Wake Tech Community College, Public Safety Simulation and Drone Training Facility

May 25

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Wake Tech Community College Public Safety and Drone Training Facility

Wendell, NC
Wake Tech Community College
76,405 SF 4D public safety simulation training facility
Academic Classrooms
Indoor Street Simulation Space
Simulation Environments
3D Virtual Reality Lab
Drone/Robotic Spaces
Dedicated Control and Observation Spaces
Training POD Environments
Driving Pad
Architecture
Lab/Public Safety Programming and Design
Interior Design

As an extensive effort to recruit and provide students with opportunities to explore advanced careers in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and public safety, this simulation complex will lead North Carolina, and likely the United States, in effective 4D public safety simulation training to meet the workforce demands within these fields.

Nursing Simulation Spaces: The EMS simulation lab spaces provide students, faculty, and state and local public safety agencies innovative environments where first response scenarios can be acted out in real-time. This integrates with a 3D virtual reality lab for a fully immersive, hands-on-training experience.

Forward-Thinking Technology: Intelligent manikins wirelessly broadcast vitals and patient interactions back to a control room instantaneously. There is also a video sim capture system for watching and recording the training and for broadcasting training videos from a dedicated control and observation space. A fully immersive, 3D virtual reality lab also provides for de-escalation, force, mental illness, and human judgment training scenarios.

Simulation Playground/Training POD Environments: In addition to the active learning lab/classroom spaces, the facility also provides 18,000 SF of indoor street simulation space that can support emergency vehicles, creating realism for medical professionals where appropriate, to mimic how students and users might encounter their first days within the field(s).

Drone/Robotic Environments: Aimed at building a state-of-the-art facility for robotic development and testing that places demonstration space adjacent to development environments, we collaborated with the College to create spaces that allows them to integrate new program capabilities that will shape their drone/robotic training certificate program. These environments include: