Strategic Objectives

• Educational excellence and leadership
• Research leadership
• Technology innovation and entrepreneurship
• Recognition of the quality of our education and research
• Effective business model, infrastructure and administrative support to accomplish the mission, vision and 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.
   • By 2010, faculty should include 40 (20%) women and 20 (10%) traditionally underrepresented minorities.
     • Initiate/find/promote ways for current faculty and instructional staff to continually refresh and re-inform their perspectives on engineering education.
     • 33% of faculty in every department participates in an engineering education development activity each year.
     • Increase number of faculty to ~200 by 2010.
     • Retain 90% of our top faculty members who are recruited by other universities.
2. Recruit, support and retain the best undergraduate and graduate students, especially women and under-represented groups.
   • Set high expectations for students — and let them be known and visible.
   • Provide support (advice, academic help, counseling,…) so students can be successful and stay in CoE (if they choose).
     • Enroll at least 35 National Merit Finalists / Scholars per year.
     • Provide scholarships of at least 1/3 of the in-state tuition to 25% of the incoming undergraduate students by 2010.
   • Increase the percent of women engineering students to 30% and the percent of minority engineering students to 15 % and underrepresented to 7% by 2010.
   • Increase the number of diversity scholarships to 150 at an average amount of $3000 by 2010.
   • Recruit at least 18 NSF Fellowship students annually.
   • Provide 30 fellowships to incoming graduate students by 2010.
   • Help develop the pool of potential STEM students and make UW-Madison CoE visible in K-12 through Outreach program.
3. Continually improve and innovate engineering curricula, including content and method, to meet students' and stakeholders' changing needs.
   • Develop and support programs to help students become successful learners, particularly in early stages of their CoE education; improve student retention in CoE from entry into pre-engineering to graduation to over 66% and retention from department entry to 5-year graduation to 90% by 2010.
   • Add an interdisciplinary educational component to a strong fundamental disciplinary engineering education.
   • Support student activities and leadership opportunities; provide an opportunity for a leadership experience for every CoE student.
     • Develop effective Internet-based learning approaches for both on-campus and off-campus students.
     • Increase international study opportunities and the numbers of students who take advantage of them; 33% of our students should have some kind of international experience (class/semester/year abroad, co-op or internship abroad) by 2010.

Objective: Research Leadership

Strategies/Goals:

1. Maintain strong core research programs
   • Increase federal research funding by 10% annually.
     • Increase annual R&D funding from industry from $18.5M to $25M by 2010.
   • Annual R&D support in excess of $250k each from at least 10 companies and/or industrial consortia.
   • Rank in the top 5 public universities in industrial research support.
2. Encourage development of interdisciplinary research, which addresses strategic needs of industry, government, and society.
   • Maintain at least 20 strong existing interdisciplinary research centers.
   • Start 5 new interdisciplinary research centers over the next five years.
   • Sunset outdated research centers.
3. Identify and invest in strategic areas of potential R&D growth.
   • Maintain strong core programs with all core disciplines ranked in the top 10 in the nation by 2010.
   • Develop recognized programs in biotechnology, nanotechnology, information-technology, systems engineering, energy, sustainable engineering, environment, homeland security, and healthcare/disease.
   • Create an IR&D fund to support novel research ideas.

Objective: Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leadership

Strategies/Goals:

1. Enhance current approaches and develop new approaches for technology transfer to industry, business, and government.
   • Understand industry's needs and develop solutions for industry's problems.
   • Add 10 new company partnerships annually.
   • Add 10 new company custom professional development training engagements annually.
   • Increase the number of patents and copyrights that are disclosed by 25% by 2010.
   • Provide infrastructure and support for start-up companies.
2. Establish mechanisms to create student project opportunities with industry and government.
• Establish and maintain at least 10 project opportunities that involve >400 students.
• Engage at least 75 students in the Innovation Day competitions by 2010.
• Increase undergraduate student participation in co-ops and internships to 850 by 2010.
3. Form strategic alliances with other UW-Madison colleges / schools to harvest technological opportunities in interdisciplinary areas.
   • Form at least 5 viable alliances by 2010.
4. Form strategic alliances with other universities and with the private sector for research partnerships and technology transfer.
   • Form at least 10 viable alliances by 2010.

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.
   • Focus research areas so that department is world class in 2-3 key leading-edge areas.
   • Maintain a critical mass of high-quality faculty in key areas.
   • Recruit world-class faculty in selected areas to replace retirements.
   • Reward faculty based partially on department performance.
   • Increase diversity in departments to meet future demographic needs by adding 15 women and 10 under-represented minorities.
   • Use WISELI and WiscAMP to facilitate women and minority hiring.
2. Enhance current approaches and develop new approaches for external relations.
   • Collaborate with the WAA to increase the number of interactions with College of Engineering alumni to 200 annually
   • Quarterly Research News Publication

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.
   • Continuously evaluate academic and administrative services to meet customer (departments, centers, and students) needs in the most efficient and cost effective manner.
   • Increase use of web-based tools to standardize and simplify administrative processes.
   • Provide state-of-the-art laboratory, library, computer, and media support.
   • Maintain broadband Internet access to instructional software applications, library, and ECS registration from residence halls, classrooms, and remote locations.
   • Provide adequate support for development and delivery of the majority of the engineering courses to be Internet-delivered by 2010.
2. Support technical innovation and entrepreneurship with administrative staff and services.
   • Continuously evaluate the CoE approach to understanding entrepreneurship and tech transfer and adapt as appropriate to meet industry and state needs.
   • Better integrate CoE services with other campus entities (Foundation, WARF, OCR) to interact with industry.
3. Provide the necessary space and facilities for innovative research and instruction in the College of Engineering.
   • Maintain a comprehensive space inventory and plan, including use of space in Wendt Library.
   • Remodel and expand Mechanical Engineering Building, completion by Fall 2007.
   • Plan for an Information Technology and Technology Incubator Building - Plan an upgrade for the ERB.
   • Renovate first floor of Engineering Hall to expand Student Learning Center in 2006.
4. Provide appropriate resources to attract, support, and retain world-class faculty and students. By 2010:
   • Increase the number of endowed chairs to 20.
   • Increase the endowment for graduate fellowships to $30M.
   • Increase the endowment for undergraduate scholarships to $36M.
5. Encourage and support professional development for faculty and staff
   • Continuously assess climate on the CoE campus and in all engineering departments and major Centers.
   • Identify and support opportunities for faculty and staff development on an on-going basis.

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