The Engineering and Computer Science Center (ECSC): Fusing engineering + computer science + the liberal arts

Dartmouth's new Engineering and Computer Science Center (ECSC) converges technology education with the liberal arts to tackle global challenges in cybersecurity, biotechnology, human-centered design, imaging, and machine learning. Alexis Abramson illustrates how the disciplines come together in ECSC to accommodate growth in fast-growing majors and catalyze research, entrepreneurship, and cross-disciplinary exploration through innovation. She profiles space allocation and core facility strategies that organize activity by research interest, not by departments, and what that delivers in terms of space efficiency and potential for discovery and collaboration.