This conference focuses on capital project planning, programming, and management of higher education teaching and research facilities for the sciences and advanced technologies.
In a recent Tradeline survey of higher education STEM facilities executives, 82% of respondents forecast that they expect science/engineering/technology capital project activity to increase (35%) or increase substantially (47%) at their institutions over the next five years.
All stakeholders who are interested in speaking at the conference are tasked to demonstrate innovative ideas, models, equipment, and/or solutions for capital project planning, programming, and management targeting trending space types and pressing new institutional objectives:
TYPES of SPACE:
- Engineering
- Health Sciences
- Robotics
- A.I./Data Sciences/Computational Space
- Physical Sciences
- Biological Sciences
- Research Facilities
- Experiential Learning, Active Learning, and Team-based Education
- Maker Space
- Innovation Hubs and Entrepreneurship Space
GENERAL PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES:
- Grow the sciences, advanced technology, and engineering programs
- Improve research and teaching outcomes
- Support convergence of the sciences, technology, and engineering programs and space
- Support maker culture and entrepreneurship
- Increase flexibility and optimum use of facilities
- Stimulate collaboration and connectivity
- Raise the efficiency and effectiveness of resource use – space, budgets, and technology
Your presentation may call upon one or more of the following issues (or your own creative solutions) to meet the objectives above:
- Renovation and modernization of outdated facilities
- Repurposing non-science space for sciences, advanced technology, and engineering programs
- Programming, design, and construction of new buildings
- Facility flexibility and adaptability for shared use and rapidly changing programs
- New classroom configurations for experiential learning, active learning, team-based education
- Research labs and multidisciplinary research facilities
- Mixed teaching and research facilities; Interdisciplinary research facility plans
- Integrating data-science based programs with exisiting and new research space
- Facility features for student and researcher recruitment
- Maker space and project lab plans
- Highly specialized space: Cleanroom, cGMP, imaging, robotics, etc.
- Shared design studio, prototyping, and display spaces
- Space allocation, metrics, and layouts for labs, classrooms, support space, and offices
- Decision-making on renovation vs. building new
- Improved space management and space utilization
- Transparency and enabling visual connections
- Integrating student innovation and entrepreneurship programs
- Effective social and informal learning space
- Efficient, shared-core research facilities
- Cost-effective, flexible lab furniture and casework
- Building vibration controls, EMI, and equipment precision safeguards
- High-efficiency, low-cost mechanical system solutions
- Environmental control systems and sensors: Occupancy, acoustics, air quality, temperature, humidity
- Building automation systems and facility technology implementation
- Successful energy, water, and sustainability initiatives
- Project management processes that lower costs and optimize outcomes
- Lower construction and operation costs
KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE
- View the Past Participants list to see a sample of the institutions and job titles that will be participating.
- Consider the audience top issues above and plan how to address those with your presentation.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
To complete a speaking application, you will need:
- Presentation title, one-paragraph summary, and up to four takeaway ideas
- Speaker names, contact information, Bio/CV, and headshot image