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DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Department of Electrical Engineering is to:
- Provide undergraduate and professional education through programs that prepare students for the workplace, stress the development of the total person, and begin a process of lifelong learning.
- Provide graduate education and training in the skills of advanced research.
- Contribute to the base of technical knowledge by conducting research and scholarship and by disseminating the results of those programs.
- Support the engineering professions by service in the appropriate professional organizations.
- Serve the needs of the state and region by appropriate outreach programs and by support for industrial development.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the academic program are to imbue in the graduate:
- a broad education that establishes competencies in the arts, humanities, foreign languages, sciences, and mathematics and that fosters an appreciation of the role of the engineer in society and the world-awareness that is so necessary to the practice of engineering in a global economy
- engineering skills that are both broad in the basics and deep within a selected specialization
- professional skills that include the abilities to communicate effectively, to work productively as a team member, and to engage in career-long professional development.
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