The mission of the engineering administration program at Tri-State University is to enable students to become productive technical managers, facilities managers, or sales and service engineers, to advance to leadership roles in the profession, and to provide service to society. To meet these goals, specific program objectives have been defined. The engineering administration graduate must have:

1. the ability to clearly and effectively communicate ideas in writing, orally, and graphically;

2. an awareness of the engineer’s social responsibilities with both breadth and depth of knowledge in areas related to man and his culture and individual relationships in and to society;

3. knowledge of multivariate calculus and differential equations and familiarity with statistics and the ability to apply this knowledge to the solution of engineering problems;

4. fundamental knowledge of natural phenomena and their quantitative expression in chemistry and physics;

5. knowledge of the engineering sciences, and the ability to creatively apply this knowledge;

6. broad-based knowledge of the fundamental principals of business administration;

7. specialized technical knowledge in one of the areas of construction, electronics, facilities, or manufacturing; and

8. the ability to integrate technical and business knowledge as a member of an engineering design team.