1. New Advisory Board Member Orientation October 16, 2003 John F. Carney III Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

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

3. 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.

4. Undergraduate Program

5. WPI  A University of Engineering, Science, Management, and Humanities  The Two Towers Tradition  The WPI Plan

6. The WPI Experience  Learning to Learn  Incorporation of Outcomes Assessment  Real World Projects  Appreciation for Social Responsibility  Depth in the Humanities

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

8. WPI Degree Requirements  The MQP  The IQP  The Sufficiency  Social Sciences  Departmental Distribution Requirements  Physical Education

9. Engineering Enrollments (Fall ‘03) BE CEE CM ECE FPE ME 10/02

10. Science Enrollments (Fall ‘03) BB CHBC CS MA PH 10/02

11. Other Enrollments (Fall ‘03) SSPS HU&A Inter MG EN 10/02

12. Undergraduate Enrollment by Category

13. Student Course & Project Units for AY 02/03 10/02

14. Sponsored Program Activity Applications Submitted 204 230 Amount ($Millions)

15. Sponsored Program Activity Awards Received 93 128 Amount ($Millions)

16. Extramural Support for Academic Sponsored Programs ORA is the Office of Research Administration – Federal agencies, industry contracts, some foundations. CFR is the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations – Foundation grants and corporate support for education and research.  Sponsored Programs: FY02 FY03 – Research Center Memberships $1,761,000$1,204,000 – Project Center Fees 162,000154,000 – Corporate Sponsored Student Projects 138,000150,000 – Research/Education (ORA) 7,834,00010,904,000 – Research/Education (CFR) 2,225,0001,787,000 Gifts: – Corporate In-Kind Support 1,106,0005,588,000 Total$13,226,000$19,787,000

17. Faculty Hiring 96/971635 97/981143 98/991473 99/001435 00/011404 01/02 511 02/031842 03/04 723 Total992426 Academic New Year Hires Minorities Females

18. Faculty Statistics Base Year– 1998/1999  By 2010/11 –Faculty Additions 203 220+ 218 Underrepresented Minorities 11% 15% 12/14% Women 13% 25% 17% – Faculty Salaries – Promotion and Tenure Criteria

19. 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.

20. Accreditation  NEASC  AACSB  ABET/CAC

21. Faculty Responsibilities  Teaching  Scholarship  Service

22. 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

23. Admissions Office Class of 2007 - (633) Geography New England..................... 486 (Mass 314) Mid Atlantic...................... 66 Midwest........................ 10 South........................... 19 Southwest....................... 1 Mountains........................ 2 Far West........................ 17 International...................... 32 10/02 ??

24. Admissions Office C lass of 2007 (633) Class Rank by Decile. Decile# of Students 1...................................243 2...................................128 3................................... 63 4................................... 30 5................................... 8 6................................... 1 7................................... 1 8................................... 0 9................................... 0 10................................... 0 No Rank.............................159

25. Median SAT Scores Verbal and Math Combined

26. Global Perspective Program Enrollment WPI has sent over 4000 students off-campus since 1974 50% of graduates have an international experience

27. 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

28. www.wpi.edu/Stratplan/Progress/

29. Challenges Facing WPI  Reputation (e.g.: USNews, NRC, etc.)  The Globalization of Engineering  Increasing Access to Under- Represented Populations  Maintaining Laboratory Currency  High School Graduates’ Interest in Engineering

30. 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

31. Degrees Awarded - FY 03 Master’s Degrees (Includes M.S., M.B.A., M. Eng., MME)309 Ph.D. 17 TOTAL 326

32. Graduate Degrees Awarded 10/02

33. Graduate Student Breakdown *includes IDs, ENs, and Undeclared

34. Graduate Enrollment for Fall 2003  Full-time Graduate Students423  Part-time Degree Seeking390  Part-time Non-Degree Seeking 190 TOTAL 1003

36. Faculty Perspectives on Graduate Education and Research Advisory Board Presentation Thursday, October 16, 2003 Dave Adams, Ph.D. Professor, Biology and Biotechnology Chair, Committee on Graduate Studies and Research (CGSR)

37.  Why perform graduate education at WPI?  Why perform research at WPI?

38. CGSR Open Forum The Integration of Undergraduate Education with Graduate Education and Research –Goal stated explicitly by major funding organizations like NSF (REU program) and NIH (AREA program). –Goal stated explicitly in President Parrish’s Whitepaper-3. –Goal stated by President Parrish in his opening remarks at the open forum.

39. WPI is Well Suited for This Integration MQP Program Involve MQP students in funded activities: –Enhances the Ph.D. program by providing Ph.D. students with excellent mentoring opportunities. –Provides MQP student with up-to-date training. –Helps obtain data for future grant submissions. –Active environment will help recruit future graduate students. –Funded summer MQPs would help establish a year-round scholarly environment at WPI, and greater utilization of our facilities during the summer. –Challenge: Faculty need to design experiments related to grants that are actually doable by undergraduates, and that are also extendable into graduate projects.

40. Factors That Affect School Rankings*  Faculty Resources –Strongly influenced by the number of Ph.D.’s granted per faculty.  Research Activity –Strongly influenced by the amount of external research support.  School Reputation –Determined by 2 surveys to engineering school Deans, and to practicing engineers. Opinion polls, so influenced by familiarity with WPI faculty, programs, and alumni. –Strongly correlates with acceptance rates. –Strongly correlates with per faculty funding. –Our competitors listed in the top 50 also have graduate programs in the top 50. * U.S. News & World Report

41. Challenges  Our best researchers can sometimes be the most mobile.  Some of our best researchers already have “fully funded” programs.  Some faculty see the undergrad and graduate programs as having competing interests, while we argue that both are critical for WPI’s long-term success.

42. How Do We Get There?  Increase Faculty External Research Support, and Ph.D. Graduation Rate: –Should engage all departments. –We are pleased to note that the per capita support has risen from $35K (FY 2000) to $50K (FY 2003).  New Ph.D. and M.S. Programs: –New one-year post-B.S. M.S. degrees. Could expand the MS program with more tuition-paying students. –New joint Ph.D.’s with other universities. Recent CGSR motion to the faculty. –New joint Ph.D’s with industry. Increase the participation of MQP groups in funded research activities, including summer projects.

43. How Do We Get There, Continued  Increase MQP Participation: –on projects extendable into M.S. degrees. –in funded research activities, including summer projects.  Increase research topics in the classroom: –Infuses the latest knowledge into the lecture. –Places traditional text information into the perspective of rapidly growing fields, or changing hypotheses. –Energizes the lecture, and helps give it a focus. –NSF has curriculum development grants for exactly this goal.

44. Conclusions  WPI must maintain a quality undergraduate program, while expanding and strengthening our graduate program.  CGSR believes that increasing research activity is one of the best ways to raise WPI’s reputation, and is a model that will support the vertical integration of undergraduate education with graduate education.

46. WPI’s Global Project Program Paul Davis Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Advisory Boards, 16 October 2003

47. Overview  Global –500 students per year at 22 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

48. Project centers and programs  Hong Kong, PRC  Bangkok, Thailand  Melbourne, Australia  NASA Goddard  Limerick, Ireland  London, UK  San Jose, Costa Rica  Venice, Italy  Windhoek, Namibia  Lincoln Laboratories  Washington, DC  Zurich, Switzerland  Wall St., New York  Worcester, MA  Silicon Valley  Nancy, France  Madrid, Spain  Boston, MA  Copenhagen, Denmark  San Juan, Puerto Rico  Pratt & Whitney, CT

49. 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)

50. Impact on Thai village of power plant

51. What clogs the canals of Venice?

52. 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

53. Recognition  TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence (faculty development)  NAFSA Association of International Educators, one of 10 exemplary programs (International education)  American Association of Colleges and Universities, one of 16 Greater Expectations Leadership Institutions (liberal education leadership)

54. Some measures  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  About 5,000 students in 1,600 global projects over 28 years  50% of undergraduates have international experience, more than 70% off-campus  Full financial aid, free passport

55. “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

56. WPI Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division