Where do you go beyond number one? ISyE has held the number one ranking in industrial/manufacturing engineering for the past 12 years, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings. School Chair Bill Rouse, making his third annual "State of the School" address, shared his ideas with alumni and friends at the October 2003 Alumni Assembly. The highlight was his "virtual tour" of the School's wide-ranging program areas and interests, the ISyE Portfolio (see side story).
Below are additional highlights from Dr. Rouse's presentation:
• "We're fortunate in a tight economy to still be doing some modest hiring even though our budgets are very tight. Last year the Georgia state budget was decreased by five percent, and this year will also be five percent, and they think next year will be an additional five percent. That's happening all over the country. The average major public research university in the United States gets about 26 percent of its support from its state, which is roughly what Georgia Tech gets. The percentage is heading down."
• "Since DuPree College of Management moved to Technology Square, we now have two primary buildings — up until this time we were in seven buildings. To give you a sense of scope, we have roughly 100 faculty/staff and 1,200 students. We've recently gone through the process of moving 195 Ph.D. students into offices, allocating people among space. The courtyard between these buildings and the instructional center is all ours now, so we've had our first party in the courtyard. We got a big banner that said 'ISyE' on it."
• "We're in the beginning of the planning process for our new building. We'd like to be in the new building, say five or six years from now. We're trying to get it dovetailed into the next campaign for the campus. One thing we've learned from the current building process at Technology Square, and it's a principle we will apply: the probability of raising money for a new building is inversely proportional to its current height. In other words, before you build it is the time to raise the money. We'll need a mixture of alumni and other gifts, along with state funding. If you do a mixture you can get ahead in the process — otherwise, relying solely on state money can take you 20-25 years to get a building. We'll have more about that in the future."
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| ISyE Facts 2003 |
| Student Body |
| 1042 |
Undergraduates |
| 274 |
Master's students |
| 195 |
Ph.D. students |
| Degrees Granted |
| 289 |
B.I.E. |
| 229 |
M.S. |
| 20 |
Ph.D. |
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• "We now have four Edenfield Executives. One has just joined us, Nathan Kaufman, who is a senior vice president in HealthCare Strategy at Superior Consulting Holdings Corp. Jeff Tew from General Motors is spending a year with us, and is actually helping us across campus, not just with ISyE, but also with all of the automotive related work across campus. Ken Boff of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory continues with us helping the systems area grow, and Bill Kessler of Lockheed Martin will continue with us for a second year."
• "The Executive Master's in International Logistics has been very successful. We just enrolled our third class of 30 executives who typically average 16 years experience at the director or vice president-logistics level at companies all over the world. What's interesting about this program is that we've had this weak economy over the past few years, and this program is going strong. This is the largest class yet."
• "One of our new initiatives is this magazine, Engineering Enterprise. It's a quarterly, and we hope to go to about six times a year and double the current size. So give us your feedback and give us your news."
SIDE STORY: "The ISyE Portfolio"
• Winter 2003 Engineering Enterprise Table of Contents
• Engineering Enterprise Home Page
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