School Mission Statement

The University of California

The University's fundamental missions are teaching, research and public service.

"The distinctive mission of the University is to serve society as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge, discovering new knowledge, and functioning as an active working repository of organized knowledge. That obligation, more specifically, includes undergraduate  education, graduate and professional education, research, and other kinds of public service, which are shaped  and bounded by the central and pervasive mission of discovering and advancing knowledge."   [Taken from  "University of California Academic Plan, 1974-1978" (Office of the President: Berkeley, March 1974)]. Weblink.

Irvine Campus of the University of California

The University's fundamental missions are teaching, research and public service.  The Irvine campus's fundamental missions are the same as the University of California's, Weblink.

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering

The academic goal of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering has been developed to be consistent with the missions and goals set for it by the State of California, The University of California and the UCI campus as articulated above and to be consistent with the Program Educational Objectives of the various individual engineering and related programs within The Henry Samueli School of Engineering.  The academic goal of the School is to provide outstanding engineering, and related, programs that:

a) Provide the basis for the lifelong professional development of our graduates as technology continues to evolve.

b) Provide a stimulating academic research environment for individuals who, in both industry and academia, will be leaders in the pioneering of applications of science and of the development of new technology for the benefit of society.

c) Provide, at all levels, individual and group projects in design and research which, combined with classroom study, will prepare our students, upon graduation, for the professional practice of engineering.

d) Encourage both the faculty and the students to be involved in both professional activities and public service.

e) Promote an atmosphere of learning that develops an engineering student body which parallels the diversity of society.

The individual engineering and related programs each has a set of detailed, published educational objectives that are consistent with the missions and goals of The University of California, UCI, and The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and with the ABET General Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States.