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You need reliable information on which to make a decision about your career. The fact is, engineering is driven by information, and in the 21st century information is driven by cutting-edge computation. So if we’re going to reach our destination as a society—and if you’re going to reach yours as an individual—we need the best information we can get. Call it our “road map to 2050.”

Students, faculty, and industry experts conduct “cyber wargames” using Iowa State’s Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment, or “ISEAGE.”

There can be no reliable road map to our technological future without effective security. Each year Professor Doug Jacobson of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosts a cyberdefense competition in which Iowa high school students test their skills against some of the best hackers in the business.

Look into your own mind

While most doctors use two-dimensional images to plan for surgeries, researchers at Iowa State’s Virtual Reality Applications Center such as mechanical engineering professor Eliot Winer are developing technologies to visualize and interact with 3-D images of patients’ complex internal systems. Here, a student demonstrates software that visualizes a human cranium for pre-operative planning.