ECET Strategic Plan

Purdue Calumet Five-Year Strategic Plan:

1. Improve student success
2. Promote and support faculty/staff excellence
3. Develop a high performance learning environment
4. Advance positive change and economic growth regionally through an expanded partnership role

ECET Department Mission:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Goals:

1. Improve the quality of student learning and retention in all programs, options, and certificates. (Supports University Goal 1.)
2. Promote and improve currency of faculty/staff. (Supports University Goal 2.)
3. Improve, maintain, and support a modern student-learning environment. (Supports University Goal 3.)
4. Engage in a partnership role with industries and other institutions in the region. (Supports University Goal 4.)

Goal 1 Objectives:

1. Offer courses and/or modify existing courses to teach modern technologies needed by local or regional industries. (Ongoing.)
2. Offer certificate programs that make the student marketable early in the curriculum. (Ongoing.)
3. Involve students in industry through projects, faculty consulting.
4. Increase student scholarship funds.
Strategies:
• Obtain endowment funds.
• Obtain additional funds for existing scholarships.
5. Strengthen the EET student organization “EET Organization – Northwest Indiana.”
Strategies:
• Pay, from departmental funds, for the first year membership of EET students (excluding seniors) to join IEEE. (Spring 2001)
• Continue a strong faculty participation in the student club. (On-going)
• Reactivate the amateur radio club. (Spring 2001)
6. Develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive assessment program.
Strategies:
• Develop course embedded assessment. (Fall 2001.)
• Develop curriculum-based assessment. (Spring 2001.)
• Develop and implement outcome based assessment. (Ongoing.)
7. Market the EET programs.
Strategies:
• Departmental web page. (Ongoing.)
• Improve faculty/advisor communication with surrounding colleges and high schools. (Ongoing.)
• Maintain an up-to-date articulation with feeder institutions. (Ongoing.)
• Work closely with University Division to transfer the prospective students into the EET programs. (Ongoing.)

Goal 2 Objectives:

1. Improve and encourage grant writing for laboratory equipment procurement.
Strategies:
• Reward faculty participation in grant writing. (Fall 2001)
• Reward faculty obtaining equipment donations from industry. (Fall 2001)
2. Reward, encourage and support faculty development in their disciplines.
3. Improve the part-time faculty program.
Strategies:
• List the names of continuous part-time faculty in the university catalog.
• Involve the part-time faculty in departmental meeting at least once every semester. (Spring 2001.)
• Invite part-time faculty in the Industrial Advisory Committee meetings. (Spring 2001.)
• Develop joint seminars given by part-time faculty. (Fall 2001.)
• Reduce the part-time FTE while boosting full-time FTE.

Goal 3 Objectives:

1. Collaborate with other departments.
Strategies:
• Expand joint course and degree offerings. (Ongoing.)
• Improve and expand sharing of laboratory equipment and space. (Ongoing.)
2. Make the department a high-performance learning environment.
Strategies:
• Maintain laboratories and computing facilities. (Ongoing.)
• Increase Web-based instructions and assessment. (Ongoing.)
• Provide the student with the assessment feedback.

Goal 4 Objectives:

1. Offer new programs/options, short courses, seminars, and training workshops in matters of regional/community interest.
Strategies:
• Offer new options as needed by industry and our constituencies. (Ongoing.)
• Develop specific short courses/seminars for targeted groups through Continuing Education. (Ongoing.)
2. Seek support from industry and companies to backup state-of-the-art courses through curriculum and/or donation of equipment. (Ongoing.)
3. Encourage and reward faculty consulting.