McKelvey Engineering Year in Review | 2018-19
On Jan. 31, 2019, the school entered a new era as the McKelvey School of Engineering thanks to a transformative, unprecedented investment by alumnus James McKelvey Jr. and his wife, Anna. The gift will be used to fund endowed scholarships and professorships, as well as the dean’s highest priorities for advancing the school and its impact on lives and communities in St. Louis and around the world. The gift will also advance educational and research programs that integrate computing and engineering with other disciplines, and it will support the school’s effort to enhance the region’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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McKelvey School of Engineering
students
1,363
fa ll 2 018
Undergraduate students
did you know?
625
Full-time master’s students
258
Part-time master’s students
431
PhD students
in t ern at io n al st u d en ts
top coun t r ie s
12%
China South Korea Iran
65
%
Engineers come from 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 42 countries
Japan Bangladesh
Full-time master’s students
p o p ul a r state s
Brazil Singapore
64%
Missouri • Illinois • California New York • Texas • New Jersey Massachusetts • Florida • Ohio
of first-year students are women or are from underrepresented backgrounds
19%
of undergraduate students are from underrepresented backgrounds
India
Undergraduate students
50&42
41%
Thailand
549
Engineering undergraduates received financial aid in FY19. The average need-based scholarship was $44,850.
Israel
PhD students
Turkey
women stud e nts
30%
27%
29%
Undergraduate
Master’s
PhD
CS131
Undergraduate class with the highest enrollment at WashU
a p p l i cat i on data f o r fall 2 018 Undergraduates
Master’s
PhD
2,464 applied 62.2% admitted 431 enrolled 6,411 applied 13.9% admitted 285 enrolled
793 applied 31.7% admitted 104 enrolled
27%
of undergraduate varsity athletes are Engineering majors
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buzzworthy news
Bigger proteins, stronger threads: Synthetic spider silk $1.6 million to study combining intranasal drug delivery, focused ultrasound The NIH grant will fund a broader understanding of earlier work combining intranasal drug delivery and focused ultrasound (FUSIN). It will also combine latest research in imaging toward developing imageguided drug delivery.
Giving users a handle on their data A computer scientist is developing a novel user privacy protection framework that will give users full privacy control over their data. The work is funded by a four-year, collaborative, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at WashU have engineered bacteria that produce a biosynthetic spider silk with performance on par with its natural counterparts in all of the important measures.
‘Hopeful technology’ could change detection, diagnosis of deadly ovarian cancer Making sense, pictures of medical data McKelvey Engineers are looking at approaches that have been successful in decreasing cognitive load and using those approaches to design easier-tounderstand visualizations.
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New, nontoxic materials for solar cells underway Engineers from multiple departments are studying whether a nontoxic element — bismuth, lead’s neighbor on the periodic table — is a safer and equally efficient substitute for lead in perovskites.
Drug-filled gel to repair heart after heart attack
Engineering treatments for the opioid epidemic
Seeking to improve quantum computation
A biomedical engineer is developing a therapeutic option that would prevent the opiates from crossing the blood-brain barrier, preventing the high abusers seek.
An engineer is leading a team developing a two-photon controlledphase logic gate that could boost quantum information science and technology.
McKelvey School of Engineering
A biomedical engineer conducted a pilot study using co-registered photoacoustic tomography with ultrasound to evaluate ovarian tumors on 16 patients at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
An engineer is developing a new material that would deliver drugs directly to the damaged part of the heart to preserve the support network, or extracellular matrix while blocking two enzymes.
McKelvey School of Engineering Dean
$34.3M
research tota l r e se a r ch awa r ds (f y 19 )
resea rc h f und i n g s o ur ces (f y 19 ex p en di t ur es ) Industry: $2.5M Other private sources: $1.5M Other government: $1.3M Nonprofit: $1.1M Aaron Bobick, Dean and the James M. McKelvey Professor
ne w ch a i r
$22.2M Federal funding
f e de r a l spon sors NIH: $10.1M NSF: $7.6M DOE: $2.3M DOD: $1.6M NASA: $540K
faculty
Sinopoli named chair of WashU electrical & systems engineering Bruno Sinopoli, a renowned expert in cyber-physical systems and control systems, was named chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, effective Jan. 1, 2019.
96.5
Biomedical Engineering: 17.5
tenured/tenuretrack faculty
Computer Science & Engineering: 29.5
33
Electrical & Systems Engineering: 14.5
full-time teaching faculty
10:1
undergraduate student-to-faculty radio
Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering: 19 Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science: 16
financial report s o u rce s of incom e (f y19 ) Tuition: $94.1M
Grants & contracts: $29.6M Gifts & endowment: $20.3M Other income: $4.9M
$148,904,000
e xp e n se s
$139,524,000
Gift aid: $36.1M
total gro ss r evenu e
total exp ens es
$8,683,000
Salaries & benefits: $54.3M Central Fiscal Unit/ space: $32M Operations: $17.1M
str ategic oper at i ng & capital reser ves
$697,000 net results
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sta rt ing s al ary by m a jo r
outcomes
to p co mpa nie s Accenture Amazon
Bachelor of Science reported average starting salaries for 2018 graduates.
Anheuser-Busch AT&T
$64,850
Bain & Company Inc. bioMerieux
Biomedical Engineering
Boeing
$75,866
Capital One
Chemical Engineering
Cerner Corp. Citigroup
$71,000
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Computer Engineering
66%
$87,930 Computer Science
$70,125 Electrical Engineering
$65,126 Mechanical Engineering
$73,541 Systems Science & Engineering
95
%
Environmental Systems Design Inc.
Post-graduation employment
Exxon Mobil Corp.
21
Garmin International
%
FactSet Research System Google
Graduate, medical or law school
L'Oreal USA Inc.
8%
Microsoft Corp.
McMaster-Carr PricewaterhouseCoopers
Internship, co-op, research, other
Sense Corp. Square ZS Associates
o f bs g r ad uat es secu r e d o p p o rt u n it ies w it hin six m o n t h s o f g r ad uat ion
to p gr a d ua t e scho o l s & po st do c f e l l o w ships Boston University California Institute of Technology
o u tcomes for gr a d uate stud ents Master’s students
Epic
Carnegie Mellon University
Reported post-graduate plans for recent graduates.
Case Western Reserve University Columbia University Cornell University
Industry
PhD students
Duke University Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University
Doctoral degree
Postdoc or academia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Industry
Internship
Startup McKelvey School of Engineering
Northwestern University Stanford Law School University of California, Berkeley
Military
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Johns Hopkins University
University of Wisconsin – Madison
academic programs
Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering Undergraduate programs:
Biomedical Engineering
» Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate programs:
» Environmental Engineering
» Biomedical Engineering
» Energy Engineering (minor)
Graduate programs:
Graduate programs:
» PhD in Biomedical Engineering
» PhD in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
» MS in Biomedical Engineering » MEng in Biomedical Innovation » Certificate in Medical Physics
Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate programs: » Bioinformatics (minor)
» MS in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering » MEng in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering » MEng/MBA program
» Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
» Computer Science
Undergraduate programs:
» Computer Science + Math
» Mechanical Engineering
» Business and Computer Science (joint program)
» Applied Science
Graduate programs:
» Nanoscale Science & Engineering (minor)
» PhD in Computer Engineering
Graduate programs:
» PhD in Computer Science
» PhD in Aerospace Engineering
» MS in Computer Engineering
» PhD in Mechanical Engineering
» MS in Computer Science
» MS in Aerospace Engineering
» MS in Cybersecurity Engineering
» MS in Mechanical Engineering
» MEng in Computer Science & Engineering » Certificate in Data Mining & Machine Learning
Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering Undergraduate programs: » Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering (minor) » Electrical Engineering » Mechatronics (minor) » Robotics » Systems Science & Engineering » Financial Engineering (second major only)
» MS in Materials Science & Engineering » MEng in Mechanical Engineering
Henry Edwin Sever Institute Graduate programs: » Master’s in Construction Management » Master’s in Cybersecurity Management » Master’s in Engineering Management » Master’s in Health Care Operational Excellence » Master’s in Information Systems Management » Master’s In Project Management
Graduate programs:
UMSL/WashU Joint Engineering Undergraduate Program
» PhD or DSc in Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate programs:
» PhD or DSc in Systems Science & Mathematics
» Civil Engineering
» MS in Electrical Engineering
» Electrical Engineering
» MS in Systems Science & Mathematics
» Mechanical Engineering
» MS in Data Analytics and Statistics
Interdisciplinary programs
» Master of Control Engineering » MEng in Robotics » Certificate in Imaging Science & Engineering
Graduate programs: » PhD in Computational & Data Sciences » PhD in Imaging Science » PhD in Materials Science & Engineering
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2018-19 highlights New era in engineering:
Renamed McKelvey School of Engineering will take innovation, technology and academics to new heights
Pratim Biswas, a pioneer is aerosol science and technology, elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Jubel Hall, the new home to the department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, opens
Biomedical Engineering
No. 14
868
U.S. News ranking for graduate program
Degrees awarded
$161.2M Raised for Engineering during the Leading Together Capital Campaign