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Undergraduate Mission Statements

The Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Mission Statement

The Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering is on a continued mission to:

  • Sustain a level of productivity to become a high impact department and aggressive innovator.
  • Use teaching technology to enhance student learning.
  • Facilitate the placement of students in jobs (undergraduate and graduate) immediately following graduation.
  • Provide resources to other areas of research concentration that might merit them.
  • Improve the visibility and recognition of the Department in the geographic region and in the "industry" (academic and corporate).

School of Engineering Mission Statement

The mission of the School of Engineering is to produce highly qualified engineers and useful creative research and technology through academic excellence.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MISSION STATEMENT

The University of Pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. As one of the nation's distinguished comprehensive universities, the resources of the University constitute an invaluable asset for the intellectual, economic, and social enrichment of Pennsylvania, while the international prestige of the University enhances the image of Pennsylvania throughout the world.

The University's mission is to:

  • Provide high-quality undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences and professional fields, with emphasis upon those of special benefit to the citizens of Pennsylvania;
  • Offer superior graduate programs in the arts and sciences and the professions that respond to the needs of Pennsylvania, as well as to the broader needs of the nation and the world;
  • Engage in research, artistic, and scholarly activities that advance learning through the extension of the frontiers of knowledge and creative endeavor;
  • Cooperate with industrial and governmental institutions to transfer knowledge in science, technology, and health care;
  • Offer continuing education programs adapted to the personal enrichment, professional upgrading, and career advancement interests and needs of adult Pennsylvanians; and
  • Make available to local communities and public agencies the expertise of the University in ways that are consistent with the primary teaching and research functions and contribute to social, intellectual, and economic development in the Commonwealth, the nation, and the world.

The trustees, faculty, staff, students, and administration of the University are dedicated to accomplishing this mission, to which they pledge their individual and collective efforts, determined that the University shall continue to be counted among the prominent institutions of higher education throughout the world.

Source: Office of the Secretary, approved by the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees, February 1995.

University of Pittsburgh, Fact Book 2005

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