New Advisory Board Member Orientation October 21, 2004

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New Advisory Board Member OrientationOctober 21,
2004

• John F. Carney III
• Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

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WPI The University of Science and Technology.
And Life.
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Who We Are

• A university with a core focus on science,
  engineering, and the management of technology
  that grants bachelors, masters, and doctoral
  degrees in 30 disciplines.

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Undergraduate Program
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What Makes Us Different

• Our pioneering approach to undergraduate
  education through which students learn how to
  learn and
• obtain professional-level experience before they
  graduate by applying their knowledge to the
  solution of real-world problems,
• discover how creativity is expressed in
  nontechnical fields by exploring, in depth, an
  area of the humanities and arts,
• learn to consider the impact on society of their
  professional work through field projects,
  conducted globally, in teams, in close
  collaboration with faculty mentors.

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The WPI Experience (Cont.)

• Assume Responsibility in a Professional
  Environment
• Develop Own Program of Study
• Non-Punitive Grading
• Cooperative Environment

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WPI Degree Requirements

• The Major Qualifying Project
• The Interactive Qualifying Project
• The Sufficiency
• Social Sciences
• Departmental Distribution Requirements
• Physical Education

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WPIs Global Project Program

• Paul Davis
• Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies
• Advisory Boards, 21 October 2004

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Overview

• Global
• 500 students per year at 23 project centers
• 13 countries
• 6 foreign exchange programs
• Projects
• Student consulting teams solve real problems
• Exemplify theory and practice
• Program
• Projects are required of all undergraduates
• In humanities or arts society-technology major
  discipline

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History (McDonalds style)

• 3,000,000,000,000,000
• students
• 1,000,000,000,000,000
• projects

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History

• Beginning in Washington
• 30 years ago,
• 5,500 WPI students have completed
• 1,700 off-campus projects

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Impact
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Project centers and programs

• Hong Kong, PRC
• Bangkok, Thailand
• Melbourne, Australia
• NASA Goddard
• NASA Glenn
• NASA Johnson
• Limerick, Ireland
• London, UK
• San Jose, Costa Rica
• Venice, Italy
• Gallo Winery, CA
• Budapest, Hungary

• Washington, DC
• Wall St., New York
• Worcester, MA
• Silicon Valley
• Nancy, France
• Madrid, Spain
• Boston, MA
• Copenhagen, Denmark
• San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Windhoek, Namibia
• Lincoln Laboratory

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Project centers and programs
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Recognition
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Recognition

• More science and engineering students studying
  abroad than any other U.S. university
• Second-highest percentage of graduates with
  international experience among all majors at U.S.
  doctoral universities

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Real problems solved on site

• Public response to air quality information
  (Environmental Protection Agency, Australia)
• Intelligent software for master-worker multiple
  satellite deployment (NASA, USA)
• Commercial full-duplex speaker-phone feasibility
  (Analog Devices, Ireland)
• Mode hop suppression in tunable lasers (New
  Focus, Inc, USA)
• Analysis of Customer Relations Management for a
  brokerage operation (Morgan Stanley, USA)

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Impact on Thai village of power plant
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What clogs the canals of Venice?
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Outcomes of global projects

• Students
• Experience global society and culture
• Integrate theory and practice
• Sponsors
• Problems solved
• Potential employees
• University
• Educational vision and leadership
• Global partnerships

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Outcome
If I went to another school I would find out
what I was going to be, what occupation. At WPI,
I am really defining who I am. Anna Matzal,
99 London Humanities Project Venice
Technology-Society Project
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WPI Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division
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Engineering Enrollments (Fall 04)
BE CEE CM
ECE FPE ME
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Science Enrollments (Fall 04)
BB CHBC CS
MA PH
10/02
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Other Enrollments (Fall 04)
SSPS HUA Inter
MG EN
10/02
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Undergraduate Enrollment by Category
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Student Course Project Units
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Sponsored Program ActivityAwards Received
122
128
93
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Sponsored Program ActivityApplications Submitted
207
230
204
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Extramural Support for Academic Sponsored Programs
Sponsored Programs FY04
- Research Center Memberships 1,192,000
- Project Center Fees 183,000
- Corporate Sponsored Student Projects 177,000
- Research/Education (ORA) 13,744,000
- Research/Education (CFR) 1,152,000
Gifts  
- Corporate In-Kind Support 2,702,000
Total 19,150,000
ORA is the Office of Research Administration
Includes Federal agencies, industry contracts,
some foundations. CFR is the Office of Corporate
and Foundation Relations Includes Foundation
grants and corporate support for education and
research.
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Faculty Hiring
Academic New Year Hires
Minorities Females
96/97 16 3 5
97/98 11 4 3
98/99 14 7 3
99/00 14 3 5
00/01 14 0 4
01/02 5 1 1
02/03 18 4 2
03/04 7 2 3
04/05 12 2 5
Total 111 26 31
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Faculty StatisticsBase Year 1998/1999

• By 2010/11
• Faculty Additions
• 203 220
• 221
• Underrepresented Minorities
• 11 15
• 12
• Women
• 13 25
• 18
• Faculty Salaries
• Promotion and Tenure Criteria

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Accreditation

• NEASC
• AACSB
• ABET/CAC

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Faculty Responsibilities

• Teaching
• Scholarship
• Service

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WPI - Faculty Elected Committees

• Committee on Academic Operations
• Committee on Academic Policy
• Committee on Administrative and Financial Policy
• Committee on Appointments and Promotions
• Faculty Review Committee
• Committee on Graduate Studies and Research
• Committee on Governance
• Committee on Advising Student Life
• Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom

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Gateway Research Park and the WPI
Bioengineering Institute

• William W. Durgin
• Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
• Vice President for Research

Advisory Board Meeting Thursday, October 21, 2004
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Bioengineering

• The application of engineering principles to
  problems in biology and medicine combines
  biology, the other sciences, mathematics and
  various engineering areas into a synthetic
  whole.
• Robert M. Nerem
• in The Bridge

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Opportunities for Faculty and Students

• Laboratories
• Collaboration
• Funding
• Technology Transfer
• Start-up Companies

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Regional Economic Development

• Economic Summits
• Regional Strengths/Resources
• Bioengineered Products
• Building a Cluster
• Forming a New Industry

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BEI Launched

• Promote job creation and economic vitality
• Convert research discoveries into new products
  and companies
• Conduct research and development
• Tap the regional intellectual capital
• Invoke the innovation process

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BEI Mission

• Conduct pre-commercial RD
• Maintain a regional biomedical technology
  innovation network
• Apply appropriate incubation practices to new
  medical technology companies

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BEI Structure

• Director and Staff
• Timothy Gerrity (Director)
• Grant McGimpsey (Assoc. Dir. For Bus. Dev.)
• Elizabeth Stepien (Administrative Assistant)
• Four Centers
• Center for Untethered Healthcare
• Center for Comparative NeuroImaging
• Center for Molecular Engineering
• Center for Bioprocessing and Tissue Engineering
• Medtech Network
• Membership Program
• Incubation

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BEI Successes

• Commercial
• MedTech network UMMS, Nypro, Beacon
• New CE program in medtech management
• Recognized as medtech commercial innovators by
  Mass Insight and MassMEDIC

• Technical
• Sensitive IR oxygen saturation sensors
• Portable Ultrasound
• Precision Positioning
• Novel RF coils for brain and breast MRI
• Unique 3-D anatomic imagining algorithms
• Additional TATRC funding
• Sensor Locations
• DREAMS
• Ft. Lewis Field Testing

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WPI Gateway Research Park

• Prescott St./Grove St. Brownfields Reclamation
• Joint Partnership WPI and WBDC
• Master Plan
• Gateway Park LLC
• Marketing began in earnest July 03
• Need 50 commitment

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Status of 60-68 Prescott Street

• New Laboratory Building Renovated Manufacturing
  Building
• Preliminary Design
• Program for WPI Space
• Identification of Compatible Tenants

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Admissions Office Class of 2008 - (746)
California 11
Colorado 4
Connecticut 68
Delaware 1
Florida 5
Georgia 2
Illinois 3
Indiana 4
Iowa 1
Kansas 2
Louisiana 1
Maine 45
Maryland 6
Massachusetts 333
Minnesota 1
Mississippi 1
Missouri 2
Montana 1
New Hampshire 72
New Jersey 10
New York 40
North Carolina 2
Ohio 3
Oklahoma 1
Oregon 4
Pennsylvania 13
Puerto Rico 1
Rhode Island 25
Tennessee 3
Texas 6
Vermont 4
Virginia 7
Washington 4
Foreign Countries 60
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Admissions Office Class of 2008 (746)
Class Rank by Decile.
Decile of Students
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 254 2 . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 135 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4 . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 31 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6 . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 3 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 9 . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 0 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 No Rank
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 245
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Median SAT ScoresVerbal and Math Combined
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Global Perspective Program Enrollment
Projected enrollment 2004-2005
WPI has sent over 5000 students off-campus since
1974 50 of graduates have an international
experience
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Strategic Plan Goals

• Enhance the Quality of WPIs Academic Programs
• Develop WPIs Position as a National University
• Establish WPI as a Leader in Global Technological
  Education
• Improve WPIs Campus Culture and Community
  Presence
• Expand WPIs Educational Resources

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Challenges Facing WPI

• Reputation (e.g. USNews, NRC, etc.)
• Increasing Access to Under-Represented
  Populations
• Maintaining Laboratory Currency
• Academic Space

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Importance of Graduate Research Program to WPI

• Enhances our national recognition
• Attracts top quality faculty to University
• Keeps instruction at cutting-edge
• Provides opportunities for fruitful interaction
  among undergraduates, graduate students, and
  faculty
• Enriches the intellectual environment of
  University

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Degrees Awarded - FY 04

• Masters Degrees
• (Includes M.S., M.B.A.,
• M. Eng., MME) 293
• Ph.D. 17
• TOTAL 310

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Graduate Degrees Awarded
10/02
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Graduate Student Breakdown
includes IDs, ENs, and Undeclared
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Graduate Enrollment for Fall 2004

• Full-time Graduate Students 431
• Part-time Degree Seeking 355
• Part-time Non-Degree Seeking 193
• TOTAL 979