Welcome! School of Engineering Faculty Meeting February 16, 2016 AGENDA SOE Faculty Meeting February 16, 2016 • Welcome, Call to Order, and Approval of Minutes from the 12/10/15 Meeting – Dean Kazem Kazerounian • Guest Speaker - Provost Mun Choi • Announcements and Introduction of New Faculty and Staff -Dean Kazem Kazerounian • Strategic Initiatives Update – Senior Associate Dean Mike Accorsi • Research & Graduate Education Updates – Associate Dean Mei Wei • Undergraduate Program Updates – Brian Schwarz • Faculty Presentation: Manos Anagnostou – Eversource Energy Center • Open Forum Announcements and Introduction of New Faculty and Staff Dean Kazem Kazerounian $9M Eversource Center for Storm Modeling & Management o Predictive storm- based damage modeling o Vegetation management o Smart hardening of an integrated grid o Development of resilient communities and businesses 4 UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) Partnership $1.3M Partnership focusing on advanced materials research 5 CONGRATULATIONS! George Bollas – CBE Director, UTC Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering CONGRATULATIONS! Marten Van Dijk - ECE Charles H. Knapp Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering CONGRATULATIONS! Al Geib Professors of Environmental Engineering Research and Education Jeff McCutcheon - CBE Baikun Li - CEE WELCOME! Thanh Nguyen Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.: Princeton University Research Areas: Nano-micro technology, BioMEMs, Microfluidics, Nanopiezoelectrics, Bionanointerface, Cell/Neuronal Mechanics, Biomaterials and Drug Delivery WELCOME! Ebad Jahangir Visiting Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and UTC-IASE Ph.D.: Aerospace Engineering 1990, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Research Areas: Systems Engineering, Model Based Systems Engineering, Product Development, Engineering Management, Propulsion Systems, Guidance and Control, Aviation Environmental Regulatory Affairs