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HISTORY
Under the leadership of Congressman Tom Bevill, the University received a $9.1 million grant from the Department of Energy in 1996 to build a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to improving manufacturing processes and training graduates who will be involved in manufacturing.
Construction on the 50,000-square-foot AIME facility began in 1997 and was completed in December 2000.
BUILDING
The AIME facility is a two-story building containing ten conference/meeting rooms, four multi-media classrooms with seating capacity ranging from 24 to 64 students, two 2,000-square-foot office suites for faculty and administrators, and 21,000 square feet of multi-purpose research labs. The research labs include a 5,600-square-foot high bay lab with a 10-ton crane, a 3,300-square-foot computer lab, and a 1,000-square-foot sound analysis chamber. The building is extensively networked with multiple data ports and phone lines in every room for full Internet access.
