The Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies Building will be a major new academic building at the heart of campus. It will fuse engineering, computer science, and artificial intelligence to create an innovative, hands-on learning environment and accelerate technology discoveries.
The building will be a 165,000 square foot facility, built on the site of the existing Glover building. It will dynamically enhance student learning and drive collaborative research opportunities with other disciplines across campus.
Read the announcement in Source News.
Colorado State University is creating a new innovative facility to expand our excellence in education and research
“Our goal is to equip all CSU students – not just engineers – to be innovators and leaders in areas such as healthcare, sustainable energy, smart infrastructure, and climate and weather prediction. The building will bring faculty and students together from across campus to work and learn together at the critical nexus of engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence.”
Allen Robinson
Dean
Thank you to our generous donors!
We are fortunate to pursue this opportunity because of the original vision and dedicated naming gift from Don and Susie Law, the generosity of CSU students, and a transformational support from the Walter Scott Family Foundation.
We invite you to join us to maximize the potential of this cutting-edge facility for the benefit of our students and their educational success.
Major programmatic components
Artificial Intelligence Makerspace
The Artificial Intelligence Makerspace will marry the makerspace concept with a broad suite of AI technologies, resources, and systems.
- Enable interdisciplinary teams of students to create AI models for engineered systems.
- Will support growing curriculum in Engineering AI, with critical experiential learning opportunities to collect data from and develop models for real-world engineered systems in collaboration with industrial partners.
- A differentiating facility for CSU and our students.
Digital and Physical Prototyping Lab
The Digital and Physical Prototyping Lab will enable students to apply the fundamentals learned in the classroom to transform their ideas into working prototypes and products.
- It will allow the implementation of design and hands-on learning across the entire curriculum.
- Great learning opportunity as part of common first-year
Experiential Learning Laboratories
Experiential Learning Laboratories will enable students, faculty and industrial partners to apply classroom fundamentals to real-world engineered systems.
- Example: identifying cybersecurity vulnerabilities in on-road semi-trucks.
Cross-University Academic Programs
Cross-University Academic Programs that sit at the intersection of engineering, computing and AI will be housed in the Engineering Future Technologies Building.
- Examples include Construction Engineering, Systems Engineering and Data Science.
Scott Scholars Program and Network
The Scott Scholars Program and Network will be housed in the building to elevate the scholars’ experience, strengthen the cohort, and support networking events and programs with other university Scott Scholar programs.
Cross-University Academic Programs
Cross-University Academic Programs that sit at the intersection of engineering, computing and AI will be housed in the Engineering Future Technologies Building.
- Examples include Construction Engineering, Systems Engineering and Data Science.
State-of-the-art
Collaborative facilities
A engineering student success center to provide critical support services such as career counseling, tutoring in the heart of campus
Smart classrooms to enable active and remote learning
A data center to support the rapid growth in the college's educational and research activities over the next decade
Extensive meeting and collaboration space
