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Our facilities cover over 84,000 square feet, and include large industrial high bays, labs, testbeds, classrooms, and conference spaces. Our primary building is LEED Platinum certified, and designed to demonstrate sustainable building technologies and energy systems, with features including a rainwater collection system and a microgrid with advanced sensors, as well as fuel cells, photovoltaics, and wind turbines that generate 100% of our energy.

  • Students and teachers discussing architectural models.
    Architecture Studio Bay 3
  • Silver high temperature protective body suit in a lab
    Bal Dixit High Temperature Materials Lab
  • Overhead view of the Batteries and Functional Nanomaterial Lab showing lab benches with insturmentation, gloveboxes and chemical fume hoods.
    Batteries and Functional Nanomaterial Lab
  • Researcher analyzing data on a computer
    Biofuels Testbed
  • Overhead view of the Carbon Nanomaterials Sythesis and Purification Lab with lab benches along the wals and a central lab bench with gas cylinders to the side of it.
    Carbon Nanomaterials Synthesis and Purification Lab
  • CIMS conference audience clapping.
    CIMS Conference Center
  • A researcher cleaning metal manufacturing parts.
    Cleaning Technologies Lab
  • Decision Analysis Lab with computers and students.
    Decision Analysis Lab
  • Man with goggles doing a laser scan of a manufacturing part.
    Digital Manufacturing & Product Realization Lab
  • Man in goggles working on a plastic tube model design.
    Eco-Design Lab
  • Racks of IT equipment in the Eco-IT Testbed.
    Eco-IT Testbed
  • Electronic circuit board being repaired with tool
    Electronics Lab
  • Woman in goggles and lab coat, squeezing a liquid in a bottle.
    Environmental Chemistry Lab
  • A student cuts a wire on his 3D design project.
    Foundations 3D Design Shop
  • Man in lab coat working on a panel in a fuel cell lab.
    Fuel Cell Testbed
  • Two men at a computer looking at an image.
    Materials Science Lab
  • Overhead view of the Nanomaterial Characterization Lab showing lab benches with insturmentation
    Mechanical and Electrical Characterization Lab
  • Woman with her hands on a photovoltaic panel.
    Microgrid Testbed
  • A split picture overhead view of the Optoelectronics Characterization Lab. The top having 3 people working around a centralized lab bench, the bottom having  a person sitting at an optical table with computers and instrumentation in front of  him and lab benches behind him.
    Optoelectronics/Photovoltaics Characterization Lab
  • Overhead view of the gloveboxes in the Perovskite and Energy Sustainability Lab
    Perovskite and Energy Sustainability Lab
  • Overhead View of the Physical Vapor Deposition lab equipment
    Physical Vapor Deposition Lab
  • PAL image inspection
    Printing Applications Laboratory
  • Twin wire arc spraying metal.
    Remanufacturing Testbed
  • Exterior of Sustainability Hall, showing the solar panels on the roof.
    Smart Building Testbed
  • Sustainability student desk space.
    Sustainability Student Desk Space
  • Lounge space with chairs and white board wall.
    Sustainability Student Lounge Space
  • A student working in the Sustainable Building Materials Lab - Environmental Chamber.
    Sustainable Building Materials Lab
  • Two people working in the Sustainable Innovations Lab
    Sustainable Innovations Lab
  • A man in goggles testing transmission dynamometer.
    Systems Performance and Reliability Lab
  • Wheel spinning on a chassis dynamometer
    Vehicle Dynamics Testbed
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