1- Invest in, promote, and advance research areas in three categories
-Targeted strategic areas with existing competitive advantages: energy, robotics, petroleum and geotechnical, petrochemical industries, building materials research, and clean water.
-Signature research areas to address key global challenges: biomedical engineering, clean energy, resilient infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing.
-Information technology to provide the nation with stronger foundation for all nation building activities.
2-Obtain large externally funded research centers.
3-Realize and foster a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and creative research environment.
4-Increase research productivity through building research groups.
5-Promote excellence in research by recruiting and supporting high-quality graduate students.
6-Hosting postdoctoral scholars abroad.
7-Increasing visibility of research outcomes via publishing in high impacted journals.
