WPI Highlights Advisory Board Meeting October 14, 2005 Carol Simpson Provost & Senior Vice President

Newsworthy Items Student and Faculty “stars” New Faculty Hires New Initiatives New Facilities Priorities for Next 5 years WPI Highlights

MBA Program Ranked No. 3 Nationally for "Greatest Opportunities for Women” - in the Princeton Review's "Best 237 Business Schools” Ranked 53 rd in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2006 issue - out of 248 national universities Ranked 19th – Most Students Studying Abroad - out of Top 100 schools in the country in U.S. News & World Report 2006 Ranked 37 th Great School, Great Prices - in the U.S. News & World Report 2006 WPI Highlights

Research Excellence Graduate Education Centers of Excellence Technology Transfer Emphasis Areas Undergraduate Education Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Marshall Scholar: Ian Bonzani ('04), biomedical engineering Awarded to just 40 out of 1,000 nominees nationwide – to study tissue engineering in Great Britain Goldwater Scholars: Ravi Srinivasan ('04), Mathematics and Physics – to study the earth's ocean-atmosphere system Ann C. Skulas ('05), Chemistry – to study nanotechnology WPI Student Honors

Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005  $2M FY to date: Diran Apelian (Metals Processing Institute; ME)

Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005  $2M FY to date: Diran Apelian (Metals Processing Institute; ME) CUTH (ECE+BME faculty group) Bill Michalson Yitzhak Mendelson Peder Pedersen John Orr (Digital Signal Processing, ECE)

Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005  $1M FY to date: Yi- (Ed) Hua Ma (Center for Inorganic Membrane Studies, Chemical Engineering) Ryszard (Rich) Pryputniewicz (Mechanical Engineering)

Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005  $1M FY to date: Yi- (Ed) Hua Ma (Center for Inorganic Membrane Studies, Chemical Engineering) Ryszard (Rich) Pryputniewicz (Mechanical Engineering) Other Honors Include: Gretar Tryggvason The 2005 Computational Mechanics Award of the JSME Steven C. Bullock NEH Research Fellowship “David A. Lucht Lamp of Knowledge Award” by SFPE for significant contributions to the advancement of higher education Erwin Danneels The Thomas P. Husted award for the best paper published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management Bogdan Vernescu Member of Honor of the Romanian Academy Institute of Mathematics

Faculty Honors Fulbright Scholars Steven C. Bullock, Humanities and Arts Mikhail Dimentberg, Mechanical Engineering David B. Dollenmayer, Humanities and Arts Michael B. Elmes, Management Jeffrey Forgeng, Humanities and Arts Karen Lemone, Computer Science Konstantin A. Lurie, Mathematical Sciences Eric W. Overström, Biology and Biotechnology Kaveh Pahlavan, Electrical and Computer Engineering Elke A. Rudensteiner, Computer Science John Zeugner, Humanities and Arts

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

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 Nikolaos Kazantzis, “Robust Digital Model-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Nonlinear Processes,” 2002 Kathryn Fisler, “A Computational Infrastructure for Timing Diagrams in Computer-Aided Verification,” 2002 Berk Sunar, “New Directions for Cryptographic Hardware,” 2002 WPI now has 19 NSF CAREER awardees

New Faculty Hires Robert W. Lindeman - Computer Science –Human Computer Interaction, with IMGD Mattias Nilsson – Management –Corporate Finance Reeta Prusty – Biology and Biotechnology –Genomics Research Joshua Rosenstock – Humanities and Arts –Artist, with Interactive Media and Game Development Susan Zhou – Chemical Engineering –Science of Miniaturization

New Academic Initiatives New Master of Science Degrees in: –Systems Engineering –Information Technology –Operations Design and Leadership New Bachelor of Science Degrees in: –Aerospace Engineering –Electrical & Computer Engineering –Interactive Media & Game Development First of Its Kind in Combining Artistic and Technical Concentrations –System Dynamics

New Academic Initiatives Proposal for a Bachelor of Arts degree in discussion Faculty Commissions on Curriculum Development Insight advising and Project-based Learning Community in the first year Massachusetts Mathematics and Science Partnership Certificate in College Teaching being offered for graduate students and adjuncts Teacher Licensing for undergraduates in mathematics and the sciences Fire Protection Engineering now a full academic department

Physical Facilities Construction completed in 04/05 Reconstruction of the freshmen chemistry laboratories into modern, completely equipped facilities with With funding support from the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, and WPI Trustee John LaMattina

Physical Facilities Construction completed in 04/05 Reconstruction of the freshmen chemistry laboratories into modern, completely equipped facilities with With funding support from the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, and WPI Trustee John LaMattina Renovation of 5 major lecture halls to state-of-the-art facilities Upgrade to the residential network

Little Theatre renovations Construction almost completed

Construction in progress Bartlett Center - Admissions and Financial Aid - a 16,500 sq. ft. “green building” Through the generosity of James and Shirley Bartlett

Construction begun - scheduled move-in Jan ‘07 $40M Life Sciences Research Building at Gateway Park 3 blocks from the main campus

Research faculty from: Biology & Biotechnology Bio-Engineering Institute (BEI) Biomedical Engineering Chemistry & Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering $40M Life Sciences Research Building at Gateway Park

Priorities for the Next 5 Years Increasing Sponsored Research Enhancing Academic Reputation Increasing Entrepreneurship Activity Improving Diversity, Especially in Students and Faculty in Sciences and Engineering New and Expanded Sports and Recreation Facility Renovations to Goddard and Salisbury Halls Admissions/Recruiting - Undergraduate and Graduate