New College of Engineering Facilities

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Engineering Research Building

The $116 million facility will provide approximately 230,000 square feet of space for state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary research and teaching labs and classrooms, faculty and graduate student offices, administrative offices, conference rooms and support areas. The building’s design incorporates several energy-saving features, including green and light-reflecting roofs, window designs for improved use of available light, rain and condensate water capture and storage for landscaping, use of recycled materials, and others that will allow the facility to meet requirements for LEED Silver certification.

Two units of the College of Engineering will be the principal occupants of the Engineering Research Building. The Computer Science & Engineering Department will be located throughout the north wing of the building, and the Bioengineering Department will be primarily in the south wing. Both departments will have access to classrooms, labs, offices and conference rooms of various sizes. A coffee shop will provide a friendly space for faculty and students to gather to relax and study.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of some engineering activities, a portion of the Engineering Research Building will be occupied by units of the College of Science. These will be located in the south wing of the building. The College of Science will have 18 research labs that will be shared by biology, neuroscience, physics, and chemistry and biochemistry.  In addition, the college will also occupy 38 offices for faculty and post-doctoral researchers and two areas with cubicles for graduate students.

Construction materials – red brick, limestone, glass and steel – were selected to both preserve the association with other university buildings and communicate the contemporary aspect of the building’s use. A unique architectural feature is a two-story opening providing a striking gateway into the university grounds. A tree-lined pedestrian mall replaces a former street, and two courtyards provide welcoming places for students to gather. Another feature is a bridge connecting the Engineering Research Building to the new, third floor of the Engineering Laboratory Building.

Construction of the Engineering Research Building will begin in the summer of 2008 and is expected to be ready for occupancy in January of 2011.

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Center for Structural Engineering Research

The UT System Board of Regents has approved $25 million toward the construction of the Center for Structural Engineering Research. The proposed center will contain 40,000 square feet of conference, classroom, office and shop areas, and 40,000 square feet of research space.

The research area of the facility will contain state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation, such as several 200-ton dynamic actuators, laser sensors and image processing devices. A reaction floor, the largest in the nation, will have the capability to test several full-size building and bridge components simultaneously with monotonic, cyclic, dynamic, fire and blast loads. Two 50-ton cranes will move test specimens and materials to specialized equipment in the research area.

The Center for Structural Engineering Research will enable UT Arlington to compete with top national and international universities and research institutes for state, federal and industry research opportunities and grants.

The center will be located at the northeast corner of I-30 and MacArthur, about eleven miles from the UT Arlington main campus, and operated by the Civil Engineering Department. Land for the center has been secured and construction will begin as soon as additional funding is secured to achieve the estimated $35 million cost of the facility.

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UTSW Medical Imaging Center

The Bill and Rita Clements Advanced Medical Imaging Building features 18 specially-designed bays for clinical and research imaging devices. The largest of these houses one of the nation's first 7-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging devices for human studies. The Medical Imaging Center’s state-of-the-art equipment will provide a catalyst to major collaborative projects involving UT Arlington and UT Dallas and UT Southwestern faculty members and clinicians who will occupy offices and laboratories in the building.

College of Engineering researchers in the Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering departments will use four labs in the Center. Initial projects there include:

• the development of a DLP® Hyperspectral Imager for surgical and clinical use (conducted in association with Texas Instruments); 
• the use a two-photon microscope for photon counting and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to study how DNA strand breaks (caused, for example, by exposure to ionizing radiation during treatment of cancer) are being repaired by the body’s cellular machinery;
• using diffuse optical imaging for functional brain activities and for tumor diagnosis and prognosis under a variety of treatments;
• using coherent optical tomography to locate targeted nanoparticles that have attached themselves to diseased organs.