Who May Use the Meeting Rooms

Priorities for Scheduling
Events sponsored by the President’s Office, Dean’s Office and other entities of the Engineering School have first priority for meeting room use and are exempt from room-rental fees and deposits, but not exempt from charges for room reconfiguration, special cleaning, lost keys, etc.

Other users of University of Maryland College Park are scheduled on a first-come, first served basis and are exempt from room-rental fees and deposits, but not exempt from charges for room reconfiguration, special cleaning, etc.

The reservable public space rooms in the Kim Building are intended to directly support engineering academic programs, research programs or development programs.

Other Restrictions
We do not permit chairs or trash cans to be used as door stops.  If a door stop is desired we have them available upon request in the Dean’s Office.

Student organizations may reserve rooms during business hours if sponsored by department.  NO NIGHTIME USE BY STUDENT GROUPS PERMITTED (unless there is an advisor present to oversee the event).

Use of adhesives of any kind and thumb tacks is NOT PERMITTED on any walls, doors, or other painted surfaces in the Jeong H Kim Building.

Reservation Policies

Space Request Forms
To reserve a room in the Jeong Kim Building, you must fill out and complete a Space Request Form online before your meeting by using the link (http://www.eng.umd.edu/room-reserve/).  It is also located on the Engineering website.  If you have a very urgent request, you can call 301-405-8335.

Advance Reservations
The meeting rooms may be reserved up to 6 months in advance, more than 6 months will require special consideration due to the high usage of our meeting rooms.

Limited Number of Reservations Permitted
Long term reservation of any of the seminar rooms is not permitted.  Rooms cannot be reserved for more than four weeks in a row for a given time slot.

No group can schedule the use of these rooms at any given time for long repeated terms into the future.

A group can schedule repeatedly but will have to compete with other groups when making such reservations.  For example, no one would be permitted to schedule the room every Wednesday from 9am-10am for the entire semester.

Uncommon usage
Any request for usage of any unusual nature will be forwarded by the Dean’s Office for review by the oversight committee.  This committee consists of the Director of Facilities, Associate Director of Facilities and executive Director, Information Technology.

Cancellations
If a reservation is made and the event/meeting will not take place at the reserved time, it is the responsibility of the person reserving the room to let us know immediately.

Holds
If a reservation is placed on “HOLD” it is the responsibility of the person reserving the room to release the “HOLD” immediately.  A room can only be held for two weeks unless a special request is made to hold it longer than the two weeks.

Hours
Our conference room’s normal operating hours are Monday – Friday, 8am – 4:30pm.  AV support may be available after hours at an additional charge.

The Main Kim Engineering Building doors unlock at 6:30am and lock again at 8:00pm, Monday – Friday.  If your event is during the evening hours you may want to contact Building Security at bss@umpd.umd.edu to prevent the lights from switching to energy saving mode.

General Policies

Keys
The individual/or group reserving rooms must come to the Dean’s Suite, room 3110 to sign out a card-swipe key to gain access to rooms.  Key(s) must be returned to us within 24 hours after meeting/event is over.  If your event ends after business hours, you have the option to return the key by sliding key under the Dean’s office door or return it the next business morning.

Room Capacity
Kay 1 & 2 Boardroom, rooms 1107 & 1111 each have approximately 23 chairs and a total of 46 chairs if room is combined.

Pepco Room, room 1105 has approximately 40 chairs.

Room Set-up
Pepco standard room set up is Seminar Style ONLY with two tables.  The Kay Boardrooms 1 & 2 standard room set up is U-shape (see conference room set-ups).

Set-up arrangements
If you require special room configuration/setup & takedown, you must contact facilities at x52222.

Wall Divider (Kay 1 & 2)
To have the wall opened or closed, you must request it when you fill out the Space Request Form when reserving the room.

Equipment/Furniture

•  Laser Pointers: Are not provided by Dean’s Office.
• Chairs/Tables:  Are not to be removed or switched out of either room unless  AUTHORIZED.
•  Extra Chairs:    Are available through Facilities Management Special Events .  (ext. 5-2222)

Food and Drink
Food and beverages are permitted in Pepco and Kay 1 & 2 with restrictions (see Cleaning/Reconfiguration Fee).

ABSOLUTELY NO FOOD AND/OR BEVERAGES ALLOWED IN THE LECTURE HALL!!! (All food and beverages must be served and consumed outside the Lecture Hall on either the first or second floors).

Parking
The Dean’s office DOES NOT validate parking for event participants.

Clean Up
Meeting rooms must be cleaned after your function.  Trash MUST be removed, tables wiped and chairs back in place.

• Trash: You must remove all debris before departing the building by (taking it out to the dumpster, located between the Potomac building and KIM building) and re-configuring the room at the end of your event/meeting or a fee will be charged to provide clean up costs if food and beverage is used in rooms to pay for cleaning if spills occur and also the fee will be assessed when reconfiguration is required prior to the next event/meeting (see Cleaning/Reconfiguration Fee).

• Tables:  All tables and credenzas must be wiped down using WATER ONLY.

• White Boards:  Erased and wiped down.

• Room:  Returned to its original set-up.

• AV Equipment:  Turned off.

• Failure to Clean:  (see Cleaning/Reconfiguration Fee)

Fees

As part of the reservation procedure, the responsible party will be required to sign an agreement and provide their FRS number at the time of reservation to pay for cleaning if spills occur if food and beverage is used in rooms.

Cleaning/Reconfiguration Fee
At the end of your event/meeting the room must be returned to its original configuration.  A $100.00 fee will be assessed when cleaning/reconfiguration is required prior to the next event/meeting.

Rental Fees
For groups other than engineering or college park campus, the rental fees are per room, per day.

Learn More About The Kim Building: Introduction The Kim Building At A Glance The Kim Building Laboratories Reserve Rooms in the Kim Bldg How You Can Partner With Us The Kim Building Dedication and Photo Gallery Virtual Tours of the Kim Building*

The Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building will have a unique and substantial impact on the university, the region, the nation and our partners in research and education partners for many years to come. The establishment of these partnerships with individuals, corporations and foundations will help ensure high research impact, excellent education opportunities, and outstanding students. We invite you to join our team by sponsoring the highly visible research laboratories and instructional classrooms in the Kim Building. Your commitment will help us to achieve our goals.

Much of the building's infrastructure and systems were designed to be visible. In certain areas, students can directly affect or measure aspects of its environment.

Current named labs are:

• The Edwin W. Inglis '43 Thermal Fluids Instructional Laboratory
• The W. M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Combinatorial Nanosynthesis and Multiscale Characterization
• The Agere Systems Microelectronics Instructional Laboratory
• The BGE Learning Center in Honor of George V. McGowan '51
• The Black & Decker Learning Center
• The Comcast Multimedia Signal Processing Laboratory
• The Charles A. Irish '52 Computer Laboratory
• The Sony Multimedia Theater and Studio
• The BAE Systems Controls Instructional Laboratory
   

Labs available for naming are:

• Nanoscale Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Properties Lab (NispLab)
• Functional Macromolecular Lab
• Modern Engineering Materials Instructional Lab
• Virtual Reality Lab
• Space Hardware Assembly Lab
• Optical Communications and Sensors Lab
• Nano- and Micro- Fabrication Laboratory
• Bioengineering Lab
• Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab

Conference Facilities:

The Kim Building is the site of numerous conferences, seminars and meetings. Current named conference facilities are:

Ground Floor:

• The PEPCO Seminar Room
• The Richard and Rebecca Kay Board Room

Second Floor:

• The Lockheed Martin Lounge

Third Floor:

• The BAE Systems North America Aerie
• The Christopher A. Havener '80 Conference Room

To explore sponsorship further, please contact:

For more information please contact us.
clark-corp-partners@umd.edu

Thank you for supporting the A. James Clark School of Engineering and the University of Maryland!

Continue exploring the Kim Building:

The Kim Building At A Glance  |  The Kim Building Laboratories  |  How You Can Partner With Us

Virtual Tours of the Kim Building  |  Reserve Rooms in the Kim Bldg  |  Dedication and Photo Gallery

The Wind Tunnel fan chamber,front view of the fan. To get an idea of its scale,
see the "Fan-tastic"sidebar.

The Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel  has been a cornerstone of the Department of Aerospace Engineering since 1949. One of fewer than a dozen low-speed wind tunnels in the nation, it has been consistently upgraded, remaining in regular service and maintaining its reputation as a state-of-the-art facility. As of 2005, it has hosted more than 1900 tests in aero- and hydrodynamics. Over the years, the Wind Tunnel has boosted the research and development capabilities of numerous local and national businesses, resulting in better products for consumers, the military, specialty markets, and research opportunities for Clark School students.

Ours is a subsonic, or low-speed, wind tunnel, which means it is capable of generating wind speeds up to 3/10ths the speed of sound—in our case, a maximum of 230 miles per hour. This makes it ideal for testing a wide variety of vehicles, aircraft, buildings, devices and the unexpected or unique, including the occasional daredevil meteorologist. Anything that has to contend with the wind could become a test subject.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Over the last 25 years, the wind tunnel has regularly been used to test automobile aerodynamics, including almost all of the Ford Motor Company's scale-model tests. In addition, the wind tunnel has hosted tests for planes, from ultralights to jet fighters to commercial airliners; and other airborne vehicles and devices including helicopters, missiles and parachutes. It has also seen its share of more unusual vehicles, including a hovercraft and the Pride of Maryland solar-powered car. (See the "Nascar Connections" sidebar for more information.)

When Wind Equals Water

How can a wind tunnel measure hydrodynamics? Because air and water behave in the same way below 3/10ths the speed of sound, it is possible to test parts of boats that are below the waterline, and objects that are completely submerged, including submarines. Since the 1980s, the Wind Tunnel has partnered with the renowned Annapolis-based Farr Yacht Design to improve keels on America's Cup and Volvo 60 class yachts. Working above the water line, the wind tunnel has helped take Quantum Sails (also of Annapolis) to world-class status.

The effectiveness of a sail is tested on a scale-model of an America's Cup yacht. The smoke shows the air flow in regions away from the surface.

Birds and Bobsleds

The U.S. Bobsled team gets ready for the 2004 Winter Olympics.

Sometimes, Wind Tunnel Director Jewel Barlow admits, people approach his staff with projects they could never have anticipated. The Smithsonian explored the evolution of flying squirrels, while the Patuxent Wildlife Center explored the effects of attaching tracking devices to birds. In preparation for the 2004 Olympics, the U.S. Bobsled Team used the Wind Tunnel to analyze how changes in the sled's design and its crew's positions would affect its time on the track.

Live from the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel...

One novel request in 1988 lead to something now familiar to the public: a TV meteorologist contacted Dr. Barlow and asked if he could be strapped into the test area to demonstrate the force and speed of the winds Hurricane Gilbert was about to bring to the Gulf of Mexico. It went over so well that Dr. Barlow is contacted by multiple stations every time a hurricane threatens our shores, sometimes resulting in competing meteorologists trying to outdo each other by asking for higher and higher speeds! (The wind tunnel staff has always set a speed limit to avoid any injuries.) Members of the media interested in writing a story or filming a segment may contact the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel to learn about scheduled Media Days.
 

Student Involvement

The wind tunnel offers full-time, co-op positions for undergraduates interested in current aerodynamic research and development. It has also opened its doors to student projects. The Society of Automotive Engineers has tested its designs in the Wind Tunnel, and aerospace engineering holds a senior lab there. The Solar Decathlon team used it to determine the possibility of wind damage to the solar panels on its house.

In order to study air or water flow across objects' surfaces, colored oil is spread on scale models with a paint brush. The tunnel's wind speed is then brought up to a selected value. The oil moves according to the flow direction of the air at the surface of the model.

An NBRF diver wearing the MARS space suit works on a model of the Hubble Telescope,
assisted by the Ranger robot.

Neutral buoyancy is one of the primary ways we can simulate weightlessness on earth. When an object is put underwater, and the right amount of floatation is added so it neither sinks nor rises, it behaves as if it were not subject to gravity. For this reason, neutral buoyancy has been used to train astronauts and develop equipment used in space.

The Only Neutral Buoyancy Facility on a College Campus

The University of Maryland's Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility (NBRF) is one of four on-campus research sites associated with the Space Systems Laboratory. It is one of only three operating neutral buoyancy tanks in the United States, the only one located on a college campus, and the only one dedicated to research. At 50 feet wide and 25 feet deep, it is large enough to accommodate equipment, robots and people engaged in research dedicated to making it easier and safer to work in space.

To explain how such a rare facility ended up at the University of Maryland is to tell the story of its director, Dr. David Akin. It begins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where the Space Systems Laboratory was founded in 1976. When Akin began his neutral bouyancy research, the only facility available to his team was MIT's swimming pool—and they were only allowed to use it on Saturday nights! But by 1990, Akin's body of research convinced NASA to award him a grant to build a dedicated neutral bouyancy tank. With no place to put it on MIT's already full, urban campus, Akin moved the Space Systems Laboratory to the University of Maryland, which leapt at this unique opportunity to expand its aerospace engineering program. By 1992 the tank was built and the Neutral Bouyancy Research Facility was in operation.

A Sampling of Specific Projects

The Ranger robot working on a mockup of the Hubble Telescope. The Ranger is much larger than even a big picture implies—fully extended it stands 24 feet tall, and has a 30-foot arm span!

The NBRF's research centers around the principle that the best way to work in space is to team astronauts with robots. Humans are experts in real-time decision making and manual dexterity, while robots are more capable of repetitive, stength- and precision-oriented activities. Depending on the task, studies have shown a human-robot team can increase efficiency from 50-500% over human-only work.

To this end, the NBRF has been engaged in the design and testing of robots, equipment, and spacesuits, as well as the study of human factors in space. Perhaps its best-known projects have involved the spaceflight-qualified Ranger series of robots, which were designed to repair satellites, prepare work sites and act as servicing systems for the Hubble Telescope and International Space Station. The NBRF has also developed the Maryland Advanced Research/ Simulation (MARS) space suit, which is used to study human/robot interaction and simulate astronauts' working conditions.

The Space Systems Laboratory and NBRF will adapt its dexterous robotic technology to fit on SEABed, the vehicle designed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute to explore life at the ocean floor's hydrothermal vents.

Currently, the NBRF is working with the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute under NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Experiment Program (ASTEP). Their goal is to develop a team of autonomous robots capable of exploring and gathering the unusual life forms at the deep-sea hydrothermal vents 4000 meters below the polar ice caps. The conditions these robots will face are similar to those on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, and could set the stage for searching for life there and beyond. (Learn more about the ASTEP Project.)

Although the NBRF most often collaborates with NASA and government agencies, it sometimes teams up with industry and academia. It has worked with spacesuit manufacturer Hamilton Sundstrand, and Cis-Lunar, which develops underwater life support and diver propulsion equipment. It is also involved in a project with Georgetown University, which will translate assisted-movement systems for astronauts into exoskeletons that can be used for physical rehabilitation.

Student Involvement

The NBRF provides excellent opportunities for engineering students, especially undergraduates, through capstone projects or employment at the facility. Rising engineers can put their education to work in building, repairing and maintaining the equipment. And not everyone involved is in aerospace engineering—the Department of Mechanical Engineering's undergraduate Human-Powered Submarine Team has tested its submersibles in the NBRF's waters. K-12 students often come for tours, and Women In Engineering has conducted projects involving the tank with its 9th and 10th grade participants.

For more information, visit the Space Systems Laboratory site.
For amazing, high-resolution underwater photography and movies of the tank in action, visit the Space Systems Laboratory Photographic Archives. 

Two of the human-powered submarines developed by mechanical engineering students:
The Terpedo (above), and the RSR Fourier (below).

The Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building is designed to foster cross-disciplinary research and learning, with state-of-the art labs shared by multiple departments and researchers. The building includes both research labs and instructional labs. Major emphases include: nanotechnology, information technology, bioengineering, microelectronics and MEMS, sensors and actuators, transportation systems and space research.

Research

First Floor

• The W. M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Combinatorial Nanosynthesis and Multiscale Characterization
• Nanoscale Imaging, Spectroscopy and Properties Lab (NispLab)
• Functional Macromolecular Lab
• Space Hardware Assembly Lab
• Virtual Reality Lab

Second Floor

• Optical Communications and Sensors Lab
• The Comcast Multimedia Signal Processing Lab (including the Sony Multimedia Theater and Studio)
• Nano- and Micro- Fabrication Laboratory

Third Floor

• Bioengineering Lab
• CATT Laboratory, Rooms 3105 and 3107
• Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab

Instructional

First Floor

• Modern Engineering Materials Instructional Lab
• Edwin W. Inglis '43 Thermal Fluids Instructional Lab
• Lecture Hall: Room 1110

Second Floor

• Computer Laboratories:
  The BGE Learning Center in honor of George V. McGowan '51
  The Black & Decker Learning Center
  The Charles A. Irish '52 Computer Laboratory
• The Agere Systems Microelectronics Instructional Lab

Third Floor

• BAE Systems Controls Instructional Lab

Research Laboratories

The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab)
CATT Lab was created in order to respond to the significant changes brought about by the increasing use of advanced technologies in the transportation and homeland security field. A permanent staff of ITS professionals, affiliated faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering, and more than 50 undergraduate and graduate students support cutting edge research in the areas of ITS technology, systems and software design, serious games, data fusion, data visualization, incident management, and user interface design. The CATT Lab works directly with state and local governments, federal agencies, private industry, and the department of homeland security to develop leading edge transportation and software systems. This multi-disciplinary research facility includes students and full-time faculty from Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Computer Engineering along with Geography, Art, Telecommunications, Computer Science, and Digital Entertainment departments.

Nano- and Micro- Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab)
Microfabrication clean rooms, populated with state-of-the-art equipment, enable the development of new miniaturization technologies that include micro- and nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and bio/chemical sensors and systems. This 10,000-square-foot clean room is comparable with those of the best university and government research laboratories, offering outstanding opportunities for both research and education. The Nano- and Micro- Fabrication Laboratory will support research in three broad areas:

Silicon-based microelectronics and manufacturing of ultra-large-scale integrated circuits.
Research in optoelectronics, bringing together the areas of compound semiconductor materials and optics to drive advances in lasers, detectors, optical communications and integrated optoelectronic systems.
Research in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which forms the basis for revolutionary new approaches to integrated systems for sensing, signal processing and actuation, with broad applications from RF communications to biomedical engineering.
The integration of these three areas will foster new levels of cross-disciplinary creativity in small smart systems, biomolecular components and systems and other topics.

Functional Macromolecular Materials Laboratory
This is a state-of-the-art characterization and research facility aimed at understanding the structure of materials. Researchers investigating organic and inorganic materials will have at their fingertips resources that reveal unique properties of materials with resolution previously unattainable. Within this lab, it will be possible to reveal even the nanostructure of organic and inorganic materials using ultra-high resolution electron microscopes. New types of imaging techniques will be available through probes using x-rays, monochromatic photons, magnetic fields and piezoelectric forces. These probes provide researchers with unique analytical techniques to determine structure-property relationships and develop a new generation of materials with both electronic and mechanical functionality.

Nanoscale Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Properties Laboratory (NispLab)
This laboratory focuses on nanoscale characterization of materials and structures generated in Maryland NanoCenter research laboratories or in the FabLab complex. It features high resolution transmission electron microscopy, secondary electron microscopy, scanning Auger microscopy, and scanning probe techniques for atomic- and nano-scale characterization. It is located in a section of the Kim Building designed for low vibration so that best possible spatial resolution can be achieved from the instruments there. The NispLab is adjacent to and integrated with the W. M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Combinatorial Nanosynthesis and Multiscale Characterization.

W. M. Keck Foundation Laboratory for Combinatorial Nanosynthesis and Multiscale Characterization
The Keck Laboratory is a centerpiece for pioneering research. It extends campus strengths in combinatorial materials science, scanning nanoprobes and highly controlled materials synthesis into the nanoscale domain, enabling fundamentally new insights into the behavior of materials at the nanoscale. The Keck Lab has unprecedented capabilities for the rapid exploration of advanced complex smart materials and memory devices, as well as systematic investigation of their physical mechanisms.

Optical Communications and Sensors Laboratory
This lab focuses on optical information technology and systems, with an emphasis on optoelectronic devices, nanostructured photonic materials, monolithic and hybrid integration technologies, modules, optoelectronic packaging and systems. Equipment includes a 12.5 Gb/s bit-error-rate tester, optical spectrum analyzers, ultra-short optical pulse generation, a streak camera, WDM lasers on an ITU grid, a Newport auto-align system, an HP communication analyzer, high-speed detectors, a lightwave signal analyzer and an optical wavelength meter.

Comcast Multimedia Signal Processing Laboratory, including The Sony Multimedia Theater and Studio
This state-of-the-art lab conducts research into human-machine interactions and interfaces; high-definition broadcast and entertainment systems; content-based multimedia data archiving and retrieval; and wireless multimedia communications. Equipment includes high-definition display systems; a sound room with high-quality, surround-sound systems; high-performance graphics workstations for image- and video-processing applications; high-quality video cameras; and multi-processor workstations.

Bioengineering Laboratory
This lab houses state-of-the-art equipment for biotechnology, biochemistry, and the applications of biological science to a broad range of engineering issues. It hosts research from many of the school's departments, including chemical and biomolecular, materials, and civil and environmental engineering, and features cutting-edge information technology for data acquisition, monitoring and process control. Capabilities include protein and DNA sequencers, near-infrared, ultraviolet, and visible spectrum spectrometry, mass spectrometry, gas chromatography (GC), gel electrophoresis, and liquid column chromatography including HPLC, affinity, ion-exchange, and size exclusion. The lab supports a separate module of microprocessor-controlled cell culture reactors for both aerobic and anaerobic experiments, as well as CO2 incubators, autoclaves, an environmental shaker and a glucose analyzer. Environmental chambers for temperature and humidity control to 80 degrees below zero Celsius are available for specialized experiments, as well as laminar-flow biological hoods and other protective systems.

Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory
This lab supports the school's expanding research into applying electronics, sensor systems, and information technology to traffic management. The lab hosts a direct, fiber-optical connection to the Maryland State Highway Administration's operations control center (CHART) at BWI Airport, feeding real-time traffic information to computer simulation and analysis systems on campus. It also includes large-screen imaging for traffic monitoring, network simulation, and incident management.

Space Hardware Assembly Laboratory
This state-of-the-art complex is used for developing and testing small satellites, shuttle or space station payloads, and other space systems. The main facility houses two assembly and checkout bays for the parallel development of space projects. Around the perimeter will be advanced development facilities, including rapid prototyping fabricators, vibration test stands, and a thermal vacuum chamber. A dedicated electronics fabrication and test facility and a bonded storage room for maintaining control and tracking on spacecraft components adjoin the assembly bays area. A large overhead door provides direct access for shipping the completed spacecraft to the launch site.

Virtual Reality Laboratory
This cutting-edge facility will have two components. The VR Research and Design Center is an immersive virtual reality environment used for both basic research on advanced virtual environments and for investigating new approaches to immersive environments. Inside, a user will be surrounded by 3D computer graphics with which he or she can interact. For example, the facility could allow a spacecraft controller to "see" a spacecraft in full view, or to walk around inside a failed component. Data will be displayed in many visual formats, or synthesized through voice outputs. By speaking or touching, the user can change the environment, highlight systems of interest, or look though auxiliary systems.

The Motion Base Simulator provides a physical simulation of processes that cannot be adequately constructed using virtual presentations alone. It allows the user to experience the "feel" of moving an experiment rack in the weightlessness of space, or to walk on Mars or the moon with counterforce appropriate to those gravitational environments. Incorporating visual presentation technologies from the Research and Design Center, the Motion Base Simulator allows human or robot test subjects to perform complex tasks in simulated gravity fields, providing a counterpoint in capabilities to both the VR Research and Design Center and the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility.

Instructional Laboratories

BAE Systems Controls Instructional Laboratory
This lab supports undergraduate and graduate students in controls-related courses throughout the school. Experimental stations will feature personal computers, data-acquisition boards and conditioning modules, signal generators and oscilloscopes. Each station hosts a series of physical experiments from motion control to fluids transport, illustrating common phenomena that complicate control design such as transport delay, instability, nonlinearity, resonance, and saturation.

For advanced student projects, there will be a microcontroller development station and a high-speed, DSP-based control station. Instructors will be able to assemble an appropriate set of controls lab experiences from a collection of self-contained modules. Topics such as identification, robust design, adaptive and nonlinear control will be studied in practice.

Modern Engineering Materials Instructional Laboratory
This lab combines facilities for studying materials' mechanical, electrical and magnetic properties. Electromagnetic-based experiments will take place within a specially designed shielded area that eliminates electronic noise and stray fields. Another area allows students to prepare samples for mechanical testing, van der Paaw electrical mobility measurements, and thin-film conductivity experiments.

The Edwin W. Inglis '43 Thermal Fluids Instructional Laboratory
Every engineering discipline requires a firm grounding in fluid mechanics. This undergraduate instructional lab helps students experience the fundamental principles of fluid physics, fluid properties, and fluid behavior. Instruction possibilities include the differences between laminar and turbulent flow, the concept of frictional losses in flow networks, and the principles of multi-phase flow. The lab provides experimental capabilities for both incompressible and compressible flow.

The Agere Systems Microelectronics Instructional Laboratory
This lab is an integrated-circuit fabrication facility, used primarily to provide students with an understanding of how a silicon wafer is turned into an operating chip. Students review transistor operation and carry out the steps of IC fabrication. The effects that processing parameters have on transistor performance are examined. The facility enables hands-on learning and experimentation in the characterization of wafers and fabrication steps, oxide growth, lithography, dopant diffusion, metal deposition, and patterning.

Computer Laboratories:

• The BGE Learning Center in Honor of George V. McGowan '51
• The Black & Decker Learning Center
• The Charles A. Irish '52 Computer Laboratory

These state-of-the-art undergraduate design labs offer a complete environment to support collaborative team design, including a full complement of personal productivity tools and engineering CAD software. They are coupled to an integrated networked environment that includes Internet-based video conferencing and collaboration. The labs primarily support classroom instruction, collaborative design projects, homework and other computer-based tasks, supplementing class lectures.

Continue exploring the Kim Building:

The Kim Building At A Glance  |  The Kim Building Laboratories  |  How You Can Partner With Us

Virtual Tours of the Kim Building*  |  Reserve Rooms in the Kim Bldg  |  Dedication and Photo Gallery

The rotunda's grand staircase.

Occupants:

The Kim Building is designed to encourage and support multidisciplinary approaches to engineering. All Clark School departments are represented, and collaborators from throughout the university, the region and the world are welcome to participate.

Like many parts of the building, one of the elevator shafts is exposed for observation.

Major emphases:

Research and education programs within the Kim Building address a wide range of the opportunities and challenges that face society, from energy and the environment to national security, transportation, healthcare, telecommunications and new product design and manufacturing.

Engineering specialties include information technology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, microelectronics and MEMS, sensors and actuators, environmental engineering, intelligent transportation systems and space research.

Funding:

The state of Maryland provided the primary funding for the Kim Building. Jeong H. Kim, Ph.D., '91, is the building's primary individual donor.

Labs:

The Kim Building houses many multidisciplinary research and instructional labs. Each lab can adapt as technology advances and emphases dictate. Learn more about the Kim Building laboratories.

Continue Exploring the Kim Building:

The Kim Building At A Glance  |  The Kim Building Laboratories  |  How You Can Partner With Us

Virtual Tours of the Kim Building  |  Reserve Rooms in the Kim Bldg  |  Dedication and Photo Gallery

Meet Dr. Jeong H. Kim Jeong H. Kim received the first Ph.D. in reliability engineering from the University of Maryland in 1991, and is a professor of practice in the Clark School of Engineering. Dr. Kim has been widely recognized for his achievements. In 2005, shortly after being appointed president of Lucent's Bell Labs unit, he was named one of the Top 10 Most Influential Asian Americans in Business. He has been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering and sits on a number of corporate, university and non-profit boards. An entrepreneur as well as an engineer, Dr. Kim founded Yurie Systems, where he pioneered the development of a revolutionary asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch for wireless applications. The ATM switch became a pivotal key in the modernization of telecommunications systems for today's digital market. In 2004, he was inducted into the Clark School's Innovation Hall of Fame.

View from the third floor landing, looking down at the rotunda.

A Building that Represents the Future of Engineering

At the dawn of the 21st century, engineering is undergoing profound changes. In both research and education, engineering now addresses many challenges beyond the scope of any one engineering discipline, moving beyond old boundaries to develop new knowledge and solutions.

At the same time, the engineer is becoming a new kind of professional—one who is more open to the involvement of colleagues from the sciences, business, government and public policy, and is better prepared to take a greater leadership role among them.

The Clark School of Engineering has done much to advance these new developments, and is now going even further—with the opening of the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building.

The Kim Building is a research and education center whose state-of-the-art labs are shared across departments to encourage cross-disciplinary work; whose facilities and layout encourage both major conferences and small, impromptu discussions where new ideas are exchanged; whose spacious design and communications systems foster a spirit of openness; and whose very construction components serve as a working laboratory.

We invite you to explore this beautiful and advanced facility, and see both the future of the Clark School and of engineering itself.

The Kim Building as Laboratory

The Kim Building not only houses engineering labs—it is an engineering laboratory in itself. Here, students can learn about civil and environmental engineering, control systems and construction. The interior design features exposed columns and beams, a glass-enclosed elevator shaft, windows with a variety of glazings, two types of bridges, visible color-coded pipes and heating and air ducts. Students can take measurements, perform tests, control heating and cooling, and experience firsthand the concepts they learn in textbooks.

Students measure strain on a Kim Building internal bridge.

Continue Exploring the Kim Building:

The Kim Building At A Glance  |  The Kim Building Laboratories  |  How You Can Partner With Us

Virtual Tours of the Kim Building  |  Reserve Rooms in the Kim Bldg  |  Dedication and Photo Gallery

To help you grasp quickly the breadth and depth of the Clark School's research and educational capabilities—and the opportunities these present to students, faculty members and collaborators—we have assembled a set of featured facilities for you to explore. Please contact the individual facilities to inquire about specific programs, courses and activities of interest to you. You may also use the links at the right to browse our research facilities by department/institute and use our overview of departments, institutes, centers, computer laboratories and libraries.

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

The new Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building is one of the most significant additions to the Clark School in its century-plus history. The 160,000-square foot building houses some of the most sophisticated engineering research and educational laboratories in the nation. Major emphases are information technology, bioengineering, microelectronics and MEMS, sensors and actuators, environmental engineering, transportation systems, and space research.
Learn more about the Kim Building's exceptional learning environment and resources, and why the building itself is an engineering laboratory

Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility

Neutral buoyancy is one of the main ways weightlessness can be simulated on earth. To accomplish this, underwater versions of spacecraft, robots, and spacesuits are built and tested. Located at the Space Systems Laboratory, the NBRF is one of three currently operating neutral buoyancy tanks in the U.S. It is the only one located on a college campus and the only one dedicated to basic research. Other facilities include SCUBA diver support and a control room capable of remote equipment control, video capture, and communication with divers. Qualified parties can submit requests to perform tests.
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Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel

The Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel is a state of the art low-speed wind tunnel that has been actively involved in aerodynamic research and development since 1949. GLMWT staff and student employees conduct experiments and analyses to support design of aircraft, boats, ground vehicles, and structures exposed to wind and hydrodynamic forces. The wind tunnel has also hosted a considerable number of unusual studies, including the performance of migratory birds, the evolution of flying squirrels, and the performance of the U.S. Bobsled Team. Learn more about the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel

Virtual Reality Lab

The Virtual Reality Laboratory is a graduate research facility specializing in the design of Smart Structures in a virtual reality environment using real-time interactive computer graphics, acoustics and touch sensing. Projects have included simulating underwater construction, design collaboration using avatars of people in different locations, vibration and noise control, and virtual warehousing. Learn more about the Virtual Reality Lab

Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (HyNet)

The Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (HyNet), a Commercial Space Center sponsored by NASA, is a research center whose primary focus is to develop hybrid networks that link satellite and wireless systems with cellular, cable, Internet and telephone networks. HyNet's research topics include security in communication networks; Internet over satellite; wireless and ad hoc networks; Internet traffic patterns; free-space optics and air traffic control systems. Learn more about the HyNet

The Advanced Information Technology Laboratory

The Advanced Information Technology Laboratory performs research to develop the critical applications for the modern information infrastructure. The lab uses a systems-oriented methodology that produces critical research and state-of-the-art prototypes that reflect the interdependencies of critical technologies, particularly high-speed networks, mobile computing, information resources, raw data, and multimedia applications. Learn more about the Advanced Information Technology Laboratory

Maryland NanoCenter

When materials and structures are created and engineered at the nanometer scale—approaching atomic dimensions—they can display fundamentally new properties and behavior as a direct result of their small size. Research in nanoscale science and engineering is thus unveiling entirely new worlds of ideas and applications, as well as promoting advances in miniaturization. The Maryland NanoCenter brings together cross-disciplinary groups of outstanding scientists and engineers to advance the frontiers of science and to develop nanotechnologies which improve our world.  Learn more about the Maryland NanoCenter

Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility

The Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility offers a broad range of services that can lead to the creation of pharmaceutical, nutritional, and other biotechnology products. The BSF's capabilities include fermentation, cell culture, separation, purification and product analysis. Past clients have included Martek Biosciences, MedImmune, Human Genome Sciences, NIH, Digene, NIST, and the U.S. Army. Most if not all of the biotech companies in Maryland have had their process engineers trained at the facility.
Learn more about the Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility

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Select additional services required: (your FRS will be charged per-room for the fee-based items) EIT A/V Support No Charge Video Recording $100 first hr +$50 each additional hr. Phone No Charge (if using for a teleconference, use this link to set it up) Podium No Charge Microphone No Charge Video Conferencing* $100 first hr +$50 each additional hr. *If you chose Video Conferencing, please contact Ken Bentley at kbentley@umd.edu after you submit this form.
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