10:30 State of the Department: Statistics, Ed Object, ABET

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Fall 2009 ChE Advisory Board Mtg. December 4, 2009

• 1030 State of the Department Statistics, Ed
  Object, ABET
• 1130 Lunch w/Students
• 100 Faculty Discussion
• Wrap-up Recs for 2009, Actions, and Ownership
• Adjourn

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Dr. Tom Bickel PhD. Chemical Engineering Universit
y of Texas at Austin
Dr. Mark Cal PhD - Environmental
Engineering University of Illinois
Dr. Thomas Engler PhD - Petroleum
Engineering Oklahoma
Active Adjunct and Part Time Faculty
Dr. Bob Bretz PhD - Bioengineering Texas AM
University
Dr. Doug Dunston MS Physics - Cal Berkeley DMA -
Music - Claremont
Dr. Corey Leclerc PhD - Chemical
Engineering University of Minnesota
Dr. Robert Lee PhD. Chemical Engineering Universit
y of Michigan
Chemical Engineering Faculty Staff
Dr. Michaelann Tartis PhD - Biomedical
Engineering University of California - Davis
Dr. John McCoy PhD. Physical Chemistry University
of Pennsylvania
Dr. Mike Riley PhD - Chemical Engineering NC State
Mr. Seth Price MS Materials Engineering New
Mexico Tech
Also Ahmed Hasan (IERA) and Said El-Nashaie
(Univ. of Sinai)
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Undergraduate Enrollment
TOTAL UG
ENGINEERING
NON-ENG
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UG Enrollments
ChemE is in top echelon of enrollments but has a
fraction of the faculty support
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Campus UG / FTE Ratios
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Trends in Freshmen Enrollment
FTE
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3.5
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Trends clearly indicate that ChemE will have
roughly the same number of students as EE,
Physics, and BIOL with less than half of the
faculty support
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• Administrative Support Financial

Balance, water purifier, and function generator
25k
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Space resources also limit potential in ChemE
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Research Output

• Presentations (Nat. Conf.) 0
• Invited Talks 1
• Publications - 0
• Proposal s 380k80k115k
• Grad students (5yr,MS,PhD,PD) 2,2,2,1
• Proposals (submitted/awarded) 5/1

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Student Accomplishments

• 2009 Brown Award Peter Valdez
• Macey Scholar Caitlyn Allen
• 3 Student Presentations at AIChE
• All 9 May grads have jobs Lehigh, LANL, Nuclear
  Safety, NAVAIR, Chevron, Phillips-Conoco, David
  Meyers, NMT, Michigan

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Recommended Actions Department for 2009

1. Carry Over Develop a 5 year (long term) plan
   Owner Faculty NOT MET tabled
   for a later time
2. Start-up annual fund raising effort for
   department endowment Owner Faculty/IAB
   Alumni have been e-mailed as needs arise
3. Offer technical electives/graduate courses Owner
   Faculty Riley Fuel Cell
   Tech Fall 2009, Leclerc Cat. Characteriz. Fall
   2009, Tartis Biomedical Eng. Spring 2010
4. Connect AIChE with three facilities to tour
   Owner Faculty/IAB CEHMS
   algae grower, ??, ??
5. Reach out to alumni and new companies in New
   Mexico to become involved in the development and
   direction of the program. Owner Board
   Invited Jason Harper to join IAB

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Recommended Actions Department for 2010

1. Update all safety related items in the department
   for research and teaching Owner Faculty/IAB
2. Solicit donations/gifts from alumni Owner
   Faculty
3. Identify another potential board member Owner
   Faculty
4. Hold an alumni event (AIChE get together, 49ers
   barbecue, M Mtn Run) Owner Faculty

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• Educational Objectives

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Recommended Actions Educational Objectives for
2009

• Overhaul/organize long term assessment plan
  (Owner Faculty) IN
  PROGRESS
• Evaluate senior design presentation with
  quantitative results (Owner Faculty and IAB)
  DONE (must evaluate the evaluation tool)
• Re-evaluate use and value of FE Exam results
  (Owner Faculty) DONE plan to use 2 year
  moving averages and monitor slope of curve,
  reconnected with S. Alabama to obtain their data
• Set-up annual review of alumni and graduates
  (Owner Faculty) DONE surveys
  out to 0,1,3 year grads
• 5. Review curriculum, i.e. evaluate
  pre-requisites, tech electives, coverage of
  learning outcomes (Owner Faculty)
  
  IN PROGRESS added tech electives, ES pre-reqs
  under review, learning outcomes identified for
  each course, must evaluate CHE pre-reqs

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Recommended Actions Educational Objectives for
2010

• Articulate long term assessment plan for Spring
  meeting (Owner Faculty)
• Prepare self-study for ABET (Owner Faculty)
• Increase unit-ops labs by 1 (Owner Riley/Price)
• Complete feasibility study to include safety in
  outcomes or objectives (Owner Faculty)

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