Gov. Doug Ducey recently visited the University of Arizona campus to see the state's New Economy Initiative in action. The initiative is geared toward building a highly educated workforce to meet some of the world's most pressing technological challenges. Its fiscal year 2022 funding included support for UArizona research in hypersonic flight – flight at five times the speed of sound and faster.
Gov. Ducey toured the College of Engineering's wind tunnels with a group of local community and UArizona leaders who held a roundtable discussion about the future of the science, technology, engineering and math workforce in Arizona. Dean David Hahn said the people at the roundtable represented a microcosm of the reasons he came to the university in 2019. Among them: a forward-looking state legislature and support from university leadership for ambitious growth goals – including doubling the size of the College of Engineering's undergraduate student population.
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