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Cover Story
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 The world changes.
Markets, technologies, industry and business, the profession of engineering itself—all of these are continually in flux, constantly changing. Therefore we too must change, not only to meet challenges of the “outside” world, but to be the positive cause of change as well. I’m happy to announce some very positive changes for the College of Engineering, moves I believe will truly help us in our Reach for the Top campaign to become one of the nation’s top 20 engineering schools.
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In 1995, the College of Engineering at Iowa State University created a strategic plan entitled The Blueprint for the Future, which emphasized improvements in the undergraduate education program and laid out a set of objectives to be achieved by the year 2000. In 1998, the document was updated and streamlined to become The Blueprint for Excellence with performance objectives targeted at the year 2003 with the emphasis once again on the undergraduate program. Based on progress in the college’s programs during the past seven years, the college is now prepared to undertake the following new Reach for the Top challenge directed at its graduate education and research efforts: