Don and Susie Law
Engineering Future Technologies Building

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.

Initial concept of the Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies Building, part of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University.
CSU to build cutting-edge engineering and AI facility thanks to historic student investment and transformative gifts

Colorado State University will construct an innovative new academic building that will transform engineering education for generations to come, thanks to two landmark philanthropic gifts and a strategic investment from CSU students.

Thank you to our generous donors!

Colorado State University and the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering hosted a gratitude event to say thank you to Don and Susie Law on February 18, 2025.

We celebrated the Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies Building, and followed the event with a halftime presentation at Moby Arena during a basketball game.

Colorado State University is creating a new innovative facility to expand our excellence in education and research

The Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies 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.

“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 of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University. October 19, 2023
Allen Robinson Dean

Major programmatic components

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.

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 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.

Interdisciplinary Research Hubs will bring together interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students from across the university to address societal grand challenges using approaches at the nexus of engineering, computer science, and AI.

  • The Hubs will expand industry partnerships, help grow the highly popular SURE program.

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.

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.

Startup garages will host student and faculty entrepreneurs and early-stage companies, enhancing entrepreneurship across campus, strengthening the partnership between the College and the Institute for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business, and further expanding the College’s industry partnerships.

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
Initial concept of the Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies Building, part of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University.
Initial concept of the Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies Building, part of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University.
Initial concept of the Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies Building, part of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University.
Initial concept of the Don and Susie Law Engineering Future Technologies Building, part of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University.