WEBVTT 00:05.296 --> 00:08.299 We're excited for the launch of ECoRe - 00:08.800 --> 00:12.012 The Engineering Collaborative Research and Education Building 00:12.012 --> 00:15.265 because that's really what we're doing, right? 00:15.265 --> 00:18.977 We're bringing students together from multiple disciplines. 00:19.144 --> 00:21.563 At 280,000 gross square feet 00:21.563 --> 00:26.943 The ECoRE facility is the largest academic building that Penn State's built to date. 00:27.110 --> 00:27.777 When you want to 00:27.777 --> 00:31.781 offer state of the art education and you want to be pioneering in research, 00:31.781 --> 00:36.870 you need to build an environment that fosters and stimulate that. 00:36.870 --> 00:40.749 It's kind of like an engineering hub for students. 00:40.790 --> 00:44.586 People come here for all types of reasons, like there's advising, there’s study 00:44.586 --> 00:49.716 abroad, there's labs, there's food, there's studios, there's classrooms. 00:49.758 --> 00:53.303 The Engineering Collaborative Research and Education building houses 00:53.386 --> 00:58.141 multiple departments: aerospace, the acoustics graduate program, 00:58.349 --> 01:01.394 architectural engineering, civil engineering. 01:01.978 --> 01:04.439 We have some big things in the basement 01:04.439 --> 01:09.986 a large motion based rotorcraft simulator, an indoor flight facility for drones 01:09.986 --> 01:13.865 and autonomous vehicles, a huge rotorcraft test stand, 01:13.865 --> 01:18.119 and an anechoic chamber where we can measure the noise of vehicles 01:18.119 --> 01:22.332 and we can do it with them in flight because the anechoic chamber has 01:22.415 --> 01:24.542 in it itself a wind tunnel. 01:24.542 --> 01:29.005 My lab is specifically the Adverse Environment Chamber, where I spin up to 01:29.047 --> 01:34.177 20ft diameter rotors inside of a freezer where I control temperature. 01:34.344 --> 01:37.305 I can make a cloud around this rotor, controlling the liquid water content, 01:37.305 --> 01:41.226 so we can evaluate the effects of rain on the coatings of the blade. 01:41.226 --> 01:43.895 And then what happens when you go back to icing? 01:43.895 --> 01:44.687 That's what 01:44.687 --> 01:49.025 these facilities give you: the capability to have hands on knowledge to the students 01:49.025 --> 01:53.780 and apply what they're learning in the classroom in an actual application. 01:54.197 --> 01:59.869 We have facilities on the first floor of ECoRE, which does a lot of work on innovative 01:59.869 --> 02:04.124 materials, low carbon materials, on automated construction, and things 02:04.124 --> 02:08.503 like that. We do a lot of work on sustainable solutions for water. 02:08.503 --> 02:11.923 And the upgrades that we've had in the labs 02:11.965 --> 02:16.010 have allowed us to do more accurate and more quality work. 02:16.845 --> 02:19.180 We have this human performance lab 02:19.180 --> 02:22.433 where we have two side by side laboratories. 02:22.600 --> 02:26.062 We can test different lighting strategies, ventilation 02:26.062 --> 02:30.650 strategies, control strategies to evaluate not only their energy impact, 02:30.650 --> 02:34.821 but also how they impact human beings: their well-being, 02:34.863 --> 02:37.866 their productivity, their comforts, and so forth. 02:38.116 --> 02:41.828 Our icon lab showcases the next generation 02:42.036 --> 02:47.208 construction kind of environment with this amazing three dimensional space 02:47.250 --> 02:51.796 that students can do a virtual walk through in a future constructed space. 02:51.796 --> 02:55.717 So all of this really enabled the core mission 02:55.717 --> 02:59.679 of training architecture engineering for the next generation. 03:00.096 --> 03:03.933 So the Penn State Graduate Program in acoustics is the only institution 03:03.933 --> 03:07.770 in the country that grants graduate degrees in acoustics. 03:07.812 --> 03:11.482 There's a couple of of world class facilities we have here, namely 03:11.482 --> 03:15.236 the anechoic chamber and the reverberation room that we have downstairs. 03:15.612 --> 03:17.989 They are few and far between. 03:17.989 --> 03:18.948 Most universities 03:18.948 --> 03:22.785 do not have these facilities. And especially the combination of the two 03:22.827 --> 03:26.414 next to one another actually offers for some really unique experiments. 03:26.664 --> 03:29.751 Our wet lab that we have, our biomedical acoustics lab is phenomenal. 03:29.792 --> 03:31.711 I have a number of friends that have done some pretty 03:31.711 --> 03:35.632 amazing research in those labs. And moving over from our old lab spaces 03:35.632 --> 03:39.969 to these new lab spaces has - I know it's enabled them to expand their research. 03:40.470 --> 03:43.723 As a grad student, I think this building is 03:43.765 --> 03:48.561 so conducive to a productive, healthy work environment. 03:48.561 --> 03:50.480 We have a huge amount of natural light. 03:50.480 --> 03:52.190 We have ergonomic desks. 03:52.190 --> 03:56.903 Our workspaces are much more communal than our old office. 03:56.903 --> 04:01.157 And so you just come to work feeling happier to be here, and you're more 04:01.157 --> 04:02.533 productive while you're here. 04:03.493 --> 04:06.496 One of the reasons that we think about ECoRE 04:06.621 --> 04:09.999 as sort of a central hub for engineering 04:09.999 --> 04:13.253 is because of the student support that's going to be in the building. 04:13.294 --> 04:16.339 This is going to be a place where our students, our first and second 04:16.339 --> 04:17.840 year students, are going to come and engage 04:17.840 --> 04:20.426 with their advisors, where students are going to engage 04:20.426 --> 04:24.639 with the center for Engineering Outreach and Inclusion and build community 04:24.639 --> 04:27.642 with each other and find allies and find support. 04:27.767 --> 04:29.227 This is a great demonstration 04:29.227 --> 04:33.231 and an example of what the power of this Penn State community can do. 04:33.690 --> 04:34.565 It's fantastic. 04:34.565 --> 04:39.737 It's really tearing down the barriers for people to feel inspired.