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Cover Story
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 This academic year has been one of our most successful. Interest in our programs remains high: spring enrollment was up nearly 6.5 percent over last year, with 4,863 undergraduates and 802 graduate students. We continue to receive strong support from many constituents, including alumni like Willard and Leitha Richardson, whose recent $500,000 gift will support a world-class faculty member in ECpE. Construction is well underway on Hoover Hall, Phase II of the Engineering Teaching and Research Complex, and although we’re still a few weeks from commencement, most of our spring graduates already have either accepted engineering positions or made plans for graduate school.
Here’s a look at how some of our partnerships have helped us leverage resources to accomplish greater research output. |
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A significant portion of the college’s annual research activity is conducted in collaboration with the Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and the research centers of the university’s Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT), four of which are directed by engineering faculty. Other partnerships cut across campus boundaries to involve the College of Business, the College of Education, and others.