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McCormick Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science McCormick Excellence at all Levels April 7, 2005 Julio M. Ottino, Dean McCormick Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Departments (plus much

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McCormick Excellence at all Levels

April 7, 2005

Julio M. Ottino, Dean

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Departments (plus much more…)

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Engineering Sciences and Applied

Mathematics

  • Industrial Engineering and Management

Sciences

  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

Products? Customers? PL?

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  • 100%

0% 100% 200% 300% 400% Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1) Stanford University (2) University of California - Berkeley (3) University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign (4) Georgia Institute of Technology (5) California Institute of Technology (6) University of Southern California (6) Purdue University - West Lafayette (8) University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (9) Cornell University (10) Carnegie Mellon University (11) University of Texas - Austin (12) University of California - San Diego (13) Texas A & M University - College Station (14) University of Wisconsin - Madison (15) Princeton University (16) University of California - Los Angeles (17) University of Maryland - College Park (18) Harvard University (19) Northwestern University (20)

Schools (with US News Graduate Ranking) Faculty, Undergrad, and Grad Sizes, Relative to Northwestern

Faculty size Undergraduate size Graduate size

The Competition Landscape

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Biology & Medicine Physical & Chemical Sciences Social Systems, Organizations and the Law

Emergent Legal Structures Group

NICO

Engineering

Sustainable Technologies IGERT Materials Self-Assembly Processes Biomolecular and Cellular Self Assembly Systems Biology Neural Information Processing Information, Biology and Language International and Comparative Studies Analytical Politics Center for Connected Learning Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science Communications and Learning Business and Engineering Networks

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Photo Norbert Wu

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Roger Guimera NWU

1990-2003 600 authors

Department in McCormick

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Collaboration network in Social Psychology as obtained from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The data cover the period 1965-2003, and includes 9112 researchers and 7865 collaborations (Luis Amaral et al. 2004)

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Collaboration network in Economics as obtained from the journal Econometrica. The data cover the period 1965-2003, and includes 3350 researchers and 4254 collaborations (Luis Amaral et al. 2004).

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Collaboration network in Astronomy as obtained from the Astronomical Journal. The data cover the period 1965-2003, and includes 10832 researchers and 13016 collaborations (Luis Amaral et al. 2004).

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R.J. Williams, N.D. Martinez, Nature (2000).

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A century of innovation: twenty engineering achievements that transformed our lives.

Imagine a world without Engineering and Technology…

  • Electrification
  • Airplanes
  • Radio and Television
  • Computers
  • Telephony and Electronics
  • Spacecraft (and GPS, etc.)
  • Automobiles and Highways
  • Petroleum and Petrochemical

Technologies

  • Advanced materials
  • Medical technologies
  • Internet
  • Water Supply and Distribution

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Imagine a world without Engineering and Technology…

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Central Idea

Large scale trends Response to trends Compass Map Milestones

Resource Needs

McCormick strengths Seeing

  • urselves

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Central Idea

Large scale trends Response to trends Compass Map Milestones

Resource Needs

McCormick strengths Seeing

  • urselves

Strategic Plan

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Energy Environment Health Information Security…

Not very useful…

Trends

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(1) The boundary between science, engineering, technology, and medicine is being completely blurred into a seamless chain. (2) The waves of innovation are becoming shorter. (3) Technology is permeating all areas of society

Technological literacy essential ingredient of 21st century humanistic education; Essential to informed public-policy decisions.

Large Scale Trends

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The Economist, 1999

Water power Textiles Iron Steam Rail Steel Electricity Chemicals

  • Int. Comb. Engine

Petrochemicals Electronics Aviation Digital Networks Software New Media

A Picture of Innovation: Schumpeter waves accelerate

Nano, Bio, Info

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Large-scale trends: Needs

(1) The boundary between science, engineering and

technology is being completely blurred into a seamless

  • chain. Broad Perspective;

Interdisciplinary Outlook (2) The waves of innovation are becoming shorter. Adaptability (3) Technological literacy; 21st century humanistic

education; public-policy decisions. Broadly

educated engineers

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Programs Centers Alumni Industry University McCormick Graduate Programs Education Undergraduate Programs

Future

Professional Programs

Seeing Ourselves McC in Northwestern

Research

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World US, society Business, industry McCormick Peers, engineering community Practice Basic Knowledge Reputation

Programs Centers Alumni Industry University McCormick Graduate Programs Education Undergraduate Programs Future Professional Programs C in Northwestern Research

World View

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Recognition, Reputation

(1) Largest component of reputation, e.g. US & World Report, NRC, depends critically on top- ranked peers. Placing people in academia (2) Core, size matter

World World US, society US, society Business, industry Business, industry McCormick Peers, engineering community Peers, engineering community Practice Basic Knowledge

McC in the World

Reputation

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core

..matching needs to strengths

  • Core, the one-to-one areas

where we are compared with

  • thers must be first rate
  • Adopt Matrix view of faculty;

excellent people who can be counted twice

  • “Growth” strategy: synergistically

leveraging small size across schools WCAS, Kellogg, SoC, Medill, and Law

dynamic periphery

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State of the art of domain at time t Breakthrough “Break-with” Core and periphery; Nature of expansions

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State of the art at time t Augmentation of knowledge base But often…

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Core-Periphery Interactions

Core may be formed by periphery Core unifies structure

Core

Core

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Recognizing Hurdles: The Faculty Pipeline

Assistant Professors 6 years 40 year career span (and getting longer) Career Span Longer, Waves of Innovation Shorter problem

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Actions

Need to transition from wave to wave

Mentoring…

Select Add value Add value Increase Quality of Life Use creatively; Retool

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Teaching Learning Professional Programs Research Environment: Infrastructure and Organizational Structure Development Human Capital

  • Materials and

Nanotechnology

  • Bioengineering and

Biotechnology

  • Infrastructure and

Critical Infrastructure

  • Systems and Complex

Systems

  • xxxxxx

Societal Driven Initiatives Science Technology Driven Initiatives

  • IDEA
  • Africa AIDS

Project

  • Art

Conservation

  • Learning
  • Sustainability?
  • xxxxxx

“Must have” + Identity Distinctiveness

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Consequences: McCormick’s Positioning

Students: …leading edge engineering/science education with a big picture component Faculty: …where interdisciplinary work can flourish Academia: …faculty candidates trained in emerging areas and capable of adapting in times of change Industry: …source of knowledge, future human resources, research collaborations Recruiters: …undergraduate students who have superior technical knowledge, and innovation and team leadership skills …graduate students who are not narrow but have a broad outlook Alumni: …source of networking, a source of life-long knowledge…

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A century of innovation: twenty engineering achievements that transformed our lives.

Imagine a world without Engineering and Technology…

  • Electrification
  • Airplanes
  • Radio and Television
  • Computers
  • Telephony and Electronics
  • Spacecraft (and GPS, etc.)
  • Automobiles and Highways
  • Petroleum and Petrochemical

Technologies

  • Advanced materials
  • Medical technologies
  • Internet
  • Water Supply and Distribution
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How will the list look like?

Imagine the world 20 years from now

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People Deep knowledge, but adaptable Ability to traverse across domains, science-technology How will system look like?

  • Dynamic environment that encourages emergent

structures and risk taking Strategy

  • Strengthening the core
  • Enlarging the periphery
  • Work on “changing the rules”

Well prepared if… Cannot do everything…

“Excellence at all Levels”

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…approaches…

  • Massive buildup…Purdue adding 75

positions

  • Emergence in the midst of strong

surroundings…Harvard adding 45 positions

  • Strengthening excellence…Caltech,

keeping faculty constant but adding resources

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Can we become one of the (small) leading engineering schools in the world? Do we have the will?