The Educational Virtual Environment (EVE) Lab was launched in Fall 2021 and was founded and 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 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.

The Climmersive Design Studio: Imagine a Green Future is a pioneering initiative unveiled for the first time at the AUC exhibit in the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. It introduces a pedagogical setup for architectural education in Egypt that couples concepts of sustainably-conscious design and climate change mitigation with state-of-the-art immersive virtual and augmented reality technology. 

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.