2007-08 Department/School/College Diversity Plan - Material Science and Engineering
Please describe the most significant activities you will implement, expand, or continue. These short and long term objectives and activities should result in increased diversity and/or the development of a more inclusive unit and campus climate. Your plan should support Michigan Tech in accomplishing its short and long term diversity goals.
| Specific Objective | Activity Description | Person(s) responsible for this objective | Timeline | Internal Dollars to be allocated | External Dollars to be sought | Other Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For Faculty | Faculty Recruitment | Focused effort to identify strong female and minority faculty candidates during our most recent faculty search | Department Chair and Department Search Committee | July 2007 through December 2007 | Funds for focused advertising and interviewing. Assembled a strong startup package to attract candidate | None to date. The department chair is in the process of contact key alums to help support the startup package requirements | Successful. We did hire an excellent female assistant professor - started Jan., 2006. Unfortunately that professor was subsquently stolen away by another university |
| For Students | Increase UG student enrollment, especially female and underrepresented minorities | - Invitation to local high school and home schooled students to participate in a day long program promoting the materials engineering discipline - Direct recruitment of undeclared engineering students on campus | Department Chair, Technical Staff, several enthusiastic faculty, and even more enthusiastic UG students. | On going since the spring semester of 2004 | Money for postage, refreshments and some supplies for the demonstrations | None | The program always receives excellent evaluations. Yield of additional students has been marginal at best, but there have been a few. We continue to restructure the program for continuous improvement |
| For Staff | Increased staff support from outside sources. This has allowed us to add one additional staff to support an area (Innovative Casting Enterprise) that has become popular among the students | We continue to restructured facilities usage and changes in order to increase resources to support non-general fund staff salaries. Also, we now have significant support from industry for both enterprise and senior design programs. | Department Chair, COE Senior Design Project Coordinator and ACMAL Director | Since September 2004 | None | Industrial Partners for the Innovative Casting Enterprise, PrISM and Senior Design Projects | This has been successful to date. Pat Quimby has been added to the technical staff to oversee the metal casting facilities and serve as the building safety officer. |