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Rhodes Renovation Information
Alumni Engineering Learning Center and OCMI Projects
We have two renovation projects beginning this summer which are as follows:
- Alumni Engineering Learning Center Project (which will include renovated space for SECS as well): $6 million (8th Floor of Rhodes Hall)
- Ohio Center for Microfluidic Innovation (OCMI): $750,000 (9th floor of Rhodes Hall)
These projects should take about 1-year to complete.
These renovation projects will require all faculty/staff/students to be relocated from the 8th floor of Rhodes Hall. Some 9th floor labs will relocating as well. Please see the "Relocation Information" menu option for office/laboratory relocation details. If you want to look at the changes coming to the 8th and 9th floor of Rhodes, please take a look at the "Renovation Plans" menu option.
How will the renovation benefit the School of Electronics and Computing Systems?
Once the renovation is complete, the School of Electronics and Computing Systems will have 
updated undergraduate laboratory facilities, additional faculty/staff office space, continued access to the library, and access to the shared facilities from the Engineering Learning Center.
Additionally, it is hoped that most of the school's faculty will be collocated on the 8th floor of Rhodes Hall.
What is the Alumni Engineering Learning Center?
The Alumni Engineering Learning Center will provide a new home for the School of Engineering Education (SEE) which is responsible for Freshman Engineering education for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The new state of the art facilities provided by the renovation are designed to help SEE accomplish its mission of supporting undergraduates through their first year and developing new teaching and learning techniques.
What is the Ohio Center for Microfluidic Innovation (OCMI)?
The Ohio Center for Microfluidic Innovation was created from a $3 million dollar Ohio Department of D
evelopment's Third Frontier Wright Projects Program funds to research microfluidics biomedical technology.
OCMI's goal is to jumpstart the launch of an extremely broad spectrum of microfluidic products (biomedical lab-on-chip, fluid dispensing for household goods, environmental sensors), which project to >$1.1B in sustainable Ohio revenue (>$20B total market) and potentially >1000 sustainable Ohio jobs.
On a broader scale, OCMI enhances prior 3rd Frontier investments in advanced materials (polymers), biomedical products, and sensors (Dayton), and displays (Kent).
For more information about OCMI please read the University of Cincinnati press release.
