Engineering Vision Statement
To be a strong and elastic thread in Cornell's proud fabric; we provide the resources to meet engineering, project management, and information needs of the University with sound and appropriate solutions.
Customers
- We are seen as problem solvers.
- Our customers feel that we have helped them do their job better.
- Campus clients come to us confident of finding proper solutions that are appropriate for their schedule and budget.
- Regular customers know and trust us. Long-term respect will substantiate our advice.
- Each project leaves a customer smarter about their facility.
Staff
- Technical competence is essential for our staff.
- Each employee is versatile and maintains a wide field of view.
- Every employee feels that they are an agent for the customer as well as a steward for the University.
- Our staff is our greatest resource - we continually recruit to maintain competence and diversity.
- Our people make a difference and feel that they do.
- Staff members are with us for long portions of their career while continuously growing professionally.
- Every person we hire increases our capability and our capacity.
- We use a variety of resources to meet campus needs: in-house design, consultants, supplemental staff and students.
- Our staff mix includes a range of skill levels to meet each request as economically as possible.
Stewardship
- When making decisions we do what is right for the University.
- In completion of our work we leave a legacy that others will find useful and we will be proud of.
- We are the champions for quality project design and construction of engineered systems
- We team with campus partners to set the proper design standards and then become the stewards to implement those standards.
Integration
- Our staff are comfortable moving freely between engineering, the shops and into the houses of our customers.
- For every request there is a clearly stated goal that is shared by the designer, the customer and the builder. It is our job to ensure that is in place. Every request is important.
- We strive to form links to the academic community through consulting with professors and hiring students. We can broaden the academic experience; they can teach us.
- Coordinated architectural and engineering design is seamless.
- In managing projects we orchestrate the roles of client, planner, designer, contractor, construction manger and all other team members.
- We maintain effective partnerships with other PDC groups as well as Maintenance Management, Utilities, Transportation and others