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Cover Story Research & Learning Alumni College Briefs Upcoming Events Past Issues Alumni Interest Survey Credits  Alumni Relations Research Today at ISU Cyclone News Admissions  Muses Editor 212 Marston Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-2153 email: preinig@iastate.edu |
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 Following is an excerpt from Dean Melsa’s Hoover dedication speech.Today, more than ever before, it is critical that engineers recognize a wide variety of connections. With the advent of the Internet and areas like biotechnology, nanotechnology, and smart materials, we are witnessing a revolution in every facet of our lives. This demands that the college develop a new paradigm for engineering education and research to better prepare our students to meet the challenges that lie ahead. This new building is physical proof of our commitment, not only to meet those challenges, but to transcend them and redefine the engineer of the 21st century. Ten years ago, some doubted we would realize the dream for this Engineering Teaching and Research Complex. “Too much,” they said, “too costly, too ambitious for Iowa State.” There were more than a few skeptics and naysayers. But there were also visionaries, people who made the connections to the future, whose imaginations reached beyond the place they found themselves 10 years ago to envision this place and this hour. To all of you I say, welcome to your Engineering Teaching and Research Complex - the material fulfillment of your vision and faith in our future. Appearances to the contrary, though, I’m here to tell you that the concept of the Engineering Teaching and Research Complex is not yet finished. We have much more work to do. For as impressive as this facility is, it wasn’t built simply to impress. Rather, it was built to conduct research and educate the minds of young engineers, whose work will impress Iowa and the nation by making a material difference in the lives of people the world over. Last year I announced the college’s Reach for the Top initiative, a campaign to place Iowa State among the top 20 schools of engineering in America. More than a push for status, Reach for the Top is the necessary condition for fulfilling the promise of this place; in that regard, consider it Phase III of the ETRC project - no longer bricks and mortar but people and programs. And I promise you, the vision and energy that brought us here today - your vision and energy - will help us to keep that promise tomorrow.
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