After the war, Ira Needles wanted to help his community and Canada remain competitive by training 150,000 engineers. To do that, he would have to do what no one else had ever done – he innovated and improved on an existing idea that would vault him and his new school onto a world stage. It, in turn, has become the hub of innovation and technological foresight. Today, what he accomplished is still benefiting his community and most of Canada. Ira Needles is a forerunner…and this is his story.