Freshmen Faculty Orientation UMR Campus Update John F. Carney III August 15, 2006

 UMR Goal  Strategic Planning  Flattening of Administrative Structure  Promotion and Tenure  Capital Campaign  Fall Enrollment

UMR Success Indicators  Average starting salary of undergraduate students over $51K  576 different employers from 37 states recruited the UMR student population  12% increase  10 th in the nation for number of doctoral engineering degrees granted to women  22 nd in the nation for number of engineering degrees granted

UMR Success Indicators  22 nd on list of “America’s Most Entrepreneurial Campuses” Source: Forbes magazine  One of the nation’s 25 “most connected campuses” Source: Forbes.com/Princeton Review  A top 25 civil engineering program Source: America’s Best Colleges Guidebook 2004

Student Design Teams  Solar Car Team finished in fourth place in the 2005 North American Challenge  Solar House Team finished seventh in the 2005 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.  Mucking Teams placed second in the 2006 Men’s and Women’s Intercollegiate Mining Competition after winning world championships in the two previous years  Formula Race Car Team placed eighth in the 2006 SAE Formula West competition, which featured 708 teams  Human-Powered Vehicle Team won the East Coast championship for the fifth year in a row  UMR students won the American Ceramic Society’s 2006 national mug drop contest  UMR students won first place in a helicopter design competition sponsored by the American Helicopter Society

Capital Campaign  Gary D. Forsee (Chair)  BS Civil Engineering, ’72  President and Chief Executive Officer, Sprint Nextel Corporation  Keith E. Bailey (Tri-Chair)  BS Mechanical Engineering, ’64  Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Williams Companies, Inc. (retired 2002)  Gary W. Havener (Tri-Chair)  BS Mathematics and Statistics, ’62  President and Owner, Havener Enterprises  David B. Price (Tri-Chair)  BS Civil Engineering, ’68  President and Chief Executive Officer, Birdet Price LLC

Capital Campaign Update  Timing  Quiet phase began July 2003  Public launch anticipated April 2007  Completion anticipated June 2010  Campaign Dollar Goal: $200 million  Campaign Categories  Student Support  Faculty Support  Facilities & Equipment  Program Support  Private Grant Support  $80M raised as of 6/30/06

Campaign Progress Results as of June 30, 2006 millions

MOHELA

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs  W. Kent Wray  PhD in Civil Engineering Texas A&M University, 1978  MS in Civil Engineering Air Force Institute of Technology, 1974  BS in Civil Engineering Kansas State University, 1968  BS in Physics Washburn University, 1967

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs  W. Kent Wray  Michigan Technological University ( ) –Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (2000 – 2005)  Ohio University (1996 – 2000) –Dean, Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering and Technology  Texas Tech University (1978 – 1996) –Chair of civil engineering from ( )

Enrollment Projections For FS 2006

Enrollment Growth Trends 4,626 5,602 5,720 estimated