Contact: Aspen Harris
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State mechanical engineering faculty, staff and students are receiving a new space for research and collaboration with the ongoing construction of the Innovation, Design and Engineering Education Laboratory.
Located in Patterson Engineering Laboratories, the IDEELab is in phase two of a four-phase process to provide new labs, classrooms and student spaces for the Michael W. Hall School of Mechanical Engineering.
Phase one involved the construction of the $3 million Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory. Completed in May and funded entirely by private donors, the lab and its equipment include five computer numerical control machines, a water jet cutter, a wire electrical discharge machine, manual mills and lathes, welding machines, a plasma table and more…