The school is also involved in related applied research and service activities. The school's goal is to produce occupationally ready college graduates with marketable skills and potential for growth to meet defined technical work force needs, primarily for Indiana business, industry, and service agencies. In addition, the school provides professionally prepared teachers and leadership personnel for industrial and vocational education. To achieve this goal, students receive counseling as well as classroom and laboratory instruction and opportunities for cooperative education and other relevant learning experiences. Plans of study incorporate not only appropriate technical coursework but communication and humanistic-social studies as well.
Graduates are well prepared for immediate employment and for excellant career growth.
Electrical Engineering encompasses all areas of research, development, design, and operation of electrical and electronic systems and their components. The Department of EET focuses upon the application of engineering principles and techniques to a wide variety of electrical and electronic devices, circuitry, instrumentation, and manufacturing operations. The ME program provides a broad based education, with concentration on fundamentals and basic laws as the major tools requisite for the professional practice of mechanical engineering. The goal of the program is to educate engineers who can think, analyze, design, and solve problems. The Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology offers a curriculum focused upon the application of scientific and engineering principles to manufacturing, manufacturing processes, quality control, materials, and cost analysis.