Next-Generation Facilities
With project-based learning built into our DNA and strengths in satellites, rocketry, combustion research, microelectronics, and endovascular modeling, next-generation facilities will enable our faculty and students to get hands-on experience on the research and projects that matter to the region and to the world.
With your support, we will make the following possible:
Beach Launch Pad
Provide critical funding for construction and equipment needed to extensively remodel the one-story wing of the Engineering Technology building. New and renovated facilities include spaces for satellite development, rocketry, advanced manufacturing, a collaborative wet lab, and student team project stations. The project name is a nod to its alignment to Space Beach as well as to the launching of student careers.
Heavy Civil Center
The Heavy Civil industry has a dire shortage of workforce and is interested in increasing awareness among and recruitment of youth. A facility that incorporates a machine shop, steel welding, concrete casting and environmental chambers, with indoor and outdoor spaces for large construction and infrastructure assembly projects will allow for more robust hands-on projects in the field.
Robotics Hub
A facility that will include electronic components, test equipment, soldering stations, computers and tools suitable for projects involving robotics, sensors, and automation.
AI and Manufacturing Center
AI will undoubtedly change the field of manufacturing, and this faculty-led center could lead the way. Equipment for the new center includes software licenses and subscriptions, computer vision, material testing and characterization, sheet metal forming, ceramics furnace, and hydroforming equipment.
Equipment for Faculty Research and Labs
Frontiers of scientific discovery can be advanced and made possible by funding faculty research and equipment. Areas of impactful research in the college include photonics, photovoltaics, power engineering, high temperature ceramics, and other areas.
Please contact the COE Development team for further information.
