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The Photonics Center's 235,000 net sq. ft. facility opened in June of 1997. Its ten floors house state-of-the-art research laboratories, laboratory support space, a new business incubator, and instructional and seminar facilities specially designed for the development of technologies, products and companies based on the technology of light. The building's structural steel frame is founded on a reinforced concrete mat, as much as six feet deep, to minimize vibration. The ECE Department also resides in this building, on floors 3-5, with ECE instructional laboratories located on the 1st floor. Many ECE faculty have their labs and offices in the Photonics Center areas. You will also find faculty from mechanical engineering, chemistry, physics, biomedical engineering, and manufacturing engineering in the Photonics Center. A two-story "penthouse" houses equipment for ventilation, heating, and cooling, as well as distribution of laboratory gases and other utilities throughout the building. The Center's 6th Floor houses a new business incubator that provides 23,000 net sq. ft. of "greenhouse" space that can be flexibly configured to house up to 14 photonics start-up companies. This space is complimented by a 10,000 net sq. ft. wet lab-equipped satellite business incubation facility. Other campus facilities supporting photonics research include the Fraunhofer Center, the Scientific Instrumentation Facility, the NSF Computational Science Center, and the NSF Engineering Research Center (CenSSIS) for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems. |
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