Academic Highlights FY2005-06

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Academic Highlights FY2005-06

Dr. Carol SimpsonProvost and Senior Vice President


• Ranked No. 64 among all national, doctoral universities by U.S. News & World Report

• Among the top 50 science colleges in the nation in percentage of under-

graduates who receive doctorates

• Ranked among top 282 business Schools in the U.S. by Princeton Review

• WPI’s MBA ranked #8 by Princeton Review for “Best Career Prospects for Women”

Recognition for WPI


Record Extramural Support for Academic Record Extramural Support for Academic from Sponsored Programs in FY06from Sponsored Programs in FY06

Office of Research Administration (ORA) – Includes Federal agencies, industry contracts, some foundations.

Research Center Memberships $ 978,000

Research/Education (ORA) $16,655,000

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Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005/06

Dalin Tang (Math Sciences)Arterial plaque modeling

Major external funding awards to:

(ECE+BME faculty group) CUTH Bill Michalson Yitzhak Mendelson Peder Pedersen Grant McGimpsey

Ryszard (Rich) Pryputniewicz (ME)Modeling of Dynamic Systems

Diran Apelian (ME) Metals Processing Institute


Major funding awards also toMajor funding awards also to::

John Orr and Jim DuckworthJohn Orr and Jim Duckworth (ECE) (ECE)Precision Indoor/Outdoor Personnel Location Project

Al HoffmanAl Hoffman (ME) (ME)Kalenian Award forPowered-Arm Orthosis

Tanja Dominko,Tanja Dominko,Ray PageRay Page (BBT) (BBT)Cell de-differentiation in vitro


FY06 Gifts by Designation Cash and Pledge Payments $12,091,503

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ENDOWED FUNDS FACILITIES

OTHER EXPENDABLE ANNUAL FUND (Operating Support)

ANNIVERSARY-DESG PENDING DESIGNATION PENDING

Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) – Includes Foundation grants and corporate support for education and research.


FY 2006 Summary of Cash & Pledge PaymentsJune 30, 2006 - $12,091,503

$252,646

$936,200

$557,220

$8,960,261

$1,385,176

Alumni 74.1% Other Individuals 7.7%

Corporations 11.5% Foundations 4.6%

Other Organizations 2.1%


10 new faculty hired for Fall ‘06

Biology and Biotechnology

Biomedical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Fire Protection Engineering

Humanities and Arts

Management

Mathematics

Mechanical Engineering

WPI has two new Deans:

John Orr, Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Richard Vaz, Dean of Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division


Increase in Ratio of PhD Degrees Awarded

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Fall 2006 Graduate Enrollment1029 students


NSF CAREER Awards - last 3 years• Donald Brown “Cooperative Communication Systems: Resource Allocation, Self-

Organization, and Synchronization,” 2005

• Neil Heffernan “Learning about Learning,” 2005

• Jennifer Wilcox “On the Prevention of Selenium & Arsenic Release into the Atmosphere,” 2005

• Terri Anne Camesano “Molecular-Scale Interactions Between Microbes and Surfaces in the Environment,” 2003

19 CAREER awards to WPI!

Goldwater Scholar - Sanjayan "Sunny" Manivannan ‘07, ME & Math

8 Goldwater Scholars since 2002!


Other Significant Recent Faculty Honors:

Diran Apelian TMS Fellow (2006); 2006 Bruce Chalmers Award (TMS); J. Herbert Hollomon Award, Acta Materialia

Steven C. Bullock NEH Research Fellowship

Constance A. Clark NEH Research Fellowship

Paul Davis 2006-07 Jefferson Science Fellowship, U.S. State Department

“David A. Lucht Lamp of Knowledge Award” created by SFPE for “significant contributions to the advancement of higher education”

Makhlouf Makhlouf 2006 Hall-Heroult Scientific Merit Award, American Foundry Society

H.J. Manzari 2006 Faculty Fulbright Scholar


WPI’s Department of Mathematics 2006 SPAIG award - ASA

Roberto Pietroforte - Rank of Cavaliere Ufficiale, Order of Merit, Italy

Richard D. Sisson, Jr. - Virginia Tech Acad. Engineering Excellence

Michael M. Sokal - 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award - APA/SHP

Gretar Tryggvason - 2005 Computational Mechanics Award, JSME

Bogdan Vernescu - Member of Honor, Romanian Acad. Inst. Mathematics

Jennifer Wilcox - 2006 New Face in Engineering (USA Today)

Other Significant Faculty Honors …


Yi- (Ed) Hua Ma (ChE Center for Inorganic Membrane Studies)Hydrogen Separation

Terri Camesano (ChE) Bacterial Adhesion

Frederick Bianchi (HUA) WPI’s 2006 University Lecturer “The Virtual Orchestra: In Search of Human Bandwidth”

Jonathan Barnett (FPE) Featured in NOVA special: “Building on Ground Zero”

WPI FACULTY IN THE NEWS

*November 2, ‘06Alden Hall


Faculty Best Paper Awards - last 2 years

Diran Apelian (ME), 2005 AFS/NADCA Congress

Kristen L. Billiar (BE), 2006 NE ASEEC

Mark Claypool (CS), 2006 ACM/SPIE; 2005 ACM

Erwin Danneels (MG), 2005 Thomas P. Husted Award - J. PIM

Michael B. Elmes (MG), 2005 AMM

John Sanbonmatsu (HUA), 2005 Jacobsen Award - ISUDC

Erdem Ural (ChE), 2006 William H. Doyle Award - AIChE


Recent Books Published by WPI Faculty:

Joel J. Brattin (HUA) “The Writings of Thomas Carlyle” Charlotte and Norman Strouse Edn.

Mark Claypool (CS) “Networking and Online Games: Understanding and Engineering Multiplayer Internet games”

Arthur Gerstenfeld (MGT) and Raphael J. Njoroge (HUA) “Africa in the Next Decade”

Roger S. Gottlieb (HUA) “The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology”; “A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future”

Kaveh Pahlavan ( ECE) “Wireless Information Networks”

Wesley Mott (HUA) “Bonds of Affection: Thoreau on Dogs and Cats”


New Academic InitiativesProposal for Interdisciplinary Robotics Engineering Program and concentrations

Proposal for Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics Program

Revitalizing the First Year Experience

Emphasis on ‘Writing Across the Curriculum’

Revising the Humanities ‘Sufficiency’

New Programs

Environmental Engineering (subject to Board of Trustees approval)

Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts & Engineering

WPI / U. Mass. Amherst: Mass. Internet2 K-20 Initiative

for high-speed access to the Abilene network


Completed Major Construction Projects

With funding support from:

The George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation; The Pfizer Foundation;

WPI Trustee John LaMattina

Freshmen chemistry laboratories renovated into modern, fully equipped facilities

Bartlett Center admissions & financial aid building

Through the generosity of James L. Bartlett Jr. ‘39, D.Eng. (Hon.) ‘98 and his wife, Shirley

Opened March 2006:

Lufkin MEMS Fabrication Facility

for Nanotechnology Manufacturing Research


WPI’s new Little Theatre opened November 2005

Four new plays by WPI graduates competed in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival in New York in past 3 years:

“Dreams Abridged”, “Passing”, and “Public Policy” by Catherine Darensbourg ’02 “Treasures” by Sarah Pavis '06 and

Dan Gilbreath '06

With funding support from:

The George I. Alden Trust


Life Sciences Research Building at Gateway Park

Research faculty from: Biology & Biotechnology Bio-Engineering Institute (BEI) Biomedical Engineering Chemistry & Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering

Winner of the EBC 2006 James D.P. Farrell Brownfields Project of the Year Award

In Recognition of the Remediation and Redevelopment of the Gateway Park in Worcester


Priorities for the Next 5 Years• Increase externally sponsored research

• Enhance WPI’s academic reputation

• Admissions/recruiting - Undergraduate and Graduate

• Improve diversity of student population and faculty

• New Sports and Recreation Facility (with parking!)

• Renovations to Goddard Hall and Salisbury Hall

• Additional on-campus housing for undergraduate students and nearby graduate student housing

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