Mission
"Prepare Engineering Students for Successful Careers"
Vision
"Be a nationally recognized mechanical engineering department that attracts, rewards, and retains outstanding faculty, students, and staff"
Vision Metric: Be a Department of Choice Nationally
The Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics will be nationally recognized as having one of the best undergraduate and graduate programs in the nation. Based on the quality and balance of its undergraduate and graduate programs and research it will be a department of choice by prospective students, parents, faculty, staff, corporate donors, and corporate employers worldwide.