Strategic Plan
Revolutionary Engineering: Strategic Plan Update 2024-2034
The Riccio College of Engineering strives for excellence in education, research and innovation.
We continue to be the No. 1 public college of engineering in New England and rank in the top 35 public programs nationally. Looking forward, we aspire to achieve the bold and inclusive goals described in the UMass Amherst For The Common Good: Strategic Plan for 2024-2034.
Our strategies for reaching these goals will guide us in addressing the grand challenges facing engineering, society, and the world.
As engineers, we hold great responsibility to understand the impact of our innovations and to create solutions that better humanity. Our world faces many complex and pressing challenges; to tackle them we must collaborate across disciplines while simultaneously partnering with industry to broaden the impact of our research and discoveries.
- Sanjay Raman, dean
Our Values
- Excellence. We strive for excellence in all aspects of engineering education, research, and societal impact.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity. We are committed to the success and well-being of every individual in our college regardless of group identity, and to advancing opportunities for historically underrepresented groups in engineering.
- Openness. As an academic engineering community, we are committed to free and open intellectual inquiry and expression, and welcome students, faculty, and researchers from around the world to collaborate and contribute to discovery.
- Integrity and Stewardship. We set high standards for personal responsibility, engineering ethics, institutional integrity, and hold ourselves accountable in managing college resources, and for advancing society and sustainability for current and future generations.
- Innovation. We stimulate, recognize, and reward innovation and creativity.
- Impact. We aim to create far-reaching impact on society by addressing complex, multidisciplinary research challenges and translating discoveries to the marketplace to grow our economy
Our Priorities
Here are our overarching priorities. The respective strategies and actions steps can be viewed by clicking each link:
| Priority 1: Establish the Riccio College of Engineering as a global destination where seekers of a world-class engineering education succeed in an impactful, research- enriched, inclusive learning environment. |
| Priority 2: Establish the Riccio College of Engineering as a global destination where seekers of a world-class engineering education succeed in an impactful, research- enriched, inclusive learning environment. |
| Priority 3: Establish the Riccio College of Engineering as a global destination where seekers of a world-class engineering education succeed in an impactful, research- enriched, inclusive learning environment. |
| Priority 4: Establish the Riccio College of Engineering as a global destination where seekers of a world-class engineering education succeed in an impactful, research- enriched, inclusive learning environment. |