The Milwaukee School of Engineering on Friday celebrated the grand opening of the Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall, a new $34 million AI-focused academic facility in the center of its campus.
The four-story, 64,000-square-foot facility, located at the corner of Milwaukee and State streets, features a graphics processing unit-accelerated supercomputer to be used by students and local industry partners, auditorium, cybersecurity room, lecture halls and classrooms, and study areas for students.
Students began classes in the new hall on Monday.
MSOE officials say the new computational science facility will position the school as a national leader in artificial intelligence education, deep learning, cyber security, robotics and cloud computing.
The project was funded by a donation from MSOE regent Dwight Diercks and his wife Dian. Diercks, who graduated from MSOE in 1990, is senior vice president at NVIDIA, a technology company based in California.
BizTimes explored the potential of the new hall to boost the entire region’s tech sector in a March 2018 cover story.
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- Greenery in Diercks Hall.
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- The GPU-accelerated supercomputer form Nvidia.
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- A study area in Diercks Hall.
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- A study area in Diercks Hall.
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- Technology is on display throughout Diercks Hall.
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- Biomedical engineering professor Olga Imas demonstrates how to use the facility’s new Anatomage table.
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- The Nvidia Auditorium in Diercks Hall.
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- Diercks Hall includes study spaces on every floor.
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- A classroom in Diercks Hall.
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- Diercks Hall was funded by a $34 million donation from MSOE regent Dwight Diercks and his wife Dian.
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- Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall.
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- Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall
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- An event space within the new Diercks Hall.
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- An event space within the new Diercks Hall.
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- A cybersecurity classroom.
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- A cybersecurity classroom.
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- Students began classes in the new Diercks Hall on Monday.
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- The Nvidia Auditorium.
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- Biomedical engineering professor Olga Imas demonstrates how to use the facility’s new Anatomage table.
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- The Anatomage table is a 3D anatomy visualization system that contains a library of virtual human and animal cadavers.
