New Advisory Board Member Orientation October 21, 2004 John F. Carney III Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

WPI – The University of Science and Technology. And Life.

Who We Are  A university with a core focus on science, engineering, and the management of technology that grants bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in 30+ disciplines.

Undergraduate Program

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.

The WPI Experience (Cont.)  Assume Responsibility in a Professional Environment  Develop Own Program of Study  Non-Punitive Grading  Cooperative Environment

WPI Degree Requirements  The Major Qualifying Project  The Interactive Qualifying Project  The Sufficiency  Social Sciences  Departmental Distribution Requirements  Physical Education

WPI’s Global Project Program Paul Davis Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Advisory Boards, 21 October 2004

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

History (McDonald’s style) 3,000,000,000,000,000 students 1,000,000,000,000,000 projects

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

Impact

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

Project centers and programs

Recognition WPI: One of Ten Institutions Honored for Exemplary Internationalization, Theodore M. Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence, 2003 for “The WPI Global Perspective Program”

Recognition Association of American Colleges and Universities recognized WPI as one of its sixteen Leadership Institutions, for “its vision and program as an exemplary way of infusing liberal and global studies into pre-professional education.” 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

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)

Impact on Thai village of power plant

What clogs the canals of Venice?

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

“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 Outcome

WPI Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division

Engineering Enrollments (Fall ‘04) BE CEE CM ECE FPE ME

Science Enrollments (Fall ‘04) BB CHBC CS MA PH 10/02

Other Enrollments (Fall ‘04) SSPS HU&A Inter MG EN 10/02

Undergraduate Enrollment by Category

Student Course & Project Units

Sponsored Program Activity Awards Received

Sponsored Program Activity Applications Submitted

Extramural Support for Academic Sponsored Programs 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. 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

Faculty Hiring 96/ / / / / / / / / Total Academic New Year Hires Minorities Females

Faculty Statistics Base Year– 1998/1999  By 2010/11 –Faculty Additions Underrepresented Minorities 11% 15% 12% Women 13% 25% 18% – Faculty Salaries – Promotion and Tenure Criteria

Accreditation  NEASC  AACSB  ABET/CAC

Faculty Responsibilities  Teaching  Scholarship  Service

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

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

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”

Opportunities for Faculty and Students  Laboratories  Collaboration  Funding  Technology Transfer  Start-up Companies

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

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

BEI Mission  Conduct pre-commercial R&D  Maintain a regional biomedical technology innovation network  Apply appropriate incubation practices to new medical technology companies

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

BEI Successes 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 Commercial  MedTech network – UMMS, Nypro, Beacon…  New CE program in medtech management  Recognized as medtech commercial innovators by Mass Insight and MassMEDIC

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

Status of Prescott Street  New Laboratory Building & Renovated Manufacturing Building  Preliminary Design  Program for WPI Space  Identification of Compatible Tenants

Admissions Office Class of (746) California11 Colorado4 Connecticut68 Delaware1 Florida5 Georgia2 Illinois3 Indiana4 Iowa1 Kansas2 Louisiana1 Maine45 Maryland6 Massachusetts333 Minnesota1 Mississippi1 Missouri2 Montana1 New Hampshire72 New Jersey10 New York40 North Carolina2 Ohio3 Oklahoma1 Oregon4 Pennsylvania13 Puerto Rico1 Rhode Island25 Tennessee3 Texas6 Vermont4 Virginia7 Washington4 Foreign Countries60

Admissions Office C lass of 2008 (746) Class Rank by Decile. Decile# of Students No Rank

Median SAT Scores Verbal and Math Combined

Global Perspective Program Enrollment WPI has sent over 5000 students off-campus since % of graduates have an international experience * Projected enrollment

Strategic Plan Goals  Enhance the Quality of WPI’s Academic Programs  Develop WPI’s Position as a National University  Establish WPI as a Leader in Global Technological Education  Improve WPI’s Campus Culture and Community Presence  Expand WPI’s Educational Resources

Challenges Facing WPI  Reputation (e.g.: USNews, NRC, etc.)  Increasing Access to Under- Represented Populations  Maintaining Laboratory Currency  Academic Space

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

Degrees Awarded - FY 04 Master’s Degrees (Includes M.S., M.B.A., M. Eng., MME)293 Ph.D. 17 TOTAL 310

Graduate Degrees Awarded 10/02

Graduate Student Breakdown *includes IDs, ENs, and Undeclared

Graduate Enrollment for Fall 2004  Full-time Graduate Students431  Part-time Degree Seeking355  Part-time Non-Degree Seeking 193 TOTAL 979