Strategic Plan Priority Areas
- Priority Area: Innovative and Experiential Learning
- Increase opportunities for interdisciplinary learning experiences
- Key Initiatives:
- Increase opportunities for service-learning and global experiences
- Support faculty to coordinate interdisciplinary projects
- Create common spaces for students to work and study together
- Establish interdisciplinary courses and programs
- Measures of success:
- Interdisciplinary projects available to students
- Participation in service-learning and global experiences, such as EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) and GTI (Global Technology Institute Program)
- Amount of common work space for interdisciplinary learning
- Number of courses enrolling students from multiple disciplines
- Key Initiatives:
- Increase hands-on learning opportunities with industry and community partners
- Key Initiatives:
- Develop more internship, apprenticeship, and co-op opportunities
- Redefine culminating experience for undergrads to include more high impact practices (e.g., culminating experiences taking place on partner sites, service-learning projects)
- Develop more hands-on industry-sponsored lab and project classes
- Measures of success:
- Hands-on, in class learning opportunities (e.g., experiments, active learning sessions)
- Culminating experiences for undergraduates involving industry or community partners
- Hands-on projects or learning experiences outside of the classroom
- Industry-sponsored labs and projects
- Key Initiatives:
- Increase faculty and staff expertise in instructional technology and pedagogy
- Key Initiatives:
- Develop and implement Engineering faculty and staff professional development programs for instructional technology and pedagogy
- Develop engineering specific onboarding training for new faculty
- Provide funding for staff and faculty to increase expertise in instructional technology
- Measures of success:
- Program planning reports that mention improvements in instructional technical expertise and/or pedagogy
- Completed professional development and onboarding courses by faculty or staff
- Course participants who implement curricular changes
- Key Initiatives:
- Increase opportunities for interdisciplinary learning experiences
- Priority Area: Research and Scholarly Activity
- Provide opportunities, incentives, and support infrastructure for faculty research
- Key Initiatives:
- Increase seed grants
- Increase support for faculty writing large proposals with multiple principal investigators, including equipment proposals (e.g., students, reviewers, editing)
- Allocate bridge funds to cover gap between externally funded projects
- Actively promote research through department and college integration
- Increase engagement in industry sponsored research
- Develop a joint PhD program
- Measures of success:
- Research and equipment external proposal submissions and awards
- Peer-reviewed publications
- National and international recognition and awards
- Documented collaborations with industry and partner universities
- Key Initiatives:
- Encourage and support student participation in and student-initiated research
- Key Initiatives:
- Increase support for student research
- Support student participation in national conferences to present their research
- Partner with other universities to broaden exposure for students
- Measures of success:
- Students participating in student-initiated research
- Student co-authored presentations and publications
- Student awards and fellowships
- Students pursuing advanced degrees in engineering
- Key Initiatives:
- Support and promote interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels
- Key Initiatives:
- Develop interdisciplinary and strategic research areas
- Host regular interdisciplinary seminar series
- Create interdisciplinary research space and infrastructure
- Measures of success:
- Publications and external grants in the strategic research areas
- Attendees at interdisciplinary seminars
- Interdisciplinary research space created
- Key Initiatives:
- Provide opportunities, incentives, and support infrastructure for faculty research
- Priority Area: Student Experience and Success
- Improve retention and graduation rates
- Key Initiatives:
- Increase staff academic advisor to student ratio
- Expand and promote college-wide tutoring opportunities specific to Engineering
- Increase student success while retaining rigor
- Promote faculty and staff professional development in practices that support student success including diversity and inclusion
- Measures of success:
- Academic advisors to student ratio to national best practices standards
- Decrease in equity gap
- Reduction in DFW (drop-fail-withdraw) rates
- Faculty and staff participation in the professional development activities focusing on student success and diversity and inclusion
- Key Initiatives:
- Improve career preparation
- Key Initiatives:
- Incentivize student engagement in extracurricular opportunities
- Expand student participation in career accelerator programs
- Establish and maintain appropriate accreditation for all engineering, aviation, and technology programs
- Measures of success:
- Student participation in extracurricular activities
- Student participation in career accelerator programs including mentoring, shadowing, and industry opportunities
- Accredited degree programs
- Students with career-track position at time of graduation
- Key Initiatives:
- Update learning spaces (e.g., classrooms, labs) to better promote collaboration and
experiential learning
- Key Initiatives:
- Create common laboratory spaces for engineering students
- Renovate teaching labs
- Measures of success:
- Laboratory spaces that support multidisciplinary learning
- Renovated instructional spaces
- Key Initiatives:
- Improve retention and graduation rates
- Priority Area: Industry and Community Partnerships
- Establish robust corporate extended studies programs
- Key Initiatives:
- Update the mission and determine the appropriate portfolio for extended studies
- Develop new extended studies programs
- Pursue partnerships with large silicon valley companies and other large employers
- Measures of success:
- Manager and sponsor feedback
- Enrollment numbers
- Instructor evaluations and performance
- Company programs and cohorts
- Key Initiatives:
- Create collaborative and mutually beneficial community and industry partnerships
- Key Initiatives:
- Create an industry and community partnership program
- Increase CoE / industry / engineering society networking events
- Include Industry and Community Partnership measures in Program Planning goals
- Measures of success:
- Placement of SJSU graduates at participating partner locations
- Student and faculty participating in community and industry projects
- Industry attendance at events
- Grants with community and industry partners
- Key Initiatives:
- Create infrastructure to support entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering
- Key Initiatives:
- Develop programs to foster entrepreneurial mindsets for faculty and students
- Create a task force to determine appropriate infrastructure and support needed
- Measures of success:
- Participants in programs that foster an entrepreneurial mindset
- Start-ups founded by current students, faculty, and alumni
- Key Initiatives:
- Develop an engaged alumni community
- Key Initiatives:
- Develop an alumni engagement strategy, including department-led alumni engagement efforts
- Measures of success:
- Number of alumni that support the college
- Alumni touch points (e.g., participation in events, guest speaking, and as student mentors)
- Key Initiatives:
- Establish robust corporate extended studies programs