Year in Review 2022-23

McKelvey Engineering year in review | 2022-23

Our Students

tota l e n r o llmen t

fa l l 2 0 2 2

1,420

Undergraduate students

758

Full-time master’s students

304

Part-time master’s students

552

PhD students

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first-y ear st u d e nts :

20% 28%

First-generation college students Pell Grant-eligible

60%

50&42

of first-year students are women and/or students of color

Engineers come from 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 42 countries.

41%

are women compared to the national average of ~22%

int er n at i o n al st ud e nts

9% 59% 67%

Undergraduate students Full-time master’s students PhD students

one-third are students of color

wo me n st ud e nts

36%

27%

36%

Undergraduate

Master’s

PhD

70%

of engineering undergraduates pursue a second degree, another major or a minor

ap p l i c at i o n d ata f o r fa l l 20 22 6,438 applied ~9% admitted 263 enrolled 3,462 applied ~49% admitted 330 enrolled

n e a rly 780 applied ~32% admitted 97 enrolled

Undergraduate

Master’s

PhD

23%

of WashU student athletes are engineering students Y E A R I N R E V I E W 2 0 2 2 -2 3

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Buzzworthy News

A sound approach for effective gene therapy delivery to brain Researchers have been experimenting with different ways to deliver genes to the brain to treat central nervous system diseases and tumors. One of the obstacles, however, is the ability to penetrate the blood-brain barrier while having minimal effect on the other organs in the body. Hong Chen, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of neurosurgery in the School of Medicine, and her team overcame that obstacle using focused ultrasound intranasal delivery (FUSIN). They found that the intranasally delivered gene therapy had comparable or better outcomes than existing methods while having minimal effect on the body’s other organs.

McKelvey Engineering faculty awarded $10.7 million in federal clean energy grants The world’s changing climate has led the United States to set a goal of a net-zero emissions economy by 2050. Young-Shin Jun, Zhen (Jason) He, Vijay Ramani and Fuzhong Zhang, all professors in the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, are working toward that goal with a combined $10.7 million in newly awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The research projects will focus on creating new clean energy technologies that address energy production, emissions, critical element recovery and durable carbon dioxide storage.

Machine learning generates pictures of proteins in 5D By combining machine learning with the laws of physics, researchers in the lab of Matthew Lew, associate professor in the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, have been able to sort out the orientation and position of overlapping single molecules in 5D from a single image. The five dimensions in question aren’t new, hidden spatial dimensions; instead, a team headed by Tingting Wu, a PhD student in the imaging sciences program, designed a system that could tell her the orientation of a molecule in 3D space as well as its position in 2D, five parameters from a single, noisy, pixelated image.

n e w ce n t e rs Center for Biomolecular Condensates (CBC) Personalized prediction of depression treatment outcomes with wearables

‘Simple yet powerful’: Seeing cell secretion like never before

A team of researchers led by Chenyang Lu, the Fullgraf Professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering, and at the University of Illinois Chicago used data from wearable devices to predict outcomes of treatment for depression on individuals who took part in a randomized clinical trial.

They developed a novel machine learning model that analyzes data from patients randomly selected to receive treatment and those who did not receive treatment — instead of developing a separate model for each group. This unified multi-task model is a step toward personalized medicine, in which physicians design a treatment plan specific to each patient’s needs and predict outcome based on an individual’s data.

Washington University in St. Louis researchers have developed a novel method for visualizing the proteins secreted by cells with stunning resolution. The researchers, led by Srikanth Singamaneni, the Lilyan & E. Lisle Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and Anushree Seth, a former postdoctoral scholar in Singamaneni’s lab, developed the highly-sensitive FluoroDOT assay, which can see and measure proteins secreted by a single cell in about 30 minutes. With collaborators, they found that the FluoroDOT assay is versatile, low-cost and adaptable to any laboratory setting and has the potential to provide a more comprehensive look at these proteins than the widely used existing assays. The FluoroDOT assay, a plasmon-enhanced nanolabel developed in Singamaneni’s lab that is 16,000 times brighter than conventional fluorescence labels.

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The Center for Biomolecular Condensates is an interdisciplinary center that supports researchers from engineering and basic sciences who focus on the cell. CBC members are leading technological advances and a better understanding of cellular level phenotypes that have an impact on modeling complex diseases and the development of novel materials based on active living matter.

Center for Women’s Health Engineering Building on WashU’s strengths within the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, including the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the Center for Women’s Health Engineering advances novel engineering approaches to prevention, diagnosis and treatment in the field and train the next generation of researchers, entrepreneurs and policy leaders.

Faculty & Research McKelvey School of Engineering Dean

105

9:1

tenured/tenure-track faculty

undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio

165

full-time faculty Aaron Bobick, Dean and the James M. McKelvey Professor

ne w ch a i r

total re se a rch a w a rds ( fy 2 2 )

36.9m

$

tota l re se a rc h awa rd s (f y2 2 )

Foundation: $3m Industry: $1.3m Institute of Higher Ed.: $4.5m Other government: $205k

Yuan named chair of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering

Other private sources: $239k Federal: $27.5m

f ed er al sp o n sors NIH: $15.3m

Joshua Yuan brings his robust research in energy and environmental sustainability, as well as experience in entrepreneurship, to the growing department.

NSF: $4.9m DOE: $1.8m NASA: $1.3m EPA: $744k

$198.6m

ex pen ses

$178.0m

Gift aid: $54.3m Central Fiscal Unit/space: $35.5m Operations: $22m

total gro ss revenu e

total exp enses

$19.0m

str ategic o per ating & cap ital reserves

$1.6m

net results

sour ce s of incom e (fy2 2)

Financials Salaries & benefits: $66.2m

res earc h fu ndi ng s ou rc es (fy 22 ex pendi tu res )

DOD: $3.5m

Tuition: $123.9m Grants & contracts: $37.9m Gifts & endowment: $32.7m Other income: $4.1m Y E A R I N R E V I E W 2 0 2 2 -2 3

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Outcomes $

45

%

63%

Post-graduation employment

25%

Graduate, medical or law school

12%

Internship, co-op, research, other

of McKelvey Engineering undergraduate students receive financial aid

starti ng s al ary by ma jor Bachelor of Science reported average starting salaries for 2022 graduates

$82,400

top companies Abbott

Cisco

Lockheed Martin

Accenture

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Mastercard

Anheuser-Busch Apple AT&T Bain & Co. Boeing Bloomberg LP Burns & McDonnell Capital One

Environmental Systems Design Epic General Motors Goldman Sachs Google Johnson & Johnson JP Morgan Chase & Co.

McKinsey & Co. Meta

Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University

Chemical Engineering

Raytheon

$103,000

Salesforce SpaceX Tesla Trinity Consultants

Columbia University Cornell University CUNY Duke University Florida International University Georgetown University

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Imperial College London

University College Dublin

Northwestern University

University of Alberta

NYU

University of California Berkeley

Rice University Royal College of Art Stanford University Texas A&M University School of Medicine Tufts University

University of Chicago University of Cincinnati University of Colorado Boulder

UCI

University of Michigan

UCSD

Yale University

M C K E LV E Y S C H O O L O F E N G I N E E R I N G

$74,125

Microsoft

top graduate schools & postdoc fellowships Boston University

Biomedical Engineering

Computer Engineering

$112,527 Computer Science

$84,036 Electrical Engineering

$77,667 Environmental Engineering

$83,989 Mechanical Engineering

$83,260 Systems Engineering

Academic Programs

Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Undergraduate programs:

Undergraduate programs: » Biomedical Data Science (minor) » Biomedical Engineering

Graduate programs: » PhD in Biomedical Engineering » MS in Biomedical Engineering » MS in Imaging Science » Certificate in Medical Physics

Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate programs: » Bioinformatics (minor) » Computer Engineering » Computer Science » Computer Science + Economics » Computer Science + Math » Data Science » Human-Computer Interaction (minor) » Business and Computer Science (joint program)

Graduate programs: » PhD in Computer Engineering » PhD in Computer Science » MS in Computer Engineering » MS in Computer Science » MS in Cybersecurity Engineering

» Chemical Engineering » Environmental Engineering » Energy Engineering (minor)

Graduate programs: » PhD in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering » MS in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering » MEng in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering » MEng/MBA program

Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Undergraduate programs: » Aerospace Engineering (minor) » Materials Science and Engineering (minor) » Mechanical Engineering » Nanoscale Science & Engineering (minor)

Graduate programs: » PhD in Aerospace Engineering » PhD in Mechanical Engineering » MS in Aerospace Engineering » MS in Materials Science & Engineering » MS in Mechanical Engineering » MEng in Mechanical Engineering

» MEng in Computer Science & Engineering

Henry Edwin Sever Institute

» Certificate in Data Mining & Machine Learning

Graduate programs:

Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering Undergraduate programs: » Electrical Engineering » Mechatronics (minor) » Robotics (minor)

» 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

» Systems Science & Engineering

Interdisciplinary programs

» Quantum Engineering (minor)

Graduate programs:

» Financial Engineering (second major only)

» PhD in Computational & Data Sciences

Graduate programs:

» PhD in Imaging Science

» PhD or DSc in Electrical Engineering

» PhD in Materials Science & Engineering

» PhD or DSc in Systems Science & Mathematics » MS in Data Analytics and Statistics

UMSL/WashU Joint Engineering Undergraduate Program

» MS in Electrical Engineering

Undergraduate programs:

» MS in Systems Science & Mathematics

» Civil Engineering

» Certificate in Imaging Science & Engineering

» Electrical Engineering » Mechanical Engineering

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2023 Best Colleges for Engineering niche

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Best Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree

Degrees Awarded s u m m e r 2 0 2 1, f a l l 2 0 2 1 and spring 2022

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Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program u. s . n e w s & w o r l d r e p o r t