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  • Dajiang Suo

    NVIDIA grant paves path to smarter, safer autonomous drones

    ASU researcher Dajiang Suo receives a grant of high-powered workstations from NVIDIA to help advance his work related to autonomous drones.

  • Pooyan Fazli and Hasti Seifi

    2025 Year in review

    Throughout the year, the Fulton Schools community remained focused on innovation with purpose, responsibility at scale and impact that extends from student success to global communities and beyond.

From energy and the environment to intelligent machines, The Polytechnic School’s research program explores innovative technologies and concepts that benefit society in tangible ways. Our focus is always on transforming basic discoveries into practical, real-world use and enterprise.

How you learn is as important as what you learn.

Students within The Polytechnic School thrive under the guidance of more than 100 faculty members with comprehensive expertise in many of the most important technological challenges that society faces. Instructors bring considerable industrial experience to enhance their teaching and research.

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A modern polytechnic school can redefine the ways that universities can serve the world and create the possibilities for inclusive pathways for students, faculty and staff to be force multipliers for positive change in the world.

Kurt PatersonSchool director and professor