About Us
UConn’s College of Engineering is a powerhouse for research and engineering education in the State of Connecticut and beyond. We are a top public engineering school in New England, and we provide 56 percent of the State’s engineering graduates. We work with local and national industry to address pressing technological challenges and to strengthen our manufacturing base. We value entrepreneurship and innovation, and our students and faculty actively develop startups and new technologies in support of economic development. Equally important, initiatives in engineering for human rights, brownfields, cybersecurity and other current issues demonstrate our enduring commitment to addressing major challenges facing our society.
Our Values
The driving tenet of the College is to conduct trailblazing research and provide a modern and innovative engineering education to our students that maximizes the benefit to society and improves human life. Our faculty, staff, and students are driven by the following values and principles:
- Be bold: creative, innovative thinking must prevail over conventional and incremental ideas to enable real transformation of our society.
- Deliver: we are proud of our drive and ability to deliver on our educational, research and public engagement commitments, and of our alumni that continue to be productive members of our society upon graduation.
- Collaborate: today’s interdisciplinary challenges can only be addressed by teams that collaborate intensely and purposefully, with shared credit being a core feature of collaboration, and have diverse mindsets.
- Be inclusive: diversity in all its aspects leads to more effective answers to the most acute problems that we face. We are steadfast in continuing to foster and increase the diversity of our community and strive for equity.
- Be impactful: we commit to engaging with relevant state, national, and global communities, public institutions, and private industry, to understand and address their needs for the highest impact.
- Be collegial: the vitality and success of our College of Engineering community arise not just from individual scholarly achievements, but also depend upon the quality and quantity of collegial interactions and contributions to the mission of our community.
Our Mission
Mission I: Success of our Students
Broadly educate a diverse group of students and professionals with rigorous, theoretical, practical, and impactful training in engineering, mathematics, and the sciences; professional ethics; environmental and socioeconomic consequences; and exposure to the broader humanities, thus preparing them for successful careers as practicing engineers, technology leaders, entrepreneurs, policy makers, educators, and engaged citizens.
Mission II: Generation of Knowledge
Pursue a bold research agenda to address the grand challenges facing our society and the planet. Excellence will be the key driver of our research, and our focus will be on the fundamental and applied questions in the realm of complex and often interdisciplinary systems. Substantial progress can only be accomplished by inclusive, diverse, and highly collaborative research teams.
Mission III: Economic Impact
Serve the State of Connecticut, the Northeast, the nation, and society through innovation, knowledge generation and transfer, entrepreneurship, and public and professional engagement.
