Strategic Plan 2020

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

 

Objective #1 - Maintain a culture of strategic planning and assessment

Goals	Strategies	Activities	Success Metrics & Tools	Burden of Responsibility	Assessment Time
Maintain an agile and dynamic operational plan which can be quickly and efficiently altered to meet current needs.	Revision of operational plan using input from our constituents: faculty members, students, personnel, alumni, advisory board.	Create a plan that includes staffing, student enrollment, services, technology, procurement, professional development, facilities, human resources, finance, and grants.	One revision of plan every year based on input from constituents. Use Department operational form to determine the different % completion of projects.	Director and Faculty	Annual Review
Include continuous assessment/satisfaction process to support the decisional process.	Receive input from the constituents: faculty members, students, personnel, alumni, advisory board.	Distribute surveys and questionnaires to constituents.	High satisfaction from customers (students, faculty)	Director	Annual
Tie the plan to the budget.	List priorities and tie to budget.	Plan budget and check budget every quarter	Reduce expense variance to less than 25%.	Director and Finance Administrator (Rosa Quiles)	Every quarter
Establish a decentralized management, where leadership is shared.	Implement management policies for faculty and staff in different areas of the department.	Appoint representatives and/or managers of areas.	Reduction in number of complaints.	Director, Faculty and Administrative Staff	Annual

Objective #2 - Be at the forefront of engineering education

Goals	Strategies	Activities	Success Metrics & Tools	Burden of Responsibility	Assessment Time
Take leadership in the process of teaching and learning.	Continue developing the system of self-assessment of the program through their constituents.	Implement and review tools to identify areas of need.	As established for each ABET assessment tool.	Associate Director and Faculty	Annually
Internationalize the Department.	Establishing a structured program for the recruitment of international students and sharing curriculums among universities and departments of our institution.	Reach out to international students through webpage and participation in conferences	Increase number of international graduate students enrolled by 20%. Increase number of international UG students by 5%.	Director, Associate Director and Graduate Program Coordinator	Annually
Impact other universities with learning tools.	Establish distance education program.	Encourage faculty members to structure their courses for online implementation.	Implement two distance learning courses every year.		Bi-annual

Objective #3 - Increase and diversify the sources of income of the Department

Goals	Strategies	Activities	Success Metrics & Tools	Burden of Responsibility	Assessment Time
Increase external funding through grants	Increase number of successful proposals.	Training workshops on successful proposal writing	2016-17: $ 1M 2017-18: $ 1M 2018-19: $ 1.5M 2019-20: $ 2M	Director and Faculty	Annual
Increase industry endowments	Approach high-level management at key industries	Visit companies as well as meet with senior managers during Career Fairs	2016-17: $ 75K 2017-18: $ 100K 2018-19: $ 150K 2019-20: $ 200K	Director	Annual
Increase royalties	Obtain patents which can be commercialized	Carry out research which can produce intellectual property of value	1 or 2 patents per year	Faculty	Annual
Use small business approach	Form small businesses in the ME Department	Training professors and staff in start-ups	2 small businesses in the next 4 years	Faculty, staff and students	Bi-annual

Objective #4 - Implement agile and efficient administrative processes

Goals	Strategies	Activities	Success Metrics & Tools	Burden of Responsibility	Assessment Time
Achieve an operationally agile, efficient and auditable department.	Establish an environment of assessment and opportunities for improvement.	Questionnaire to evaluate performance	Fewer complaints from based on administrative evaluation questionnaire.	Director and Administrative Staff	Annually
	Ownership of internal processes by staff.	Training and supervision of tasks	Fewer complaints because of internal administrative processes. Increase number of international UG students by 5%.	Director and Administrative Staff	Annually

Objective #5 - Strengthen Competitive Research and Creative Labor

Goals	Strategies	Activities	Success Metrics & Tools	Burden of Responsibility	Assessment Time
Maintain an agile and dynamic operational plan which can be quickly and efficiently altered to meet current needs.	Increase number of refereed journal publications	Training for faculty and graduate students	2016-17: 10 2017-18: 10 2018-19: 15 2019-20: 15	Director and Faculty	Annual
	Increase amount of funding	Training workshops for faculty Submit 5 competitive proposals annually	2016-17: $ 1M 2017-18: $ 1M 2018-19: $ 1.5M 2019-20: $ 2M	Director and Faculty	Annual
	Increase number of patents	Training workshops for faculty Commercialization oriented research including submission of SBIR/STTR proposals	2016-17: 1 patent 2017-18: 1 patent 2018-19: 2 patents 2019-20: 2 patents	Director and Faculty	Annual

Objective #6 - Benefit Puerto Rican Society

Goals	Strategies	Activities	Success Metrics & Tools	Burden of Responsibility	Assessment Time
Directly impact the local community	Be involved with the community	Carry out community projects Give publicity to community activity by students and faculty	2 community projects per year	Director, Faculty and Students	Bi-annual
	Be involved in science and technological activities in Puerto Rico	Science Fairs Local forums	Participation of 5 faculty members and 10 graduate students in science fairs and local conferences Increase number of international UG students by 5%.	Director, Faculty and Students	Bi-annual

Objective #7 - Foment and inculcate "Colegio" pride

Goals	Strategies	Activities	Success Metrics & Tools	Burden of Responsibility	Assessment Time
Build commitment to the Department and Colegio	Reach out to alumni	Newsletter and mail contact	Build database for 2000 alumni	Director and administrative staff	Bi-annual
	ME Day	All students, faculty and staff wear ME day T-shirts	80% participation	Director and administrative staff	Bi-annual
	Interconnect: project with brass incrustation in the wall at the entrance	Attract alumni to participate in ME/Colegio projects	200 alumni participating every 2 years.	Director and administrative staff	Bi-annual
Increase ME Department visibility locally and globally	Encourage the participation of students in national and international engineering competitions	Fundraising to help students participate in national and international competitions	Winning teams in 2 competitions $ 100,000 for student projects	Director, faculty and students	Bi-annual

Objective #8 - Achieve visibility and ME Department presence in the UPR system and Puerto Rico

Goals	Strategies	Activities	Success Metrics & Tools	Burden of Responsibility	Assessment Time
ME Department should be flagship in the UPR system and Puerto Rico in academics, research and community service	High visibility webpage. Participation in local media.	Keep updated webpage. Annual Open House ME Summer Camp	50 hits per day Receive 500 visitors 80% enrollment of camp participants in ME program	Director, Administrative Staff and Students	Bi-annual