Our mission is to prepare students to meet the challenges of the modern
world as engineering professionals who have the potential to become
innovative leaders. We fulfill our mission with a curriculum that is
firmly based in the theoretical foundation of science and mathematics in
application to real-world problems. The curriculum also provides for
experiences in engineering design, analysis, and professional practice.
Students develop technical competency through course and laboratory
work, project work, and the co-operative education experience in
industry or in research. Our mission is realized by a shared commitment
to continual improvement, scholarship and research, and refinement
through critical review. Such review requires both close contact with
current engineering practice and a commitment to liberal education that
enhances the practice of engineering in global societies through a deep
understanding of the human condition and the relationship of engineering
practice to the natural environment.
Vision
GVSUs School of Engineering aspires to be a premier
education-oriented engineering school focused on applied engineering
practice that is informed by research and scholarship.
Value Statement
Our values reflect our educational mission. We are an academic community
in a nation for which the intrinsic value of each individual is taken as
fundamental. Thus we strive to provide an environment in which each
member of our academic community-- student, staff member, and
faculty--can reach his or her fullest potential. Just as we value each
individual in our community, we value the environment in which we live.
The engineering community strongly influences the environment through
the practice of its profession. For that reason we strive to build into
our curriculum an awareness of, and a sensitivity to, those areas in
which engineering practice affects the environment. Such awareness
extends beyond technical knowledge to include ethical responsibility in
the practice of our profession.
Strategic Priorities, outcomes, and key objectives
Strategic Priority Area 1: Actively engage learners at all levels.
Outcome A: Grand Valley's learning environment is personal, challenging, and transformational, supporting excellent academic programs and co-curricular opportunities.
Outcome B: Grand Valley is diverse and inclusive.
Outcome C: Grand Valley has mutually beneficial relationships, partnerships, collaborations, and connections with local, state, national, and world communities.
Outcome D: Grand Valley supports innovative teaching, learning, integrative scholarly and creative activity, and the use of new technologies.
Outcome E: Grand Valley strategically allocates its fiscal, human, and other institutional resources.
Strategic Priority Area 2: Further develop exceptional personnel.
Outcome A: Grand Valley's learning environment is personal, challenging, and transformational, supporting excellent academic programs and co-curricular opportunities.
Outcome B: Grand Valley is diverse and inclusive.
Outcome C: Grand Valley has mutually beneficial relationships, partnerships, collaborations, and connections with local, state, national, and world communities.
Outcome D: Grand Valley supports innovative teaching, learning, integrative scholarly and creative activity, and the use of new technologies.
Outcome E: Grand Valley strategically allocates its fiscal, human, and other institutional resources.
Strategic Priority Area 3: Ensure the alignment of institutional structures and functions.
Outcome A: Grand Valley's learning environment is personal, challenging, and transformational, supporting excellent academic programs and co-curricular opportunities.
Outcome C: Grand Valley has mutually beneficial relationships, partnerships, collaborations, and connections with local, state, national, and world communities.
Outcome E: Grand Valley strategically allocates its fiscal, human, and other institutional resources.
Strategic Priority Area 4: Enhance the institution's image and reputation.
Outcome A: Grand Valley's learning environment is personal, challenging, and transformational, supporting excellent academic programs and co-curricular opportunities.
Outcome C: Grand Valley has mutually beneficial relationships, partnerships, collaborations, and connections with local, state, national, and world communities.
Outcome D: Grand Valley supports innovative teaching, learning, integrative scholarly and creative activity, and the use of new technologies.
