The University of Georgia School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering (ECAM) strives for excellence and global leadership in engineering education, research, and service on and beyond the campus of a nationally recognized top twenty land-grant and liberal arts institution.
ECAM fosters a culture of collaboration among experts across a variety of engineering disciplines and other fields beyond engineering recognizing that technology is embedded in a broader social and environmental context. ECAM promotes the development of well-rounded students with the professional skill sets and perspective needed to effectively solve the grand challenges of civilization (i.e. systems thinking, interdisciplinary problem solving, communication, and empathy).
Value Statements:
- This school will address critical global challenges that cannot be solved with a single disclipline.
- This school will foster a culture and climate of novel creativity, discovery, and professional growth, constantly searching for better solutions to advance human progress through our teaching, service, and research endeavors.
- Ours is a society-centered school which is well positioned, because of its people, ideas, academic programs, industrial partners and expertise, to help solve many of the world’s grand challenges while making lives better, safer, and healthier for people everywhere.
- This school values adaptable and flexible curricula that match the rapidly evolving world around us while meeting the needs of students, employers, and society.
- We believe that integrity, honesty, and ethical practices are essential to all activities that comprise the mission of a land grant, sea grant university (these being teaching, research, and service).
