Department of Mechanical Engineering Annual Report 2015-2016 November 2016 Department Operations Contents DepartmentalDepartmental General General University Budget Budget Department Operations .......................... 2 $12,000,000$12,000,000 Statistics ..................................................... 4 $10,000,000$10,000,000 Undergraduate Program Highlights ..... 6 $8,000,000$8,000,000 Senior Design Projects ........................... 6 Graduate Program Highlights ..............10 $6,000,000$6,000,000 Doctoral Dissertations ..........................10 $4,000,000$4,000,000 Department Organization .....................12 $2,000,000$2,000,000 Research Portfolio .................................29 $0$0 Journal Publications ..............................30 20082008 20092009 20102010 20112011 20122012 20132013 20142014 20152015 20162016 20172017 Fiscal YearFiscal Year Sections or Chapters in Books, Monographs, or Similar Volumes ..........................37 Patents Awarded ....................................38 Conference Proceedings .....................38 Personnel (Full-Time Equivalent) Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty 41.50 Non-Tenure Eligible Lecturers 13.33 P&S and Merit Staff 26.80 Research Sponsors (partial list) American Chemical Society Petro- Department of Justice leum Research Fund Iowa Energy Center American Society of Heating Re- Molecular Express Inc. - DBA Apta- frigerating and Air Conditioning logic Inc. Engineering Inc. NASA Carbon Solutions Inc. National Science Foundation Columbia University Sabic Petrochemicals BV Cornell University Sandia Corporation-Sandia Na- Deere & Company tional Laboratories Department of Agriculture University of California-San Diego Cover Image: Students operate a coordi- nate measurement machine (CMM) in one Department of Defense University of Texas-Austin of the ME labs. Photo by Dan McClanahan. Department of Energy 2 Department Operations PrivateMechanical Giving: Engineering Black-Hilstrom Black-Hilstrom GiftGift Production Production SponsoredSponsored Funding Funding Awards Awards Received Received $250,000250,000.00 $30,000,000$30,000,000 $25,000,000$25,000,000 $200,000200,000.00 $20,000,000$20,000,000 $150,000150,000.00 $15,000,000$15,000,000 $100,000100,000.00 $10,000,000$10,000,000 $50,00050,000.00 $5,000,000$5,000,000 0.00$0 $0$0 20072007 20082008 20092009 20102010* 20112011 20122012 20132013 20142014 20152015 20162016 20072007 20082008 20092009 20102010 20112011 20122012 20132013 20142014 20152015 20162016 Fiscal YearFiscal Year Fiscal YearFiscal Year ResearchResearch Expenditures Expenditures PrivateMechanical Giving: Engineering Total TotalGift Gift Production Production $3,000,0003,000,000 $18,000,000$18,000,000 $16,000,000$16,000,000 $2,500,0002,500,000 $14,000,000$14,000,000 $12,000,000$12,000,000 $2,000,0002,000,000 $10,000,000$10,000,000 $1,500,0001,500,000 $8,000,000$8,000,000 $6,000,000$6,000,000 $1,000,0001,000,000 $4,000,000$4,000,000 $500,000500,000 $2,000,000$2,000,000 $0$0 $00 20062006 20072007 20082008 20092009 20102010 20112011 20122012 20132013 20142014 20152015 20072007 20082008 20092009 20102010 20112011 20122012 20132013 20142014 20152015 20162016 Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Research Named Faculty Positions Journal Papers Published 165 Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering Robert Brown Conference Papers Published 205 Bergles Professor of Thermal Science Sections/Chapters in Books 10 Ted Heindel Patents 8 Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering Robert Brown Doctoral Dissertations 15 Joseph and Elizabeth Anderlik Professor in Engineering Master’s Theses/Projects 19 Judy Vance Larry and Pam Pithan Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jim Oliver Professional Society Fellows Lynn Gleason Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering Caroline Hayes American Society of Mechanical Engineers Schafer 2050 Challenge Professor Robert Brown Jim Oliver Valery Levitas Abhijit Chandra Sriram Sundararajan Caroline Hayes Judy Vance William March Scholar in Mechanical Engineering Ted Heindel Xinwei Wang Sarah Bentil Atul Kelkar Jonathan Wickert 3 ME Statistics Degrees Awarded Undergraduate Enrollment Bachelor’sBachelor's DegreesDegrees Awarded Awarded Undergraduate Enrollment 400400 Ugrad enrollment 2500 350350 2500 300300 2000 250250 1500 200200 150150 1000 100100 500 5050 0 0 00 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 20071 20082 20093 20104 20115 20126 20137 20148 20159 201610 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Academic Year Fall 10-DaySer ies1 Number Fiscal Year Master’sMaster's Degrees Degrees AwardedAwarded Undergraduate Female Enrollment Ugrad Female Enrollment 6060 250250 5050 200200 4040 150150 3030 100100 2020 1010 5050 00 00 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 20071 20082 20093 20104 20115 20126 20137 20148 20159 201610 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Academic Year Fall 10-DaySer ies1 Number M.Eng/M.S. DoctoralDoctoral DegreesDegrees AwardedAwarded UndergraduateUgrad URM Enrollment 2525 250350 300 2020 200 250 1515 150200 150 1010 100 100 5 5 5050 0 00 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 20071 20082 20093 20104 20115 20126 20137 20148 20159 201610 Academic Year Fall 10-Day Number Ph.D. Ser ies1 4 Graduate Enrollment Graduate Program Recruitment Graduategrad enrollment Enrollment CompleteCompleteComplete ApplicationsApplications Applications 300 600 600400 350 250 500 500 300 200 400 400 250 150 300 300200 DomesticDomestic InternationalInternationalInternational 100 200 200150 100 50 100 100 50 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2007 07-0820082006 08-092009 2007201009-10 201110-112008 201211-122009201312-13 201413-142010 201514-152011 201615-16 Fall 10-DaySer ies1Number Academic Year Graduate FemaleChart Title Enrollment Selectivity: Ratio of Complete Graduate 60 ApplicationsSelectivity to Admissions Offers 30.0025 50 25.0020 40 20.00 30 15 15.00 20 10 10.00 10 5.005 0 0 0.000 20071 20082 20093 20104 20115 20126 20137 20148 20159 201610 CY2007 2007 CY2008 2008 CY2009 2009 CY2010 2010 CY2011 2011CY2012 2012 CY2013 2013 CY2014 2014 CY 20152015 CY 2016 Fall 10-DaySer ies1Number Calendar Year Graduate URMgrad Enrollment Conversion: Graduate Admission 2525 Offers toConversion Acceptance Ratio 3.503.5 2020 3.003.0 2.5 1515 2.50 2.002.0 1010 1.501.5 1.001.0 5 0.500.5 0 0.000.0 20071 20082 20093 20104 20115 20126 20137 20148 20159 201610 2007CY 2008CY 2009CY 2010CY 2011CY 2012CY 2013CY 2014CY CY2015 CY2016 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Fall 10-DaySer ies1Number Calendar Year 5 Undergraduate Program Highlights Program Updates Mechanical Engineering has reached a milestone – we are now the largest ME program in the US in terms of number of undergraduate students, with a fall enrollment of nearly 2200 students. As has been the case in recent years, our growth continues to be fueled by a very strong job market for ME students, as well as our Department’s regional reputation as a leader in engineering education. ME students also make up a very significant portion of the overall enrollment at ISU. In fact, the growth of ME accounted for nearly 20% of the enroll- ment growth of the entire University over the past year. However, the true indicator of our success has been the ability of our program to add teaching, laboratory and student advis- ing capacity to keep up with our tremendous growth. Cris Schwartz Associate Chair Recent Developments for Undergraduate We have had the great fortune to hire three new undergraduate program staff members in Studies the past year. Matt Dikeman and Aliza MacKenzie joined our Kiewit Student Services staff as Academic Advisers. Matt has a background in university admissions, while Aliza comes to us with experience in residence life. Like all of our excellent advising staff, they have a rich diversity of background and expertise which our students benefit from. We are also very fortunate to have welcomed Kristin Clemens into her new position as Undergraduate Program Assistant this year. She did an outstanding job in our Graduate Program office, and she draws on a rich background in administrative positions at academic institutions before joining ISU. With Kristin, Aliza and Matt and all of our wonderful staff, the outlook for our undergraduate program is very bright. Senior Design Projects ME 415 - Fall 2015 PMW Equipment Company - Vision System for Evaluating Performance of Enclosed Commercial Parts Washers Small Industry Projects • Yiwei Gao, Mark Mendick*, Erik Quinn, Dan Wolf AME Company - Shank/Face Plate Mating • Kyle Brewington, Daniel Clements, Brady Dingeldein, Trevor • Tam Deo, Timothy Pikul, Mahmaud Parto, Joshua Andringa Ryba*, Jacob Vos D&B Agro – 3-Blade Fan Design Optimization • Rasheed Ashussami, Mike Libbey, Jonathan Siefkes; Kevin Large Industry Projects Smetana; Kaleb Tenhaken* Caterpillar Corporation - Coupon Polishing Machine • James Andresen, Michael Becker*, Carter Gibson, Austin • Ella Grarup, Gabriel J. McCoy, Christopher Schmidt, Carlton Stripe Hillinger, James Slagle Caterpillar Corporation - Redesign of Surface Rock Drills Rod/Bit Eaton Corporation – Implementation of Flex Dies at Roll-Straighten Operation Carousel Mechanism • Rasheed Ashussami, Mike Libbey, Jonathan Siefkes, Kevin • Jesse Moellers, Michael Romero, Kevin Thompson, Brett Smetana, Kaleb Tanhaken* Vanderwiel • James Andresen, Michael Becker*, Carter Gibson, Austin • Joshua Adam, Alex Grant, Brandon Klosterman, Luke Whisler Hillinger, James Slagle John Deere