1. ENGINEERING AT A GLANCE

2. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
#14 in the world, #3 among public universities, in Academic Ranking of World Universities
#1 most innovative university among U.S. public institutions, according to Reuters
#7 among US universities in Milken Institute report on technology transfer

3. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Campuses in Seattle, Tacoma and Bothell, and a world-class academic medical center
Conferred a total of 17,064 bachelors, masters, doctoral and professional degrees during
Educates more than 54,000 students annually
4,380 Faculty Members
7 Nobel
Laureates
Among the top producers of Fulbright scholars and students in
17 MacArthur Fellows
172 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
82 National Academy of Science members

4. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING HIGHLIGHTS
Ranked 10th among all public engineering schools
5,385 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
2,667 GRADUATE STUDENTS
269 FACULTY MEMBERS
Externally funded research in FY18 $153 MILLION
Reported 1,128 INNOVATIONS and filed 1,824 PATENTS in last 5 years
Responsible for 55% OF UW START UPS in the last 5 years
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS & SCHOOLS
William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Bioengineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Human Centered Design & Engineering
Industrial & Systems Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Located in one of the world’s leading science and technology regions
Entrepreneurial focus and commercialization success
Collaboration across disciplines
Third largest of UW’s 16 colleges
15% of UW students
10 departments in 25 buildings
Source of half of UW startups
Tied with UC San Diego and UCLA for undergrad public ranking

5. UW LEADS ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Nearly 50 percent of Washington state engineering graduates come from UW Engineering
Degrees granted in 2018:
Undergraduate: 1,177
Master’s: 734
PhD: 112
Average annual starting salary of $73K
74% of graduates stay in Washington state
Mission: To develop outstanding engineers and ideas that change the world

6. SOARING STUDENT INTEREST
UW Seattle 2018 Freshman applicants with Engineering as first-choice major
4 of top 10 choice majors of confirmed incoming UW freshmen are engineering.
Ready/want to produce more.
74% stay in WA
According to LinkedIn, the top local employers of Engineering grads are:
Boeing (3,117)
Microsoft (2,619)
UW (2,295)
Amazon (952)
Google (518)
Intel (462)
T-Mobile (258)
AT&T (198)
City of Seattle (187)
Expedia (185)
Projected degree capacity – note that transfer students/interest changers are not included in the 610

7. Washington lags in engineering degree production
Combine these two and we are at the bottom.

8. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FACULTY LEAD
Clean Energy Institute
ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change
Boeing Advanced Research Center
Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI)
eScience Institute
GIX (Global Innovation Exchange)
Washington Nanofabrication Center
Northwest IMPACT
Molecular Engineering & Sciences
Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems
UW Engineering faculty are central to many university wide collaborative efforts as leaders of CEI, eScience Institute, GIX, engineering and medicine, cybersecurity. Engineering responsible for almost half of the innovation/start ups coming out of the UW, economic impact of our work throughout the state.
Investment in engineering programs have wide reaching impact.
Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center
Molecular Engineering & Sciences
Nanoengineering & Sciences Institute
Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering
Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium
Engineering Innovation in Health

9. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING TENURED/TENURE-TRACK FACULTY FTE
(in which a person with a primary appointment outside of CoE but who has a joint appointment of .33 FTE in CoE will count as .33 FTE).

10. (Top 30 shown. Source: ASEE 2018 Online Profiles)
#2 of top 20 schools in percentage of bachelors degrees granted to women
The graph simply shows the top 30 institutions, as ranked in the US NWR top graduate engineering program rankings.
It should be noted, however, that UW has the highest % of female faculty when compared to:
The top 50 graduate engineering programs
The top 50 undergraduate engineering programs.
The University of Washington has the second highest percentage of female faculty representation in the top 50 Colleges of Engineering
(Top 30 shown. Source: ASEE 2018 Online Profiles)

11. 10 YEAR TREND: FACULTY WITH JOINT APPOINTMENTS
Successful joint hiring partnerships both across departments and with other units on campus
Arts & Sciences (Physics, Math, Chemistry)
Medicine (Rehab Med, Radiology, Cardiology)
Excel hires between ECE and CSE, joint hires in ME/MSE/ISE

12. RESEARCH & INNOVATION

13. STRATEGIC RESEARCH AREAS
Environment
Energy
Manufacturing
Health
Infrastructure and Smart Cities
Strategic Research Areas:
Engineering and Environment
Water availability, purity and management will be the critical 21st century issue for the health and well being of global society. The Puget Sound region represents a national resource for understanding complex demands on water in ecosystems that ranges from mountains to sound to coast, and are set in social contexts ranging from rural to urban and agrarian to industrial. Major research projects in this area include:
a collaboration between the College of the Environment, the College of Engineering, and UW Tacoma that seeks to strengthen freshwater-related science, engineering, resources management, and educational capacity at the UW, and Mountains to Sea, an initiative of to catalyze and facilitate water sustainability research at UW. Mountains to Sea addresses key questions directly relevant to the Pacific Northwest; efforts which can then be translated to national and global scales. The initiative is a joint venture of interdisciplinary faculty whose research areas include hydrology, carbon cycling, fisheries, and aquatic ecology, estuarine hydrodynamics, and contaminant fate.
Engineering and Energy
The College of Engineering is helping to advance the adoption of a clean energy future by developing next generation solar energy and electrical energy storage materials, devices and systems, as well as their integration with the grid. Research centers include the Clean Energy Institute, which is accelerating the creation of a clean energy economy and will grow Washington’s capacity for a sustainable economy and environment, and the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, which aims to facilitate commercialization of marine energy technology, inform regulatory and policy decisions, and close key gaps in scientific understanding with a focus on student growth and development.
Engineering and Manufacturing
Our goal is to become research leaders in next-generation advanced manufacturing to strengthen the innovation ecosystem in the State of Washington and the nation. Major projects take place at the Boeing Advanced Research Center, the Collaborative Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), the Center for Advanced Materials in Aircraft Structures (AMTAS), and the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure site (NNCI), within the Nanoengineering & Sciences program.
Engineering and Health
With the recent focus in U.S. policy on value and accountability in healthcare, there has never been a more opportune time for researchers, engineers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs to contribute to the development of medical and dental technology for the purpose of lowering costs and improving the quality of care. The Engineering Innovation in Health initiative at the UW is a program that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between engineering and the health sciences with the goal of developing technical solutions to pressing challenges in health care. Since 2013, over 200 students have participated in the program, in which teams of students are mentored by faculty from COE and SOM and industry to develop functional prototype solutions for particular health challenges.
Infrastructure and Smart Cities
We live in a time of unprecedented growth in urban populations. Rapid expansion creates significant challenges in stewarding urban network and infrastructure systems including transportation, food, water, and power to ensure that communities are resilient and sustainable. Responding to these challenges, we have a remarkable opportunity to realize innovative and groundbreaking approaches, techniques, and tools to leverage advancements in data science, sensing, communication, and infrastructure design to connect people, communities, and the urban infrastructure in new and productive ways. Research collaborations include The MetroLab Network, where the University of Washington and the City of Seattle have joined a new national network of university-city partnerships that will work on Smart City solutions, The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), which serves as an engine and showcase for transportation research, education, and workforce development in the Pacific Northwest, with local and national reach. In addition, in September 2015, UW and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) signed the Smart Cities Initiative, a formal MOU to work together on smart cities research and teaching.
Strategic Research Initiative in the College of Engineering
The Strategic Research Initiatives (SRI) program was developed to advance two of our strategic plan goals:
Build interdisciplinary collaborations that inspire innovation.
Focus on key global challenges where we can achieve greatest impact and excellence.
Each team receives up to $50,000 in the first year with another potential $50,000 in the second year to advance their idea. The projects are also supported through matching funds from departments and other colleges. Awards include teams from across COE and SOM, APL, AMATH and Evans School, with recent projects focusing on Engineering and Health, Smart Cities and additive manufacturing

14. INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS
Key industry partnerships
Boeing (BARC)
Microsoft
PACCAR
Micron
T-Mobile
Facebook
Google
Global partnerships include Origincell, RICOH, Winbond

15. Commitment to diversity and access
Focus primarily on STARS here, explain program and the successes.
Mean STARS cumulative GPA 3.54 / Mean Pre-Engineer Cumulative GPA 3.24
79% admitted to department overall for cohorts I-IV
First STARS graduates got jobs at Microsoft, Boeing, Honeywell, WSDOT, AT&T, Sage Bionetworks, CIDR and Expedia (ALL in Washington state)
Student quotes: “I am beyond thankful I was given the opportunity to be in this program” / “I have learned how to fail. It’s one thing to fail and quit, it’s another to fail and look at it as an opportunity to better oneself; STARS has taught me just that. I really feel that without this program, I would have taken myself out of the game before I was ever up to play.”
Faculty – 24% women vs. national average of 14%
Diversity of Degree Recipients
Women – BS 28% / MS 28% / PhD 22%
Underrepresented minorities – 8% in BS/7% MS and 3% PhD

16. DIRECT TO COLLEGE (DTC) ADMISSIONS
Designed to improve the student experience
Eliminate the highly competitive admissions process
Provide students with a more certain pathway to engineering degrees
DTC students will have access to at least one engineering major
Implement a 4 year engineering curriculum
First-year experiential learning courses
Second-year engineering abroad
Vertically Integrated Projects
Industry Capstone
Integration with Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Support and collaboration across departments and from CEP
Support from UW Admissions, FCAS, OMAD, A&S and other colleges
Partnership with WSOS to support STARS
COESAC – representatives collaborate, prioritize student issues
Collaboration across departments:
105 lab tours organized across the college for first and second year students to explore majors and research opportunities
CoE adviser meeting and annual retreat
Placement Coordinating Committee work
DTC planning committee work
Bringing CEE faculty into the Engineering Living Learning Community to engage with the first year students
Working with CoE departmental advisers to identify speakers for ENGR 101
Partnering with CoE departmental advisers to identify students to be Engineering Peer Educators
Work with the to ensure all first-year students create a resume
Collaboration with other units on campus
Extensive work with First Year Programs to build the E-FIG and EPE programs
Redesigned and led a College of Engineering Admitted Student Preview Day with the Office of Admissions last year
Clustered advising model with OMA&D advisers to increase communication and give students consistency
Partnership with UAA advising to manage advising & orientation and to share management of our student populations

17. DTC STUDENT COHORT DTC demographics (954 students)
70% WA state residents
13.3% international
16.7% domestic non-resident
32.8% female
9% URM
19.8% first generation
14.9% low income
Fall quarter performance
309 students on Dean’s List (at least 3.5 GPA)
21 students on Low Scholarship (below 2.0 GPA)

18. HOUSING & FOOD SERVICES PARTNERSHIP
Essential for our student experience
Living Learning Community experience for 800+ students living in Maple Hall
Dabble Lab in Maple Hall Area 01
MILL in McCarty Hall opened this fall
8000 sq ft makerspace and wet lab

19. INDUSTRY CAPSTONE PROGRAM
Rapidly growing in its second year
70 projects, engaging approximately 280 students from all 10 engineering units
Corporate sponsors include Boeing, Genie, Microsoft, NanoString, PACCAR, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and many more

20. CAREER CENTER @ ENGINEERING
Opened in Fall 2015
Over 8,500 student interactions with
538 companies came to recruit
74% of students do at least one internship
8,532: number of engineering student interactions
67% of engineering students completed at least one internship before graduation
Further strengthens partnerships between UW COE and industry
Also enhances collaboration/coordination with UW Career Center due to joint reporting structure

21. STUDENT CLUBS & COMPETITIONS
UW EcoCAR
EcoCAR3 Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition
Converting a Chevrolet Camaro into electric hybrid
Husky Robotics
Participates in University Rover Challenge
Design, build, program and test a Mars Rover in simulated missions
Hyperloop
Designing a magnetic levitation train that glides inside an evacuated tube
placed 4th in nation in Elon Musk’s competition

22. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
30 active student exchange programs
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Tsinghua University
Technical University of Berlin
18 study abroad programs for engineering credit
Bangalore, India
Hangzhou, China
Rome, Italy

23. GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Excellence
Access

24. FACILITIES PROGRESS HFS Partnerships Minor Remods Bowman Building
Nanoengineering & Science
Minor Remods
Bowman Building
Bill & Melinda Gates Center

25. INVESTMENTS IN THE FUTURE
Growing students, faculty & facilities to expand our impact
Continue to build relationships with industry
Industry capstone program
Career Center
Research partnerships
Global partnerships
GIX
Industry research
University partnerships
Study abroad programs