OSU is commissioned and supported by the State to enhance welfare for citizens, both corporate and individual. Students and their families have aspirations and hopes, and view OSU as the path to those goals. Employers view OSU as a source of employees who can become partners, and ensure the success of their enterprises. CHE faculty and all OSU employees expect their work at OSU to fulfill their personal aspirations. These (State, students and families, other employers, and OSU employees) are our constituents. They have a substantial personal investment in OSU, and they are substantially impacted by the outcome of OSU actions. Performance measures, which are simultaneously a statement of values, must reflect the expected impact on the constituents' desires. 

Our Primary Constituents are:

 1)      STUDENTS in their present. We desire to have a program in which students enjoy their growth in understanding both life and technology. They will celebrate success in meeting the curriculum challenges that prepare them for engineering careers. Representatives of this constituent group would be students and recent graduates.

2)      STUDENTS in their future. Nominally, CHE alumni have a 30-plus-year career followed by retirement. We desire that they be happy and successful in all phases of their life, and posses the attributes to be so. Representatives of this constituent group would be our alumni.

3)      EMPLOYERS. Employers expect our graduates to become business partners who can use their skills to improve quality, flexibility, safety, economics, etc. of their processes and operations. Demographics indicate that about 80% of our BS students enter industry, and that about 20% go to either professional or graduate school. Accordingly, representatives of the employers would be both industrial managers and graduate faculty. Representatives of the industrial manager group will be the CHE Industrial Advisory Committee. Representatives of the graduate faculty group will be the School faculty.

4)      CITIZENS. Many people benefit from the profit, resource conservation, and improvement in processes and products that are created by our graduates. Citizens include all people who share the student’s joy and pride in their development, accomplishments, and stature both before and after graduation. This includes the corporate State of Oklahoma, which will benefit from a first-class educational institution in National reputation, quality of life, and economic development. It also includes the families who invest in the students’ education. It includes the communities in which our graduates live. We need to remain open to input from diverse stakeholders.

5)      SCHOOL FACULTY.  School faculty members are the “trustees” of educational quality. Further, they have a first-hand and immediate awareness of the efficacy of the curriculum in meeting Program Outcomes. Accordingly, School faculty members will be a primary constituent group for evaluating and defining the School program.