The Engineering Center
The Engineering Center at Carthage College, located in Lentz Hall, is a 15,000-square-foot facility that empowers students to learn engineering by practicing it.
Engineering Learning Commons
This Engineering Learning Commons is a central community hub providing a space to invite and host visitors to engineering for recruitment, marketing, and industry outreach activities. The Engineering Learning Commons allows students to meet informally with peers, receive tutoring, hold club meetings, and conduct group work. Faculty use the Engineering Learning Commons for office hours, club meetings, and community events.
Thermo-Fluid Systems Lab
All engineering science courses within the Carthage Engineering curriculum incorporate semester-long labs. The Thermo-Fluid Systems Lab currently has fluids benches for experiments, a wind tunnel, and a fume hood for chemical work.
Electromechanical systems lab
The Electromechanical Systems Lab provides the resources for the labs affiliated with statics, solid mechanics, materials, and electronics. This lab houses our Instro 100 kN universal testing system, Allied materials preparation equipment, Wilson hardness tester, ovens, microscope, load cells, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and function generators.
Design Studios
The Engineering Center has two design studios to house all design-build-test courses. The studios are separated by an accordion wall, so they can hold 48 students together or 24 students each. The studios are located near teaching labs and the MakerSpace, so students can work through the engineering design process: understanding needs, ideating ideas, developing and testing prototypes, and constructing final designs. The space will be used to showcase faculty and student work at an end-of-year expo that brings families, alumni, industry partners, and community members to Carthage to see our great engineering work.
Engineering Science Seminar Room
Designed to allow quick access to the Engineering Science labs, the Seminar Room provides engineering with its primary teaching space. The room is outfitted with four wireless, short-throw projection systems allowing up to 16 students to connect and share their engineering work at one time! Students can easily transition from lecture setting to laboratory setting through double doors into both the Electromechanical Systems Lab and the Thermal Fluids Systems Lab.
Makerspace
The Carthage MakerSpace is a campus-community resource with space for digital manufacturing (e.g., 75W laser cutter, Dremel and Markforged 3D printers, Tormach CNC routers) as well as space for traditional wood and metal fabrication work. Support staff ensure safe and productive student use as well as provide a space to lead campus-engagement efforts critical to creating a welcoming, inclusive, and thriving maker community.