1. New Advisory Board Member Orientation October 21, 2004 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. 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.

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

7. WPI Degree Requirements  The Major Qualifying Project  The Interactive Qualifying Project  The Sufficiency  Social Sciences  Departmental Distribution Requirements  Physical Education

8. WPI’s Global Project Program Paul Davis Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Advisory Boards, 21 October 2004

9. Overview  Global –500 students per year at 23 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

10. History (McDonald’s style) 3,000,000,000,000,000 students 1,000,000,000,000,000 projects

11. History Beginning in Washington 30 years ago, 5,500 WPI students have completed 1,700 off-campus projects

12. Impact

13. Project centers and programs  Hong Kong, PRC  Bangkok, Thailand  Melbourne, Australia  NASA Goddard  NASA Glenn  NASA Johnson  Limerick, Ireland  London, UK  San Jose, Costa Rica  Venice, Italy  Gallo Winery, CA  Budapest, Hungary  Washington, DC  Wall St., New York  Worcester, MA  Silicon Valley  Nancy, France  Madrid, Spain  Boston, MA  Copenhagen, Denmark  San Juan, Puerto Rico  Windhoek, Namibia  Lincoln Laboratory

14. Project centers and programs

15. Recognition WPI: One of Ten Institutions Honored for Exemplary Internationalization, 2002-2003 Theodore M. Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence, 2003 for “The WPI Global Perspective Program”

16. Recognition Association of American Colleges and Universities recognized WPI as one of its sixteen Leadership Institutions, for “its vision and program as an exemplary way of infusing liberal and global studies into pre-professional education.” 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

17. 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)

18. Impact on Thai village of power plant

19. What clogs the canals of Venice?

20. 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

21. “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

22. WPI Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division

23. Engineering Enrollments (Fall ‘04) BE CEE CM ECE FPE ME

24. Science Enrollments (Fall ‘04) BB CHBC CS MA PH 10/02

25. Other Enrollments (Fall ‘04) SSPS HU&A Inter MG EN 10/02

26. Undergraduate Enrollment by Category

27. Student Course & Project Units

28. Sponsored Program Activity Awards Received 93 128 122

29. Sponsored Program Activity Applications Submitted 204 230 207

30. Extramural Support for Academic Sponsored Programs ORA is the Office of Research Administration – Includes Federal agencies, industry contracts, some foundations. CFR is the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations – Includes Foundation grants and corporate support for education and research. Sponsored Programs: FY04 - Research Center Memberships $ 1,192,000 - Project Center Fees 183,000 - Corporate Sponsored Student Projects 177,000 - Research/Education (ORA) 13,744,000 - Research/Education (CFR) 1,152,000 Gifts: - Corporate In-Kind Support 2,702,000 Total$19,150,000

31. Faculty Hiring 96/971635 97/981143 98/991473 99/001435 00/011404 01/02 511 02/031842 03/04 723 04/051225 Total1112631 Academic New Year Hires Minorities Females

32. Faculty Statistics Base Year– 1998/1999  By 2010/11 –Faculty Additions 203 220+ 221 Underrepresented Minorities 11% 15% 12% Women 13% 25% 18% – Faculty Salaries – Promotion and Tenure Criteria

33. Accreditation  NEASC  AACSB  ABET/CAC

34. Faculty Responsibilities  Teaching  Scholarship  Service

35. 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

36. Gateway Research Park and the WPI Bioengineering Institute William W. Durgin Associate Provost for Academic Affairs Vice President for Research Advisory Board Meeting Thursday, October 21, 2004

37. Bioengineering “The application of engineering principles to problems in biology and medicine …combines biology, the other sciences, mathematics and various engineering areas into a synthetic whole.” Robert M. Nerem in “The Bridge”

38. Opportunities for Faculty and Students  Laboratories  Collaboration  Funding  Technology Transfer  Start-up Companies

39. Regional Economic Development  Economic Summits  Regional Strengths/Resources  Bioengineered Products  Building a Cluster  Forming a New Industry

40. BEI Launched  Promote job creation and economic vitality  Convert research discoveries into new products and companies  Conduct research and development  Tap the regional intellectual capital  Invoke the innovation process

41. BEI Mission  Conduct pre-commercial R&D  Maintain a regional biomedical technology innovation network  Apply appropriate incubation practices to new medical technology companies

42. BEI Structure  Director and Staff –Timothy Gerrity (Director) –Grant McGimpsey (Assoc. Dir. For Bus. Dev.) –Elizabeth Stepien (Administrative Assistant)  Four Centers –Center for Untethered Healthcare –Center for Comparative NeuroImaging –Center for Molecular Engineering –Center for Bioprocessing and Tissue Engineering  Medtech Network  Membership Program  Incubation

43. BEI Successes Technical  Sensitive IR oxygen saturation sensors  Portable Ultrasound  Precision Positioning  Novel RF coils for brain and breast MRI  Unique 3-D anatomic imagining algorithms  Additional TATRC funding –Sensor Locations –DREAMS –Ft. Lewis Field Testing Commercial  MedTech network – UMMS, Nypro, Beacon…  New CE program in medtech management  Recognized as medtech commercial innovators by Mass Insight and MassMEDIC

44. WPI Gateway Research Park  Prescott St./Grove St. – Brownfields Reclamation  Joint Partnership – WPI and WBDC  Master Plan  Gateway Park LLC  Marketing – began in earnest July ’03  Need 50% commitment

45. Status of 60-68 Prescott Street  New Laboratory Building & Renovated Manufacturing Building  Preliminary Design  Program for WPI Space  Identification of Compatible Tenants

46. Admissions Office Class of 2008 - (746) California11 Colorado4 Connecticut68 Delaware1 Florida5 Georgia2 Illinois3 Indiana4 Iowa1 Kansas2 Louisiana1 Maine45 Maryland6 Massachusetts333 Minnesota1 Mississippi1 Missouri2 Montana1 New Hampshire72 New Jersey10 New York40 North Carolina2 Ohio3 Oklahoma1 Oregon4 Pennsylvania13 Puerto Rico1 Rhode Island25 Tennessee3 Texas6 Vermont4 Virginia7 Washington4 Foreign Countries60

47. Admissions Office C lass of 2008 (746) Class Rank by Decile. Decile# of Students 1...................................254 2...................................135 3................................... 63 4................................... 31 5................................... 13 6................................... 3 7................................... 2 8................................... 0 9................................... 0 10................................... 0 No Rank.............................245

48. Median SAT Scores Verbal and Math Combined

49. Global Perspective Program Enrollment WPI has sent over 5000 students off-campus since 1974 50% of graduates have an international experience * Projected enrollment 2004-2005

50. 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

51. Challenges Facing WPI  Reputation (e.g.: USNews, NRC, etc.)  Increasing Access to Under- Represented Populations  Maintaining Laboratory Currency  Academic Space

52. 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

53. Degrees Awarded - FY 04 Master’s Degrees (Includes M.S., M.B.A., M. Eng., MME)293 Ph.D. 17 TOTAL 310

54. Graduate Degrees Awarded 10/02

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

56. Graduate Enrollment for Fall 2004  Full-time Graduate Students431  Part-time Degree Seeking355  Part-time Non-Degree Seeking 193 TOTAL 979