Executive Summary - College of Engineering Strategic Plan
Engineering the Future – Today
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For more than 100 years, the College of Engineering has successfully fulfilled its primary mission: to provide an excellent engineering education to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Arkansas. Our distinguished alumni stand as a testament to our success.
Without a doubt, our primary mission will never change as we continually create better ways to serve our students and prepare them for leadership. But in the words of the poet Robert Browning: “Man’s reach should exceed his grasp – or what’s a heaven for?”
The College of Engineering is at a crossroad and our faculty, staff, alumni and students face a choice: to remain the same and accept incremental change or to challenge ourselves to become the best we can. Our faculty and staff have chosen the more ambitious and rigorous path. Specifically, our goal is:
To become and be recognized as one of the top tier graduate and undergraduate engineering programs in the U.S.
By successfully accomplishing this objective, the College of Engineering will contribute to the University of Arkansas goal of becoming a nationally-competitive, student-centered research institution serving Arkansas and the world.
But no journey should be undertaken without a road map. So, a group of our faculty, staff and students developed the first version of our new strategic plan in the spring of 2004, which outlines six main goals to advance our institution and achieve our objective. The original version was revised in the spring of 2007. The five primary goals in the new plan are essentially the same as in the previous version with some consolidation and some changes in the specific goals for 2010 based on progress in the previous three years.
Five Strategic Goals
1. Implementing the Student-Centered Educational Experience
Provide a student-centered educational experience that attracts diverse, high-quality students, enables them to realize their potential, inspires them to pursue excellence at all degree levels and grooms them to become leaders in their profession.
2. Implementing an Enabling Research Environment
Create a research environment that enables, enhances and recognizes scholarship, while stimulating entrepreneurship and economic development within our state, nation and world.
3. Implementing the Vision as it Relates to Faculty
Recruit, mentor and retain high-quality and diverse faculty members who value and promote world-class scholarship.
4. Implementing the Vision as it Relates to Staff
Attract, develop and retain well-qualified, diverse and skilled staff members who are equipped to support the growth and potential of the College of Engineering.
5. Implementing the Service and Economic Development Outreach Plan
Enhance the impact of the College of Engineering both within and outside the university through service and outreach.
