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The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering Strategic Plan, 2005-2010

Strategic Intent: UW-Madison College of Engineering will be among the top five public colleges of engineering in the U.S.

Mission: To educate and prepare men and women to contribute as engineers and citizens through the creation, integration, application, and transfer of engineering knowledge

Vision: To be, and be recognized as, a world-class college of engineering that provides an excellent learning experience, learning community, and learning environment in a leading research university

Strategic Objectives

Objective: Educational Excellence

Strategies/Goals:

  1. Recruit, develop, support and retain a world-class diverse faculty and instructional staff dedicated to education, research, technology development, and entrepreneurship.
  2. Recruit, support and retain the best undergraduate and graduate students, especially women and under-represented groups.
  3. Continually improve and innovate engineering curricula, including content and method, to meet students' and stakeholders' changing needs.

Objective: Research Leadership

Strategies/Goals:

  1. Maintain strong core research programs
  2. Encourage development of interdisciplinary research, which addresses strategic needs of industry, government, and society.
  3. Identify and invest in strategic areas of potential R&D growth.

Objective: Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leadership

Strategies/Goals:

  1. Enhance current approaches and develop new approaches for technology transfer to industry, business, and government.
  2. Establish mechanisms to create student project opportunities with industry and government.
  3. Form strategic alliances with other UW-Madison colleges / schools to harvest technological opportunities in interdisciplinary areas.
  4. Form strategic alliances with other universities and with the private sector for research partnerships and technology transfer.

Objective: Recognition of the Quality of Education and Research in the CoE

Strategies/Goals:

  1. Maintain all currently highly ranked disciplines and improve those disciplines that are not in the top 5 in public universities and the top 10 in all universities.
  2. Enhance current approaches and develop new approaches for external relations.

Objective: Effective infrastructure and administrative support to accomplish the mission, vision and objectives.

Strategies/Goals:

  1. Support educational and research excellence with effective academic and administrative services, and information technology.
  2. Support technical innovation and entrepreneurship with administrative staff and services.
  3. Provide the necessary space and facilities for innovative research and instruction in the College of Engineering.
  4. Provide appropriate resources to attract, support, and retain world-class faculty and students. By 2010:
  5. Encourage and support professional development for faculty and staff

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