1. Rice University VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Gary Woods ECE Dept., Rice University

2. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Numbers The Institution Enrollment (total undergrad)3926, private, R1 university Student body (Engineering)1500 Diversity (Engineering)34.5% Women 5.4% African-American 17.2% Hispanic/ Mexican-American 4.7% multi-racial 0.1% Native American 16.1% foreign nationals VIP First term students enrolled11 (out of 27) Number of teams3____ most recent term 4____ upcoming term Enrollment27 confirmed for F16 (expect to add more) Diversity by ethnicitySee next by major”__________________________________ by year”_______________________________ (FR, SO, JR, SR)

3. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 VIP progress at Rice 3 teams, 27 students (F16) Diversity Majors represented

4. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 VIP progress at Rice Distribution by yearNumber of semesters in program

5. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Successes 3 VIP teams (all ECE-centered) DiCE (Digital Cure for Epilepsy) DISSECT (Distributed Sensors, Effectors and Computers) Digital Gym More VIP teams in the pipeline PHAST (Parallel Hardware Applications in Science & Technology) (ECE) Inviting teams from other departments Pipe Robot lab (MechE) Mechatronics and Haptics (MechE)

6. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Successes – key factors OEDK – Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen Fabrication facilities 9 staff Meeting & classroom space Team work space dedicated VIP area

7. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Successes – key factors OEDK provides space for VIP teams Easy to collaborate with other teams & depts. Many capstone projects also in OEDK Collaborative Workspace Collaborative Workspace

8. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Successes – DiCE (digital cure for epilepsy) Capstone sub-team won Top Capstone Project at Rice Plan to design an tape-out an analog IC (implantable eventually) Very good continuity & good diversity: 5 seniors (2 female), 3 juniors (all female) and one will be added, and 4 sophomores (3 are female)

9. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Successes – Digital Gym Deployed wireless RPM & power meter for bike Integrating with research on video measures of health

10. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Successes – DISSECT team Built RC-motorcycle equivalent of UAV Incorporated Slack.com as team mgt. system – will be deployed across VIP teams Platform developed by team used by other capstone teams

11. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Key Factors to Success VIP was easy to set up at Rice Started in one dept. (ECE) Key decision makers were already believers VIP & capstone tightly integrated Minor course # changes Projects create their own “buzz” Top students want to work on VIP Students bring their friends Design Kitchen useful for teams Fall Spring Year 1-3 Year 4 Capstone VIP sub-project VIP project

12. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Challenges and Possible Strategies Maintaining team continuity on ECE teams Small dept. (about 40-45 per cohort) We recruit through several forums Freshman week advising, ECE advising events, word of mouth, research fair, capstone projects Non-tenure track faculty running VIP team May be harder to keep funding level So far not a problem (internal grants + dept. funds) Growing pains – team infrastructure Common tools of GitHub and Slack to be promulgated among teams Anticipate standard curriculum issues as we integrate other depts.

13. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Opportunities Rice building an Arts equivalent of Design Kitchen Quality Enhancement Program at Rice involves Experiential Learning Natural fit for VIP Bringing in other departments Mech & BioE are natural fits – already part of Common Capstone

14. VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Conclusion Rice is off to a good start with VIP Small size of school presents challenges but eases many issues Main goal: grow the program in 2016 & beyond!