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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

Faculty

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
2012 Wells,Dale, Shropshire,Cole, Tatar,Chouffani,Dimitrov, Forest, Hunt, McNulty, Y. Kim
2013 Khandaker , Dale, Shropshire ,Cole, Chouffani, Forest, Hunt, McNulty , Y. Kim,Starovoitova
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 1100,1101,1111,1152,1112,2211,2212

Year 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Total 567 605 564 591 482
From IF 75 101 70 67 57

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.

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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