The Huang Center will offer many important new facilities, particularly for students. Find out what the building will provide, whom it will house, and how we’ve limited the building’s environmental footprint.

Innovation in education

The center will provide cutting edge facilities to encourage students to learn in an environment of multidisciplinary collaboration, inspiration, socialization and creative applications of knowledge. 

• A digital “bookless” library — on-demand access to knowledge with expert staff offering research guidance.
• Computing and visualization center with videoconferencing
• Machine shops for rapid prototyping
• New facilities for online distance education

Management Science and Engineering

Housed within the center will be the Department of Management Science and Engineering, which represents a unique academic fusion of technology, business and policy. With a heritage in disciplines such as industrial engineering and operations research, the department applies the quantitative rigor of engineering mathematics and methods to human endeavors.

Stanford Technology Ventures Program

MS&E also hosts the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, an award-winning program that teaches leadership and entrepreneurship skills to science and engineering students and promotes entrepreneurship education around the world.  STVP serves more than 1,500 students a year with 16 core classes and the intensive Mayfield Fellows internship program.

Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (iCME)

Also housed within the center, iCME advances the state of the art in numerical simulation, a tool of inquiry that has profoundly affected all areas of engineering. Simulation and visualization play an equal role to theory and physical experiments in discovery-driven engineering research.  iCME leverages the outstanding strengths of Stanford in engineering applications and physical, biological, and earth sciences to focus and guide the development of modern research and educational enterprise in computational mathematics.

Dean’s office

Stanford Engineering is the home to more than 4,000 students and 240 faculty members.The dean’s office is dedicated to providing the services that support their academic and professional efforts.

• Student services and diversity programs
• Faculty affairs
• External relations
• Administration and facilities

Sustainability

The center will strive to meet all of the ambitious but attainable goals set out for its neighbor, the award-winning environment and energy building, Y2E2. This means using 50 percent less energy and 90 percent less potable water than a standard building of its size. These goals will be met with several innovative features including:

• Three atria that infuse the building with natural ventilation and light
• Smart control of lighting systems (daytime dimming, occupancy sensors)
• Efficient systems for heating and cooling
• Reuse of non-potable water for irrigation, toilets
• Sustainable materials and construction practices

Building basics

• 130,000 square feet
• Four floors
• Direct connections to Nanotechnology Center and Y2E2
• Southeast corner of  SEQ
• Construction began Spring 2008. Completion expected early 2010.