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Our goal is to provide a transformative educational experience that prepares our graduates to become an engineer and something more
Strategy
- Be a college of distinction known for supporting student success
Critical Tasks
- Attract, support, and graduate a talented and high‐achieving student body
- Maintain an enrollment that continues to afford each student the opportunity to create their unique place within, and their unique mark on, our community
- Capitalize on our strengths within the college and within the broader university community to provide an extraordinary student experience
- Provide students with individualized attention to meet their changing personal and professional academic interests
Indicators of Success
- Improved on‐time graduation rates
- Undergraduate enrollment of approximately 2,200
- Reduced student‐faculty ratio
Strategy
- Foster an inclusive environment that supports a thriving, diverse, and supportive community
Critical Tasks
- Recruit and retain faculty, staff, and student body to enhance the diversity of the college
- Promote opportunities that advance student, faculty, and staff knowledge and appreciation of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Develop retention programs designed to empower first‐generation, international, and underrepresented students
Indicators of Success
- Increased diversity of faculty, staff, and students
- Measurable increase in first‐year retention rates
- Measurable increase in retention and graduation rates of first‐generation, international, and underrepresented students
Strategy
- Provide a world‐class undergraduate engineering education
Critical Tasks
- Provide a modern curriculum that instills both technical depth and the broad foundation of liberal arts essential for lifelong growth and achievement
- Continuously innovate major curricula
- Create a culture that promotes curricular collaboration across departments
- Transform the classroom with the latest pedagogy and advanced tools for engineering education
- Enable and promote experiential learning
- Raise the profile of effective teaching
- Expand undergraduate research programs and student mentoring
Indicators of Success
- Curricula continuously accredited
- Increased number of cross‐department collaborative courses
- All undergraduates in the college of engineering participate in one or more of the following before graduation: research; study abroad; co‐op/internship; a student organization; outreach; mentoring others (peer advisor, tutoring, etc.)
- Increased number of students graduating with honors
- Increased number of students who complete certificates and/or minors