 The School of Technology was given college status in 1985 and renamed the College of Technology . The university expanded many of the technology and science facilities during the 1980s , including constructing the Planetarium and Physical Sciences Building . In 1985 Ronald Reagan became the seventh president or president to @-@ be to visit the university after Warren G. Harding , Theodore Roosevelt , William Howard Taft , John F. Kennedy , Richard Nixon , and Gerald Ford . 
