The CEE Department seeks to:
- Provide undergraduate and graduate programs of instruction for qualified students leading to academic degrees in engineering
- Extend the frontiers of engineering knowledge by encouraging and assisting faculty in the pursuit and publication of research
- Stimulate and encourage in its students those qualities of scholarship, leadership, and character that mark the true academic and professional engineer
- Produce graduates who have an impact relative to global, societal, environmental and sustainability issues
- Produce graduates who possess strong skills in business and management, communication and team-building
- Produce graduates who pursue graduate education and life-long learning
- Serve California and the nation in providing for the continuing education of engineering and scientific personnel
- Provide professional engineering leadership in the solution of community, regional, national and global problems
