Wayne State University College of Engineering

Wayne State University College of Engineering

Type	Public
Established	1933
Dean	Farshad Fotouhi
Location	Detroit, Michigan, USA
Campus	Urban
Website	http://engineering.wayne.edu/

The Wayne State University College of Engineering is responsible for all engineering related programs at Wayne State University. With alumni of the college totaling over 25,000, it is one of the premier engineering colleges in Michigan along with being in the top 30% of the country. Founded in 1933, the College of Engineering has grown to include a variety of programs ranging from civil engineering, biomedical engineering, and many others. It is one of only 24 PACE partner labs in the country as well as being a leader in biomedical engineering. The College of Engineering is located in the Wayne State campus in Detroit. It is located in the College of Engineering building which is shared with the Danto Engineering Development Center. The current Dean of Engineering is Dr. Farshad Fotouhi.^[1]

History

Wayne State University College of Engineering building is considered home to many; the nation’s first Electric-drive Vehicle Engineering Program, WSU ROTC, Alma mater to more than 25,000 living alumni, the nation’s largest single campus medical school, more than 20 student organizations, and providing resources and access to a wide number of business incubators to entrepreneurs. But back in 1933, when it was first founded there were only undergraduate program courses offered.

Professors Arthur R. Carr and Ernest Drake founded the college and began with only four disciplines, chemical, electrical, mechanics, and civil engineering. The classes and the offices were stretched out in the Old Main building and several old houses within the neighborhood. Wayne State College of Engineering has an unofficial history beginning when in 1920 co-founder Ernest Drake began teaching the first engineering courses that were a part of the chemistry program. By 1937, the college grew to 632 full-time students and with 24 faculty members. To date the College of Engineering has expanded to an educational institution in Michigan, with more than 110 full-time faculty and 2,650 undergraduate and graduate students.

With rapid advances in the areas of science, technology and communications continuing, Wayne State University College of Engineering took it to the next level and built a state of the art building that would continue to position the College as a leader in emerging growth area. In 2009, WSU opened $3 million Marvin I. Danto Engineering Development Center. Coupling the research, strong academic curriculum, and the historical and modern facilities have allowed the College to become a key player in Michigan’s transition from a manufacturing economy to a strong, effective, and diversified high tech global marketplace.^[2]

Programs

Wayne State University’s (WSU) College of Engineering has many accredited bachelor and graduate programs that span across many engineering fields. WSU Engineering Department also has many research and grant funded projects where staff and students work side by side.

The following are the degree programs that WSU College of Engineering currently offers:^[3]

Student organizations

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• ACM-Association for Computing Machinery
• AIChE-American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• ASCE-American Society of Civil Engineers
• ASME-American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• BMES-Biomedical Engineering Society
• CEO-Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization
• Chi Epsilon-Civil Engineering Honor Society
• EcoCAR 2-Rare 3 year collegiate student engineering competition.
• ESD-Engineering Society of Detroit
• ESFB-Engineering Student Faculty Board
• ETSO-Engineering Technology Student Organization
• FSAE- Formula SAE
• IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• IIE-Institute of Industrial Engineers
• ITE-Institute of Transportation Engineers
• NSBE-National Society of Black Engineers
• SHPE-Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
• SWE-Society of Women Engineers
• TBP-Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
• Theta Tau-Professional Engineering Fraternity

Enrollment

The college was founded in 1933 and by 1937 the College of engineering had 632 full-time students and 24 faculty members. Over the years that number have increased dramatically, in 1998 the enrollment rate for undergraduate student alone was 18,518, the rate for graduate student attending in 1998 was 9,977 and the college had 2,708 faculty members. In 2012, the total undergraduate enrollment was 19,342 students and 7,488 students for graduate programs.^[5]

Graduation rate

In 2004, a total 2,400 students graduated with a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University and 180 of them were from the college of engineering. In 2009, that number increased to 204 students out of 2,637 undergraduate students and in 2013 the number of students graduated with the bachelors from the college of engineering was 183 out of 2,657 students.

There were 478 students out of 2477 receiving their master's degree from the college of engineering in 2004, and 348 in 2007. In 2013 the total of student graduated with a master's degree was 1,956 and 230 students were from the engineering college.^[6]

Dean

Dean Farshad Fotouhi is the 11th dean of the College of Engineering. He joined Wayne State University in 1988 as a faculty member in the computer science department. And in 2004 he was appointed chair after serving as associate chair and on Feb 15, 2011 he became the dean. Dean Fotouhi received a WSU College of Science Teaching Excellence Award in 1996. Before joining WSU, he was a faculty member of the Michigan State University Lyman Briggs College.

Dean Fotouhi's research interests include Biomedical Informatics, the Semantic Web and Multimedia Systems. He has published more than 180 papers in journals and conference proceedings. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University.

While at WSU he has secured more than $9 million in research funding and contributions. In recent years, Dean Fotouhi has organized several workshops including the Workshop on Privacy in Information Society, the IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflow and the ACM Workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics.^[7]

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