FLORIDA TECH $18 Million New Facility

Florida Instutite of Technology Health Sciences Research CenterOctober 23, 2019 — Construction will start early in 2020 on a 61,000-square-foot Health Sciences Research Center at the Florida Institute of Technology. Featuring cutting-edge technologies, the $18-million facility with double the size of Florida Tech’s undergraduate biomedical engineering program.

The facility will feature such advanced technologies as augmented and virtual-dissection tables and atomic force microscopes. The new facility will accommodate 300 full-time, on-campus students in biomedical engineering, and 250 premedical students.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects demand for biomedical engineers in industry, research facilities, government agencies, hospitals and universities.

Source: Florida Institute of Technology

Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) is a private institution with a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,680 on 130 acres in Melbourne, Florida. Florida Institute of Technology’s ranking in the 2020 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #202. Florida Tech operates a variety of science-focused research centers and institutes, including the Wind and Hurricane Impact Research Laboratory and the Institute for Marine Research.