Welcome To the Future: The Dedication of the Kim Engineering Building at the A. James Clark School of Engineering
Dr. Kim and Dean Farvardin

Dean Nariman Farvardin presents Dr. Kim with a crystal clock for his office in the Kim Building.
   

On September 19, 2005, the Clark School dedicated the new cross-disciplinary Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building. Additional activities included the induction of two new members into the Innovation Hall of Fame in its new location in the north wing of the Kim Building, and the Charles and Helen White Symposium on engineering innovation, which took place in the Kim Building lecture hall.

The dedication ceremony included speeches by Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich; Michael Busch, speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates; William "Brit" Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland; C.D. Mote, Jr., president of the University of Maryland; Clark School Dean Nariman Farvardin; and Jeong H. Kim, Clark School alumnus, professor and benefactor, and head of Bell Labs.

Individual and corporate donors to the Kim Building were thanked for their commitments and tours of the labs within the building were offered throughout the day.

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"Bell Labs is trying to achieve a synergy very similar to what the Kim Building will help the Clark School achieve: an environment in which innovation occurs easily across all disciplines."

—Dr. Jeong H. Kim

Jeong H. Kim, Ph.D., '91 reliability engineering, is a Clark School alumnus, faculty member and benefactor and the president of the Bell Labs unit of Lucent Technologies.

The Kim Building is an advanced engineering research and education center where:

  • State-of-the-art laboratories are shared across departments to encourage cross-disciplinary work
  • Meeting facilities support both major conferences and small, impromptu discussions where new ideas are exchanged
  • A "window-wall" design fosters a spirit of openness
  • Building systems and construction components serve as teaching tools

If you're a student, you'll find cross-disciplinary engineering research and educational opportunities that will expand your sense of what's possible.

If you're a faculty member, you'll discover new ways to connect with colleagues and students across departmental boundaries and generate exciting new ideas.

If you're a collaborator from industry, academia or the government, you'll see that your relationships with the Clark School are now enriched and multiplied by the new level of interaction and creativity the building encourages.

Crossing boundaries to solve major challenges

 

Large crowd at the dedication ceremony.

It was standing room only at the Kim Building dedication ceremony—all three stories up the rotunda staircase and balconies!

   

In the Kim Building and across the Clark School, we bring together skilled engineers from every discipline to address major challenges and opportunities, including:

  • Advancing people's ability to communicate quickly, reliably and securely
  • Finding, developing and distributing new sources of energy
  • Enhancing national security and emergency response
  • Exploring the interface between technology and life to enhance health and improve medicine
  • Developing new ways to design and produce new products and bring them to market
  • The sustainable use of our environment
  • Making travel and the transport of goods safer and more efficient
  • Exploring space.

The Kim Building: Major Technological Emphases

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    Attendees experiencing virtual reality.

    Guests try out equipment in Dr. Amr Baz's Virtual Reality Lab in the Kim Building.

       
    Nanotechnology
  • Information technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Microelectronics and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
  • Sensors and actuators
  • Transportation systems
  • Space systems

 

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