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The Educational Virtual Environment (EVE) Lab was funded by a Provost initiative for educational excellence in 2018, to which both the Mechanical Engineering and Architecture departments were applicants, joint recipients, and collaborators on its design and establishment. The Mechanical Engineering department has been at the lead of the initiative since inception, and a rotational mechanism for the lab’s directorship has been instated between the Mechanical Engineering and Architecture departments, supported by a steering committee of the School of Sciences and Engineering (SSE) voting members, and with faculty advisors from outside SSE. This mechanism aims to benefit from multiple inter-disciplinary perspectives, to maximize the lab’s footprint in AUC. The lab has been up and running since Fall 2021.
Mission and Vision
Mission and Vision
The primary added value of the EVE lab is the pedagogical benefit it presents to undergraduate and graduate students at SSE and AUC at large. The premise is that VR would enhance learning activities with realism, complex inter-disciplinary team-work and reflective/adaptive opportunities, and in effect instill better performance in the learning activities of students, assessments and key performance indicators targeted in the courses, and ultimately the learning outcomes.
Technologies EVE Incorporates
Technologies EVE Incorporates
The lab hosts state-of-the-art mixed reality equipment, including a CAVE (3-walled + floor projection system), 9 HTC VIVE Headsets, 5 Zed Mini Cameras, and 2 prototyping units that allow for 3D printing, laser engraving, and cutting, and CNC carving. The lab also contains six high-powered workstations, and four high-powered mobile workstations, and connects to a large UPS and to the MENG HPC (four server blades). All lab hardware is hosted in the Mechanical Engineering department in a 63m2 space. In terms of software, CAVE controller software (TechViz) and VR development software (Unity and Unreal) are installed, in addition to a multitude of engineering software that serves both Mechanical Engineering and Architecture, including SolidWorks, Autodesk Revit, and Rhinoceros.
Architecture Students Exploring a Facade they designed in CAVE
Climmersive Design Studio prototype being launched in COP-27 Sharm El Sheikh
Graphic Design Students after finishing First complete Semester Projects.
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