2.  10:30 State of the Department: Statistics, Ed Object, ABET  11:30 Lunch w/Students  1:00 Faculty Discussion  Wrap-up: Recs for 2009, Actions, and Ownership  Adjourn Fall 2009 ChE Advisory Board Mtg. December 4, 2009

3. Dr. Thomas Engler PhD - Petroleum Engineering Oklahoma Dr. Bob Bretz PhD - Bioengineering Texas A&M University Dr. Corey Leclerc PhD - Chemical Engineering University of Minnesota Dr. Michaelann Tartis PhD - Biomedical Engineering University of California - Davis Dr. Mike Riley PhD - Chemical Engineering NC State Dr. Tom Bickel PhD. Chemical Engineering University of Texas at Austin Dr. Doug Dunston MS Physics - Cal Berkeley DMA - Music - Claremont Dr. Mark Cal PhD - Environmental Engineering University of Illinois Dr. Robert Lee PhD. Chemical Engineering University of Michigan Dr. John McCoy PhD. Physical Chemistry University of Pennsylvania Mr. Seth Price MS – Materials Engineering New Mexico Tech Active Adjunct and Part Time Faculty Chemical Engineering Faculty & Staff Also: Ahmed Hasan (IERA) and Said El-Nashaie (Univ. of Sinai)

4. Undergraduate Enrollment TOTAL UG NON-ENG ENGINEERING

5. UG Enrollments ChemE is in top echelon of enrollments but has a fraction of the faculty support

6. Campus UG / FTE Ratios

7. Trends in Freshmen Enrollment Trends clearly indicate that ChemE will have roughly the same number of students as EE, Physics, and BIOL with less than half of the faculty support 7 7 9 6 3.5 FTE

8. Administrative Support Financial Balance, water purifier, and function generator = $25k

9. Space resources also limit potential in ChemE

10. Research Output Presentations (Nat. Conf.) – 0 Invited Talks – 1 Publications - 0 Proposal $’s – $380k+$80k+$115k Grad students (5yr,MS,PhD,PD) –2,2,2,1 Proposals (submitted/awarded) – 5/1

11. Student Accomplishments 2009 Brown Award – Peter Valdez Macey Scholar – Caitlyn Allen 3 Student Presentations at AIChE All 9 May grads have jobs: Lehigh, LANL, Nuclear Safety, NAVAIR, Chevron, Phillips-Conoco, David Meyers, NMT, Michigan

12. Recommended Actions: Department for 2009 1. Carry Over: Develop a 5 year (long term) plan Owner: Faculty NOT MET – tabled for a later time 2. Start-up annual fund raising effort for department endowment Owner: Faculty/IAB Alumni have been e-mailed as needs arise 3. Offer technical electives/graduate courses Owner: Faculty Riley – Fuel Cell Tech Fall 2009, Leclerc – Cat. Characteriz. Fall 2009, Tartis – Biomedical Eng. Spring 2010 4. Connect AIChE with three facilities to tour Owner: Faculty/IAB CEHMS – algae grower, ??, ?? 5. Reach out to alumni and new companies in New Mexico to become involved in the development and direction of the program. Owner: Board Invited Jason Harper to join IAB

13. Recommended Actions: Department for 2010 1. Update all safety related items in the department for research and teaching Owner: Faculty/IAB 2. Solicit donations/gifts from alumni Owner: Faculty 3. Identify another potential board member Owner: Faculty 4. Hold an alumni event (AIChE get together, 49’ers barbecue, M Mtn Run) Owner: Faculty

14. Educational Objectives

16. Recommended Actions: Educational Objectives for 2009 1.Overhaul/organize long term assessment plan (Owner: Faculty) IN PROGRESS 2.Evaluate senior design presentation with quantitative results (Owner: Faculty and IAB) – DONE (must evaluate the evaluation tool) 3.Re-evaluate use and value of FE Exam results (Owner: Faculty) DONE – plan to use 2 year moving averages and monitor slope of curve, reconnected with S. Alabama to obtain their data 4.Set-up annual review of alumni and graduates (Owner: Faculty) DONE – surveys out to 0,1,3 year grads 5.Review curriculum, i.e. evaluate pre-requisites, tech electives, coverage of learning outcomes (Owner: Faculty) IN PROGRESS – added tech electives, ES pre-reqs under review, learning outcomes identified for each course, must evaluate CHE pre-reqs

17. Recommended Actions: Educational Objectives for 2010 1.Articulate long term assessment plan for Spring meeting (Owner: Faculty) 2.Prepare self-study for ABET (Owner: Faculty) 3.Increase unit-ops labs by 1 (Owner: Riley/Price) 4.Complete feasibility study to include safety in outcomes or objectives (Owner: Faculty)