diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c2cfe0a79ccdf819f02daa4638821abc4b9d4992..c256d88c89f791b63cca210de44af079c26e62ac 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 # Version 1 - 2014-09-21, David Snider (sniderdj@umich.edu)
 # Vertion 0 - ????-??-??, Matt Diffenderfer (mjdiffy@umich.edu)
 
-# enables c++11 on CAEN
+# enables c++14 on CAEN
 PATH := /usr/um/gcc-5.1.0/bin:$(PATH)
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH := /usr/um/gcc-5.1.0/lib64
 LD_RUN_PATH := /usr/um/gcc-5.1.0/lib64
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ PARTIAL_SUBMITFILE = partialsubmit.tar.gz
 FULL_SUBMITFILE = fullsubmit.tar.gz
 
 #Default Flags
-CXXFLAGS = -std=c++11 -Wconversion -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic 
+CXXFLAGS = -std=c++14 -Wconversion -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic 
 
 # make release - will compile "all" with $(CXXFLAGS) and the -O3 flag
 #				 also defines NDEBUG so that asserts will not check