Chic Engineering

The School of Engineering and Technology (SOET) at National University is well informed about the requirements that hiring businesses have and integrates them into its various programs so that graduating students are well prepared for a career change, advancement, or a new job. Dr. Evans, Dean of SOET likens the school to a four wheel, independent drive, rover type vehicle. The wheels represent the four main drivers of a successful school; students, the businesses that hire them, talented faculty, and administration. Although, in this case, each wheel is independently driven a great deal of care, planning, consideration, and timing must be in effect in order to ‘drive’ in a coordinated fashion. It is easy to see from this analogy that if one or more of the wheels is not working in concert with the others the vehicle becomes unstable and will eventually get stuck in its tracks. When the vehicle develops a problem SOET quickly addresses the issue looking at each driver independently to see where the best correction can be applied.

SOET takes great care in maintaining strong relationships with businesses so that when changes in the market occur they get immediate feedback so the relevance is reflected in the courses offered to students as rapidly as possible. The goal of SOET is to provide a winning solution to each of the four drivers so students get great paying jobs, businesses get state-of-the-art engineering talent, while the faculty and administration manage the process. SOET is a great place to get a degree.