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Whether or not your student is officially on campus and a part of the community yet, want to visit? Listed below are links to area attractions; dining, lodging, and shopping possibilities; maps to get you here (including road conditions, should you need them); and campus Webcams, in case you can’t make an in-person visit (or even if you can).

Virtual Tour of Engineering Campus

Dining

• Ames
• Campus

Lodging

Maps

• Campus Parking
• Engineering Buildings
• Iowa State Campus
• Road Conditions

Shopping

• Ames
• Main Street

Sights and Sounds

• Ames
• Central Iowa
• Des Moines Register Datebook
• Iowa
• Iowa State University

Webcams

If you don't find what you're looking for here, please contact us at info@eng.iastate.edu.

Built in 1897, the water tower was conceived as a practical yet elegant solution to a serious problem; the college wells were drying up.

So when state legislature appropriated funds to construct a water system, Anson Marston, then a civil engineering professor, planned to build a structure that would, in his words, "serve as an object lesson, both to citizens of the state and to hundreds of young engineers."

Our newest structure, located next to the water tower, is one of stark contrast to the historical tower.

The Engineering Teaching and Research Complex represents the largest capital project ever undertaken at Iowa State.