2021–2025 Strategic Plan
Mission
The Penn State Engineering Science and Mechanics Department is a recognized world leader in interdisciplinary teaching and learning, research, and service to the University, the profession and society.
We promote a culture of equity and inclusion, wherein everyone is welcome, everyone is respected, everyone’s opinion and contributions are valued; and everyone strives for excellence in themselves, in their colleagues and in the institution. We provide a welcoming space that inspires our faculty, staff, and students to achieve excellence and build a community where everyone can thrive.
Through excellence in science, we form world-class engineers ready to remain at the cutting edge of their interdisciplinary fields and able to impact society by answering complex challenges in industry, academia, and public service. We uphold our tradition of excellence as the honors undergraduate program in the Penn State College of Engineering.
Where science and engineering meet, we create new technologies and impactful solutions to society's challenges.
In disseminating our work, we forge local and global collaborations, we promote entrepreneurship in education, research, and industry, and we contribute to the betterment of society.
Visions
The Penn State Engineering Science and Mechanics Department will be a nationally and internationally recognized welcoming community where science becomes engineering through excellence in interdisciplinary education and research, innovations and solutions, and the promotion of an engineering science-based culture in confronting society's challenges.
Goals
The Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics will design, implement, audit, and continuously improve programs to achieve each of these following goals by the end of 2025 through the underlying objectives.
Goal 1: Enhance the integration of our institutional values into our educational, research, service, and administrative life to strongly support our mission.
Goal 2: Provide our undergraduate and graduate students with a well-rounded multi-disciplinary engineering science and mechanics education while enhancing skills in ethics, sustainability, statistics, and computing.
Goal 3: Strengthen and expand our multidisciplinary and collaborative research activities to pioneer innovative engineering solutions to society’s complex challenges.
Goal 4: Augment the visibility of our program through increased outreach to international institutions, alumni, current and potential industry partners, and through increased targeted recruiting of undergraduate and graduate students.
