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Engineering education must evolve to keep pace with mighty changes occurring today in business, industry, and society. Engineers must develop attributes and knowledge beyond traditional constraints of the classroom. Engineering education must be designed to accommodate current trends and future needs. We must enhance the flexibility of curricula. Engineering education must create more connections and stronger partnership with the global society in which we are embedded. We must examine the relevance of curricula and strive for fulfillment of college & professional missions. Our goal is to articulate the role of engineering education in the early part of the 21st century and to establish design specifications that will enable our college to be a leader in shaping the future of engineering education. As such we have an obligation to address the full range of higher education, namely: teaching and learning, research, and service to the community.

Indeed these three elements must totally integrate if we are to be effective in the pursuit of our mission.

Engineering and technology play a dominant role in manufacturing or processing associated with agricultural products. It should also be clear that engineering expertise and technology are major contributors to mining, construction, and transportation and infrastructure. Use of current technologies and creation of new technologies are at the heart of the engineering profession. Again, engineering education must be intimately familiar with the “business” of innovation.

Teamwork and partnership is another major element in our design of engineering education. The team we now envision is a partnership of scientists, engineers, business people, and society’s leaders. It is through these partnerships that the rapid pace and increasing complexity of technology designed to serve society will flourish.

My message for the students who join PIET is:

   Be flexible in the face of rapid changes in society and technology.

   Embrace and encourage creative problem solving.

   Facilitate the ability to integrate complex systems and technology.

   Seek partnerships with a variety of engineering and science disciplines, with business, with leaders in  education, with government, and the greater community.

We will promote an open, honest, and participatory administration where mutual trust is earned. We will endeavour to decentralize authority and empower our departments, faculty, and staff so that decisions can be made by those closest to the point of focus. Authority and responsibility will be coupled. We will endeavor to align the goals of the university, college, departments, and faculty. Our reward system will be consistent with the mission and goals of our institution. We will create an environment where faculty and staff are encouraged to continue to develop as professionals. Administrators in the college will supply leadership at all levels of engineering education, both inside the college and outside in the large context of our professions. We will embrace diversity and global perspectives in Engineering Education.

I extend a very warm welcome to all the students who wish to join PIET from forthcoming academic session. I assure all of you that you will be fully equipped with state- of-art theoretical knowledge, innovative and creative practical skills and entrepreneurial attitudes to achieve a brilliant success in life.

I wish grand success to all of you and your endeavour of higher technical education at PIET.