Aeronautics Building Atrium

Facilities

The College of Aeronautics and Engineering expanded its building on the Kent Campus in 2023 to accommodate the ever-increasing number of students enrolling in its programs. The new space opened for students for the 2023 Fall Semester and was made possible in part thanks to a gift from the Timken Foundation of Canton.  The building’s new Henry and Louise Timken Atrium (pictured above) was named to honor the couple who were pioneers in flight. The expansion added more than 42,000 square feet and includes adaptable classrooms and research labs as well areas for student engagement and hands-on learning.

These facilities are grouped into Learning and Research Hubs.

Learning Hubs

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    Dr. Tao Shen solders an electrical component at the Advanced Medical Robot Lab

    Bot Bunker

    The Bot Bunker is CAE’s foundation of automation supporting key research areas in humanoid robots, AI systems, and autonomous mechatronic systems for industry and medicine.

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    Students relax in the cyber domain

    cyber.domain

    The cyber.domain is a collection of three teaching and research laboratories all with an emphasis on the critically important area of cybersecurity engineering and computer engineering technology.

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    Students assemble a rocket in the Design Lab

    Innovation Way

    Innovation Way creates a dynamic learning environment with flexible and adaptable teaching and research lab spaces and will provide a truly unique and impactful set of facilities enabling students to understand the entire engineering design and manufacturing enterprise.

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    The Runway

    The Runway

    The Runway is home to three laboratories that support hands-on, simulated training in all three areas of air traffic control: Tower, Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) and En-Route.  The simulation workstations can be used to create any combination of tower, terminal, and en route controller positions, and provide future air traffic controllers with the look and feel of an actual air traffic control facility.

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