GOAL: To provide a transformative and personalized educational experience that prepares our graduates to become an engineer and something more.

Attract, support, and graduate a high-achieving student body

  1. Prioritize recruitment and retention efforts.
  2. Maintain an enrollment that continues to afford each student the opportunity to create their unique place within, and their unique mark on, our community.
  3. Increase scholarship funds and an awareness of funding opportunities. 
  4. Enhance resources (facilities, virtual modalities, faculty, and staff) to meet the growing demand for engineering education.

Capitalize on our strengths within the college and within the broader university community to provide an extraordinary student experience

  1. Provide students with individualized attention to meet their changing personal and professional academic interests.
  2. Continue to identify, assess, and eliminate barriers to student success.
  3. Increase student perseverance and success by offering a collaborative learning environment and co-curricular activities that deepen subject understanding, foster critical thinking, and strengthen study skills (e.g., tutoring, group study tables, supplemental instruction, virtual or hybrid learning).  
  4. Engage students in career preparation (e.g., resume writing and interview skills workshops, and career fairs). 

Provide a modern curriculum that instills both technical depth and the broad foundation of liberal arts essential for lifelong growth and achievement

  1. Continuously innovate both the core and major curricula.
  2. Establish new cross-disciplinary courses and projects in the college.
  3. Incorporate ethics and principles of access and opportunity throughout the curriculum (undergraduate and graduate). 
  4. Identify and promote additional opportunities for minors, dual majors, and certificates.

Support and recognize excellence in teaching, learning, and innovation both in and out of the classroom

  1. Transform the classroom with the latest pedagogy and advanced tools for engineering education.
  2. Promote and encourage participation in initiatives offered by Distance and Online Education and the Office of Teaching, Learning, & Technology.
  3. Establish communities of practice and/or teaching circles aimed at innovative teaching (i.e., assessment strategies, remote laboratories, etc.).
  4. Adopt the end-of-course teaching evaluation questions and promote peer observation recommendations made by the UI ACE Task Force.

To empower students to become everyday leaders by facilitating and encouraging opportunities for co-curricular learning, intentional engagement, self-reflection, and skill development

  1. Collaborate with campus and community partners to offer leadership experiences and expose students to a variety of perspectives and professional pathways.
  2. Create meaningful opportunities for students to actively contribute to the development, planning, and facilitation of co-curricular activities (i.e., student organizations, outreach activities, etc.).
  3. Expand opportunities for global experience. 

We can meet our student success goal if we provide a world-class, cost-effective, undergraduate engineering education and become a college of distinction known for supporting student success.