Mechanical Engineering Department Metrics
	Metric	Units	Comparison To	Department Goal	College Goal	Faculty Goal	Faculty Performance Factor	Faculty Workload Weight	Department Goal	Comments
Faculty Statistics
	Faculty Diversity				Institutional Equity goals met				Institutional Equity goals met
	Student/Faculty Ratio (Headcount/Group I)				<20				< 20	We are currently much higher, so to meet it while increasing enrollment will require additional faculty
	Percent SCH taught by Group I				>75%				> 90%	An important characteristic of our program.
	Section Size				<25% small sections actual courses; all below 70				<25% small sections actual courses; all below 70	Summer classes should be treated separately to allow us to fully support co-op.
Cost of Instruction
	Direct instructional expenditure per student FTE (Delaware Study)				all engg. programs within 10% of peer average				all engg. programs within 10% of peer average	Need current baseline
	SUMS Space Study				Inventory within 10% of need				Inventory within 10% of need	Need current baseline
Student Statistics
	Total Majors	# people				NA
	ugrads	# people			1450				255
	masters	# people		5 per full time faculty member	250	NA			25	Grad targets could increase if we increase numbers of grad faculty
	phd	# people		2 per full time faculty member	100	NA			10	Grad targets could increase if we increase numbers of grad faculty
	Female Enrollment (50% higher than national)	statistics	national statistics	be in top 20% of similar programs	26%	NA			26%	We believe this is important but are concerned that we have little ability to directly improve it on a departmental level.  We will participate in college / unoversity outreach efforts.
	Minority Enrollment	statistics			Top 20% of peers	NA			Top 20% of peers	We believe this is important but are concerned that we have little ability to directly improve it on a departmental level.  We will participate in college / unoversity outreach efforts.
	Student retention rate	statistics	Both OU and National statistics	better than OU average	>80% Freshman to Sophomore	NA			>80% Freshman to Sophomore
	Average enrolled time to grad (less coop quarters)				<4.67				<4.67
	Entering student profile (Undergrad)				mean ACT new freshmen >24.0				mean ACT new freshmen >24.0
	Entering student profile (Grad)				80th percentile or better GRE (quantitative)				80th percentile or better GRE (quantitative)
Teaching
	Student Engagement				All selected NSSE responses >3	above average			All selected NSSE responses >3
	Grade Stability (undergraduate)				<35% A, A-; <60% A, A-, B+, B, B-				Faculty discussions of fair and appropriate grading	Concerned with difficulty of setting a grade target without regard for class, level, quality of instruction,…
Scholarship
	Journal Publications	total		average 1 per FTGI per year	average 1 per FTGI per year	1 per year			average 1 per FTGI grad faculty per year
	Conference  Publications	total		average 1 per FTGI per year	average 1 per FTGI per year	1 per year			average 1 per FTGI per year
	Unrefereed Publications	total		average 1 per FTGI per year	average 1 per FTGI per year	Maximum of 1			as appropriate	May be valuable and deserve rewards, but it is hard to give a target number because they are "special cases"
	Conference Presentations (Faculty)				average 1 per FTGI per year	Maximum of 1			average 1 per FTGI per year
	Conference Presentations (Students)				average 1 per FTGI per year				average 1 per FTGI per year
	Books published	books times 1			one new per year	as appropriate			one every 6 years
	Book chapters published	books times 1			3 new per year	as appropriate			as appropriate	Valued, but hard to predict or control.
	Conferences Attended	# conferences		average 2 per FTGI per year	average 1.5 per FTGI per year	minimum 1 per year			average 1 per FTGI per year	Based on current levels of travel funding and % of GI faculty with grad faculty status.
	Patents awarded	patents			5	as appropriate			1 every 2 years	We are concerned with our lack of control of this process.
	Patent applications				10	as appropriate			1	We are concerned with our lack of control of this process.
	Patent disclosures				10	as appropriate			2
	External Funding	dollars		as appropriate for FTE	$200k per Group I per year	$250k/year			$200k per FTGI grad faculty per year
	Proposals written	# instances	national data (Delaware?)	as appropriate for FTE	90 each >$50K	minimum 1 per year			2 per FTGI grad faculty per year, each>$50K
	External Graduate Student Support + Fee Paying Students	FTE			60%	2 students per year			60%
University Service
	University Committee Participation Rate	# instances		1 per faculty	25%	1			25%
	Accreditation				All programs less Aviation accredited	as assigned			ABET Accredited
	Development (fundraising) activities				Dean meets goal	as assigned			Support Dean as appropriate
Professional Activities
	Federal Agency Review Panel Service	proposals		average 1 per FTGI per year	20	1 per year			1	Need to know current baseline.  College goal seems high based on our departmental history.
	Papers Reviewed	papers		?	average 2 per FTGI per year	3 per year			average 2 per FTGI grad faculty per year
	Conference/Workshop chairs	instances		average 0.25 per FTGI per year	2 per year				1 every 3 years
	Technical session chairs	instances		average 0.5 per FTGI per year	average 0.5 per FTGI per year				avg 1 per FTGI grad faculty per 2 years
	Professional Certification (e.g., PE)				50% of eligible GI	registered, if available			25% of eligible GI	We support licensure in areas where it is applicable, and 25% is much higher than the national average for MEs.
	Journal Editor/Associate Editor				1 per year	as appropriate			1 every 6 years
	Professional Organization Officer (National)				2 per year	as appropriate			1 every 6 years
	Professional Organization Membership				100%	required			100%
	Accreditation visits conducted			average 0.2 per senior faculty	5 total	as appropriate			NA (no ABET reviewers on staff)
Collaboration University Wide or With Other Institutions
	Collaborative or Interdiscplinary Participation (Joint grants & contracts)				20% of GI with active grants or contracts	as assigned			20% of FTGI grad faculty with active grants or contracts
	Courses Co-taught (within university)	# of courses			6 courses per year	1 every 2 years			Will look for opportunities
	Courses Co-taught (outside university)				6 courses per year				Will look for opportunities
	Co-Author Papers (within university)				6 papers per year				1 per year
	Co-Author Papers (outside university)				6 papers per year				Will look for opportunities
Prominence Misc
	Fellow of national/international society	# instances		0.25 of senior faculty	0.25 of senior faculty				> 1	We currently have 2.