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Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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| Full Time Tenure-Track Faculty | 115 |
| Professors | 65 |
| Named and/or endowed professorships | 7 |
| SUNY Distinguished rank professorships | 4 |
| Associate Professors | 28 |
| Assistant Professors | 22 |
| Full Time Lecturers | 10 |
Faculty Honors
| President’s National Medal of Science | 1 |
| U.S. Medal of Technology | 1 |
| National Academy of Engineers Founders Award | 1 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) Career, New Young Investigator, Presidential Young Investigator and Creativity Awards |
24 |
| NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship Award | 1 |
| Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award |
2 |
| SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching |
16 |
| SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activity |
4 |
| Professional society fellow membership | 25 |
Faculty Editorial Positions
| Editorships | 26 |
| Editorial board appointments | 43 |
The majority of the UB faculty is part of the collective bargaining unit that represents all State University of New York faculty, the United University Professions (UUP), a member of the American Federation of Teachers. The faculty governance body is the Faculty Senate. The Senate’s by-laws give it a substantial role in key governance issues, including advising on budget, the creation of academic departments, and academic programs. The Senate operates through a wide range of standing committees.
The SEAS faculty is an active research group creating cutting-edge engineering and applied science knowledge. With more than 250 actively funded research projects in the current academic year, the school’s total research expenditures in 2004-2005 totaled $37.7 million, ranking the school in the top 50 in the nation in external funding per full-time faculty member.
The university’s current strategic envisioning initiative, UB 2020, www.buffalo.edu/ub2020, articulates a clear commitment to academic excellence, to be realized through the purposeful pursuit of ten strategic foci for the faculty’s teaching, research, and creative endeavors. These strategic strengths represent areas across the disciplines where UB has the best opportunities to build academic excellence and achieve significant national and international academic prominence and recognition. The ten areas are broadly defined, reflecting the fact that academic research is increasingly multidisciplinary. They grow out of UB’s established strengths and areas of excellence, and have their roots in the distinctiveness of UB’s faculty, research and creative efforts.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will play a major role in at least seven of the identified strategic strengths. The engineering faculty is already well-positioned to contribute to advancing these areas of research through its leadership in numerous centers hosted by SEAS, as well as its participation in many other interdisciplinary research centers housed in other units of the university and at other institutions. Some examples of research centers in which the engineering faculty is especially engaged are listed below, with links to more information about each.
In recent years, the university has significantly enhanced its programs and services in the area of technology transfer through the Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR). STOR is the division at the University at Buffalo responsible for proactively transferring inventions and discoveries of all University faculty to benefit the public, carrying out a suite of functions including working with faculty to identify inventions and creative activities that can be protected by patents or other means. These discoveries then are licensed to help ensure their timely transfer, usually by commercialization, to society. STOR also manages the UB Technology Incubator, home to many UB start-up companies. STOR is actively engaged in developing venture funding for proof of concept, prototype development, and early funding of University start-up companies. Valuable consulting services are also provided by The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE), and Strategic Partnership For Industrial Resurgence (SPIR) Program. The Center for Industrial Effectiveness forges a link between UB’s technical resources and the business community, fostering partnerships and managing diverse projects. SPIR was established in 1994 as a consortium of engineering schools in the State University system, and assists Western New York and New York State companies with renewing, revitalizing, and redirecting industry.
Supporting the faculty’s research endeavors are the University Libraries, which hold 3.5 million volumes in nine general and specialized units. Their exceptionally wide array of electronic/digital information resources has been nationally recognized.
The student body in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is talented and diverse. While the majority of US students are residents of the state of New York, the undergraduate and graduate enrollment includes students from 60 countries outside of the United States.
SEAS graduates are highly regarded and much sought after for positions in academia and industry. Undergraduate students boast a strong record of earning prestigious NSF and DoD fellowships for graduate study, and doctoral students have been hired into faculty positions at the nation’s top-ranked engineering schools. All enjoy very favorable placement rates when seeking post-graduation employment.
Enrollment Fall 2005
| Total Students | 3162 |
| Undergraduate Students | 2240 |
| Graduate Students | 922 |
Degrees Granted 2004-2005 Academic Year
| Bachelor of Arts | 13 |
| Bachelor of Science | 498 |
| Master of Engineering | 39 |
| Master of Science | 330 |
| BS/MBA | 3 |
| BS/MS | 2 |
| Doctor of Philosophy | 63 |
Degrees Offered By Level
| Engineering Discipline | BS | BS/MBA | MEng | MS | Ph.D. |
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| Aerospace* | • | • | • | • | • |
| Chemical* | • | • | • | • | • |
| Civil* | • | • | • | • | • |
| Computer Eng.* | • | •1 | •2 | ||
| Computer Science | •3 | BA/MBA | • | •2 | |
| Electrical* | • | • | • | • | • |
| Engineering Physics | • | ||||
| Environmental* | • | • | • | ||
| Industrial* | • | • | • | • | • |
| Mechanical* | • | • | • | • | • |
1 Certificate programs in high-performance computing and information assurance also available
2 PhD is in Computer Science and Engineering
3 BA also available
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences provides unique and specialized services to enhance the educational experiences of its undergraduate and graduate students, through such programs as paid industry co-operative experiences, senior internships, and the Engineering Career Institute (ECI) that provides career effectiveness skills training to upper-level undergraduates. One especially noteworthy program at the undergraduate level is the Student Excellence Initiative. This initiative, which starts in the freshman year, is designed to help all students achieve their academic potential and build supportive relationships with their peers and the faculty. Offering students a variety of programs including structured study groups, individual tutoring, and faculty-student mentorships, the initiative has demonstrably contributed to student academic outcomes and retention.
In keeping with the university’s commitment to public service, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences sponsors the Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) program. This program, established in 1982, annually reaches out to over 500 minority, female, inner-city and other under-represented students, encouraging them to explore career possibilities in engineering through a variety of school-time and summer activities.
The University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is a leader in the area of study abroad programs for engineering students, with student participation measuring approximately five times the national average, and with a SEAS member serving as chair of the nation’s largest engineering student exchange organization. Undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to study at nearly 100 universities in approximately 30 countries, through a variety of program offerings. The university as a whole enjoys a strong international presence, maintaining affiliation agreements with over 60 universities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. International students currently comprise over 12 percent of UB’s total student enrollment, and represent a significantly higher percentage of the enrollment in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
In addition to on-campus education, SEAS was a pioneer in the area of distance education, through its EngiNet™ program, www.eng.buffalo.edu/enginet. Initially developed to provide New York State industry with state-of-the-art engineering instruction, the program has since grown to reach individual graduate students throughout the world. The Master of Engineering (MEng) degree from several of the school’s departments can been completed via EngiNet™, which will offer more than 20 courses in 5 departments in Spring 2006. An online B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering is under development in a collaborative effort between UB and several other SUNY institutions.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is characterized by a sense of community, in which faculty, undergraduate and graduate students engage in shared intellectual and extracurricular pursuits. SEAS is home to dozens of student clubs and organizations, many of which compete in a variety of national and international competitions. The Society of Automotive Engineering students took first place at the national 2005 Clean Snowmobile Competition, and the Robotics Club won the 2004 and 2005 RoboCup American Open and will compete at the World Cup in 2006.
The sense of community in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences also extends to its more than 21,000 alumni, who live in all 50 states and more than 50 countries. SEAS alumni include many prominent and accomplished individuals working in industry, government, and academia as researchers, entrepreneurs, CEOs, astronauts, CEOs, astronauts, inventors and more. The Dean’s Advisory Council, comprised of approximately 25 alumni, friends, and business leaders, assists the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in achieving its goal of preeminence in research, education, and service by providing support and advice in several key areas, including industrial relations, long term planning and strategy, development, education and professional identity, new programs and placement.
For more information about recent activities and developments in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, please see the school’s spring 2005 newsletter at http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/Alumni/PDF/sp05newsletter.pdf.
President Simpson and Provost Tripathi seek to appoint to this senior administrative position a dynamic, energetic, creative and thoughtful individual with a demonstrated record of leadership and substantial scholarly and/or professional engineering achievement. The expectation is that the next dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will continue to recruit and retain distinguished faculty; promote and support faculty research; facilitate and increase extramural research support; expand opportunities for internships for undergraduate and graduate SEAS students; and substantially increase collaborative opportunities for faculty and students with local, state, national and international corporate and educational partners. In addition, the successful candidate should embrace the importance of the school’s extant research centers and institutes, explore opportunities for partnering in innovative ways so as to create new interdisciplinary programs responsive to the changing face of engineering, and expand the critically valuable relations with SEAS alumni who have gone on to prominence in leadership positions around the world. The dean will provide leadership in expanding the diversity of the school’s faculty and student population.
The new dean will be expected to build on SEAS’ well established commitment to research and teaching excellence, to position the school among the nation’s best in terms of:
The dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is responsible for leading the strategic integration of research, teaching and service within SEAS as well as with UB’s College of Arts and Sciences and other professional schools. As a member of UB’s senior leadership team, the dean of SEAS will be expected to:
The ideal candidate will have the following professional qualifications and personal characteristics:
The University at Buffalo is the most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York system. In addition to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UB also offers academic programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and eleven professional schools. The links below will provide a short description of each of the university’s other academic units, along with a link to a more comprehensive web site.
Founded in 1846 as a private medical college located in central Buffalo, UB was first known as the University of Buffalo. The 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, served as a founder and as UB’s first chancellor (1846-1874). UB grew slowly in the 19th century, expanding with Schools of Pharmacy (1886), Law (1887), and Dental Medicine (1892). This grounding in professional training shaped UB’s early identity as an educational institution, as well as its place within the local and state communities.
UB’s first liberal arts curriculum was developed in the early 1900s, when the American Medical Association began to require at least one preliminary year of liberal arts work as part of physician education. Such courses were instituted in 1913 and awarded departmental status in 1915, giving shape to UB as a university in the traditional sense of the term. The College of Arts and Sciences was authorized by the State Department of Education in 1919; 1920 saw the university’s first fundraising initiative, as it became clear UB would no longer be able to sustain itself entirely by student fees and occasional donations. This fund made it possible to develop the Main Street campus, now known as the South Campus. In 1922, graduate work in the arts and sciences curriculum was introduced. The Graduate School offered its first programs as an individual division in 1939; the 1930s and 1940s saw the introduction of several other divisions at UB, such as the Schools of Management, Education, Social Work, Nursing, and Engineering. In the 1950s, the university consolidated all facilities—with the exception of the Law School, which operated in a mix of buildings in downtown Buffalo—at the South Campus.
In 1962, UB joined the State University of New York, becoming the State University of New York at Buffalo - one of four University Centers in the system and its largest and most comprehensive campus. Space to accommodate the quickly growing campus was an immediate concern. Today, the North Campus in Amherst is a thriving academic community with a modern aesthetic that contrasts with the historically distinguished architecture of the South Campus. While there is a long history of alumni engagement, in recent years alumni have increasingly returned to assist the university, as is demonstrated by the growing number of volunteers throughout the university and participation in the university’s capital campaign.
In 1989, UB was elected to membership in the very prestigious Association of American Universities, becoming the first public research university in New York and New England invited to join this most select and exclusive academic organization. With the appointment in 2004 of John Simpson as the university’s 14th president, UB is currently engaged in a comprehensive and inclusive campus-wide process of strategic planning and institutional development designed to advance academic excellence and to position UB as one of the nation’s leading public research universities within the next 15 years.
The three traditional missions of the land grant and public university - research, teaching, and public service - are not separate or discrete actions, but interdependent activities that inform and enhance each other within our overall university mission. UB’s first priority will be the considered pursuit and practice of academic excellence for its faculty and its students, in teaching and in research. Academic excellence is our fundamental value and goal, and will be pursued with vigor. It is the very core of our enterprise and is the basis for our broader mission as a public research university. Therefore, inherent in this pursuit and practice of academic excellence:
The University at Buffalo spans two major campuses that together encompass 1,400 acres and over nine million square feet of built space.
The North Campus, located in Amherst, a Buffalo suburb, is home to UB’s core academic programs and is the university’s main undergraduate campus. Opened in 1973, the North Campus comprises almost 1,200 acres and 141 buildings, including a multi-venue Center for the Arts, a substantial athletics and recreation complex, 10 residence halls and five new apartment-style student housing villages built since 1998. The North Campus houses over 6,000 students.
The South Campus, located three miles from the North Campus in a residential section of Buffalo, dates from the early 20th century and is the historic original campus of the University of Buffalo. Covering 154 acres with 52 buildings, today it is home to UB’s Schools of Architecture and Planning, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Dental Medicine, Public Health and Health Professions, and Nursing, as well as five residence halls housing 1,350 students.
With a total budget in the range of $1 billion, UB relies on a diversified revenue stream to shield its operating budget from fluctuations in state appropriations. Over the last five years, revenue from grants and contracts and auxiliary enterprises has grown by more than 60 percent and now represents over 30 percent of total revenue. UB is committed to developing mechanisms to enable it to continue to grow non-state revenue. Construction and facility renewal on both campuses are pressing needs. The state plans to allocate $178 million to UB over the next five years for these purposes, but additional sources of revenue are critical. Specific detail on the university’s revenues and expenditures for the 2003-2004 fiscal year are available at this link.
In addition to its two main campuses, UB has multiple urban and regional campuses, sites, and centers of research where teaching, research and service extend directly into the surrounding community, such as the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, the UB Anderson Art Gallery, the Jacobs Executive Development Center, and the Educational Opportunity Center. UB also collaborates with regional institutions, such as the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, to provide innovative initiatives, events and educational programs taught by faculty who are actively and successfully engaged in advancing knowledge in their respective disciplines and professions.
UB fields the only Division I-A athletics program in the SUNY system. The NCAA officially upgraded UB’s intercollegiate athletics programs to Division I in 1993; today, UB competes in the Mid-American Conference in 19 of its 20 sports. Among its many athletic facilities, UB’s newly refurbished 31,000 seat stadium on its North Campus, where it hosts football, soccer, and track and field events, provides an important connecting point for the university, its alumni, and the community. The men’s basketball program is enjoying consecutive years of success, recently receiving recognition in national coaches’ and sportswriters’ polls.
UB’s total economic impact on the state and region is estimated at more than $1.3 billion annually. The university is one of Western New York’s largest employers; its strong regional presence extends through multiple satellite sites in Buffalo and locations across the region. UB offers an innovative home loan guaranty program to assist faculty and staff who choose to purchase homes in the university’s South Campus neighborhood.
Buffalo, dubbed “The City of Good Neighbors,” is the second-largest city in New York State. Fortune magazine ranked this region in the top 20 percent of 60 areas in the nation for the quality of its public education. Erie County’s public and private secondary schools consistently soar above state and national standardized test averages. Since 1996, Buffalo has been recognized by the National Civic League as an “All-America City,” a designation that honors exemplary civic spirit in a select number of U.S. communities. In 2005, the Town of Amherst was designated among the “safest cities in America” for the sixth consecutive year. The American Chamber of Commerce Research Association (ACCRA) has found that Buffalo housing costs are 15 percent lower than the U.S. average, making Buffalo living as affordable as it is appealing. A recent federal study of the 50 largest cities in the U.S. recently determined that Buffalo has the shortest work commute time, averaging 19 minutes.
The Buffalo-Niagara region lies directly in the middle of the Northeastern Trade Corridor running from Chicago to Boston; it is within a two-hour drive of Toronto. Buffalo is located at the heart of the “Canadian-American corridor” spanning the region from Toronto to Syracuse. With over nine million residents, this regional area is the third largest market in North America.
Buffalo has the cultural resources of a much larger city. Buffalo is home to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, housing one of the world’s finest collections of modern painting and sculpture. UB recently acquired the Anderson Gallery, which ARTnews has hailed as “a shrine to a world-class collection of contemporary art.” The nationally renowned Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra performs in Kleinhans Music Hall. Designed by the famed Finnish father-and-son team, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Kleinhans itself is widely admired both for its acoustic qualities and for its architectural beauty. Buffalo also boasts several landmark homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, most notably the Darwin Martin House and Graycliff, as well as an expansive park system created by Frederick Law Olmsted. UB’s own Lippes Concert Hall is also a rich cultural resource for the Western New York community, offering over 200 concerts each year, as is UB’s Center for the Arts, one of the region’s major performing arts venues.
Buffalo is well known for its NFL team (four-time AFC champions, the Buffalo Bills) and its NHL team (1999 Stanley Cup finalists, the Buffalo Sabres). Area sports fans are also treated to a championship Triple-A baseball team (the Bisons), professional indoor lacrosse (the Bandits), and a new ABA professional basketball team (the Rapids).
Situated on the banks of Lake Erie and the Niagara River and within a half-hour’s drive of Lake Ontario, Buffalo is a true “waterfront city.” Lake Erie is a major source of recreational activity in the spring and summer and one of the area’s chief natural beauties year-round. The Buffalo metropolitan area offers a pleasant, temperate four season climate similar to other Great Lake and midwestern cities and the “highest percentage of summer sunshine of any region in New York State.” Outdoor recreational activities range from alpine and cross country skiing in the winter to fishing and sailing in the summer months.
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Interested individuals should provide a curriculum vitae and an optional letter describing their interest in and qualifications for the position. All nominations and applications should be sent electronically via e-mail (Microsoft Word or PDF attachments strongly preferred) to:
Dr. Ilene H. Nagel
Consultant to the Search Committee
Russell Reynolds Associates
ubeng-dean@russellreynolds.com
This search will be conducted with full confidentiality of all candidates. References will not be contacted without the prior knowledge and approval of the candidate. Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until a dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is appointed. Compensation for this position is highly competitive. Candidates are urged to review all information and documents posted on the dedicated search web site, http://www.buffalo.edu/engineering-dean, before preparing their materials.
We actively encourage applications from and nominations of women and other protected group members.
UB is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Recruiter.
The material presented in this position profile should be relied on for informational purposes only. This material has been copied, compiled, or quoted in part from University at Buffalo documents and personal interviews and is believed to be reliable. Naturally, while every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, the original source documents and factual situations govern.
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The dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UB will lead the largest public school of engineering in New York State with more than 2,200 undergraduate and 900 graduate students. Established in 1946, SEAS offers degrees in all major fields of engineering through its six departments:
The SEAS faculty is known for its outstanding teaching, scholarship and research. Faculty members are the recipients of many national and international awards, have earned many special professional titles, provide editorial services to leading journals in their fields, and contribute actively to research within the university and through many external collaborations with academic and industrial partners.