http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?z=38&a=6343

UCF also made the list among the top 25 public US universities in patents for the year

State of Florida leading the way.

Here's to USF and UCF. Well done.

Very nice. IEEE Spectrum actually goes a bit further and instead of ranking by total number of patents, they rank schools based on the strength of their patents. They take into account how many citations a body of patents received by companies and other universities in their research.

In that ranking, UCF has been Top 10 in the world and cracked the Top 5 several times.



The UCF Research Park, the 4th largest research park in the country, is home to numerous engineering, tech, and defense companies and organizations including Lockheed Martin, Siemens, Northrop Grumman, ARMY, NAVY, Air Force, Lucent, among many others.

A group of UCF engineering students set out to make a ceiling fan that both increased air flow output and performed more efficiently than existing fans. They got the idea of designing a ceiling fan in the shape of an airplane propeller which they named the Gossamer Wind fan after the flight pioneer.

Today, Hampton Bay manufactures the fan and it is one of the top-selling ceiling fans at Home Depot. They have sold more than one million units.

In fact, it's very possible that some people on this board actually own one.

(06-16-2014 07:31 PM)St. H. Gink Wrote:  Very nice. IEEE Spectrum actually goes a bit further and instead of ranking by total number of patents, they rank schools based on the strength of their patents. They take into account how many citations a body of patents received by companies and other universities in their research.

In that ranking, UCF has been Top 10 in the world and cracked the Top 5 several times.



The UCF Research Park, the 4th largest research park in the country, is home to numerous engineering, tech, and defense companies and organizations including Lockheed Martin, Siemens, Northrop Grumman, ARMY, NAVY, Air Force, Lucent, among many others.

Urm Can you link please. because this doesn't have UCF on it. I'd like to see whom in the AAC has been on the list for the past few years.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interact...power-2013

In fact this is their 2013 list and data.

1.00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 236.00 1.36 1.73 0.25 1.73 2.20 1.07 1,315.75
2.00 University of California United States 411.00 1.11 1.31 0.19 1.31 1.73 1.12 1,151.37
3.00 Tsinghua University China 158.00 1.34 2.08 0.61 1.44 2.12 1.20 776.22
4.00 California Institute of Technology United States 143.00 1.27 1.70 0.21 1.70 2.13 1.12 732.54
5.00 Stanford University United States 200.00 1.15 1.51 0.22 1.51 1.69 1.06 621.79
6.00 Harvard University United States 61.00 0.97 2.23 0.31 2.21 3.28 1.24 529.50
7.00 University of Iowa United States 36.00 1.38 3.45 0.29 3.45 2.75 1.06 500.19
8.00 University of Texas United States 172.00 1.25 1.08 0.21 1.08 2.02 1.06 498.53
9.00 William Marsh Rice University (aka Rice University) United States 37.00 1.12 2.55 0.06 2.55 3.19 1.20 403.92
10.00 University of Southern California United States 96.00 1.50 1.43 0.35 1.37 1.73 1.15 391.20
11.00 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 39.00 1.62 3.93 0.11 3.93 1.37 1.09 371.63
12.00 University of Illinois United States 92.00 0.93 1.74 0.18 1.74 2.13 1.07 338.19
13.00 University of Miami United States 24.00 3.00 1.38 0.19 1.38 2.81 1.16 325.51
14.00 University of Michigan United States 118.00 1.27 1.32 0.28 1.32 1.49 1.09 320.79
15.00 Loma Linda University United States 12.00 1.33 3.73 0.45 3.16 5.00 1.25 315.44
16.00 Carnegie Mellon University United States 39.00 1.86 1.48 0.12 1.48 2.54 1.00 273.91
17.00 North Carolina State University United States 43.00 1.05 1.92 0.12 1.92 2.72 1.14 268.84
18.00 University of South Carolina United States 24.00 1.71 1.59 0.04 1.59 3.61 1.03 244.85
19.00 Cornell University United States 67.00 0.94 1.34 0.20 1.34 2.31 1.14 222.69
20.00 University of Utah United States 91.00 1.90 0.81 0.16 0.81 1.45 1.07 217.53

Nice, leading where it counts. Any inventors on the board?

Here its Spectrum 2011 rankings
USF at #14 is the only AAC school listed
http://spectrum.ieee.org/ns/pdfs/2011.PatentFinal.pdf[/align]

UCF at #20 makes it in 2012

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interact...anchor_uni

Cincinnati and USF may be the next schools invited to join the AAU. They did 394 million and 331 million research respectively in 2010. Each does several times the amount of research as some members and some of those have been stagnant for decades. As example, Bramdeis, a member, did 38 million in 2010. It may be the next one to be kicked out. Those differences cannot stand.

Congrats USF and UCF.

I can only find us at 21. We had 123m in research dollars for 2012 but our endowments are similar. We have a ton of partners but there wasn't an emphasis on the dollars until recently


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While UC and USF research dollars are up there with AAU schools. There still is a ways to go in endowments. The average AAU public school has 1.6 billion in endowments . Right now
UC has a bit over 1.0 billion , USF is at 365 million and UCF at 130 million

But as I have said before USF has made AAU membership a goal and certainly is making an effort across the board that is improving every facet of the university.

USF reached 623 million in fundraising on its 4 year Unstoppable campaign and it has now set a goal to reach 1 billion

(06-16-2014 07:54 PM)USFRamenu Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 07:31 PM)St. H. Gink Wrote:  Very nice. IEEE Spectrum actually goes a bit further and instead of ranking by total number of patents, they rank schools based on the strength of their patents. They take into account how many citations a body of patents received by companies and other universities in their research.

In that ranking, UCF has been Top 10 in the world and cracked the Top 5 several times.



The UCF Research Park, the 4th largest research park in the country, is home to numerous engineering, tech, and defense companies and organizations including Lockheed Martin, Siemens, Northrop Grumman, ARMY, NAVY, Air Force, Lucent, among many others.

Urm Can you link please. because this doesn't have UCF on it. I'd like to see whom in the AAC has been on the list for the past few years.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interact...power-2013

In fact this is their 2013 list and data.

1.00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 236.00 1.36 1.73 0.25 1.73 2.20 1.07 1,315.75
2.00 University of California United States 411.00 1.11 1.31 0.19 1.31 1.73 1.12 1,151.37
3.00 Tsinghua University China 158.00 1.34 2.08 0.61 1.44 2.12 1.20 776.22
4.00 California Institute of Technology United States 143.00 1.27 1.70 0.21 1.70 2.13 1.12 732.54
5.00 Stanford University United States 200.00 1.15 1.51 0.22 1.51 1.69 1.06 621.79
6.00 Harvard University United States 61.00 0.97 2.23 0.31 2.21 3.28 1.24 529.50
7.00 University of Iowa United States 36.00 1.38 3.45 0.29 3.45 2.75 1.06 500.19
8.00 University of Texas United States 172.00 1.25 1.08 0.21 1.08 2.02 1.06 498.53
9.00 William Marsh Rice University (aka Rice University) United States 37.00 1.12 2.55 0.06 2.55 3.19 1.20 403.92
10.00 University of Southern California United States 96.00 1.50 1.43 0.35 1.37 1.73 1.15 391.20
11.00 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 39.00 1.62 3.93 0.11 3.93 1.37 1.09 371.63
12.00 University of Illinois United States 92.00 0.93 1.74 0.18 1.74 2.13 1.07 338.19
13.00 University of Miami United States 24.00 3.00 1.38 0.19 1.38 2.81 1.16 325.51
14.00 University of Michigan United States 118.00 1.27 1.32 0.28 1.32 1.49 1.09 320.79
15.00 Loma Linda University United States 12.00 1.33 3.73 0.45 3.16 5.00 1.25 315.44
16.00 Carnegie Mellon University United States 39.00 1.86 1.48 0.12 1.48 2.54 1.00 273.91
17.00 North Carolina State University United States 43.00 1.05 1.92 0.12 1.92 2.72 1.14 268.84
18.00 University of South Carolina United States 24.00 1.71 1.59 0.04 1.59 3.61 1.03 244.85
19.00 Cornell University United States 67.00 0.94 1.34 0.20 1.34 2.31 1.14 222.69
20.00 University of Utah United States 91.00 1.90 0.81 0.16 0.81 1.45 1.07 217.53

The year we were #3 was 2010: http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/patentpower2010

(06-16-2014 07:54 PM)USFRamenu Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 07:31 PM)St. H. Gink Wrote:  Very nice. IEEE Spectrum actually goes a bit further and instead of ranking by total number of patents, they rank schools based on the strength of their patents. They take into account how many citations a body of patents received by companies and other universities in their research.

In that ranking, UCF has been Top 10 in the world and cracked the Top 5 several times.



The UCF Research Park, the 4th largest research park in the country, is home to numerous engineering, tech, and defense companies and organizations including Lockheed Martin, Siemens, Northrop Grumman, ARMY, NAVY, Air Force, Lucent, among many others.

Urm Can you link please. because this doesn't have UCF on it.

The above is from the IEEE Patent Power in 2010:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/patentpower2010

UCF also made the Top 20 in Patent Power in 2012:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interact...anchor_uni

Thanks for the updates. I could only find from 2011 to 2013. Thus the question. I'm glad to see that there's some push in academics within the American. It will be yet another way in which this conference can distance it's self from the G4.

(06-16-2014 10:23 PM)HoustonRocks Wrote:  Cincinnati and USF may be the next schools invited to join the AAU. They did 394 million and 331 million research respectively in 2010. Each does several times the amount of research as some members and some of those have been stagnant for decades. As example, Bramdeis, a member, did 38 million in 2010. It may be the next one to be kicked out. Those differences cannot stand.

Congrats USF and UCF.

On a per undergrad ratio, Brandeis produces more research by a significant %. Not sure the implications for AAU but that matters.

There are about 100 schools int he US that strive to be an AAU member. I don;t know if the scummy Florida educational people will allow USF to get an AAU invite ahead of FSU. Perhaps they won;t have a huge say but I have my doubts.

UConn is arguably the closest of the AAC schools to approaching AAU membership (and even then UConn is a few years away at the moment with their modest 357 million endowment). I am not trying to downplay making the top 20 list for patents (kudos to USF as it is impressive), but there is more to being an AAU research university than being a top school for patents (and none of the schools in the AAC, including UConn, currently meet the requirements). Some additional things that come into play are:

- Competitively funded federal research support: The Membership Committee uses National Science Foundation (NSF) research expenditure data, excluding formula-allocated USDA research expenditures and American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) expenditures. Funding for the Agriculture Food and Research Initiative (AFRI), a competitively funded USDA research support program, is included in the Phase I research support indicator.
- Membership in the National Academies (NAS, NAE, IOM)
- Faculty awards, fellowships, and memberships
- USDA, state, and industrial research funding
- Doctoral education: The Committee uses number of Ph.D.s granted annually
- Number of postdoctoral appointees
- Undergraduate education

http://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10972

AAU membership is more about prestige than anything. The most important factor (after the qualifications listed above are met) is if other AAU member schools deem the name of your school as being an impressive name and want to consider you as one of their peers. It is mostly snobbery.

As we have learned with the P5 football schools, the schools that have been playing in FBS (1-A) the longest don't want to share the pie with the new guys. The same applies here. I don't see AAU schools that have been around that long sharing the AAU designation with schools that have been around for less than 50 years. They feel that they have "earned it over time" and don't want to share the pie with schools that are currently on the rise. The rapid ascension of UCF and USF both on the field and in the classroom threatens the old guard.

(06-17-2014 11:17 AM)UConnHusky Wrote:  UConn is arguably the closest of the AAC schools to approaching AAU membership (and even then UConn is a few years away at the moment with their modest 357 million endowment). I am not trying to downplay making the top 20 list for patents (kudos to USF as it is impressive), but there is more to being an AAU research university than being a top school for patents (and none of the schools in the AAC, including UConn, currently meet the requirements). Some additional things that come into play are:

- Competitively funded federal research support: The Membership Committee uses National Science Foundation (NSF) research expenditure data, excluding formula-allocated USDA research expenditures and American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) expenditures. Funding for the Agriculture Food and Research Initiative (AFRI), a competitively funded USDA research support program, is included in the Phase I research support indicator.
- Membership in the National Academies (NAS, NAE, IOM)
- Faculty awards, fellowships, and memberships
- USDA, state, and industrial research funding
- Doctoral education: The Committee uses number of Ph.D.s granted annually
- Number of postdoctoral appointees
- Undergraduate education

http://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10972

AAU membership is more about prestige than anything. The most important factor (after the qualifications listed above are met) is if other AAU member schools deem the name of your school as being an impressive name and want to consider you as one of their peers. It is mostly snobbery.

As we have learned with the P5 football schools, the schools that have been playing in FBS (1-A) the longest don't want to share the pie with the new guys. The same applies here. I don't see AAU schools that have been around that long sharing the AAU designation with schools that have been around for less than 50 years. They feel that they have "earned it over time" and don't want to share the pie with schools that are currently on the rise. The rapid ascension of UCF and USF both on the field and in the classroom threatens the old guard.

I assume you're talking about the chances of conference schools that are not already in the AAU becoming members, but just to clarify...Tulane has been an AAU member since 1958 (http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5476)