 I'm Byron Pipes. I'm the John Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering and I teach in the schools of aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering and materials engineering. I'm the director of a research center here in the Indiana Manufacturing Institute. That research center focuses on one of the most important characteristics or problems of our time which is manufacturing in the United States and what role manufacturing will play in the economic development of our region, of our state and of our nation. It's the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation and its focus is high-rate manufacturing in composite materials. Within that organization I run the Composites Manufacturing Simulation Center where students are engaged in research and we're involved in teaching the concepts of manufacturing of these new materials and that rates and economic conditions which are consistent both with the automotive industry and the aerospace industry. And I have to tell you today we're facing some very interesting challenges in this arena. Primarily how do we use the modern technology to increase the rate and quality of manufacturing in this country in such a way that it brings prosperity to our citizens. It's very exciting to me to be involved with a group of industries that bring their problems to the university, those problems that have not yet been solved. Companies that are interested in this idea include Dassault Systems, the largest engineering software producer in the world and they're one of the major companies that we work with here at Purdue in developing the software, in implementing that software and in teaching that software to our students. Alongside them Boeing, Ford, Dow, many other companies are engaged and realize that the future design table for products will be a digital design table. I think I said earlier just how important it is for us to work with industry here at Purdue. It guides us. It gives us dimensions that we need to follow and understand and I want to thank all those industries that we've worked with. Thank them for coming to campus. We see them almost every week that they're here. They drop by our laboratories. We thank them for their support. We thank them for hiring our graduates. We thank them for engaging with us and bringing their problems to our table.