College of Engineering and Technology

• Human Cadaver Lab: GCU provides you the unique opportunity to access human cadavers. As opposed to having to wait until attending further schooling to access cadavers, you have the opportunity as a student at GCU to study the human body in full. As part of GCU's biology program, students study human cadavers for an entire academic year. We believe these cadavers are imperative to giving you the most hands-on experience and can make you a competitive candidate for medical school or post-graduate programs.

• Biomedical Device Development Lab: This engineering lab helps support undergraduate research in areas such as biomedical device development and medical sector engineering research.
• Combined Lecture and Lab Classrooms: The equipment that you use in your undergraduate lecture and labs include high-quality scanning electron microscope (SEM), atomic force microscope (AFM), ultrasound machine, x-ray diffractor and CT machine.
• Engineering Design and Prototyping Facilities: Aspiring engineers have access to important prototyping support equipment, including 3D printers, CNC machines, laser and plasma cutters, as well as standard industrial tools, such as mills, lathes and welders.

• Computer Science Collaboratorium: This space is ideal for collaboration between scientists and engineers to discuss ideas, explore prototypes, instruments and software. This space is also used by computer science and software development, as well as for capstone projects.
• Cyber Center for Excellence (CCE): The CCE takes the concept of hacking and makes it into a positive, engaging experience. This center approaches hacking in an ethical way, providing visitors with technological tools that are typically used to break into restricted networks. With these resources at your disposal, you can learn how to better protect your network and become a forward-thinking new generation of cybersecurity professional. The CCE also has academic collaboration relationships with companies such as ACTRA, NACRA, CompTIA Academy, Log Rhythm, Cisco Academy, Red Hat Academy and EC-Council. The CCE is located on the third floor of building 57.

Canyon Motorsports, a part of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) GCU Collegiate Chapter, designed, constructed and successfully competed with an open-wheel racecar in their rookie season in June 2019 at the Lincoln, NE Formula SAE event. Additionally, the SAE GCU Collegiate Chapter received the 2019 Class 3 Honeywell Outstanding Collegiate Branch Award “for exemplary performance in the areas of technical meetings, networking opportunities, SAE collegiate design series teams, membership and recruitment and community service programs.” In Fall 2019, SAE GCU performed 120 hours of STEM outreach to Sevilla West School - West Campus. The SAE-sponsored program, called “A World In Motion,” allowed members to teach basic engineering concepts to fifth through eighth-grade students.

Founded in 2017, the Thunderbots competed in VEX Robotics competitions and also sponsored many local service projects. After being invited to the 2018 VEX World Championship, the team won the 2018 Judges Award for the club that “showed exemplary effort and perseverance, team accomplishments or endeavors that might not fall under existing awards but are deserving of special recognition.” The team later received Guinness World Record's official participant certificates for competing at the 2018 VEX World Championship event, certified as the world’s largest robotics competition. In November 2019, the team also earned the Judges Award at the VEX U Fall Tournament in recognition of their efforts and outstanding character.

Cory Cathrea, a 2020 electrical engineering graduate, founded GCU’s IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) student branch in September 2018, becoming the first engineering club on campus to be affiliated with the national organization. Cory attended the IEEE Rising Stars Conference in Las Vegas in December 2018, where he helped bring together 335 IEEE industry professionals and university students from all over the world as a member of the conference planning committee. Cory earned the opportunity to network at the conference and learned new technologies and skills on topics such as 5G and learning to give impactful presentations.

Three biomedical engineering program undergraduate students, Madison Strong, Manuel Torres and Jeffrey Richards, were accepted to give an oral/poster category presentation at a premier academic, industrial and clinical diabetes conference. At the Diabetes Technology Meeting in November 2020, they presented their report, entitled “Preliminary assessment of a mass manufacturable point-of-care insulin sensor” at the virtual session in front of many other university and industry experts across the world. The conference typically draws attendees from the FDA, American Diabetes Association, Mayo Clinic and many others. Their work has since been published in the academic journal, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, titled “Faradaic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for enhanced analyte detection in diagnostics.”