Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University’s Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center provides resources for interdisciplinary, undergraduate engineering education. The building was programmed and designed to eliminate traditional departmental boundaries, and focus on the integration of shop, lab, classroom and computer space for the Mechanical, Civil, and Biomedical Engineering Departments and the newly merged Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
Team meeting rooms and study space support collaboration, interdisciplinary work and an increasing reliance on information technology. Our design supports the current trends in engineering education which emphasize hands-on project experience, group dynamism, and increased emphasis on oral, written and multilingual communication.
The building received a LEED® silver rating from the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and incorporates several sustainable design techniques including the use of natural daylight in 75% of the building’s interior spaces, mechanized sunshades with solar tracking on the façades, a raised floor air displacement system, and an integrated retention basin that captures storm water for landscape irrigation.
The building houses a centralized student machine shop, rapid prototyping facilities, biomedical/chemical engineering labs, studio classrooms, design fabrication and assembly spaces, a lecture hall, project display areas, and a lounge/study space.
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