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Meeting our Future Challenges
Our plan for achieving excellence in the 21st century rests on four pillars.
The first pillar is revision of the curriculum to strengthen our students' technical and nontechnical competencies. Since student learning is enhanced by real-world experiences, expanding our partnerships with industry is essential.
The second pillar is student development which focuses on organizing each entering class as a collection of teams which will include students who have demonstrated technical competence, communication skills, ethical and professional behavior -qualities our graduates are expected to possess.
The third pillar is the expansion of graduate education and research activities around multidisciplinary themes. In 1997, the University's Board of Trustees approved interdisciplinary masters and doctoral programs in materials science and engineering and atmospherics science. A similar program is currently being developed in the area of environmental science and engineering.
The fourth pillar is a state-of-the-art facility for instruction and research which provides our students with a modern learning-centered facility. We are currently in the pre-design phase of a modern facility in order to realize our aspirations for both undergraduate and graduate education and to achieve our interdisciplinary research goals. A well-equipped, modern facility will:
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foster an environment where engineering education is productive and enjoyable for students and faculty;
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present a closer correspondence to what our students will encounter when they leave Howard to practice their profession, and
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provide all research endeavors with a focal point for interdisciplinary state-of-art research laboratory space that can be readily reconfigured to respond to changing needs.
Our new home will be a learning-centered facility where learning takes place, not only by what is taught, but also by how it is taught. It will house four major interdisciplinary research enterprises: materials science and engineering, environmental science and engineering, computational science and human genome research.
Meeting our Future Challenges is a message from the
Dean of Howard University's College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences,
James H. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., DEE.
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