Cooper Union

Special Projects Laboratory

This is another flexible space. Typical uses are benches dedicated to senior and graduate level students. This room is also the location of five software defined radio (SDR) USRP2 systems, with accessories such as Gigabit Ethernet cards, that are used in some wireless communications projects. Other high-end equipment includes an Audio Spectrum Analyzer and a Vector Network Analyzer, the latter used in the ECE335 Engineering Electromagnetics course.

Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.
“My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”
From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.
Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.