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In the next five years, we will:

• Be a well-funded institute with a reputation as a leading locus of innovative interdisciplinary ideas that have global impact. 
• Be successful in attracting and retaining strong faculty and PhD students to build the ATLAS research community.
• Be a champion for the power and value of radically interdisciplinary research as a critical force in solving important problems.

To enable this vision, we will:

• Develop ongoing research relationships with industry partners that provide annual support for one-fourth of the PhD students advised by ATLAS faculty.
• Implement incentives and infrastructure for the faculty to successfully propose sponsored research.
• Expand to 12 tenure-track faculty and double the number of PhD students pursuing Creative Technology and Design.
• Establish a research-track faculty.
• Design and promote a credible and inspiring position on the value of true interdisciplinary research in solvingimportant problems.

In the next five years, we will:

• Be recognized as a leading academic program that bridges design and engineering in which research and education thrive together to address society’s most critical challenges.
• Be a thriving community that attracts, empowers and supports engineers from diverse cultural, gender, racial andeconomic backgrounds—including historically underrepresented populations—who pursue their unique goals successfully through graduation.
• Be an institute that embraces and advances educational innovations enabling all graduates to build meaningful long-term careers, adapt to disruptive technologies, lead cross-disciplinary teams and demonstrate resilience in changing job markets.

To enable this vision, we will:

• Create curriculum opportunities for integrating students at all levels into the institute’s research activities and culture. 
• Attract and retain additional teaching faculty with strong STEM credentials.
• Elevate the understanding and status of the Creative Technology & Design degrees in CEAS, across campus and globally to invite more intellectually diverse students to pursue engineering at CU Boulder.
• Increase student retention, particularly from historically underrepresented groups.
• Enhance our maker spaces and teaching resources to ensure students have continued access to advanced tools, technologies and techniques.
• Demonstrate the range of industry and professional roles held by ATLAS alumni, then leverage this in recruitment efforts and program promotion.

In the next five years, we will:

• Be a community prioritizing belonging among all faculty, staff and students, and valuing transparency, financial and resource equity, and a shared responsibility for the institute’s research and teaching missions.
• Be a community with demographics that more closely reflect the diversity of the U.S. population.
• Be a community that actively works to break down historic barriers to equitable education and research.
• Support diverse pathways into and through our academic programs, with equitable and inclusive admissions, recruitment, and retention practices.

To enable this vision, we will:

• Strengthen support for our present population of racial and ethnic minoritized individuals, LGBTQIA+, low economic status, and first-generation students, staff and faculty. 
• Grow our community of students, staff and faculty from groups historically underrepresented in academia. 
• Address structural inequalities in classrooms by applying accessible learning through self-directed and project-based work.