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Facilities Updates - On-Site Power Building - RADICL Lab
Additional Facilities Improvements
The Idaho State University College of Technology is committed to providing the best possible facilities to our students. In addition to the new Health Occupations Simulation Lab and the Reactor Control Room & Simulator Lab, there are some notable upgrades that will be of great benefit to students and our area’s workforce.
On-Site Power Addition
The On-Site Power Building is nearing completion at the Eames Complex, which means that for the first time in its history the Diesel/On-Site Power Generation Technology Program won’t be split between two separate buildings miles apart. It is also a massive upgrade for these programs as many of the old facilities that hosted the program were built in the 1930s. The Diesel/On-Site Power Generation Technology Program provides training in all types and aspects of diesel engines from mining equipment, to tractors and more. On-Site Power Generation is an extra semester offered to those who complete the Diesel Technology Program and focuses on power generators. The electrical aspect of this extra semester also serves to greatly increase the well-roundedness of the students and contributes to the 99% positive placement rate of students in their careers or continued education.
Idaho State University and the University of Idaho were the joint recipients of a Higher Education Research Council iGEM Grant thanks to Ben Lampe, instructor in the College of Technology’s Industrial Cybersecurity Engineering Technology Program. The College of Technology’s focus in this partnership is workforce training and development, so they allocated the funds toward the Reconfigurable Attack-Defend Instructional Computing Laboratory (RADICL). Students in the College of Technology will be able to run experiments within RADICL that they would not be able to in traditional labs. RADICL also enables students to run several experiments independently from each other. Within these isolated experiments, students are able to design, execute, investigate, explore and develop a highly-detailed view of modern computing infrastructures. The lab has 16 student stations as well as two Fixed Lab experiences to be used in bootcamps, high school camps and other student exercises.
