Pioneering Academics > Undergraduate Programs > 3D SIMM Lab/Classroom CNSE students have access to the unique 3D SIMM laboratory/classroom, a first-of-its-kind facility with technological capabilities that fundamentally redesign the undergraduate learning experience.

3D SIMM, which stands for Digital Dimension: Design, Simulation, Imaging and Modeling Media, provides CNSE's undergraduate nanoscale science and engineering students with a one-of-a-kind digital simulation, design and data visualization environment that parallels CNSE's physical laboratory infrastructure. 

This state-of-the-art facility is equipped with wireless HP Tablet PCs, wide-format HP DesignJet printers, and remote access to high-power HP Blade Workstations from anywhere on campus. CNSE was selected in May 2009 as one of 10 two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States to receive a highly competitive HP Innovations in Education grant, through which CNSE received an award package of HP technology, cash, and professional services valued at more than $286,000 to assist in equipping the 3D SIMM laboratory/classroom.

This digital infrastructure will also be applied to CNSE's secondary school outreach programs to establish an interactive, tether-free classroom environment where students can apply nanoscale technology to real-world issues as a means of encouraging them to pursue science, engineering and related career fields.