 to 94% percent in 2000-03. The bottom line: a college degree has a greater impact on earnings today than ever before.

26. Investing in Education • If we look at an engineering degree as an investment, we see it has a greater return than the stock market. • Annual net return on college – 15% per year, over and above inflation. • Annual net return on stocks – 7% per year, on average not including inflation (2-5% after inflation)

27. Lifetime Value • Attending classes diligently and alertly is a key to college success, no matter how boring your professor may be. Success in life depends on what you can learn on your own, not what you learn in lecture. • You should spend 15 hours per week in a classroom for 30 weeks each of your 4 years at UCCS, leading to a degree. • This is $1,111 of lifetime value per hour spent in the classroom.

28. Lifetime Value Studying = $500/hour • Studying an average of three hours per credit hour per week instead of one hour is quite often the difference between success and failure. • The extra hours studying can be worth >$500 prorated per hour.

29. The College Experience Before hitting the snooze button and skipping class, consider the long term value of that class to you. Before deciding to replace three hours of studying with three hours of partying, consider the value of those study hours to you. Do your socializing after you complete your studying.

30. Why Study Engineering?

31. Why be an Engineer? • FUN • Great variety and challenge in your work • Work as a team with others • IMPACT • Build or improve lasting and tangible products • Use your creativity to solve problems and help humankind • Lots of Job Opportunities • Everywhere you look there are engineering jobs • Money • Engineers make some of the highest amounts of any career with a 4-year degree • Average engineer salary(after 7 years): $76,000 • Comparison: Lawyers (after 7 years) = $56,000 average • Medical doctors = Higher salaries only after 11 years Source: Occupational Outlook Handbook,07-08; payscale.com

32. Do you know who this guy is? • It’s LARRY PAGE: co-founder of GOOGLE • His net worth = $18.5 BILLION! • 26TH Richest Man in the WORLD at 35! • Guess What? He’s an ENGINEER! • If you use a computer, his product is something you probably use everyday… • HINT:

33. What about these guys??? • Steve Chen & Chad Hurley: Co-founders of YouTube • Recently sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 BILLION! • Guess what? They too are Engineers! • Here’s a HINT:

34. “….engineering is creativity, it's curiosity, it's common sense and it's cool stuff. It's not just geeks with pocket protectors." Sally Ride, 1st Woman in Space “Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it creates homes and jobs, elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer’s high privilege.” Herbert Hoover 31st President of the US STEMTEAMS.ORG SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS

35. 2003 Average Eng Salaries $100,000 Overall Average 2003 Average $80,000 Starting Salaries Earnings $60,000 $40,000 $20,000 $0 0% ($20,000) ($40,000) 5% ($60,000) 10% ($80,000) 15% ($100,000) Engineering Pays More $120,000 $104,000 $98,231 $100,000 $90,514 $81,380 $80,000 $64,532 $60,000 $54,714 $40,000 $20,000 $0 Bachelor's Master's Doctorate Bachelor's Master's Doctorate 0% 5% 2003 Average Eng Unemployment Rate Overall Average 10% Unemployment Rate 15%

36. Salary Showdown:Median Starting Salary with BS Source: payscale.com 2007 medial starting salaries

37. Mid-career(+15y) Median Salaries. BS Only, no advanced degrees Source: http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp

38. Do What You Love! • Follow your dreams • There is something for everyone in engineering. • There are more than 25 major branches and 100 specialties.

39. Video & Film Sports Tech Environment Amusement

40. Medicine Space Exploration Music

41. Shopping Yep, Even Macy’s hires engineers! Food

42. Math is just one tool in the box • Many students shy away from engineering because of the math. • Math and science are tools to understand the world • Some fields of engineering need a lot, others need little.

43. What Makes a Good Engineer? • Technical Skills • Creativity • Passion • Energy • Communications skills • Teamwork Skills • Excitement about what you do

44. Examples of Engineering? Engineers are practical inventors that turn ideas into reality. They are the concept people of our designed world. • A doctor sends a microscopic robot into a patient’s artery to destroy a blood clot. • Disneyland wants a new thrill ride. • People want to see the yellow line when they watch a football game. • People need electric cars to slow global warming. • NASA wants to land a space craft on Mars • People want to take pictures, watch movies, check email and listen to music on their cell phones.

45. Engineering can also be a launching pad for other professions • Many engineers become patent attorneys • Biomedical engineers have the highest acceptance rate into medical school • More engineers are CEO’s of companies than any other major • Many become financial analysts on Wall Street • Some go into politics • Many become teachers or writers

46. Many Career Options • People who enjoy working with other people and traveling may become sales or field service engineers. • People who enjoy life’s big picture may become the systems engineers who put all the pieces together. • Creative people or people who constantly have new ideas about everything may enjoy working as design engineers. • People who enjoy conducting experiments or working in laboratories may enjoy working as test engineers.

47. Engineering Contributions 47 • Scientists, engineers make up less than five percent of U.S. population, but create 50% of gross domestic product – Reader’s Digest, December 2005

48. 20 “great” achievements of modern engineering • 20. High performance materials • 19. Nuclear technologies • 18. Laser and fiber optics • 17. Petroleum and petrochemical technologies • 16. Health technologies

49. Some major engineering achievements • 15. Household appliances • 14. Imaging • 13. Internet • 12. Spacecraft • 11. Highways

50. Some major engineering achievements • 10. Air conditioning and Refrigeration • 9. Telephone • 8. Computers • 7. Agricultural Mechanization • 6. Radio and Television