The design of Therkildsen Industrial Engineering Building has been carefully and thoughtfully organized to foster community among industrial engineering scholars. This design creates a unique identity for the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, elevating and enhancing the student, faculty, and visitor experience with a collaborative, light-filled, and engaging spirit. The design expands the ability to effectively provide innovative teaching, impactful research, and community engagement through the following design goals:

• Provide a dynamic system of spaces that integrates teaching, learning, and research in an innovative academic facility
• Create an inviting and inclusive environment that encourages collaboration among students, faculty, staff, and industry partners while enhancing the sense of community for IMSE
• Create a facility for IMSE and the College of Engineering that fosters current program needs yet is adaptable, flexible, and resilient to evolve as the challenges of industry partners, curriculum, pedagogies, and research advances.

Spaces include advanced manufacturing lab and related shop facilities, flexible labs for collaboration with industry; immersive lab incorporating digital technologies, operational research labs, and human factors research labs. Teaching spaces include active learning classrooms, computer labs, and learning community collaborative settings. Administrative space is provided for departmental, faculty, and student services. The entire facility incorporates a spectrum of social and collaborative spaces to provide a sense of community throughout the building.