OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY



College of Engineering

ACADEMIC REPORT FOR 2007-2008

2007-2008 Highlights

The College of Engineering supports the OSU Mission through its quest to deliver one of the nation’s top 25 engineering programs to Oregon. OSU Engineering is now 38th and on par with Michigan State University measured by a weighted composite of degrees and research expenditures. This same measure places us 21st among land grant schools and our focus on impact will elevate OSU Engineering to join the group of thirteen other land grant engineering programs that are among the nation’s top-25[1]. A top-25 engineering school located in Oregon will help the state, the Pacific Northwest, and the nation remain globally competitive by delivering the world’s best engineering talent and breakthrough ideas helping to grow prosperity for all Oregonians.

We are making progress in improving programs for students and faculty and achieved some unexpected measurable results during 2007-2008: we exceeded our commitments to ETIC in research revenue ($29M actual vs. $28M plan) and private support ($23M actual vs. $15M plan) yet fell short in total degrees (646 actual vs. 730 plan). The degree short fall, predominantly at the BS level, was unexpected based upon our enrollment trends and is discussed in the metrics section on page 14. Our fund raising success has moved us to $123M since the top 25 initiative was launched in 1999 and to $98M or 71% of our $138M goal during the Campaign for OSU. We also saw substantial increase in commercialization activity with more companies formed and funded than at any time in our history.

1. Programmatic Achievements

a. Student Engagement and Success

Engagement and success activities were directed towards both undergraduate and graduate students. Broadly our activities have focused on recruitment, retention and degree completion through increasing student engagement.

Recruitment

• COE AMBASSADORS. This team of students from all programs plays a lead role in our recruitment and outreach efforts. They have reached nearly 6,000 high school students through focused presentations at Oregon high schools. They lead nearly 750 high school and middle school students through the Hinsdale Wave Research facility as part of an effort to raise student’s awareness of engineering and computer science. They assisted our Director of Women and Minority in Engineering in providing an overnight engineering camp for 60 high school women and their teachers. The Ambassadors also visited several community colleges in Oregon. Beyond the remuneration, Ambassadors receive training in leadership, presentation, and communication skill development.

• Prospective Student Visit. We implemented a COE Tour program in partnership with the Office of Admissions with greatly expanded opportunities and offerings. Tours are scheduled daily at 2:00 and led by Ambassadors. Visitors tour engineering buildings, laboratories and meet with current students. In 2007-2008, roughly 500 students (frequently with parents and siblings) have participated with nearly 40 percent from outside Oregon.

• Communication Plan. COE in partnership with the Office of Admissions and Printing and Mailing developed and implemented a robust communication plan to improve our contact with prospective students identified either through the traditional application process or through one of the activities described above. The plan sends targeted material and emails on a regular basis with the goal of keeping the prospects informed of COE events and news.

• Scholarship Opportunities. COE now extends scholarship offers equivalent to the Dean’s Scholarships to National Merit Semi-Finalists. These offers result from collaboration with the Honors College and their efforts to attract top students to OSU.

• Pre-College Programs. COE in collaboration with the College of Science provides support in the form of office space and operational resources to the Center for Outreach in Science and Engineering for Youth (COSEY). COSEY programs are in many cases the first contact for K-12 students and their families with OSU. Many students are drawn to engineering and science as a result of the range of available COSEY-related activities including TAG programs, SESEY, and Saturday Academy to name a few.

• Top Students. The number of top students (HS GPA > 3.9 & SAT > 1300) applying to OSU and choosing COE continues to grow rising more than 15 percent in each of the last two years. About 55 to 60 percent of these students matriculate.

• Graduate Student Recruitment.

- The College continues to expand our campus visit program for prospective graduate students with 78 prospects attending this year, a 50 percent increase over last year.

- In collaboration with the Honors College, we implemented the Opportunity Plus scholarship program with the goal of encouraging Honors College students to pursue a graduate degree at OSU. Program results show that nearly twice as many Honors students are staying at OSU to complete a Masters degree as was the case prior to implementation of the program.

- The College entered into an agreement with Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) to increase the number of PhD students. ARCS provides fellowships of $5,000 per year for three years to outstanding students studying in MIME, EECS or NERHP. The first ARCS scholars have been selected and will start their programs in the fall.

- The College successfully recruited a GEM scholar and signed an agreement with GEM (Graduate Engineering and Science Fellowships for Minorities) to accept qualifies minority students for both Master’s and Ph.D. programs. The first GEM scholar will enroll in fall 2008.

Engagement & Retention

Early Engagement

• START PROGRAM. COE continues to assess and improve our unit-level START activities. Student assessments of START are now done on a School/Department level to allow units to focus attention on improving this early contact with students. In addition, we have implemented a “Parent START” session to help parents better understand the College and the transitions their children are going to be experiencing. In an effort to maintain a connection to the parents we have started a subscription-based parental list-serve which will provide parents with updates on College events and important academic dates in their students’ lives.

• ENGR 199. The College developed and will pilot fall 2008 an “Engineering Leadership” course. The one-credit course (two sections of 40 each) begins with an overnight rafting trip during CONNECT week and then follows throughout the term with curriculum modeled on the “U-Engage” course. By design the course is 50 percent women and 50 percent men.

• CONNECT WEEK. Our continued assessment of CONNECT week activities has resulted in a scaling back of the engineering specific content to a single day. All incoming students met key faculty and administration, participating in a variety of networking and navigational events cumulating in an ice cream social. Over 700 students participated in events and workshops.

• FALL OPEN HOUSE. COE refined the program open house model for all first year COE students. Schools/ Departments offer evening open house sessions during the second week of term to allow incoming students an opportunity to become familiar with their programs. Most students are required to attend one or more of the open houses through their orientation course.

Retention & Engagement

• Recognition. At the beginning of each term, the College holds a “Scholars” event recognizing pre-engineering students achieving a 3.75 or higher GPA in the previous term. Faculty, staff and administrators attend to congratulate these students on their accomplishment.

• SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION. We have expanded our supplemental instruction offerings for required courses with high attrition (chemistry and physics). Some physics supplemental instruction sessions are exclusively for women.

• Learning Disability Testing. The College established a fund allowing students with financial need to receive testing for learning disabilities at no or low out-of-pocket cost. The Office of Financial Aid and Disability Access Services assisted implementing this program.

• COE ACADEMIC SUCCESS. Academic standing policy was revised to ensure earlier intervention with pro-school students having academic difficulty in pro-school. We better aligned our policies with the University Academic Regulations. We have also developed, with the help of the Academic Success Center, an on-line tutorial for students on University Academic Warning. This represents the beginning of our plan for increased intervention among the pre-engineering population.

• ACADEMIC SUCCESS WORKSHOPS. Students on academic warning with the COE were required to participate in an academic success workshop in partnership with the Academic Success Center and utilizing our COE ambassadors as group leaders.

• UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP & RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES. The MECOP/CECOP programs continue to grow and now include more than 100 companies supporting over 375 students annually. Undergraduate research opportunities are expanding through industrial and College support.

• SPONSORED NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CONFERENCE AND COMPETITION ATTENDANCE. The College continues to support many student team competitions. Our students frequently finish in the top 3 places in their respective competitions and sponsored conference attendance helps link students to their profession and career.

b. Research and Its Impact

• During 2007-8, the College continued to grow ONAMI into a nationally recognized research program. ONAMI collaboration won more than $25M in federal and private research grants and contracts, most involving collaboration among academic partners and PNNL. The Microproducts Breakthrough Institute collaboration between OSU and PNNL is now established in HP’s Building 11 under a 20 year lease for operating and maintenance expenses only. The Legislature subsequently approved the use of $9.5M of bonding to complete improvements for the MBI component of ONAMI. These improvements will be initiated in 2008.

• The College Energy Systems Research Cluster combines alternative energy programs, including nuclear, ocean, bio, wind, etc. into a more powerful consortium. This cluster has two powerful engagement activities: wave energy generator and small scale nuclear power generator, as noted below. A proposal to develop a National Wave Energy Center was submitted in June 2008

• The College is committed to identify and implement actions that continue to grow and strengthen collaborative research. While we have not directly implemented explicit measures to strengthen collaborative research, the 2007-8 research results clearly demonstrate that COE researchers collaborate within the College, across the University and with outside researchers.

• The College again offered seed funding for proposal development through a college-wide competitive RFP process. Five proposals were funded at $20,000 each to develop collaboratively-based submittals to national funding agencies. Second-stage will be provided if needed. This approach has been used in the past with great success resulting in the ONAMI enterprise.

• The Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory (including the Tsunami Wave Basin) continues to be a magnet for leading researchers. In January, we were visited by NSF Assistant Director for Engineering, Dr. Richard Buckius, and the Division Director for Civil, Mechanical and Industrial Innovation, Dr. Adnan Akay. They were very complementary about the laboratory as well as other programs discussed with them. In June, the laboratory was visited by a field trip for the Annual meeting of NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, Research and Operations. The NSF Program Director for NEES commented after the visit that, “I thought that the visit to the tsunami wave basin was a real highlight of the meeting – Oregon State is doing an awesome job with that lab”. The laboratory was awarded $1 million this year from NSF to upgrade the wave-maker for the long wave flume.

• Two of our faculty received career awards from the National Science Foundation. Each carrying grant support of $400,000. Vinod Narayanan in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering and Alex Yokochi in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering were recognized for research proposals that could lead to more efficient computer chip cooling and hydrogen production for fuel cells. Engineering professors at OSU have been awarded 16 CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation during the past 10 years.

c. Outreach and Engagement

• The College of Engineering Beaver Open House continues to expand with nearly 600 students and parents in attendance this year. This venue provides an excellent opportunity to showcase our programs and students to high school students and their parents considering engineering schools.

• The COE Engineering Expo showcases the senior design projects of engineering students across all disciplines. This year over 300 students demonstrated more than one hundred projects. More than 1200 visitors including; industry leaders, legislators, the general public and the OSU campus joined the College in celebrating the success of our graduating seniors.

• The College continues to reach out to middle school students using a variety of venues through COSEY (noted above) and through our sponsorship of the Oregon Math Counts competition.

• The College sponsors workshops and round table discussions for high school counselors and community college engineering contacts to strengthen our relationships with these important groups and to establish better communication changes in College policy.

• The College continues to invite key State Legislators to campus to showcase our successes.

d. Community and Diversity

• The College is committed to developing a formal mentoring plan for junior faculty. The program was implemented in EECS specifically around the topic of developing leadership skills, but has not yet been expanded to the other programs nor has the plan been broadened to include topics on promotion and tenure.

• The College supports a number of activities improve the sense of community and to promote diversity among current and prospective students

- SUPPORT FOR DIVERSE STUDENT GROUPS. NSBE, SHPE, SWE. Provided funding for attendance to both regional and national conferences for students.

- SPONSORED MONTHLY “LUNCH & LEARN”. Topics of interest to female and underrepresented engineering students.

- RECRUITING EVENTS FOR DIVERSE STUDENTS The College participated in several recruiting events including Kaleidoscope, Latino Beaver Open House, and off-site admission events.

- COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENTS such as Discovery Days, Family Science Evenings, da Vinci Days, Math, Science, Technology conference for middle school girls, SMILE engineering challenge.

- ENGINEERING WEEK EVENTS on-campus and off-campus focused on outreach. Presentations in Portland and south coast.

e. International-level Activities and Accomplishments

The college is developing an international strategy. The overarching college goal is to create the best work-ready engineers. This means that they know the fundamentals and practice of their disciplines, have the skills to successfully collaborate in innovation, and have the knowledge and skills to succeed in the global economy. Our goal is that every OSU Engineer is capable in these dimensions. The goal for our International Strategy is that all of our students achieve Global Competency and they are able to succeed in organizations that cross borders and cultures. Strategies discussed by our college leadership and to be developed in 2008-09 are:

• Include content in orientation sequences & seminars

• Lobby for changes in the Baccalaureate Core that better support international experiences

• Integrating a global experience into capstone activities

• Develop international MECOP opportunities

• Develop Study Tours linked to courses

• Encourage undergraduates to pursue a minor to gain an international perspective, such as Asian Studies

• Develop a Global Leadership track for Masters degrees

• Work at OSU level to develop a International certificate program which fits our students better than the International degree

The top four regions of the world for our college are: India, China, SE Asia and Europe. The top issues that are relevant for our faculty and students are: Water, Energy, Sustainable Development and Tsunamis.

Some highlights among our international activities in 2007-08 are as follows:

• Scott Ashford Head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Assoc. Prof Steve Dickenson, and PhD student Yohsuke Kawamata, joined an NSF-sponsored reconnaissance team in Japan to survey damage and collect perishable information after an earthquake at Niigata-Chuetsu Oki on July 16, 2007.

• Chris Bell, Associate Dean, represented OSU on a recruiting trip to India. As a result of a visit to IIT Kanpur he made contact with Dr R.C. Malhotra (BSCE 1956) who was formerly Director of IIT Kanpur. Chris also visited Thailand, participated in a recruiting fair, visited Chulalongkorn University, and, met with alumni. Faculty at Chulalongkorn are collaborating with faculty in Ocean Engineering at OSU to develop their expertise on tsunamis.

• The School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering will offer a dual bachelors degree programs in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering by teaming with Universitaet des Saarlandes in Germany and Lulea University of Technology in Sweden. This innovative, trans-Atlantic initiative will create engineers with global perspectives and experience. The program provides travel stipends for U.S. students to spend their junior year in Europe, studying at both LTU and UdS. U.S. students will meet their European counterparts and begin collaborative academic work together with a significant portion of their interactions and lectures in German and/or Swedish. During the senior year, both the U.S. and European students will travel to the U.S. to complete their senior year at OSU. Students who complete the program will receive two bachelor degrees in the four year program; a BS in Mechanical Engineering from OSU, and a BS in Materials Science from either UdS or LTU.

• The School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has developed a collaboration with the Berufsakademie Ravensburg in Germany. Student teams at each university are using Distributed Collaborative Design processes to design their respective Formula SAE racecars for completion in the US and Europe. The goal for next year is to develop a single design and build two cars for the competitions, with 50 team members at the two universities. The teams collaborate using weekly teleconferences, e-mail, a Facebook group, and, they use Product Data Management techniques. A long term goal is to extend this type of international collaboration to senior design projects throughout the school. Bob Paasch is the faculty advisor for this activity, and, Thomas Nickel (PhD, ME, OSU 1999) is the  advisor for Berufsakamie.

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• The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is developing a summer study tour program to India and China that will enable students to experience culture and engineering practices in these rapidly developing global powers.

• Although the quantity of our international graduate students has declined in recent years, the quality is very high, with many of them coming from the best universities in Asia. Our recruiting activities are concentrating on maintaining high quality by focusing on universities, where we have strong connections, whose students have done well at OSU in the past.

• The number of international undergraduate students rose to 99 this year, the highest total since 2003-04. The number of international graduate students was 229, comparable with enrollments for the prior 3 years, but lower than the average for the prior 5 years which was slightly over 300.

f. Other Initiatives

• LABORATORY UPGRADES. As part of the current ETIC plan, the College is investing $9.5 M in laboratory upgrades and equipment through certificates of participation (COP). The certificates are effectively bonds that require repayment over the life of the capital investment. To date approximately $1.4M in equipment has been purchased. Roughly $6M in laboratory upgrades have been completed or are under design. Several renovated research labs in Graf, Owen, Dearborn, Rogers and Gleeson Halls are complete or underway. The Hinsdale Wave Research Facility offices will be significantly expanded and modifications will be made to the wave flume to accommodate the new wave maker.

• COMMERCIALIZATION. The College has significantly increased the impact of our research through more effective commercialization. During the past four years, 11 new companies have been founded. Examples include:

- RedRover Software: Martin Erwig and Margaret Burnett developed error-checking software for spreadsheets that could save businesses and other organizations billions of dollars. RedRover Software has licensed the program for commercial distribution.

- NuScale Power: Brian Woods is a co-inventor of a small-scale nuclear power plant. Featuring a modular nuclear reactor core and the latest concepts in passive safety, each power plant would produce 45 megawatts of power — enough for about 45,000 homes — and could be transported via truck, railcar or barge to wherever it’s needed. NuScale Power is working on commercializing the technology and is also working with local companies on fabricating components for the power plant.

- NanoBits: Alex Chang is collaborating with researchers from the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) on a new microreactor technology to produce nanoparticles for drug delivery. He is one of the founders of NanoBits, which is working on commercializing the technology.

- Columbia Power Technologies: Research by Annette von Jouanne, Ted Brekken and their graduate students has resulted in a new buoy power generator that can turn the power of ocean waves into clean, renewable, low-impact electrical energy. Their work launched a partnership with Columbia Power Technologies, a wave energy company with R&D sites in Oregon and Virginia.

• INVENTION DISCLOSURES. The college filed 39 invention disclosures in 2007-08. This is more than a 50 percent increase over any of the previous five years.

2. Self Assessment

|Focus Area |Worked Well |Needs Improvement |Major Barriers |

|Student Engagement and |COE Ambassadors have supported a wide |Tracking of student retention data |The number of students and available |

|Success |variety of engagement and success |remains a challenge yet these data are |resources preclude a robust academic |

| |activities. |essential to successful intervention. |success program for pre-engineering |

| |Internship programs (e.g., MECOP) are |While the number of top student |students which we believe would improve |

| |valued by students, parents and |applicants to engineering continues to |retention. |

| |industry. |increase, the yield of these students |Continuation/expansion of ENGR 199 will |

| |Opportunity Plus has effectively doubled|remains fairly constant. |require additional resources from the |

| |the number of OSU Honors students | |University. |

| |continuing on at OSU to pursue an | | |

| |engineering graduate degree. | | |

|Research Impact |ONAMI remains an excellent example of |Managing potential conflicts of interest|National research funding in several |

| |successful collaboration across multiple|have been initially challenging. |areas important to the College have been|

| |institutions and the private sector. | |significantly reduced. |

| |We have seen a significant increase in | | |

| |the commercialization of research | | |

| |results. | | |

|Outreach and Engagement |Improvements to Beaver Open House and |Degree Partnership Programs help |The Engineering Expo outgrown the Kelley|

| |the Engineering Expo have significantly |students transfer to COE, but |Engineering Center and onto the |

| |increased our community outreach and |additional, focused conversations with |surrounding lawns and plazas. |

| |engagement. |CC engineering advisors & faculty would |Additional growth in needed but cannot |

| | |be beneficial. |be easily accommodated. |

|Community and Diversity |Some COE programs approach 50 percent |COE must recruit more URM and women into|Implementing a formal faculty mentorship|

| |women (e.g., BioE). |our programs. |program across the College has proven |

| |Support of undergraduate student groups | |difficult. |

| |has improved the sense of community | |National trends have made recruiting |

| |across the College. | |women to ECE and CS very difficult. |

|International Activities|Recruiting students from top schools and|Increasing the quantity of high quality |The best international students are very|

| |from schools where we have strong |international students |rankings conscious – we have to work |

| |connections. |Connections with international alumni – |hard to get their attention, using our |

| | |we have improved, but there is a long |connections and focusing on our |

| | |way to go. |strengths. |

|Other Initiatives |We have seen a significant increase in |Managing potential conflicts of interest| |

| |the commercialization of research |have been initially challenging. | |

| |results. | | |

3. Faculty and Student Awards

Many College of Engineering faculty, staff and students have been recognized for their outstanding achievements during the past year. The individuals and groups listed below represent only small portion of total number of awards received during the 2007 – 2008 year.

Faculty

Chih-hung Chang – Sharp Laboratories of Americas Scholar

Goran Jovanovich – Life Long Achievement Award, WERC-Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development

Alex Yokochi – NSF CAREER Award

Brian Woods – Elected to Executive Committee of the Thermal Hydraulic Division, American Nuclear Society

Steven R. Reese – Elected to Executive Committee of the Operations and Power Division, American Nuclear Society

Kathryn Higley – Fellow, Health Physics Society

Toni Doolen – Lead author, Best Paper Award, IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Engineering Management Track

Vinod Narayanan – NSF CAREER award

Bill Warnes, David Cann, Brady Gibbons, and Jamie Kruzic – EU-U.S. ATLANTIS Program Grant Awardees with Saarland University (Germany), and Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Sweden)

Tom Dietterich – Named AAAS Fellow

Annette von Jouanne – International Ocean Energy Conference Ocean Energy Pioneer Award

Andreas Weisshaar – Appointed NSF Program Director

Students

First place in the Second Annual University Rover Challenge held by the Mars Society

Awarded Texas Instrument’s Engineers’ Choice Award at the company’s Analog University Program Design Contest - Kevin Kemper, Paul Filitchkin, Mohsen Nasroullahi

IBM Ph.D. Scholarship - Joey Lawrance

2008 Baja SAE International Competition (Peoria, Illinois): 1st place in Design and Presentation; 2nd place in Autodesk Design Communication and Maneuverability; and 2nd place overall.

1st place, Oregon Chapter of ASM International Student Presentation Competition; Presentation title: “Micromechanisms of Fracture in Resin Based Dental Restorative Composites.” Minalben Shah (Candidate for PhD in Materials Science)

Best Paper Award runner-up, ASME International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering. Paper title: “Comparison of Mixing Approaches in the Synthesis and Deposition of Ceria Nanoparticles.” Chih-Heng “Tom” Tseng (Candidate for PhD in IE) with coauthor Brian K. Paul.

NERHP Design Project Awards

1st Place “Helical Coil Stem Generator Design” David Litz and Justin Murty

2nd Place “Separation of Actinides and Fission Products in UREX Process”, Cosmas Samaritis, Kevin Smyth, David Gibson

3rd Place “AP 1000 Containment Air Flow Visualization Tests and CFD Simulation”, Ian Bynum, Juan Sanchez, Nicholas Takeuchi

Results and Outcomes

1. Performance Metrics

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|ETIC Metrics |FY 08 Goals |FY 08 Actual |

|BS Degrees |565 |493 |

|Masters Degrees |135 |127 |

|Ph.D. Degrees |30 |26 |

|Research Expenditures |$28M |$28.9M |

|Private Support (gifts and Research grants) |$15M |$23M |

The College did not meet our ETIC-based goals for graduates falling well short of the goal for Baccalaureate degrees. Our professional school admissions for previous three years together with the total professional school numbers would predict a modest decline from the average of the last two years (roughly 590) of about 30. This would lead to approximately 560 graduates rather than the 493 shown. We believe this is an anomaly and that these students will graduate in FY09. The number of MS degrees is rising (FY07 = 106) principally due to an increase in MBE and MEngr degrees. We plan to continue to promote these opportunities to increase the number of Masters degrees awarded by the College. The College has approximately 220 Ph.D. students and one would expect approximately 40 graduates per year under steady state condition (assuming five years to complete the degree). However many of our faculty are relatively early in their careers and are only beginning to support PhD students thus reducing the number of graduates. We expect this to change in the coming years.

The College did very well on research expenditures, slightly exceeding our goal. Private support was excellent, exceeding our goal by more than 50 percent.

2. Leverage Initiatives

The Engineering and Technology Industry Council (ETIC), the State Board of Higher Education, the Governor and the Legislature are very supportive of our proposal to provide additional positive impacts on the State through increased faculty hires leading to more research and engineering/computer science graduates. ETIC funding for the COE in the 2007 – 2009 biennium more than doubled over the prior biennium ($19.5M compared to $9.4M).

Approximately $9.5M of the $19.5M ETIC support noted above was allocated through certificates of participation (COP) directed toward laboratory equipment and facility upgrades. To date, commitments have been made for roughly $1.4M in equipment and $6M in laboratory upgrades.

Hewlett-Packard recognizes the strength of the ONAMI collaboration and agreed to grant OSU a long-term lease of Building 11 on the local HP campus. The lease agreement allows OSU to occupy the nearly 80,000 square feet facility at the cost of operations and maintenance. A project is under design which will provide laboratory infrastructure for the entire facility and additional functional labs totaling approximately 25,000 square feet at a cost of $9.5M.

Contributions from College alumni and friends will allow the Apperson to Kearney Hall renovation to be completed this calendar year using 100 percent private money. The Kresge Foundation contributed $850,000 in matching funds towards the renovation of Kearney Hall. When complete, the project will provide a state-of-the-art home for the School of Civil and Construction Engineering.

The College of Engineering ended FY08 with $21M in private commitments, well ahead of our $13M objective for FY08. To date, the College of Engineering has secured 71% of its capital campaign goal of $138M, receiving commitments totaling $97.5M.

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[1] US News Rankings of Best Graduate Schools: Top Engineering Schools, 2008.

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