Functionality can be realized in hardware, software, etc. Designers need to optimize across moving boundaries. Research respects no boundaries. CS ideas inform EE research and vice versa. EE and CS face the same fundamental limit.
Excellent programs can exist anywhere.
Public service, e.g., agricultural extension Faculty consulting, starting companies, composing operas, . . . Efficient or Creative . . . The public and the government do not know. Neither do universities. In business, customers are paramount because they bring in what is valued most, namely money.