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2016 Report

Status

ISU's Physics graduate program began offering Ph.D.s in Applied Physics in 2006 with its first Ph.D. graduate occurring in 2009. Previously, Ph.D.s degrees were awarded in Engineering and Applied Science, a multi-displinary graduate program. The physics department grew in faculty to serve this new degree in the following years reaching a peak of thirteen in 2009. The number of full time Physics faculty has been steadily dropping since 2009 and currently stands at seven full time physics faculty. As expected, this drop in faculty has resulted in fewer graduate students entering the program, a trend we seek to reverse with curriculum changes as well as an increase in the number of full time physics faculty.

Objectives

ISU's Physics departments Strategic Plan is given below.

/PhysicsWebPage#Physics_Strategic_Plan

Proposal

We propose to alter our curriculum to focus more on our specialization in Nuclear physics. This is achieved by replacing two of our most advanced courses with courses specializing in Nuclear physics. The faculty met on September 2, 2016 and voted in favor of these changes to the curriculum. Specifically, the second semester of graduate Quantum Mechanics (PHYS6625) and Electricity & Magnetism (PHYS6612) will be replace with Introduction to Nuclear Physics (PHYS5509) and Advanced Nuclear Physics (PHYS6609). We believe these changes will focus the physics graduate program in physics research that is undertaken at the Idaho Accelerator Center, Jefferson Lab, and the Idaho National Lab. We feel that this will allow us to attract replacements for at least two of the six faculty who were active at the Idaho Accelerator Center but left the University.

Link to the webpage Graduate_Programs

History

Faculty

From a 2009 peak of 13 faculty the department is now at 7 in 2016.

year	Faculty
2005	Wells , Harmon, Knox ,Beezhold, Chouffani, Hunt , Cole, Keeter, Shropshire, Tatar
2006	Wells , Harmon, Knox ,Beezhold, Chouffani, Hunt , Cole, Keeter, Shropshire, Tatar
2007	Dale, Harmon, Knox, Shropshire, Wells , Beezhold,Cole, Keeter, Tatar, Chouffani, Forest, Hunt , Chandler
2008	Dale, Shropshire, Wells , Beezhold,Cole, Keeter, Tatar, Chouffani, Forest, Hunt , Chandler
2009	Shropshire, Dale, Wells ,Beezhold ,Cole, Keeter, Tatar,Chouffani, Dimitrov, Forest, Hunt ,Chandler, Mitchell
2010	Shropshire ,Dale, Wells,Cole, Keeter, Tatar,Chouffani, Dimitrov, Forest, Hunt ,Chandler,Mitchell
2011	Shropshire ,Dale, Wells,Cole, Keeter, Tatar,Chouffani, Dimitrov, Forest, Hunt ,Chandler,Mitchell,Starovoitova
2012	Wells,Dale, Shropshire,Cole, Tatar,Chouffani,Dimitrov, Forest, Hunt, McNulty, Y. Kim,Starovoitova
2013	Khandaker , Dale, Shropshire ,Cole, Chouffani, Forest, Hunt, McNulty , Y. Kim
2014
2015	Khandaker,Cole,Dale,Shropshire,Forest,Tatar, Chouffani, Hunt,McNulty
2016	Khandaker,Cole,Dale,Shropshire,Forest,Tatar,McNulty

Grad Students

Number of Physics Grad Majors for each year

Year	MS	PHD
2006	28	23
2007	22	26
2008	26	32
2009	30	35
2010	30	39
2011	25	37
2012	29	30
2013	26	28
2014	16	25
2015	18	18
2016	11	14

IDC

PF2IAC= IDC generated by physics faculty through the IAC PF2PHY= IDC generated by physics faculty through the physics department

Fiscal Year	PF2IAC	PF2Phys
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010	$688,095
2011	$903,377
2012	$644,636
2013	$312,265
2014	$189,280
2015	$213,309
2016	$106,987

Demographics

Students from IF in PHYS 1100,1101,1111,1152,2211,2212 Fall semester

Year	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Total	567	605	564	591	482
From IF	74	105	59	61	63

Students from IF in PHYS 1100,1101,1112, 1152, 2211,2212 Spring semester

Year	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Total		537	489	447	491
From IF		90	102	69	77

COSE Faculty -vs- Year

Number of CoSE Tenure and Tenure track faculty

Department	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Biology	31	31	30	27	25
Chemistry	11	11	11	10	9
Geosciences
Mathematics	16	16	16	16	15
Physics	12	9	9	9	7
Civil
Electrical	6	7	5	5	5
Mechanical
Nuclear	4	4	4	4	4

ROI

FY	Salary	Student Credit Hours (SCH)			SCH*Tuition	Salary*Overhead	Revenue-Expenses
		UG:LD	UG:LA	UG:UD	MS	Ph.D.
13	$555,579	4113		467	221	189	$1,497,000	1,166,716	$330,284
14		3480	493	415	70	182	$1,392,000
15
16

UG:LD = Undergraduate Lower Division classes

UG:UD = Undergraduate Upper Division classes

UG:LA = Undergraduate Labs

Tuition = In state tuition is used to determine the revenue generated solely by physics instruction.

Overhead= A multiplier from ISU's CFO used to estimate the universities costs for providing instruction.

Census Day Class Enrollment

AY	Essentials (1100)		Elements (1101)		General (111/112)		Astronomy(1152)		Engineering (211/212)
	Fall	Spring	Fall	Spring	Fall	Spring	Fall	Spring	Fall	Spring
12-13	83	127	40	37	208	132	104	109	132	132
13-14	84	107	27	31	217	124	140	103	137	124
14-15	46	77	29	27	205	93	138	84	146	166
15-16	44	80	31	50	202	108	108	83	206	170
16-17	39		21		201		63		157

Peer Institutions

Average # of faculty at our peer institutions is 13.

Peer institutions identified by Institutional Research on their web page

http://www2.isu.edu/instres/peers.shtml

Institution	Number of faculty
Kent State University at Kent (Kent, OH)	19
Montana State University (Bozeman, MT)	16
North Dakota State University - Main Campus (Fargo, ND)	12
Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ)	8
Northern Illinois University (Dekalb, IL)	24
South Dakota State University (Brookings, SD)	4
The University of Montana (Missoula, MT)	8
University of Nevada - Reno (Reno, NV)	12
University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND)	8
University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD)	8
University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY)	11
Wichita State University (Wichita, KS)	9
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)	30

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