Facilities & Workspaces
The ATEC building is a portal that connects artists with the community.
Housed in the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology building, the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) fosters connections that encourage students to try, learn, and grow. Glass walls provide passersby a peek into the inner-workings of ATEC, while panels and hallways display student and faculty artwork for those experiencing ATEC indoors. The footprint of the building is designed around cluster concepts allowing thinkers to gather and work. ATEC classrooms, labs, and makerspace studios support new ways of collaboration for a community immersed in innovative practices.
3D Studio
Motion Capture Studio
Sound Design
Students completing their projects in the ATEC Surround Studio have use of a 7.1 surround mixing system, a Pro Tools HDX system, an AVID S3 Digital Control Surface, and 2 Neve microphone preamps. The ATEC Recording Studio consists of a main room and two adjacent ISO recording booths. The control room includes a 5.1 surround system, a wide selection of industry standard microphone preamps and microphones, Apollo interfaces, an AVID S3 Digital Control Surface, a baby grand piano, and DAW software including Pro Tools/Ableton Live 10. Students also have access to an Anechoic Chamber suitable to conduct research and experiment with sound. Four additional Pro Tools recording/mixing booths are available to complete their work.
Creative Spaces

Games and Media Library
The Games and Media Library houses over 1,000 digital and analog games spanning multiple game platforms including both classics and new releases.

Creative Labs
Multiple Creative Labs feature leading-edge technologies and high-performance workstations allowing students full access to the software needed for ATEC courses.

Render Farm
A Render Farm equipped with a 24 node, 288 core master servers resides in a dedicated data center connected via 10Gb fiber connections renders out projects much faster than using classroom equipment for Animation & Games students.

Lecture Hall
ATEC also features a 1,200 seat Lecture Hall complete with DLP projection, a 48-foot screen, 20,000 watts of audio, and both conventional tungsten and LED lighting. Featured speakers in the lecture hall include “father of the internet” Vint Cerf, Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, and more.