Dear 校友, Faculty, Staff, Students, and Friends:

In last year’s letter, I wrote, “The future is here!” This year’s magazine focuses on how that realized future is unfolding at Kettering and our priorities looking ahead.

The engines that carried us here were the Boldly Forward Capital Campaign, which raised over $155 million from more than 5,000名慷慨的捐赠者, and the completion of the spectacular 学习共享, which has received attention nationwide as a new concept in academic buildings.

Boldly Forward funded critical academic and campus enhancements such as labs, 教室, and learning centers; new and enhanced scholarships for hundreds of students; and academic and enrichment programs that enhance both life and learning on campus. 共享学习, 与此同时, has become the center of all non-classroom campus activity, providing a dramatic stimulus to everything from admissions to student life to the library to student-faculty interaction.  

Our first priority in this exciting future we now inhabit is to 继续 building on our successes in advancement. In the wake of a successful campaign, allow me to offer an analogy. 

Gum magnate William Wrigley was once asked while traveling on a train why he kept up such heavy advertising when the company already had an overwhelmingly dominant market share. He walked his fellow traveler into the coal car and asked, “What do you think will happen to this train if this engineer stops shoveling coal?” 

像箭牌, we must 继续 to feed the fire we have built with the 继续d financial support that makes Kettering accessible and keeps it focused on the frontier of new developing technologies. The job is not finished—and never will be—if we want to 继续 to serve the students of tomorrow.

This issue addresses many impactful aspects of Kettering today, beginning with the addition of critical, high-level talent and the restructuring of our academic leadership. 

Our lead story explores our relatively new Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) degree, which we added in direct response to emerging industries’ need for engineers that can innovate and work across traditional disciplinary boundaries. 

同样的道理, an article titled “Future-Proofing our Students” introduces five curriculum-wide initiatives developed over many months by faculty leadership to build flexibility and adaptability into our traditional curriculum. These five areas—advanced mobility, 新能源汽车, 智能制造, 人工智能, and sustainability—address emerging trends and disciplines faculty feels will define the workplace of tomorrow. As aggressively interdisciplinary perspectives that can be paired with standard disciplines, they will allow our students and new graduates to be nimble in a rapidly changing, 越来越难以预测的未来.

享受杂志. It is a celebration of the Kettering you have built with your loyalty and support. 

最热烈的问候,

Dr. 罗伯特K. 麦克马汉

校长兼物理学教授