Goal 3: Promote a representative faculty and student body; increase our stature and public awareness
Strategies
Increase representativeness of the ECE students, faculty, and staff
- Recruit a diverse undergraduate population
- Provide incentives for recruitment of graduate enrichment fellows
- Establish strategic relationships with minority serving institutions
- Ensure that hiring activities result in increased representativeness of faculty
- Promote welcoming culture for underrepresented students, faculty, and staff
- Eliminate gender or cultural biases in recruitment processes
- Work with COE leadership to advance department representativeness and culture
- Promote humanitarian engineering activities in student recruitment
Expand public relations activities
- Develop department procedure to identify and announce news items for every Ph.D. dissertation, project award, and publication
- Establish procedure for faculty to report new results and innovations consistently
- Create informative and appealing promotional material for placement in Dreese and Caldwell
- Expand shared resource of ECE public relations presentation materials
- Continuous development and refinement of current departmental “talking points” on recent developments
- Implement consistent branding across external and internal communications
Expand outreach activities
- Expand hands-on activities that can be taken to schools through participation of undergraduate capstone and MS program design projects
- Transition leadership of COE FIRST program from MAE to ECE
- Work with alumni association to expand activities and increase participation
- Develop reward system to encourage faculty to participate
- Work with college to leverage COE outreach efforts
- Expand department participation in humanitarian activities
- Expand communication efforts associated with outreach programs
Resource requirements and sources
- Course release for faculty involvement
- Department funds provided for materials and supplies
- Staff support for outreach efforts
- Partnership with college and university communications offices
- Volunteer efforts of department alumni society
- Pooled resources and college/university funds for hiring of women/minority faculty members
- College initiatives in graduate recruitment
Measuring our progress
Key metrics |
Baseline (2014) | 2018-19 |
Representativeness of ECE faculty | + | |
Number of females in ECE student body* |
U: 106 G: 71 |
+ |
Number of students from underrepresented minorities** |
U: 73 G: 9 |
+ |
Number of strategic relationships with minority serving institutions | 0 | 2 |
Number of “major” ECE news items per year | 10 | 18 |
Active participants in ECE alumni society | 20 | 100 |
Students participating in humanitarian activities | 20 | 40 |
Number of student contacts via outreach per year | 1,550 | 2,000 |
* U= Undergraduates, G=Ms and Ph.D. students
** Represents African American, Hispanic, American Indian / Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students