In the second of a three-part series, ASU President Michael Crow points to the Fulton Schools as one of the university’s more prolific catalysts of innovation and technological advances that fuel economic growth in Arizona and beyond. But Crow says more investment will be needed to give engineering education and research the tools needed to fulfill their potential as the “backbone of a range of industries” for a New Economy being driven by smart technologies and systems that combine the physical, digital and biological worlds that are changing the way we live.