This state of the art facility is located within the Civil Infrastructure Laboratory Complex, adjacent to the Winter Laboratory highbay area. Construction was completed during the summer months of 2004.
The system implemented in this NEES classroom closely mirrors the systems already in use in two electronic classrooms in Hollister Hall for projection and video teleconferencing capabilities, but also houses technology very unique to the NEES project. Namely this is the incorporation of the NEES telepresence system in order to view that system directly in this room, or also allow remote collabortion through this room.
Hollister Hall, the home building for Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell, has two electronic classrooms with linked computer systems and video feed capabilities. In addition, Hollister Hall houses the McManus Conference Center also equipped with a full suite of video and audio projection and transmission equipment. These facilities are ideal for remote teleconferencing with all project participants. A full-time Information Technology Specialist , Mr. Ash, is responsible for developing, maintaining, updating the telepresence equipment, and for maintaining the necessary Internet connections for videoconferencing and remote operation of the telepresence equipment.
This work is supported primarily by the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number CMS-0217366.
This state of the art facility is located within the Civil Infrastructure Laboratory Complex, adjacent to the Winter Laboratory highbay area. Construction was completed during the summer months of 2004.