Not only do we view 2020 as a test of our resilience, but an opportunity to make society better, faster. As the world grapples with uncertainty and great challenges, Michigan Engineering has shown resilience, nimbleness and a commitment to our mission to serve the common good. Our strategic plan and focus on preeminence in education, research and culture has guided our community through this societal shift. As a result, we are confident that we will emerge from this era even stronger than before.
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RESEARCH
PROVIDE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL
LEADERSHIP
EDUCATION
DEVELOP
INTELLECTUALLY
CURIOUS AND
SOCIALLY
CONSCIOUS
MINDS
We stay on the cutting-edge of engineering education by building a culture of creativity. Faculty can jumpstart bold ideas through Academic Innovation Grants and resources like Nexus, the College’s home for online and professional education. We have long been at the forefront of global learning.
#6
UNDERGRADUATE
ENGINEERING
U.S. News & World Report
#4
GRADUATE
ENGINEERING
U.S. News & World Report
#6
ONLINE GRADUATE
ENGINEERING
U.S. News & World Report
ENTERING STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, FALL 2020
UNDERGRADUATE
Total First-Year Applications 16,764
% Offered Admission 24%
Median High School GPA 3.9
Median ACT 34
Median SAT Total (Math & Verbal) 1450
GRADUATE
Total Graduate Applications 11,406
% Offered Admission 29%
Median Undergraduate GPA 3.7
Median GRE Quantitative 167
*GRE revised General Test (tests taken on or after August 1, 2011) measures Quantitative Reasoning on 130-170 scale
DEGREES GRANTED 2019-20
1,455
2,168
GRADUATE
UNDERGRADUATE
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT RANKINGS
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING ........................................ 5
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ...................................... 9
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ........................................ 11
CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
- Civil Engineering ................................................. 7
- Environmental Engineering ................................. 3
CLIMATE & SPACE SCIENCES & ENGINEERING ............. -
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Computer Engineering ........................................ 6
- Electrical Engineering .......................................... 6
INDUSTRIAL & OPERATIONS ENGINEERING ................ 2
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ........................ 7
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ...................................... 5
NAVAL ARCHITECTURE & MARINE ENGINEERING ......... -
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING & RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES...1
GRADUATE
UNDERGRADUATE
CULTURE
AN INCLUSIVE AND
COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY
Our people are our greatest asset, and it is by working and living in this unique community that we are able to discover and achieve more. A vibrant, inclusive culture helps us leverage our strengths and make the most of our collective capabilities. We believe the job of creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive community rests not within one organization or group of people, but with all of us.
BACHELOR'S
10% URM*
DEGREES GRANTED 2019-20
MASTER'S
29% WOMEN
11% URM*
DOCTORAL
16% URM*
25% WOMEN
FEMALE LEADERSHIP
40%
Percentage of top faculty administrators at the College of Engineering who identify as female.
More than 144 underrepresented and female NextProf workshop alums now have tenure-track faculty positions.
All new instructors are now trained in inclusive teaching practices.
5
YEAR PLAN
Our comprehensive, College-wide strategic plan for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, launched in 2016, reflects our multifaceted approach to ensuring our campus is a diverse, equitable and inclusive place. Year four of the plan is focusing on our climate, metrics to measure success, inclusive teaching, and faculty recruiting and hiring.
100%
LEADERSHIP
SERVING THE
COMMON GOOD
REVENUES, FY20
USES, FY20
• Grants and Contracts (36.6%) $234.7M
• University Funds (5.6%) $35.6M
• Investment and Endowment Income (4.5%) $28.7M
• Tuition and Fees (49.9%) $319.7M
• Expendable Gifts (1.7%) $10.7M
• Other (1.7%) $11.1M
• Total (100%) $640.5M
• Student Aid (19.2%) $122.8M
• Other (6.8%) $43.3M
• Subcontracts over 25K (4.7%) $29.9M
• Capital Investment (1.1%) $6.9M
• Equipment, Supplies & Services (9.4%) $60.3M
• University Attributed Assessments (10.8%) $66.4M
• Facilities Operations (4.1%) $26.4M
• Faculty & Staff Compensation (44.0%) $281.7M
• Total (100%) $637.7M
Endowments
market value as of 6/30/20
$592M
GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE, FY 20
Notes: Includes Legal One-Time Gifts; Gifts-in-Kind; Pledges (and their sub-types) by total pledged amount; and Expectancies (and their sub-types) by total booked/face values
Individuals $10,521,444
Bequests $3,618,026
Corporations $8,083,044
Foundations $4,344,984
TOTAL $26,567,498
27% WOMEN
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EMERGING STRONGER
THROUGH A
SOCIETAL SHIFT
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING ........................................ 4
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ...................................... 6
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING .......................................... 4
CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
- Civil Engineering ................................................. 6
- Environmental Engineering ................................. 2
CLIMATE & SPACE SCIENCES & ENGINEERING ............. -
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Computer Engineering ........................................ 7
- Electrical Engineering .......................................... 8
INDUSTRIAL & OPERATIONS ENGINEERING ................ 3
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ........................ 6
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ...................................... 4
NAVAL ARCHITECTURE & MARINE ENGINEERING ......... -
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING & RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES... -
INCLUSIVE TEACHING
FACULTY HIRING
60%
More than 60% of our faculty have received STRIDE training to combat unconscious bias in hiring.
FUTURE FACULTY WORKSHOP
144+
"Coming to Michigan was a defining moment. I realized that this institution has a commitment to DEI and that made me feel welcome."
—Sara Pozzi,
Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences;
Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
The mix of academic disciplines on U-M’s 850-acre North Campus includes the College of Engineering; the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning; School of Music, Theatre & Dance; and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.
A DEI
CULTURE
SHIFT
Summer 2020 sharply exposed the disparities in our society, and the continued systemic racism and bias that have long led to violence against our Black citizens and a lack of equal opportunity. To address this, we are launching two major initiatives this year:
Sustained, pervasive education around issues of race, ethnicity, unconscious bias and inclusion for everyone in engineering – students, faculty and staff – within one year.
Evolving the role of our Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO), establishing a new structure to work horizontally, ensure the work is not siloed, and provide resources for our community.
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GRADUATE
PROGRAMS
in the top 10
The University of Michigan has unparalleled breadth, including in these key areas:
ENGINEERING | LAW | BUSINESS | PERFORMING ARTS | MEDICINE
Through Immersed, our experiential learning framework, students practice their purpose. In organizations such as the U-M Solar Car Team, they will engage in meaningful experiences, reflect on what they have learned, and communicate the value of the core competencies they develop, such as global/cultural awareness, teamwork, leadership and empathy – essential skills for professional success and the humanity of engineering.
Thanks to its strategic commitment to online learning, Michigan Engineering was poised to pivot when the pandemic struck, with more than 3,350 hours of lectures recorded by Nexus between June and the end of the Fall 2020 semester.
The academic innovation grant program was quickly converted to provide support for hybrid class projects.
Kits were mailed to students for conducting lab work at home, including using pulse oximeters
to measure oxygen concentrations in blood.
The College developed a support network to help faculty with the transition to hybrid learning through Nexus, the College’s home for online and professional education.
We tracked more than 60,000 building entries in Fall 2020, with no evidence of in-class or in-lab transmission of the virus.
CREATIVITY
MEETS
FLEXIBILITY
We seek solutions to big societal problems by exploring daring ideas. One research team is looking for ways to capture carbon from the environment for use in economically viable products. Another aims to create powerful artificial photosynthesis through quantum engineering. Both projects are recipients of funding from the College’s Blue Sky program, which spurs innovative and collaborative ideas.
#1
Highest
National Science Foundation
research volume.
U-M has been the top U.S. Public University
for 10 years straight.
$267m
College of Engineering
annual research expenditures.
Part of $1.62 billion in 2020 by
U-M, the highest of any
U.S. public university.
Top agencies
that fund
the college
NSF | NASA | DoD | HHS-NIH | DoE
Opened in early 2021, the $75-million Ford Motor Company Robotics Building is our four-story home to Robotics research and the first public-private facility partnership at the University of Michigan. Engineering is home to robotics facilities for land, sea, air and space. The Robotics Institute is pioneering a culture for the young field through a defining commitment to collaboration and diversity, equity and inclusion.
When the pandemic struck, engineering researchers moved quickly amid the tumult to work collaboratively with public health officials, producing vital research in the fight against COVID-19. Dozens of collaborative projects had soon begun, building relationships that continue to evolve:
Exploring how nasal cannula could deliver oxygen without increasing virus risk as an alternative to intubation
Developing methods for sanitizing N95 masks for reuse, and testing how many times masks could be recycled
Tracking particle movements on campus buses to change routes and other protocol to reduce the likelihood of virus transmission
"There was something incredibly comforting about feeling like, in the midst of this really frightening thing, I am doing something about it."
—Amy Cohn,
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Industrial & Operations Engineering,
and faculty director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, about pandemic-related research projects
FACULTY DISTINCTIONS FALL 2020
*Includes Collegiate Professors, Endowed Professorships, Distinguished University Professorships, Endowed Directors Positions, and Endowed Deanship.
**Includes emeriti faculty
Great resources enable great research.
Here is a sample of our world-class facilities.
• Lurie Nanofabrication Facility • Michigan Ion Beam Lab • Marine Hydrodynamics Lab • Large Vacuum Test Facility • Michigan Center for Materials Characterization • Friedman Marine Hydrodynamics Lab • Center for Ultrafast Optical Science
STRENGTHENED
BY
TRIAL
CLEAR EXPECTATIONS
How will you be evaluated for tenure and promotion? Factors can vary greatly by field and can therefore be hard for many universities to articulate. But we’re trying to change that. By articulating criteria for tenure and promotion of tenure-track faculty, the College of Engineering aims to promote transparency, and provide guidance to candidates, mentors and evaluators of promotion cases. Ask us for more information.
"Engineers must lead
the way to
a better world."
—Dr. Alec D. Gallimore,
Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering
NEARLY
LEADING THROUGH GIVING
Michigan Engineering is supported by a strong tradition of philanthropic investment, buoyed by:
U-M ALUMNI
630,000
PART OF
LIVING ENGINEERING ALUMNI
...AND MANY OTHER DONORS AND FRIENDS OF THE COLLEGE
90,000
2020/21
University of Michigan College of Engineering
TOTAL TENURED AND
TENURE-TRACK FACULTY
428
257 full professors
100 associate professors
71 assistant professors
*Includes LEO Lecturers I-IV
and LEO Intermittent Lecturers
LECTURERS
112*
13 research professors
7 research associate professors
6 research scientists
32 research associate scientists
55 assistant research scientists
5 research investigators
TOTAL RESEARCH FACULTY
118
110*
ENDOWED AND
NAMED TITLES
34**
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING (NAE) MEMBERS
4**
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (NAS) MEMBERS
NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE RECIPIENTS
2
1
NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION RECIPIENT
PRESIDENTIAL EARLY CAREER AWARD FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS (PECASE) RECIPIENTS
4
48
ACTIVE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION CAREER AWARDS
UNIVERSITY 252 ENGINEERING 159
PATENT APPLICATIONS
STARTUPS LAUNCHED
UNIVERSITY 31 ENGINEERING 21
LICENSE AGREEMENTS
UNIVERSITY 268 ENGINEERING 84
INVENTION DISCLOSURES IN AGREEMENTS
UNIVERSITY 333 ENGINEERING 142
COLLABORATION
AND
TRUST
The challenges of 2020 helped build and strengthen the bonds in our community. With challenges at every turn—including most faculty and staff transitioning to working from home—leadership called on the community to find ways to come together and develop solutions:
Staff volunteered to phone more than 11,000 students after they were sent home early in spring 2020.
Ideas generated through the COVID-19 Campus Challenge, students helped develop a safer and more efficient return to campus in the fall.
Our generous community quickly raised more than $370,000 for the Engineering Student Emergency Fund (as of January 2021), helping students with pandemic-related challenges deal with technology, food and housing insecurity needs.
FACILITIES
TECHNOLOGIES TRANSFERRED TO INDUSTRY
658 FACULTY
Tough problems require teams that bring a diversity in experiences, training and perspectives to the table. Our leaders are accomplished in their fields, but also lead through service, striving to recognize and confront biases to serve our community and the common good.
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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS
RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE IMPACT
RESULTS OF OUR PLAN
(As of Fall 2020)
Note: U.S News & World Report does not rank Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering or undergraduate Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. Graduate - Spring 2020, Undergraduate - Fall 2020
*Underrepresented minority