UNLV’s advanced engineering idea incubator and innovation generator

The Advanced Engineering Building was designed to enable UNLV to meet skyrocketing enrollment in engineering and computer science and help build Nevada’s tech-driven diversified economy with workforce-ready graduates. Rama Venkat identifies the building features considered most critical to those efforts, and highlights which of those features are delivering on the promise after one year of operation, and unexpected outcomes. He profiles the interdisciplinary collision and research collaboration model, space and cost efficiencies achieved through shared resources, how building use and occupancy may change in the future, and the flexibility and adaptability investments that make program change possible.