A vision for leading engineering into the next era
It’s an exciting new era for Northwestern Engineering. Building upon our Whole-brain Engineering philosophy, we’re strategically growing our faculty in areas of leadership, improving and expanding facilities to both accelerate research and strengthen our community, fostering new and existing research collaborations, and improving our curriculum to prepare future engineers to advance the work we pursue today.
Embracing the fast-changing nature of the engineering field to usher in a period of redefinition and growth
Our vision is structured around three strategic pillars that are key to pushing engineering into the next era.
The methods of engineering are changing fast.
Building on our current research strengths, we’ll position ourselves at the frontier of engineering by defining future methods that all engineers will need to know.
We will focus our work around:
Innovative, adaptable curriculum is central to our mission to educate with an eye toward future challenges.
By working entrepreneurial thinking into our core curriculum, weaving design thinking throughout our undergraduate experience, and teaching our new methods of engineering to our students, we'll prepare the next generation of engineers to address challenges in an ever-evolving landscape.
Our students will benefit from:
We’re tackling the grand challenges of today and tomorrow with a distinctly Northwestern mindset.
Equipped with our new methods of engineering and a skill set rooted in whole-brain thinking, we’ll apply our expertise in unique ways to make the greatest possible impact via these application areas: