The College of Engineering has developed a set of Strategic Initiatives to pursue in the upcoming years. We are moving forward with a boldly ambitious plan for our future that holds the promise of significant impact in the region, nation, globe—and with an outreach to space. We will accomplish this through a confluence of industry partnership, specialized research, and a thriving South Florida entrepreneurial ecosystem. We will educate the next generation of engineers to solve existing and as-yet-unimagined problems.
These thrusts will be developed collaboratively with faculty from other schools and colleges, as well as with corporate partners.
The following chart illustrates how individual Departments and their clusters support the College-wide Thrusts:
Through the Strategic Initiatives, some of the “big” questions that we will answer include:
The College of Engineering is working on the following strategic thrusts consisting of advanced research areas and cross cutting initiatives: