We will be recognized for producing and developing world-class leaders who are highly competent in both engineering and management skills.

In engineering management, we promote a discipline that is a school for future CEOs, senior leaders, and organizational thinkers. We advance engineering management as a unique combination of technical and business skills, which we recognize as a sorely needed combination that is difficult to master in any other way.

As engineering managers, we know both that complex organizations and systems can be managed intelligently and that engineering design thinking can be infused into intelligent management. As practitioners, we exercise highly developed rational skills that enable us to manage complex programs and projects, and highly developed intuitive skills that enable us to lead complex people and teams.

We use this discipline to produce broad thinkers with deep substance. In a world of questions only partially answered by specialization, we know that this unique discipline produces needed, effective, and holistic answers.

In order to achieve our vision for the discipline of engineering management, we:

• Produce strong engineers who are built to be competent leaders, and strong leaders who are built to be competent engineers.
• Distinguish ourselves from other engineers by our synthesizing of multiple disciplines, and from other managers by our ability to execute all phases of complex projects.
• Promote a well-designed fusion of engineering and management that is indispensable in a world which demands both technical and leadership excellence.
• Claim a unique position in the public arena as those with technical expertise that is fully informed by outcomes and context, and management expertise that is fully informed by engineering logic and reasoning.
• Offer “hard” skills that have been softened by the knowledge of people and organizations, “soft” skills that have been hardened by the knowledge of systems and processes, and outstanding results created by the melding of both.