Fast Facts

FAST FACTS
2012-2013

Students
2012 Enrollment by Department

	Undergraduate	Master's	Doctoral	Total
Biological and Agricultural Engineering	77	10	9	96
Biomedical Engineering	109	9	1	119
Chemical Engineering	221	3	24	248
Civil Engineering	268	26	17	311
Computer Science Computer Engineering	335	30	25	390
Electrical Engineering	223	38	45	306
Industrial Engineering	205	15	33	253
Mechanical Engineering	469	8	12	489
Freshman Engineering	809			809
Master of Science in Engineering		41		41
Master of Science in Operations Management		446		446
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering			1	1
Undeclared	33	2		35
Interdisciplinary *		23	28	51
Total	2,749	651	195	3,595

*Includes Cellular and Molecular Biology, Microelectronics-Photonics and Space and Planetary Sciences

Percentage of undergraduates that are women: 19.6

Faculty

2012 Faculty by Department

	Undergraduate	Undergraduate to Faculty Ratio
Biological and Agricultural Engineering	9	9:1
Biomedical Engineering	6	18:1
Chemical Engineering	17	13:1
Civil Engineering	17	16:1
Computer Science Computer Engineering	15	22:1
Electrical Engineering	20	11:1
Industrial Engineering	17	12:1
Mechanical Engineering	20	23:1

Academics

Students can choose from nine different undergraduate and 29 graduate degree programs:

• Biological Engineering: BSBE, MSBE, MSE, PhD
• Biomedical Engineering: BSBME, MSBME, PhD 
• Chemical Engineering: BSChE, MSChE, MSE, PhD
• Civil Engineering: BSCE, MSCE, MSTE, MSE, PhD
• Computer Science: BS, MS, PhD
• Computer Engineering: BSCmpE, MSCmpE., MSE, PhD
• Electrical Engineering: BSEE, MSEE, MSE, PhD
• Environmental Engineering: MSEnE
• Industrial Engineering: BSIE, MSIE, MSE, PhD
• Mechanical Engineering: BSME, MSME, MSE, PhD
• Microelectronics-Photonics: MS, PhD
• Operations Management: MSOM
• Transportation Engineering: MSTE

Incoming engineering student average ACT: 27.6
Incoming engineering student average High School GPA: 3.7

Research

Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Bioprocess engineering for phytonutrients; biotechnology engineering; food processing, quality, and safety; biosensors for food safety and health; biocatalyic potential of microbes; bio-nanotechnology remote sensing and site-specific agriculture; poultry litter conversion for thermal energy; agricultural waste management; non-point source pollution engineering; ecological engineering; water quality and quantity management; watershed modeling; sustainability engineering; nutrient transport at various spatial and temporal scales; air emissions and mitigation; bioenergy and bio-based products; geospatial technologies; biomedical engineering; nanotechnology applications; tissue engineering; biomaterials; physiological modeling for disease prevention.

Chemical Engineering
Membrane separations, chemical and biochemical separations, bio-separations, biomaterials, mathematical modeling, chemical hazard assessment, petro-chemical processes, sustainability, supercritical fluid technologies, biomolecular nanophotonics, computational characterization, planetary surface characterization, environmental fate of chemicals.

Civil Engineering
Transportation facility, planning, design, operation and management; water/wastewater and wetlands research; computational mechanics and structural modeling; construction materials. Environmental site remediation; geotechnical slope stability and monitoring; non-destructive testing techniques.

Computer Science & Computer Engineering
Electronic circuits for space and aero-space applications, RFID information security, embedded systems, low power digital systems, hardware/software co-design, trustable logic circuit design, image processing, multicore architectures, network and database security, combinatorial optimization, computer forensics, Web search, ontology construction, pervasive and mobile computing, high-performance computing, multimedia applications, virtual worlds and grid computing.

Electrical Engineering
Advanced materials technologies for multichip module and packaging of microelectronics; battery chargers for electric vehicles based on silicon carbide devices; low-power asynchronous ICs; better detection tools for breast cancer; terahertz antennas; development of amorphous silicon solar cells on flexible substrates for space application; development of polymer-based solar cells on flexible substrates for power grid applications; energy storage systems for the power grid; fault current limiters for distribution systems; nanotechnology-based sensors for medical applications; power electronics packaging; nanoparticle detection scheme for immuno and DNA assay in microfluidic devices; immuno impedance biosensor for rapid detection of pathogens in poultry samples; sensor networks; organic electronics; silicone microprobe system development; wireless sensor and network control; highway collision warning technology; development of a new automotive chassis control actuator; through-wafer Interconnects for future electronic devices; three-dimensional packaging technology; modeling silicon carbide devices; algorithms and tools for automatic behavioral model generation; rad-hard, high-voltage-bias circuitry for a MEMS microgyroscope; model building tools for VTB; mixed-signal and linear design and test research; IGERT: a new era in electronics education; Center for Ferroelectric Electronic-Photonic Nano Devices; undergraduate research on nanodevices REU Site; mixed-signal and linear microelectronics; innovative microwave imaging system for breast cancer detection; optical properties of III-V semiconductor quantum wells and superlattices; infrared applications of III-nitride quantum dots; undergraduate research on wireless sensor networks.

Industrial Engineering
International trade and transportation, intelligent systems, logistic systems analysis and design, material flow design and improvement, transportation systems modeling, transportation safety, supply chain modeling, sustainability engineering, operations research, quality and reliability engineering, ergonomics, healthcare engineering, engineering management.

Mechanical Engineering
Materials processing, nano surface engineering of materials, micro/nano tribological studies of hard coatings, atomistic simulations of interface structure-property relationships, thermodynamic modeling of metastable phases, synthesis of carbon nanotubes, atomic layer deposition of conformal nano-scale coatings and laser processing. HVAC systems, MEMS devices, molecular motors and packaging, plasma processing and diagnostics, energy systems, high performance buildings, building energy simulation, industrial energy conservation, spacecraft systems and simulations, and sustainability.

Funding

FY2011 Research Expenditures by External Funding Source

	Amounts
Federal & national government contracts	$8,524,303
State government contracts	$6,989,009
Foreign Government	$18,643
Local government grants and contracts
Business and industrial grants, contracts, and gifts	$3,064,201
Private non-profit organizations grants, contracts, and gifts	$2,309,697
Total	$20,905,853