• Generating new technology
• Improving state-of-the-art technology
• Studying hypotheses, phenomena and conjectures
• Training graduate engineers
• Helping faculty gain practical experience in particular in relation to their teaching assignments and know-how in general.

Research in Engineering at the University must not be aimed at:

• Product development
• Commercial ventures
• Restricting proliferation of results and open literature publications for commercial benefits.

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