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Resource A. Institutional Context


The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMD), a regional comprehensive university, is one of five campuses of the University of Massachusetts System, the largest university system in New England. UMD began in 1962, when the state legislature created the Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute. In 1969, it became a comprehensive university and was renamed the Southeastern Massachusetts University. In 1991, the institution joined the University of Massachusetts System and was renamed the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. At the turn of the 21st Century, UMD was a comprehensive university serving some 6,000 students (largely commuters), and had 300 faculty organized into five colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Industry, the College of Engineering, the College of Nursing and the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It offers a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, and several other Ph.D. degrees in conjunction with other U Mass campuses. With a strong teaching mission, faculty carry a teaching load of 3 courses (9 hours) per semester and are evaluated primarily in terms of their performance in teaching, measured primarily through student evaluations.

The UMD College of Engineering, which houses the IMPULSE program, has between 70 to 80 faculty members and enrolls roughly 1,000 students. Typical graduation time for undergraduate students enrolled in the College is four and a half years. While UMD is primarily an undergraduate institution, the College of Engineering offers several off-campus master's degrees, some available as far away as the Far East.


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