Industrial Advisory Board Spring 2014

Welcome Jason Gentry, IAB President

Welcome IAB guests • New names and faces (action item from FA13)

– Shirish Bahirat, Micron

– Martin Glapa, Alcatel-Lucent

– Mike Hawes, Agilent

– David Lacey, Hewlett-Packard

– Eric Mather, Lockheed Martin

– Kerry McBee, Xcel Energy

– Ed Minnock, Ed Minnock & Associates

– Greg Nuccio, Jeppesen

– Richard Robinson, Nimsoft

Department Update Tony Maciejewski, ECE Department Head

Agenda • Experimenting with new format – tell us what you

think – Department Update

– Prepare for Engineering Days (E-Days)

– Review E-Days Projects at Moby

– Return to Durrell Center

– Working Lunch & Breakout Session: Review Results of E-Days Judging

– Discuss Results of Breakout Session

– Election

– Social Event at Fort Collins Brewery

10-years of service Thank you!

• Susan Hunter

• John Nichols

2005 - Student Advising Day

(now called Design Your Future Day)

SP07 IAB meeting (John has attended

almost all of the meetings since joining

in 2004)

Faculty News

• Professor Jade Morton to join ECE in FA14

• Professor Reising lands $4.5M grant to help NASA study clouds and climate

• ECE faculty garner new fellow awards – Biedron: SPIE & American Physical Society

– Menoni: SPIE

– Morton: IEEE

– Bartels: American Physical Society

• Chandra leads partnership to install tornado radar near Dallas/Fort Worth

• Menoni bolsters reputation as role model for women in science – Featured in International Innovation

– Chosen to deliver worldwide webinar for Women in Engineering

ERC Profs Propel Innovation

• Student-led Annual IEEE Open Design Competition a success! – Thank you industry judges and sponsors!

– Winners: Free EMG (ECE); Diggerbot (ME); Math Racerz (ECE)

• EE major Wirtz wins Goldwater Scholarship – 1 of 283 students nationwide selected

Student News

• 7th Annual Best Paper Contest begins May 6th – Thanks to IEEE Plains Section for donating the prize money

– Judges will review papers for all E-Days projects

– Contact Andrea if interested

• Commencement set for May 16th at Moby

ECE Faculty by the Numbers • 25 faculty

• $515K per faculty (FY2013)

• 0.4 PhD degrees per faculty (2012)

• High percentage of Fellows and professional awards

• Relatively small number of faculty

ECE ranks high in research

• ECE faculty rank 28th (out of 370 programs) in the country for research expenditures per faculty member – ECE is 36th overall for total research funding

• ECE outranks: – Purdue – Princeton – U. CA, Davis – Texas A&M – CU

*NSF data (2009)

COE Research Expenditures

0

2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

8,000,000

10,000,000

12,000,000

14,000,000

2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013

CBE

ME

CEE

ECE

COE Research Expenditures

ATS 23%

CIRA 27%

ECE 20%

CEE 16%

ME 10%

CBE 4%

College of Engineering 46%

2012-2013

ATS CIRA ECE CEE ME CBE

ECE Research Expenditures

2,636,379

12,863,408

$0

$2,000,000

$4,000,000

$6,000,000

$8,000,000

$10,000,000

$12,000,000

$14,000,000

2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013

National Enrollment Trends

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50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

350,000

0

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Biomedical Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Engineering Science

Civil Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Total Engineering

Taken from ASEE - 2013 numbers will be reported in May.

ECE Spring Enrollment

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

SP06 SP07 SP08 SP09 SP10 SP11 SP12 SP13 SP14

ME-Online

PhD

Masters

Undergraduate(incl BME)

Undergraduate Degrees Awarded

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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BSCpE

BSEE

70

8

70

27

4

68

10

46

37

8

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

Colorado State University ↓3%

University of Colorado at Denver ↑25%

University of Colorado at Boulder ↓34%

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs ↑37%

University of Denver ↑100%

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ECE Freshmen Enrollment: Colorado Institutions (2007 vs 2012)

2007

2012

Fall Freshmen Enrollment

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

FA08 FA09 FA10 FA11 FA12 FA13

Freshmen Biom/EE

Freshmen Biom/EELO

Freshmen CpE

Freshmen EE

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

FA08 SP09 FA09 SP10 FA10 SP11 FA11 SP12 FA12 SP13 FA13 SP14

Biomed/EELO

Biomed/EE

Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Fall -> Spring Freshmen Enrollment

Spring Enrollment Trends by Class

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

SP09 SP10 SP11 SP12 SP13 SP14

Freshmen Total

Sophomore Total

Junior Total

Senior Total

0.00%

5.00%

10.00%

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

35.00%

40.00%

45.00%

50.00%

55.00%

60.00%

65.00%

70.00%

75.00%

80.00%

85.00%

90.00%

95.00%

100.00%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

All College Chemical/Biological Civil/Environmental Electrical/Computer Mechanical

CSU College of Engineering Undergraduate Persistence Rates

Women in Engineering (FA13)

CBE 16%

CEE 31%

ECE 6%

ME 20%

Intra-College 27%

CBE 4%

AS 19%

CEE 43%

ECE 23%

ME 8%

Intra-College 3%

Undergraduate Graduate

Women in ECE

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

FA08 FA09 FA10 FA11 FA12 FA13

Number UG Women

Percent UG Women

Number GR Women

Percent GR Women

Graduate Degrees Awarded

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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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Calendar Year

MS Ph.D.

% of International Degrees Awarded

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Calendar Year

MS Ph.D. Total

The Value of a College Degree: Median First-Year Earnings by CO Institution

Source: CollegeMeasures.org

Median First-Year Earnings in EE by CO Institution

$58,896

$0

$10,000

$20,000

$30,000

$40,000

$50,000

$60,000

$70,000

$80,000

$90,000

$100,000

Colorado StateUniversity

University ofColorado Boulder

University ofColorado Colorado

Springs

University ofColorado Denver

University ofDenver

BSEE

MSEE

PhD EE

Source: CollegeMeasures.org

Median First-Year Earnings in BSCpE by CO Institution

Source: CollegeMeasures.org

$62,871

$52,000

$54,000

$56,000

$58,000

$60,000

$62,000

$64,000

Colorado State University

University of Colorado ColoradoSprings

University of Colorado Boulder

ABET Update

• Department reaccredited

• Design Your Future Day cited as program strength (action item from previous IAB meeting)

• New Program Educational Objectives developed and approved by ECE faculty and the IAB

• The ECE PEOs are designed and implemented around three principal attributes: – Mastery

– Innovation

– Leadership

Adjunct Teaching Opportunities

• Hands-on training with FPGA programming

• Hands-on training with Verilog and VHDL

• Hands-on training with optimizing embedded software

• VLSI System Design I w/lab – design of integrated circuits at the system level including cell design, digital systems, parallel architecture, systolic arrays

Update on Fall Action Items • Action item: Visit new Advanced Beam Lab as part of a future

IAB meeting.

– Status: Planned for FA14.

• Action item: Find out if it’s possible to allow students to slightly delay their decision to pursue a dual major, but still move in the desired direction of BME/EE.

– Status: Students need to make a decision after the completion of freshman year to stay on track.

• Action item: Report back on status of senior design video project.

– Status: Some students created new videos that we will share online; department developing videos to highlight senior design and ECE 202 projects.

• Action item: Find out if it’s possible to earn a master’s in systems engineering as part of the accelerated BS/MS program.

– Status: Possible with graduate school approval. • In addition, accelerated BS/Ph.D. is currently under review by CSU

Grad School.

• Action item: Share feedback from faculty retreat regarding ECE’s role in MOOCs.

– Status: Prof. Chandra is considering a MOOC; general consensus is to expand coursework through OnlinePlus rather than put effort into MOOCs.

– Coursera’s new CEO recently reiterated MOOCs should be thought of as “additive to what universities are doing, not disruptive.”

– Udacity will no longer offer free certificates.

– Harvard U. will offer exclusive MOOCs to alumni.

– Harvard and MIT recently released visualization tools for trove of data. • More than 1 million registered for 17 of the two institutions’

MOOCs.

Future of MOOCs

Current Enrollment in Online Degrees

Enrollment in Online Degrees

Electrical & Computer Engineering (ME) 5

Systems Engineering (ME) 34

Systems Engineering (MS) 18

Systems Engineering (PhD) 31

Total 88

Action items related to biomedical/EE recruitment:

• Utilize presentations like Todd Hansell’s Covidien overview to recruit students. – Status: Todd Hansell is working with ECE & BME to participate in

outreach events; he tweaked his IAB talk for an H.S. audience.

• Share salary benefits of biomedical industry, if available. – Status: Results of 2014 Salary Survey*

Discipline Average Salary

Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering $47,300

Computer Engineering $70,900

Electrical/Electronics Engineering $63,000

*National Association of Colleges and Employers

January 2014 Salary Survey

• Leverage NSF Research Experience for Teachers site grant to maximize recruitment. – Status: Teachers in NSF RET program

promote STEM careers to their students and arrange campus tours

– On average, one high school teacher reaches 150 students per year

– Special focus on women and minorities

• Leverage biomedical recruitment efforts to attract more women to ECE; make recruitment materials more tangible. – Status: Messaging revamped to show real-world applications of ECE/BME

work; new materials include banners for recruitment events, web content, and promotional video.

Prepare for E-Days Tony Maciejewski

Your input matters! Program changes based on your ideas (FA06)

• Design – Action item: Incorporate design throughout the curriculum.

– Status: Projects now required in ECE 202.

– Action item: Generate more interdisciplinary projects.

– Status: Now have multiple projects each year that span disciplines.

• Communication – Action item: Create Best Paper Contest to reinforce

importance of written communications.

– Status: Contest in its 7th year.

• Communication (continued) – Action item: Ask IAB members to serve on panel to review

project presentations.

– Status: Several board members are heavily involved in senior design and judge oral presentations each fall.

• Project Management – Action item: Teach project management skills through the

senior design lecture series.

– Status: • Weekly lectures touch on a range of topics to enhance professional

development, including project management.

• Test plan now required for each project; dedicated industry partner reads and evaluates each plan.

• Teamwork

– Action item: Offer professional development courses to address team dynamics.

– Status: COE Professional Learning Institute established, led by former IAB member Alma Rosales.

• Multi-year Projects

– Action item: Consider creating more multi-year, multi-phase projects.

– Status: A number of projects span multiple years, with new teams building on the work of previous students.

Judging Considerations

• How are we doing overall? – Can you see the impact of your previous suggestions?

• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the senior design program?

• What changes/improvements would you recommend?

• What are the top three projects? What makes them great?

Leave for Moby Arena

Facilitators: Jason Gentry and Scott Evans

Lunch & Breakout Session: Discuss Senior Design Program

Results of Breakout Session Facilitators: Jason Gentry and Scott Evans

Election Facilitator: Jason Gentry

Closing Remarks, Depart for Social Event

Tony Maciejewski