Goodwin Hall
This 14,000 lb. Rolls Royce Trent 1000 jet engine hangs 15' above the ground in Goodwin Hall.
Starting in June, faculty, staff and students moved into the building.
Robots from the Terrestrial Robotics Engineering and Controls (TREC) Lab are on display in the new engineering building.
Goodwin Hall has eight classrooms, including a 300-seat auditorium.
The building includes 40 labs for the Departments of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering.
The atrium of Goodwin Hall offers stunning displays overhead, a jet engine and a two-story "capsule."
Virginia Tech recently dedicated Goodwin Hall, the College of Engineering's new Signature Engineering Building. The new building holds eight new classrooms, 40 instructional and research laboratories and 150 offices for faculty, staff and graduate/doctoral students.
Goodwin Hall also features a 9' diameter Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet engine on public display. Once used for the Rolls-Royce's engine development program, it was donated to Virginia Tech in 2014 as a centerpiece in the Goodwin Hall foyer to help inspire the next generation of high-tech engineers.
"For decades to come, students, faculty and visitors to Goodwin Hall will be able to see the marvels of engineering in today's aerospace industry," said William T. Powers, III, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Rolls-Royce North America. "The Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine is also a symbol of the Commonwealth coming together - with government, leading academic institutions and private industry - to create an environment for advanced manufacturing research and career development for Virginia's students."
This journey began when Rolls-Royce selected Virginia as the site for its 1,000 acre manufacturing hub, called Rolls-Royce Crosspointe, nearly seven years ago. Since then, the company has built two jet engine component manufacturing facilities, with over $300 million of investment in Prince George County.
Earlier this year, Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia were named Rolls-Royce University Technology Centers (UTCs). These UTCs focus on aerospace and advanced manufacturing methods and research to develop commercial applications. Important to the UTC research is Virginia Tech's newly opened Advanced Propulsion and Power Laboratory, a leading edge facility dedicated to the study of jet propulsion and the internal design of jet engines.
Rolls-Royce, Virginia Tech and a dozen other industry and academic partners are organizing members of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), located on the Crosspointe campus nearly 30 minutes south of Richmond. Faculty from Virginia's academic institutions will work exclusively at CCAM, dedicated to membership research priorities.
In addition, Rolls-Royce, Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia have established a research partnership called the Commonwealth Center for Aerospace Propulsion Systems to address critical technology challenges using the founding universities' facilities.
For more information contact:
Virginia Tech
College of Engineering
www.eng.vt.edu
Rolls-Royce North America
317-230-2000
www.rolls-royce.com