Some students at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland will now have the opportunity to “get smart” since a new building by that name opened on campus last week.
The Southern Maryland Autonomous Research and Technology, or SMART, building came at a cost of $86 million. It features a Matrix lab, which will have an indoor flight facility, a circulating water channel and a ground robotics laboratory.
Eileen Abel, the executive director of the higher education center, told the St. Mary’s County commissioners during an August presentation that “the SMART building is not just a building, but a way to rethink education.”
