该系的使命是提供高质量的指导并进行学术研究，以使每个学生都接受具有挑战性的电气工程教育，并为毕业生做好充分准备，以迎接高科技市场中的各种职业机会，从而使他们能够充分发挥其作为专业人士的潜力并作为社会的一员。通过在通信/信号处理和微/光电子领域建立卓越的顶峰并成为创新教育计划的领导者，成为美国领先的电气工程系之一，提供本科课程，为毕业生提供所需的职业培训独具匠心，正直，逻辑思维，具有团队合作和沟通能力，以及追求工程学或商业，医学和法律等其他领域的研究生学位，可提供世界一流的博士学位。旨在为毕业生准备学术职业
The mission of the department is to offer quality instruction and undertake scholarly research that engages each student in a challenging electrical engineering education and prepares graduates for the full range of career opportunities in the high technology marketplace, enabling them to reach their fullest potential as a professional and as a member of society. Becoming one of the nation's leading electrical engineering departments by building peaks of excellence in the fields of communications/signal processing and micro/optoelectronics and by being a leader in innovative educational programs, Offering an undergraduate curricula that equips graduates for careers that require ingenuity, integrity, logical thinking, and the ability to work and communicate in teams, and for the pursuit of graduate degrees in engineering or other fields such as business, medicine, and law, Offering world-class Ph.D. programs that prepare graduates for academic careers, for research careers in the high technology industry, or for technical entrepreneurship, Promoting life-long learning animated by a passion for the never-ending advance of technology.