ENGINEERING AT ILLINOIS Leadership, Collaboration, Impact • Click to edit subtitle 1
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF OUR COLLEGE 2
OUR LEGENDS … John Bardeen Tony Leggett Nick Holonyak Transistor Superfluidity LED Superconductivity Quantum-well laser 3
SOME OF OUR STARS … John Rogers Jennifer Lewis Wen-Mei Hwu Bill Gropp 4
OUR FUTURE … Nadya Mason Lynford Goddard Xiuling Li Eric Pop 5
WORKING TOGETHER… 6
RESEARCH IMPACT ... 7
COMMITTED TO EDUCATION … 8
PREPARING LEADERS … • From innovation and business plan competitions to charm schools and trips to Silicon Valley, the Technology Entrepreneurship Center provides our students with rich co-curricular experiences 9
AMONG THE BEST COLLEGES … 10
AMONG THE BEST PROGRAMS … 11
INTERDISCIPLINARY EXCELLENCE … Coordinated Science Laboratory Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory Materials Research Laboratory 12
RESEARCH INTENSIVE … 13
OUR STUDENTS … 14
FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP … • Increased enrollments • Online and professional masters’ programs • Investment in advancement • External research funding • Strategic hiring of faculty • Shared services 15
A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE … 16
A COMMITMENT TO THE FUTURE … 17
STUDENT DIVERSITY AND FINANCIAL AID 18
STUDENT DEMAND IS VERY STRONG 19
PEER COMPARISON 20
SCHOLARSHIPS 21
ENROLLMENT SERVICES • Recruiting • Admissions – Set enrollment targets for the college, and for all 13 degree programs – Make timely scholarship offers, coordinated with campus – Send names of non-admits to UIC • Post-Admission 22
SUPPORTING STUDENT SUCCESS 23
FACULTY DIVERSITY 24
RECENT HIRES 25
PEER COMPARISON 26
ACADEMIC PROGRAM REVIEW 27
PROGRAM PRIORITIZATION • Strategically relevant? • Can we lead and have impact? • Opportunities for collaboration? • Financially sustainable? 28
RECENT ACADEMIC EXAMPLES • Merging three departments into two – Strategic focusing • Establishing Bioengineering department – Strategic investment – Attracts the highest ACT applicants – Collaboration across campus – Shifted faculty lines from other fields 29
RECENT RESEARCH EXAMPLES • Center for Cellular Mechanics – Initial investment of $300k – Led to $25M shared center grant, others • Information Trust Institute – Initial investment of $300k, plus half-time support of an AP for three years – From a standing start in FY03, ITI has booked $80M in research revenues 30
A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE … 31
A COMMITMENT TO THE FUTURE … 32
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