The new shared suite of DigiLabs will ensure that graduates are future-fit for the world of work in which digital skills, data analytics, virtual and augmented reality play a key part, and can reap the positive benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning to support future technologies.
Based in refurbished existing spaces, and complete with the highest quality technical equipment, the four DigiLabs (Extended Reality Learning, 3D data capture and visualisation, Robotics, and Simulation, Modelling and Artificial Intelligence) will be supported by DigiHubs, which will provide an integration space to support learning and proactively bring the DigiLabs to life.
The University is providing an additional financial contribution so that we can ensure that the facilities can be used by all of our students.
I’m thrilled that we have secured the full amount of this funding (£5.8M) for the University. These new DIGILabs will be transformative for our teaching over the next few years and will build on our digital strategy for learning and teaching to ensure that our graduates are familiar with the latest technologies and can be inspired by new ways of learning and working.
Spaces
Loughborough University’s DIGI Hubs provide state-of-the-art facilities for our students with extensive modern and well-equipped laboratories for science, engineering and technology.
DigiHub East
Located in Leonard Dixon, DigiHub East will be a space for virtual reality headsets and a markerless motion capture system.
DigiHub Central
DigiHub Central will be located across two sites – EHB Squash Courts and G Block – home to the Proto Hologram, VR Lab, drones, markered motion capture, a GPU lab, and a 3D immersive wall/floor installation.
DigiHub West
DigiHub West, located in West Park Teaching Hub will house robots, virtual reality headsets, a 3D immersive wall and GPU workstations. There will also be a FESTO CP-10 Station, a Virtual Bio-reactor in STEMLab, and an Undergraduate high performance computing (HPC) service.