Gordon L. Nelson Health Sciences Building
The Gordon L. Nelson Health Sciences building is located at the southwest corner of Olin Quad and sits at the heart of Florida Tech's world-class educational programs in biomedical engineering, biomedical sciences and health sciences.
The 61,000-square-foot building features over 20,000 square feet of classrooms and research laboratories, advanced teaching laboratories in human anatomy, augmented and virtual reality teaching tools and facilities for orthopedics, tissue studies and advanced computational simulations.
The first floor welcomes visitors through an open, three-story atrium and features several community spaces, including an open-air courtyard and study lounge.
Facilities and Technologies
- Fluorescence microscopes
- Laser scanning confocal microscopes
- Atomic force microscopes
- Raman microscope/spectrometer
- Gold sputter system
- Cryotomes
- Tissue tension-torsion testing machines
- Tissue planar biaxial testing machines
- Tissue fatigue testing machine
- Anatomy laboratory
- Virtual dissection tables
- Prosthetics and orthotics gait laboratory equipment
- High-performance modeling and simulation software
- High-performance computing
Photo credits: Pink Flamingo Photography, Jennifer Schumacher
