The new facility consists of approximately 60% laboratory and 40% classroom and office space. Designed by US-based architectural practice Cooper Carry, the new facility features a striking light show in the main lobby and is on track to receive silver-level LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), as are all recent additions to the SPSU campus.
In addition to classrooms, faculty offices, computer labs and an auditorium, the three-storey Engineering Technology Center features a large number of highly specialized spaces, such as an energy/HVAC lab, a fluid mechanics lab, a strength-of-materials lab, a metrology lab, an electromagnetics lab, a computer-integrated manufacturing lab, an automotive lab, engineering graphics labs, a biomedical lab and a machine shop, to name a few.
SPSU is the only public university in Georgia offering a degree in mechatronics engineering – the integration of mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines with an infusion of computer science and software engineering. The ETC will house this programme, in addition to all of the other engineering and engineering technology programmes in SPSU’s School of Engineering Technology & Management and Division of Engineering.
