Slide title: Lays the Groundwork for the Industries and Jobs of the Future

Slide images: Photo of a student learning advanced welding processes in Weld-Ed, part of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program (top left); photo showing people at the CAVE2™ system, a next-generation, large-scale, virtual environment in which images are seamlessly displayed so as to immerse an observer in a cyber world of 3-D data (top center); photo of Dave DeSteno (left), professor of psychology at Northeastern University, and Jin Joo Lee (right), a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), posing with the robot Nexi, which studies and mimics human gestures as they relate to trust between people (top right); photo of the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer (bottom left); digitally-generated image showing a biometric hand scanner (bottom right)