From ITLL to the New Coleman Institute, College Achieves Success in Many Ways

The past seven years have seen fantastic achievements for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Among them:

• the design, funding, construction, and operation of the finest undergraduate educational facility in the world, the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL);
• the undergraduate curricular reform providing a flexible first year along with a four-year graduation guarantee;
• the creation of the joint Center for Entrepreneurship with the College of Business and Administration, increasing the range of opportunities for students;
• the gifting of the $10.6 million BP Center for Visualization, the largest corporate gift in the history of the University of Colorado;
• the establishment of an undergraduate degree in environmental engineering and a coordinated set of electives in bioengineering;
• the creation of four joint research centers with the CU Health Sciences Center;
• the launching of a collegewide research focus in micro- and nano-systems for engineering and the life sciences;
• the creation of introductory courses in every department and industrial advisory councils for every department and program;
• the conceptualization, design, funding, and construction of the Discovery Learning Center, hailed as a national model for the integration of undergraduate education and research activities;
• and, finally, the key role in bringing the largest gift ever to an American public university, the quarter-billion dollar Coleman Institute. More