The document provides an engineering update with the following key points: 1) Enrollment statistics for the Fall 2015 semester including undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students. 2) Employment outcomes for the Class of 2015 with most students accepting jobs in industry or attending graduate school. 3) An overview of the engineering departments and new dean. 4) Annual giving results showing increased donations for FY2015 and upcoming gift challenges.

1. Engineering A&D Update
abecross@wustl.edu
December 2015
1

2. Fast facts
2
Fall 2015
• 273 Freshman (6,500 applicants)
• 1,300 Undergraduate students
• 844 Master's students
• 380 Doctoral students
• 243 UMSL/WU Joint Program students
Degrees awarded FY2015 – 360 BS, 227 MS, 62 PhD
2015 Employment Survey (~75% of seniors reporting)
• 167 accepted jobs in industry, start ups
• 77 grad school, med school, law school
• 22 internship, volunteering, military, other
FY15 budget – ~$100M
FY15 endowment – $275M

3. Fast facts
3
Departments
• Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS)
• Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering (EECE)
• Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)
• Biomedical Engineering (BME)
• Electrical & Systems Engineering (ESE)
• Professional Education & Sever Institute
• EN A&D liaisons
Faculty: 88 FY15 research grants: ~$24M
New BME department chair: Steve George, Stuckenberg Professor
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) - BME, EE, Systems,
ChemE, and ME; WU/UMSL Program - ME, EE, CivE
Alumni/19,024 Solicitable/15,051 STL/6,440 SF/903 Chicago/741 DC/605
Dr. Steve George

4. Fast facts
4
New Dean – Dr. Aaron Bobick
 Georgia Tech faculty beginning 1999
 Founding chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech
 Authored more than 80 academic papers on action recognition by computer vision
 MIT pedigree – BS in Math and CS, PhD in cognitive science
 MIT Media Lab – led Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Projects (DARPA)
 Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
 More than $6M in research grants

5. Annual giving
5
FY15 FY14 FY13 FY12 FY11 FY10
EN Annual Fund
$2,699,540
+17%
$2,272,089
+12%
$2,014,930
+12%
$1,784,562
+4%
$1,700,889
+7%
$1,580,083
EN Eliot Society 896 819 768 738 667 635
New EN Eliot Society 219 171 194 181 147 136
EN AF alumni donors 3,571 3,360 3,313 3,224 3,116 3,035
EN AF total donors # 6,382 6,055 5,809 5,420 5,063 4,641

6. 6
Gift challenges
Langsdorf Scholars Challenge
Matt Ettus EN96 EN96 and Sara Ettus
Young Annual Fund Challenge
Peter Young EN80 and Lin Young
Eliot Society Jubel Challenge
Don Jubel EN73, Karen Jubel
and Jubel Family Foundation
Bush Family Parent Challenge
Wes and Natalie Bush, Parents

7. New business
7
FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Estate commitments $7.2 $1.3 $0.41 $5.4 $2.4 $7.0 $17.5
Irrevocable PG $0.2 $1.06 $0.05 $0.2 $0.1 $0.5 $0.1
Cash/pledges $8.4 $7.4 $3.65 $4.4 $23.0 $2.8 $7.0
$15.8M
$9.8M
$4.1M
$10M
$25.5M
$9.9M
$24.5M

8. Engineering priorities
Naming opportunity Gift amount
School $50M-$100M
Endowed professorships $6M – dean’s chair
$4M – department chair
$1M+ – career development
Programs & centers $10K+ program support
 Institute of Materials Science & Engineering $5M-$10M program naming
 Center for Biological Systems Engineering
 Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
 Discovery Competition
Scholarships, fellowships, and internships, Langsdorf, $5K annual, $100K endowed
McKelvey Undergrad Research $1M+ (full support)
Buildings and facilities $25K-$20M
Special initiatives $1K-$50K
 Student project fund, International Programs
Engineering Annual Fund All levels
8

9. Campaign production
9
Goal Progress % to goal
$110M $103.3M 94%
Student support $42M $21.8M 52%
Faculty support $20M $6.9M 34%
Academic programs $10M $9M 90%
Facilities $20M $33.8 169%
Annual Fund $18M $24.7M 137%

10. East Campus today
10

11. East Campus tomorrow
11

12. Engineering A&D team
Abe Cross
Sr. Director of
Development
12
Libby Gutberlet
Sr. Associate Director
of Development
Alex Carr
Director of
Development
Paula McBurnett
Sr. Associate Director
of Development
Mandy Ray
Sr. Associate Director
of Development
Eric Yin
Sr. Associate Director
of Development
Ally Favre
Associate Director of
Development
Jill Lewin
Associate Director of
Development
Claire Byrne
Development
Coordinator
Tracy Speller
Administrative
Assistant

13. Engineering A&D team
13

14. Event calendar
14
 January 10 - Engineering Eliot Society Holiday Open House
 Feb 2 - Engineering Mentor Program Networking Event
 February 4 - Jonathan Rosenberg Lecture (EN/BU co-sponsor)
 February 22 - Dean’s Breakfast, 2016 Engineers Week
 Feb 23/24 - Mindlin Lecture, 2016 Engineers Week
 April 7 - Engineering Alumni Achievement Awards Banquet
 April 8 - Engineering National Council Meeting
 April 15 - Engineering Dean’s Reception @ Reunion Weekend
 May 20 - Engineering Dean’s Reception @ Commencement