Strategic Plan

Promote excellence in research and scholarship

Strategy 1.1

Leverage the learning community to enhance the creation of economic capital and intellectual capital

Tactic 1.1.1: Enhance research performance of AME faculty
Tactic 1.1.2: Raise and allocate resources to build research infrastructure for AME through synergistic collaboration in interdisciplinary efforts in CoE

Strategy 1.2

Promote interdisciplinary collaborations leading to transformative research

Tactic 1.2.1: Develop a learning community that is based on the multiple competencies of faculty members and is focused on transformative science and discovery to address variety of interdisciplinary and research topics
Tactic 1.2.2: Expedite strategic faculty, research scholar and graduate student hires to fill areas of need for AME community

Strategy 1.3

Enhance partnerships with state, federal, industry, and other research institutions

Tactic 1.3.1: Increase external partnerships and forming strategic alliances for visibility and awareness of opportunities, mechanisms and success factors

Enhance the graduate educational experience

Strategy 2.1

Increase graduate student quality

Tactic 2.1.1: Increase recruitment of qualified current AME undergraduate students to our graduate program
Tactic 2.1.2: Continue to improve the overall quality of entering graduate students

Strategy 2.2

Continue to improve the graduate educational experience

Tactic 2.2.1: Prepare our graduate students for placement in academia, industry, government and other sectors
Tactic 2.2.2: Increase number of graduate students applying and receiving fellowships
Tactic 2.2.3: Promote collaboration in graduate education with industry, other colleges, and institutions
Tactic 2.2.4: Improve quality of graduate student life
Tactic 2.2.5: Promote international collaboration in graduate education

Enhance undergraduate programs through excellence in experiential learning, innovations in knowledge delivery and curriculum development

Strategy 3.1

Demonstrate pursuit of excellence through continuous improvement in AE and ME programs

Tactic 3.1.1: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs receive and maintain six-year accreditation

Strategy 3.2
Provide an outstanding undergraduate learning experience

Tactic 3.2.1: Incorporate innovations in knowledge delivery
Tactic 3.2.2: Enhance AE and ME programs through the pursuit of excellence in experiential learning
Tactic 3.2.3: Maintain high quality of undergraduate students
Tactic 3.2.4: Create multiple BS/MS options for students in AE and ME
Tactic 3.2.5: Continue to improve outstanding academic support

Enhance the AME learning community

Strategy 4.1

Promote the AME learning community

Tactic 4.1.1: Enhance AME learning community that empowers each person to meet his/her full potential
Tactic 4.1.2: Facilitate faculty, instructor, and staff development
Tactic 4.1.3: Promote a welcoming community of students, faculty and staff

Strategy 4.2
Recruit, retain, and graduate an outstanding student body

Tactic 4.2.1: Improve publicity of programs to prospective students
Tactic 4.2.2: Maintain current competitive scholarships, fellowships and stipends based on scholastic merit and
leadership potential
Tactic 4.2.3: Promote faculty, staff and student participation in outreach activities

Strategy 4.3: Explore endowment opportunities for the school

Showcase AME

Strategy 5.1
Develop and adopt a strategy to showcase AME with maximum impact on the US News and World Report surveys and prospective donors

Tactic 5.1.1: Strengthen AME’s presence in the electronic media including social network services
Tactic 5.1.2: Increase AME’s presence in the print media including the AME Newsletter
Tactic 5.1.3: Implement a seminar series that is in alignment with the Strategic Goals

Strategy 5.2
Showcase research, teaching and service accomplishments of AME faculty and students

Tactic 5.2.1: Publicize research, teaching and service capabilities and successes of the AME community so that
AME becomes a destination of choice for faculty, staff, students, government and industry
Tactic 5.2.2: Showcase the AME teaching and learning environment/facilities
Tactic 5.2.3: Showcase contributions to service
Strategy 5.3: Showcase accomplishments and contributions of alumni, Board of Advisors members, and friends
Tactic 5.3.1: Publicize news of accomplishments of alumni, BoA members, and friends
Tactic 5.3.2: Provide news of donations from AME stakeholders and others