Mission
Create a successful teaching environment through courses and tutorials to be taught within the department or conferences.
 
Perform quality and innovative research materialized in journal publications, technical reports and conference papers.
 
Provide access to grants such as the ones provided by the Canadian Natural Sciences or Engineering Research Council with the aim of assessing students or cover operating and equipment funds.
 
Supervise and bring to the work force market new M.Sc. and Ph.D. students as strong competitors able to respond to technical and organizational challenges in a successful manner.
 
Advertise worldwide our achievements through participation in conferences or involvement in the publication of a number of informative books in the fields of Systems Theory, Control Systems and Information Technology
 
Be an active member of the IEEE and BC Professional Engineer community bridging the gap between industry and academia.
 
Fostering successful collaborations with industry that can provide enhanced opportunities for research support together with a possibility to materialize into patents the innovative achievements.