WPI Highlights Advisory Board Meeting October 14 2005

WPI Highlights Advisory Board Meeting October 14, 2005 Carol Simpson Provost & Senior Vice President

WPI Highlights • Newsworthy Items • • • Student and Faculty “stars” New Faculty Hires New Initiatives New Facilities Priorities for Next 5 years 2

WPI Highlights MBA Program Ranked No. 3 Nationally for "Greatest Opportunities for Women” - in the Princeton Review's "Best 237 Business Schools” Ranked 53 rd in U. S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2006 issue - out of 248 national universities Ranked 19 th – Most Students Studying Abroad - out of Top 100 schools in the country in U. S. News & World Report 2006 Ranked 37 th Great School, Great Prices - in the U. S. News & World Report 2006 3

Emphasis Areas • Research Excellence • Graduate Education • Centers of Excellence • Technology Transfer • Undergraduate Education • Interdisciplinary Collaboration 4

WPI Student Honors Marshall Scholar: Ian Bonzani ('04), biomedical engineering • Awarded to just 40 out of 1, 000 nominees nationwide – to study tissue engineering in Great Britain Goldwater Scholars: Ravi Srinivasan ('04), Mathematics and Physics – to study the earth's ocean-atmosphere system Ann C. Skulas ('05), Chemistry – to study nanotechnology 5

Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005 Ø$2 M FY 2004+2005 to date: Diran Apelian (Metals Processing Institute; ME) 6

Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005 Ø$2 M FY 2004+2005 to date: Diran Apelian (Metals Processing Institute; ME) CUTH (ECE+BME faculty group) Bill Michalson Yitzhak Mendelson Pedersen John Orr (Digital Signal Processing, ECE) 7

Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005 Ø$1 M FY 2004+2005 to date: Yi- (Ed) Hua Ma (Center for Inorganic Membrane Studies, Chemical Engineering) Ryszard (Rich) Pryputniewicz (Mechanical Engineering) 8

Some Notable Faculty Achievements in 2005 Ø$1 M FY 2004+2005 to date: Yi- (Ed) Hua Ma (Center for Inorganic Membrane Studies, Chemical Engineering) Ryszard (Rich) Pryputniewicz (Mechanical Engineering) Other Honors Include: Gretar Tryggvason The 2005 Computational Mechanics Award of the JSME Steven C. Bullock NEH Research Fellowship “David A. Lucht Lamp of Knowledge Award” by SFPE for significant contributions to the advancement of higher education Erwin Danneels The Thomas P. Husted award for the best paper published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management Bogdan Vernescu Member of Honor of the Romanian Academy Institute of Mathematics 9

Faculty Honors Fulbright Scholars Steven C. Bullock, Humanities and Arts Mikhail Dimentberg, Mechanical Engineering David B. Dollenmayer, Humanities and Arts Michael B. Elmes, Management Jeffrey Forgeng, Humanities and Arts Karen Lemone, Computer Science Konstantin A. Lurie, Mathematical Sciences Eric W. Overström, Biology and Biotechnology Kaveh Pahlavan, Electrical and Computer Engineering Elke A. Rudensteiner, Computer Science John Zeugner, Humanities and Arts 10

NSF CAREER Awards - last 3 years • Donald Brown, “Cooperative Communication Systems: Resource Allocation, Self-Organization, and Synchronization, ” 2005 • Neil Heffernan, “Learning about Learning, ” 2005 • Jennifer Wilcox, “On the Prevention of Selenium & Arsenic Release into the Atmosphere, ” 2005 11

NSF CAREER Awards - last 3 years • Donald Brown, “Cooperative Communication Systems: Resource Allocation, Self-Organization, and Synchronization, ” 2005 • Neil Heffernan, “Learning about Learning, ” 2005 • Jennifer Wilcox, “On the Prevention of Selenium & Arsenic Release into the Atmosphere, ” 2005 • Terri Anne Camesano, “Molecular-Scale Interactions Between Microbes and Surfaces in the Environment, ” 2003 • Nikolaos Kazantzis, “Robust Digital Model-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Nonlinear Processes, ” 2002 • Kathryn Fisler, “A Computational Infrastructure for Timing Diagrams in Computer-Aided Verification, ” 2002 • Berk Sunar, “New Directions for Cryptographic Hardware, ” 2002 WPI now has 19 NSF CAREER awardees 12

New Faculty Hires - 2005 Robert W. Lindeman - Computer Science – Human Computer Interaction, with IMGD Mattias Nilsson – Management – Corporate Finance Reeta Prusty – Biology and Biotechnology – Genomics Research Joshua Rosenstock – Humanities and Arts – Artist, with Interactive Media and Game Development Susan Zhou – Chemical Engineering – Science of Miniaturization 13

New Academic Initiatives • New Master of Science Degrees in: – Systems Engineering – Information Technology – Operations Design and Leadership • New Bachelor of Science Degrees in: – Aerospace Engineering – Electrical & Computer Engineering – Interactive Media & Game Development • First of Its Kind in Combining Artistic and Technical Concentrations – System Dynamics 14

New Academic Initiatives • Proposal for a Bachelor of Arts degree in discussion • Faculty Commissions on Curriculum Development • Insight advising and Project-based Learning Community in the first year • Massachusetts Mathematics and Science Partnership • Certificate in College Teaching being offered for graduate students and adjuncts • Teacher Licensing for undergraduates in mathematics and the sciences • Fire Protection Engineering now a full academic department 15

Physical Facilities Construction completed in 04/05 Reconstruction of the freshmen chemistry laboratories into modern, completely equipped facilities with • • With funding support from the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, and WPI Trustee John La. Mattina 16

Physical Facilities Construction completed in 04/05 Reconstruction of the freshmen chemistry laboratories into modern, completely equipped facilities with • • With funding support from the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, and WPI Trustee John La. Mattina • Renovation of 5 major lecture halls to state-of-the-art facilities • Upgrade to the residential network 17

Construction almost completed Little Theatre renovations 18

Construction in progress Bartlett Center - Admissions and Financial Aid - a 16, 500 sq. ft. “green building” Through the generosity of James and Shirley Bartlett 19

$40 M Life Sciences Research Building at Gateway Park 3 blocks from the main campus Construction begun scheduled move-in Jan ‘ 07 20

$40 M Life Sciences Research Building at Gateway Park Research faculty from: Biology & Biotechnology Bio-Engineering Institute (BEI) Biomedical Engineering Chemistry & Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering 21

Priorities for the Next 5 Years • Increasing Sponsored Research • Enhancing Academic Reputation • Increasing Entrepreneurship Activity • Improving Diversity, Especially in Students and Faculty in Sciences and Engineering • New and Expanded Sports and Recreation Facility • Renovations to Goddard and Salisbury Halls • Admissions/Recruiting - Undergraduate and Graduate 22