The Elings Center for Engineering Education is the new home for the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy. This outstanding 12,000 square-foot facility opened in the fall of 2011 and is named after Dr. Virgil Elings. Construction was made possible by Dr. Elings and other generous benefactors and corporate supporters who together donated $3 million, which was then matched by a $3 million State of California challenge grant. Sincere thanks to all of the wonderful donors who made this building possible!

The Elings Center for Engineering Education includes laboratories furnished with industry-grade machines and electronic instruments, classrooms for physics, computer, art, and design instruction, and manufacturing space for robot construction and testing.

The following donor naming opportunities remain, with name plaques at each room entrance and on the Founding Donor Wall:

• Machine Shop: $500,000
• Computer Classroom: $250,000
• Prototype Classroom: $250,000

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Elings Center Classrooms and Workspaces

Machine Shop

The Machine Shop is the largest space (over 3,500 square feet) in the ECEE and contains state-of-art lathes, Bridgeport mills, and computer numerical control (CNC) mills that enable students to fabricate complex parts using industry-standard processes. The 16 student "mini-mills" and 16 student "mini-lathes" allow a full class of students to learn together how to operate these machines. The Machine Shop opens directly to the outdoor Robotics field, which is specially designed for practice robot matches.

Prototype Room

The Prototype Room is adjacent to the Machine Shop and is used for the rapid prototyping of robotics parts, as well as for work with lighter materials (e.g. wood, plastics). This room contains many workbenches for assembly and the machines needed to cut, bend, and rapidly fabricate samples of parts and designs.

Raytheon Electrical Engineering Laboratory

The Electrical Engineering Laboratory, made possible with donations from Raytheon Company, contains equipment specifically for the design, fabrication, and testing of circuits and electronic devices. In this room, students create printed circuit boards and develop electro-mechanical projects. The Raytheon Electrical Engineering Laboratory is be the primary DPEA physics classroom.

The Change Happens Meeting Room

The DPEA Meeting Room, made possible by the Change Happens Foundation, seats up to 40 people. This room is used for student-led presentations, informal classroom teaching, and meetings between the DPEA students, DPEA faculty, corporate sponsors, and community volunteers. Adjacent to the Meeting Room is the Volunteer Office, where DPEA community mentors keep their materials and have space to work.

Lindsay Rose Mechanical Engineering Classroom

The Mechanical Engineering laboratory is named in memory of DPEA student Lindsay Rose. This classroom provides the space and tools for laboratory experiments and sculpture and art projects that are part of the four-year DPEA curriculum. It is the primary DPEA art and sculpture classroom.

Computer Classroom

The Computer Classroom contains HP hardware purchased with a generous donation by the Mosher Foundation. The state-of-the-art classroom permits course offerings in both computer aided design (CAD) and computer technology. The Computer Classroom is the primary DPEA Information Technology classroom.