The Cyber & Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) and Mathematics & Systems Engineering Center (MSEC) will create a modern academic hub that will foster collaboration across disciplines that simply cannot happen in the current 1960s-style office buildings/classroom spaces. This means open, collaborative spaces where cadets and faculty from many majors can collide, interact, and see each other’s work—igniting innovation.
The CEAC and MSEC will provide wide-open spaces for designing and building solutions to real problems, encouraging collaboration across the artificial boundaries created by organizational structures and physical spaces. This will be accomplished through appropriately designed spaces and adjacencies.
With the completion of CEAC and MSEC, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines will collaborate shoulder to shoulder in the same spaces, working together with their humanities and social science partners to create innovative solutions and learn the skills needed for a modern, technical Army.
Donor Profile: Mike Fisher
Mike Fisher ’90 fondly remembers West Point’s computer lab as the start of his computer science journey.
Now the CEO of MyFitnessPal, Fisher has co-founded a business and co-authored books with classmate Marty Abbot. Together with his wife Ashley, also in the tech industry, Fisher is supporting West Point’s Cyber & Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) with a leadership gift. “We strongly believe in the need for leaders with technical skills,” Fisher says.
The CEAC will unite Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Systems Engineering, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration. Key features include The Redoubt for collaboration, The Gateway connecting CEAC to Mahan Hall, and The Overlook bridging to Building 606.
Raised in a military family, Fisher credits West Point with instilling leadership and principles he applies today. Through their gift, the Fishers aim to inspire future leaders to innovate and lead effectively.
“West Point instilled in me the importance of principles upon which you will not waver as well as the fundamental tenets of leadership. Not only have I leveraged these skills in my personal leadership roles but I have also used this knowledge of how to develop leaders of principle within my organizations.”
