{"id":7,"date":"2020-09-22T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/engineering\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:43:11","slug":"dean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/engineering\/dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome from Our Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.<\/a>, is appointed as the Dean of the School of Engineering.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you are a prospective or current cadet, evening, veteran, active duty, community college transfer or first-generation student we invite you to explore how we are aiming to educate the next generation of innovative engineers that impact the world through principled leadership. The National Academy of Engineering has outlined key grand challenges that include cross-cutting areas that our educational programs in The Citadel School of Engineering will focus on including intelligent infrastructure, sustainable and affordable energy, artificial intelligence, designing autonomous systems and smart transportation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We incorporate The Citadel’s core values of honor<\/strong>, duty<\/strong>, and respect<\/strong> by building our reputation<\/strong> of engineering education excellence, modeling responsibility<\/strong> for student centered success and giving mutual respect<\/strong> to all students. We embrace Our Mighty Citadel strategic plan with our own priorities for our top 20 undergraduate engineering program (up to a masters) as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are excited to share about our new 5-year Strategic Plan. Here\u2019s our one-page overview of the Strategic Plan<\/a>, and here\u2019s the entire Strategic Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These strategic priorities include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n