WELDON SCHOOL OFBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

The Convergence of Differences, The Future of Excellence

The Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering welcomes you to this fi rst look at our new state-of-the-art facility for biomedical engineering research and education. This fl agship facility is the result of an unparalleled collaboration between the architects and the faculty, staff, and researchers to optimize both the design and the design process for excellence. The Weldon School builds on a rich history of converting research into effective and effi cient products and treatments ranging from implant-able cardiovascular devices to pioneering tissue replacements. With the addition of leading researchers, state-of-the-art laboratories in our new facility, and the generous support of indus-try and those dedicated to advancing medical devices and treatments, the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering is poised to expand this Biomedical Engineering is poised to expand this effort into new fi elds and new solutions for an even wider variety of medical challenges.

Welcome

The worlds of science, medicine, and education are changing in profound and powerful ways. Academic disciplines long held separate are fi nding rich opportunities for collaboration, and industry is working to translate the results into products that will revolutionize medicine and healthcare. Educating tomorrow’s researchers and leaders who will make this reality requires new, innovative strategies and facilities.

Biomedical engineering has always crossed the lines between traditional academic disciplines to provide new, innovative solutions to challeng-es in medicine. At Purdue University, biomedical engineers are crossing the lines again.

This time however, it’s happening in building design, to provide an innovative, new campus environment for inter-disciplinary research and teaching. The result is construction of a new $25 million Biomedical Engineering building, the fi rst of its kind in Indiana, strategically located in Purdue’s Discovery Park. Construction is expected to be completed in May 2006.

With the aid of a generous grant from the Whitaker Foundation and signifi cant investment by the state of Indiana, the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering has partnered with BSA LifeStructures, Inc. to develop this new, unique facility that:• departs from the traditional design process• optimizes location and connectivity• provides adaptability in meeting changing needs• provides assurance for all aspects of the teaching and research environment

Introduction

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All too often, the design of any new facility is based on the past. An institution tells a designer that they need X-type of building, so many square feet, so many classrooms, so many labs, and a new building is proposed based on the way things have always been done. This time, design has been focused on the future.

As biomedical engineering bridges many differ-ent disciplines, the design process for the new building has brought together architects, faculty members, and staff in new ways. Plans and ideas have been examined in light of how they will affect, or be effected by, emerging teaching and research paradigms as well as advances in technology.

The result is a design that enhances discovery on multiple levels, from encouraging student and faculty interactions with informal and for-mal gathering spaces to strategically aligning research facilities, so as to maximize sharing of both traditional and non-traditional resources.

In areas where a need for continual adaptation is expected, from interpersonal interactions to technology changes, provisions were made to allow quick modifi cations to meet future needs.

Nor is the process fi nished. A close collabora-tion continues to provide additional refi nements to the internal facility design.

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ConnectivityBiomedical engineering centers on making con-nections between different fi elds and endeav-ors, and the new building promotes this integra-tion in several ways, beginning with its strategic location.

The building site was chosen so that it functions as a gateway between the academic campus and the expanding, translational research-inten-sive Discovery Park area of the university.

The key buildings within walking distance are:

Lynn Hall of Veterinary Medicine for pre-clinical studies.

Birck Nanotechnology Center for research re-quiring specialized fabrication equipment and a clean room environment.

Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship for translational expertise and collaboration with industry.

Bindley Bioscience Center for core biotechnol-ogy research equipment and expertise.

Lilly Hall for life science research collaborations.

Internal arrangements were designed with con-nectivity in mind as well:

The proximity of multi-sized classrooms, instruc-tional laboratories, team-based project rooms, counseling areas, and informal interaction spaces creates a unique learning environment and encourages an integrated and fl uid move-ment of people, activities, and ideas.

A good example of internal connectivity is found in the central instructional laboratory complex. Contained in this interconnected com-plex are a wet-bench laboratory (cell and tissue biology), an instrumentation laboratory (me-chanical and electrical testing), a tissue culture facility, and a microscope darkroom (light and fl uorescence). A central prep room and instruc-tional coordinator’s offi ce link the multi-faceted learning activities scheduled for all levels of undergraduate laboratories.

Research labs are clustered along thematic lines for fl exibility and synergy.

Flexible response to the continuous, fast-paced, changing needs of the medical industry and healthcare is critical to successful biomedical engineering, and to the education of tomor-row’s biomedical engineers. This new facility is designed to enhance this capability for both teaching and research activities.

One example of this adaptability is the design of the “Flex Lab” instructional laboratory space. This centralized space for engineering design courses has been provided with a “dance fl oor” arrangement with overhead services that easily allows benches and other mobile equipment to be quickly reconfi gured for the varied aspects of prototype design and testing.

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ResourcesThe new home for the Weldon School of Bio-medical Engineering was designed with a high level of protection in mind. Extra care was taken to ensure that instructional spaces are acces-sible when needed, and that research spaces have controlled access.

Designers worked with faculty researchers and staff members to ensure that all resources needed, from consumables to appropriate electrical power supply, were readily and safely accessible. While fl exibility was designed into the system so that lab spaces—including specialized resource delivery systems—could be easily rearranged, safety and security were always central to the design process.

Care was taken to provide secure personnel access, through a layered approach, to increas-ing levels of research protocols. All laboratories also include state-of-the-art safety systems, so that both people and research are protected.

Securing research space for taking stable mea-surements with highly sensitive instrumentation was also confi gured into the overall building design. The building incorporates a number of these specialized areas. One example are the optics laboratories which are built on their own individual concrete slabs in the basement, isolating them from vibrations that could affect measurements. In another lab, multiple chemi-cal hoods are separated in alcoves to prevent possible cross-contamination.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Weldon School of B iomedica l Eng ineer ing206 South Intramural DriveWest Lafayette , IN 47907-1791http:/ /www.purdue.edu/BME