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Learning Center Engineered for Many Purposes

The 150,000-square-foot Dr. William M.W. Mong Memorial Learning Center, a 250-seat facility at UCLA, was built to host engineering events, promote distance learning, enable collaboration with other engineering and research institutions, enhance media capture, and accommodate facility and small department meetings.

In order to accomplish this, the auditorium was designed to accommodate multiple modes of operation, including some that are not normally associated with a large lecture hall setting. It was also designed to optimize student and instructor interaction via a request-to-speak system that is seamlessly integrated with the room’s audio, video and lighting systems.

The front of the auditorium was designed to accommodate 50 removable seats and 25 portable folding tables that can be arranged in various layouts optimized for the room’s activities. A mounted discussion microphone station with push-to-talk capabilities and two flip-up boxes with AC/USB power outlet were installed in each table.

Behind this area is sloped seating for 200 audience members. Keypads with backlit buttons were installed in the armrests of this fixed seating area as part of the auditorium’s audience request-to-speak system. Six ceiling-mounted, motorized/retractable microphones were installed above this area.