The Center for Engineering, Innovation and Sciences

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The Center for Engineering, Innovation and Sciences (CEIS) opened for classes on January 2019, roughly a year and a half after the start of construction. This multidimensional building has quickly become of hub for Wentworth's active learning model with

The Benefits 

The 78,000-square-foot, four-floor building stretches 64 feet into the air. Coined a “living-learning laboratory” by Gilbane, the construction company charged with making the CEIS a reality, the building will include updated lab spaces in efforts to foster the hands-on learning approach of the Institute. Certain labs currently residing in other buildings on campus will relocate to the CEIS, while other labs will find a home for the first time there. In addition, the building will have faculty offices in each of the academic departments it serves, and staff offices, including the Office of the Provost. Accelerate, Wentworth’s Center for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, will move from Willson Hall to the CEIS, where it will include an Ideation Space, a Maker Space, and an office suite that it will share with the EPIC Experiential Learning programs. The CEIS will additionally house Wentworth’s newest cutting-edge academic program in Biological Engineering.

Benefits By Floor

First Floor

• Maker Space
• Ideation Space
• Accelerate Office
• Additive Manufacturing Lab
• Finishing Shop
• Wood Shop

Second Floor

Biomedical Engineering Department

• Biomedical Devices Lab
• Biomedical Instrumentation Lab
• Medical Imaging Lab

Third Floor

Interdisciplinary Engineering

• Process Control Lab
• Organic Chemistry Lab
• Biochemistry Lab
• Bioengineering Projects Lab
• Biology Lab A
• Biology Lab B

Fourth Floor

Civil Engineering Department

• Environmental Lab
• nstrumentation Lab
• Geotechnical Lab
• Fluids Lab
• Infrastructure Lab

The Construction 

On March 23, 2017, design development began for the Multipurpose Academic Building (MPA), later renamed the CEIS. On July 24 of the same year, actual construction on the new building commenced. 

Since then, the building’s interior and exterior have been substantially completed and the campus quad has been sodded. The construction process mirrors the countless changes and tremendous growth Wentworth has undergone over the years. The Institute has constantly brought innovation to engineering, design, and the sciences, and now, the CEIS can contribute to those strides. 

The History