Engineering the manufacturing boom
Arizona State Univesity is ready for the domestic boom taking place in the Southwest. The Fulton Schools of Engineering is one of the largest producers of engineers in the nation, and with the addition of the new School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks at the Polytechnic campus, ASU is poised to help develop the talent pipeline needed to meet this demand.
The goal of The Rio Reimagined project is to restore and revitalize more than 55 miles along the Salt and Gila Rivers, which wind through six cities, including Phoenix and Tempe, and two Native American communities.
As the most innovative school in the nation, every year, ASU devotes one special week to create a collaborative space for innovators. During Innovation Week this year, ASU will also kick off Innovation Quarter — a five-week long event (Dec. 7–Jan.
NASA's spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, recently collected a sample from the asteroid Bennu with the help of ASU's Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES), which was built on the Tempe campus.