Strategic Plan - Research and Scholarship

The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Strategic Plan - Research and Scholarship

Interdisciplinary Excellence Built On World-Class Knowledge

Goals

  • Develop national recognition and leadership in strategic research thrust areas.
  • Increase research activities and productivity

Benchmark 7: Research Productivity

Metric: Expenditures/faculty
Target: Peer average (~$240K/faculty)
Impact: Extramural funding is fundamental to build strong and quality research programs

Metric: Number of publications per faculty
Target: 3/faculty/year
Impact: Increased research output of journal and conference papers, books, patents, software, art, designs and exhibitions will increase the scholarly reputation of the school.

Metric: Number of doctoral students supported per faculty member
Target: 2
Impact: Support of doctoral students is an indication of the quality of and demand for the research work and a measure of the contribution to the graduate program

Benchmark 8: Research Quality

Metric: Number of faculty and students receiving university, regional, or national research/scholarly awards per year
Target: 4
Impact: Awards are a measure of the recognition of the quality of research work by peers

Metric: Yearly citation index per faculty member
Target: 5
Impact: Citation of scholarly work by others is a measure of the quality and short-term impact of the scholarly work

Strategies

  1. Increase faculty participation in regional, national and international conferences.
  2. Awards: Increase level and numbers of awards and distinctions (Awards Committee).
  3. MME summer symposium series: Organize one focused symposium in Pullman every summer. This would increase visibility of programs, and fosters interaction among our faculty and graduate students with leaders in the scientific fields and funding agencies.
  4. Research Proposals: Increase the number of proposals submitted by tenure track faculty.
  5. Promote MME faculty leadership in engineering societies.
  6. Increase number of Endowed faculty chair and distinguished professorships.
  7. Faculty hiring: Target areas of research growth.
Thomas Barlow 1957 ME graduate- former president of ASME Thomas Barlow 1957 ME graduate- former president of ASME

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US News and World Report Ranking:
America's Best Graduate Schools Ranked in 2008;
MSE 41
ME 56
ASEE Top 50 ME programs
Washington State University - 50
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