ON CAMPUS
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Local high school and VET students
can also learn from CADET, including
classes from the Gordon Institute and
Belmont High School. Federal member for
Corangamite, Sarah Henderson, says many
of these partnerships hope to draw young
women into engineering degrees.
HOW THEY DID IT
Mark Freeman, partner at Gray Puksand
Architects and CADET project leader, sat
down with Campus Review to discuss how
the facility took shape.
CR: Can you tell us a bit about what makes
CADET state-of-the-art?
MF: CADET was envisaged at the outset as a
catalyst for the university, and was required
to be capable of essentially redefining a
modern design-based engineering school.
They were aiming to establish a stimulating
and supportive student-centred learning
environment. Strategically, they wanted to
integrate concepts of creativity, innovation
and design very much at the heart of
their curriculum. I think one of the most
important aspects of CADET is it’s an integral
part of their research and technology
precinct down at Waurn Ponds, and it’s
been able to provide the latest in simulation
and visualisation equipment, which is along
the lines of rapid prototyping and digital
manufacturing, as well as multiple formats of
3D modelling technologies.
It certainly evidences, in terms of
state-of-the-art spaces, one of the largest
high-voltage testing cell labs in Australia,
which is capable of producing lightning,
essentially, in addition to a substantial virtual
reality studio with a fully customised [virtual
reality] ‘CAVE’ assembly for the students,
and for research. It’s a new approach to
engineering education.
How did your collaboration with Guy
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