1. Enrollment Management
With the departure of Will Perkins, the offices of Diversity and Pre-College Programs will be merged with Women’s Leadership Institute. Cecilia Elmore will direct the combined departments and Brad Starbuck will assume the enrollment development responsibilities.
Enrollment Projections for Fall 2012 show a new freshmen and transfer class about the same as last Fall.

2. Office of Sponsored Programs
Congratulations to:
Shi Zhang, Greg Hilmas, Bill Fahrenholtz, “High Density Pressurelessly Sintered Zirconium DiBoride/Silicon Carbide Composite Bodies and Method of Producing the Same,” US Patent 8,097,548, January 2012
Shahab Mehraeen and Jag Sarangapani, “System and Method for Harvesting Energy from Environmental Vibration,” U.S. Patent 8,129,887, March 2012     2

3. Office of Sponsored Programs
FY12 activities through the end of February and a year-over-year comparison are as follows:
Proposals awarded in total dollars: $14M (down 57.2%)
Number of proposals awarded and amendments: 177 (down 15.3%)
Proposals submitted in total dollars: $106M (up 23.4%)
Number of proposals submitted: 349 (down 2.0%)
Research Board proposals submitted in total dollars: $1.8M (up 75.1%)
Number of Research Board proposals submitted: 33 (up 50%)
Research expenditures: $30M (down 6.1%)
F&A recovered: $4.6M (down 6.9%)
Number of active awards: 576 (down 6.5%) 3

4. Office of International Affairs
Sponsored Students:
Missouri S&T currently has 281 sponsored international students up from 267 this date last year.
Study Abroad:
A faculty-led study abroad program will be offered June 2012 in Capetown, South Africa. Dr’s Haynes and Gelles will offer courses in Intercultural Communication and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.

5. Office of International Affairs
Intensive English Program:
74 students are enrolled in the Intensive English Program, 50 are full-time, 24 part-time. Countries represented include China, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Vietnam.
The Applied Language Institute hosted a special cultural and graduate education promotion luncheon event on March 23, for undergraduate transfer students from 2+2 partner institutions in China. Students attending were from the following schools: China University of Petroleum Beijing, China University of Petroleum-Qingdao, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Northeast Petroleum University of Daqing.
International Student Recruitment:
Dr’s Jerry Tien, Ralph Flori and Venkata Allada visited China in March. The S&T delegation met with both current and potential new university partners as well as potential applicants for admission. An Articulation Agreement with Xi’an University of Science and Technology was signed.

6. Global Learning
The role of the Engineering Education Center (EEC) in St. Louis is changing from providing face-to-face instruction for students in the St. Louis metro area to that of providing online instruction serving students throughout the U.S. and various international locations.
The following charts clearly demonstrate the ability of departments to supplement their instructional capability by using highly qualified adjuncts from the St. Louis area. Over 20 courses have been delivered in recent semesters. The background of the adjunct faculty ranges from Technical Fellows at Boeing to retired faculty from various institutions, and all have been approved by the departments using their services.

7. Global Learning
Engineering Education Center Courses Offered Fall 2005 – Spring 12

8. Office of Undergraduate Studies
Student Design & Experiential Learning Center
Formation of Miners by Design, a patron’s society to support the SDLEC established in conjunction with University Advancement to help recognize donors to the SDELC and the teams on an annual level. (Can contact Paul Hirtz for more information)
2nd annual For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and First Tech Challenge (FIRST FTC) State Championship hosted at S&T. This is a high school level robot state championship that was held on campus co-sponsored by the SDELC and Enrollment Management. The world championship is in St. Louis this year and next before it moves onto another city. Winners of our event move on to the world event.
S&T design teams begin travel in April.

9. Office of Undergraduate Studies
Freshman Engineering
Welcomes Ms. Andrea Cabanes as their Sr. Secretary. Andrea replaces Lacy Friestaedter whose husband graduated and they moved to Chattanooga.

10. Office of Graduate Studies
The technical writing blog is successfully up and running. (justwrite.mst.edu)
Completed 85 thesis and dissertation format checks prior to the April 4th deadline for Spring 2012 graduates.