Faculty Hiring Patterns in Mechanical Engineering at Elite Universities

Anil Saigal; Arun K. Saigal

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Conference: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Publication Date: June 10, 2012
Start Date: June 10, 2012
End Date: June 13, 2012
ISSN: 2153-5965
Conference Session: Exploration of Trends in Engineering Education
Tagged Division: Graduate Studies
Page Count: 7
Page Numbers: 25.632.1 - 25.632.7
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--21389
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/21389
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Anil Saigal Tufts University

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Anil Saigal is a professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University, Medford, Mass., USA. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and his B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He is a Fellow of ASME. His research interests include materials and manufacturing engineering.

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Arun K. Saigal Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Arun Saigal is a student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA. His research interest is in the areas of data analysis and mobile application development.

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FACULTY AT TOP MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES AbstractDoes it matter where you do your doctorate if your goal is to become a faculty member at a top mechanical engineering research university? A number of criteria have been used to rank engineering institutions including total research and development expenditures, federally sponsored research and development, number of members of the National Academies, significant faculty awards, size of endowment and annual giving and mean GRE scores of enrolling graduates students among others. As per the US News, the top 10 ranked programs in Mechanical Engineering are MIT, Stanford, UC‐Berkeley, CalTech, Michigan‐Ann Arbor, Georgia Tech, Illinois‐Urbana Champagne, Cornell, Purdue and Princeton. However, as a graduating mechanical engineering doctoral student, what are your chances of receiving an offer at one of these top ranked institutions in Mechanical Engineering. This study looks at the distribution of faculty at these institutions and where they received their doctorate. More than 60% of the faculty at the 10 top ranked institutions is from these institutions themselves with nearly 45% of them from the top four. If you include other Ivy League schools and major international universities, this number increases to nearly 80%. More than 50% of MIT faculty received their doctorate from MIT itself. Georgia Tech was the most diverse and had the highest percent of faculty from non top 10 ranked institutions. MIT, Caltech and Stanford were the only institutions to have successfully placed their graduates at each of the top 10 ranked institutions, while MIT took the top honors in placing the highest number of its graduates at these institutions. So it appears that the institution where graduates receive their doctorate affects their employability as a faculty member. 2012 ASEE Annual Conference San Antonio, TX June 10-13, 2012

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Saigal, A., & Saigal, A. K. (2012, June), Faculty Hiring Patterns in Mechanical Engineering at Elite Universities Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21389

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AB  -            FACULTY AT TOP MECHANICAL ENGINEERING                   RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES                                        AbstractDoes  it  matter  where  you  do  your  doctorate  if  your  goal  is  to  become  a  faculty member at a top mechanical engineering research university?  A number of criteria have  been  used  to  rank  engineering  institutions  including  total  research  and development expenditures, federally sponsored research and development, number of  members  of  the  National  Academies,  significant  faculty  awards,  size  of endowment and annual giving and mean GRE scores of enrolling graduates students among  others.  As  per  the  US  News,  the  top  10  ranked  programs  in  Mechanical Engineering are MIT, Stanford, UC‐Berkeley, CalTech, Michigan‐Ann Arbor, Georgia Tech,  Illinois‐Urbana  Champagne,  Cornell,  Purdue  and  Princeton.  However,  as  a graduating  mechanical  engineering  doctoral  student,  what  are  your  chances  of receiving an offer at one of these top ranked institutions in Mechanical Engineering. This  study looks  at  the  distribution  of  faculty  at  these  institutions and  where they received  their  doctorate.    More  than  60%  of  the  faculty  at  the  10  top  ranked institutions is from these institutions themselves with nearly 45% of them from the top  four.  If  you  include  other  Ivy  League  schools  and  major  international universities,  this  number  increases  to  nearly  80%.  More  than  50%  of  MIT  faculty received their doctorate from MIT itself. Georgia Tech was the most diverse and had the highest percent of faculty from non top 10 ranked institutions.  MIT, Caltech and Stanford  were  the  only  institutions  to  have  successfully  placed  their  graduates  at each of the top 10 ranked institutions, while MIT took the top honors in placing the highest  number  of  its  graduates  at  these  institutions.    So  it  appears  that  the institution where graduates receive their doctorate affects their employability as a faculty member.                                  2012 ASEE Annual Conference                                  San Antonio, TX                                 June 10-13, 2012  
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