At the end of the event, faculty members in attendance were asked to contribute what they thought was the best idea presented during the Faculty Planning Workshop. The complied ideas are:
- Centralized facility for materials characterization (4 people)
- Hire a PR firm (2 people)
- Seek collaboration with biology departments
- Physical space for collaboration between Engineering & Applied Physical Sciences and fundamental biology in new space (addition to YUH).
- Cross-disciplinary research focused on union among biology, materials and physics. Have Yale Engineering be known for strong fundamental x-disciplinary work.
- New building: Use for engineering and physics soft condensed matter on biological sciences, though consider to what price dividing departments may be harmful
- Focusing of interdisciplinary activities: Life science + engineering; energy + engineering
- Energy in engineering
- Lower per-grad student cost
- Getting rid of departments/renaming departments to better match research discipline
- Working groups to define initiatives
- Changing image of Yale Education
- Industrial Liaison/Product Design Center
- To increase visibility, have a centralized conference center/lecture hall building with general meeting spaces/coffee shop/atrium on Yale Central Campus
- Establishing Yale as a player in Engineering & Applied Science – similar to Harvard
- New building as the “technical commons” that uses a centralized facility to build inter-disciplinary links to Science Hill and the rest of the campus
- Centers of state-of-the-art shared instrumentation and associated staff
- West Campus as Yale’s National Lab
- Define 3-5 key focal (interdisciplinary) areas around which Yale Engineering will grow/improve
- To have a School of Engineering with autonomy
- General Engineering B.A. with foreign study component
- “Bell Labs” for sustainability at West Campus
- Maximize the new footprint of the new building