University of Michigan
“Big Academic Spaces”
Tozzi Financial Center
Duderstadt Center
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
John R. and Georgene M. Tozzi
Electronic Business and Finance Center
Redefining
Action Based
Learning
Raising the Standards…
“…today’s Michigan graduates will enter the
marketplace armed with a considerable
experience base that will be a model for
business schools around the world.”
~ John R. Tozzi
President and CEO of Cambridge
Investments Ltd.
“The technology and resources available to students in the Tozzi Center
… rival the tools and resources of professional traders. Students who
have the opportunity to learn in this classroom will clearly have an
advantage when they leave.”
~ Richard G. Sloan
Victor L. Bernard PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Collegiate
Professor of Accounting and Finance
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May, 2005
Finance Center & Trading Floor
The trading room consists of
14 machines each loaded
with specialized software
relating to financial news,
analytics, research services,
portfolio and risk
management,
trading simulations and
access to online
brokerage research.
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May, 2005
Finance Center & Trading Floor
Each workstation has
voice reinforcement
capabilities so that any
student can easily be
heard for in class
discussions.
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May, 2005
Finance Center & Trading Floor
A 15 inch touch panel
controls three 3000
lumen LCD projectors
that have quad splitting
capability allowing the
user to show up to 12
different sources at
once.
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May, 2005
eClassroom
The e-classroom in the
Tozzi Electronic
Business and Financial
Center seats up to 70
students for hands-on
classes in a wireless
802.11a laptop
environment. Modular
furniture is easily
arranged for different
teaching purposes.
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May, 2005
eClassroom
Three 3000 lumen LCD
projectors are controlled via
a 15 inch touch panel. This
room is equipped with a
wireless lavaliere mic as
well as a gooseneck mic for
the instructor.
Conference calling is built
directly into the AV system
so Instructors can make and
receive live conference
calls. A document camera
assists with presentation
needs.
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May, 2005
eLab
The eLab is a small
collaborative research
room outfitted with
workstations dedicated
to the research,
practice, and teaching
of electronic commerce
and electronic business.
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May, 2005
Bloomberg Professional Partnership
• Thanks to a partnership with Bloomberg L.P., the Ross
School of Business is one of the first business schools in
the world to offer an in-house Bloomberg Professional
certification program to its students.
"Prospective employers will
• The program, which has been adopted know that with this certification,
students at the U-M Business
by many financial institutions and
corporations worldwide, is designed to School have the skills to
succeed in these uncertain
provide market professionals with the
times," adds Dolan. "It is a great
tools and resources to optimize their job supplement to a degree from
performance.
one of the nation's top business
schools."
~ Robert J. Dolan
Dean of the U-M Business
School
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May, 2005
Student Investment Fund
• The UMBS Student Managed Fund (The Fund)
was created on April 14, 2000 with an original
endowment of $95,000.
• The objective of The Fund is long-term capital
appreciation, using the S&P Mid Cap Index as a
benchmark.
• The fund focuses on stocks of mid-capitalization
U.S. companies with a quantitative investment
style applied to mid-cap growth and value
(blend) stocks.
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May, 2005
“Preparing for the Revolution...”
The Duderstadt Center (the “Dude”)
AAE Library, CAEN, and the Digital Media Commons
Building Basics
Opened in 1996 as “a place to provide faculty
and students with the tools and collaborative
space for creating the future”
 Brings together the creative aspects of all
campus disciplines ranging from art,
architecture, music, medicine, engineering, and
the humanities
 Houses
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Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library
 College of Engineering Computer Aided Engineering
Network (CAEN)
 Digital Media Commons (DMC)
 Millennium Project
 Mujo Cafe
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1st
3rd
Access to significant resources for
interdisciplinary learning and research
Art Architecture and Engineering
Library
CAEN
Digital Media Commons
Unique Depth and Breadth of Rich Media Resources
400 public site workstations
400 applications
Immersive 3D - CAVE
3D Printing
Professional studio consultants
DMC Labs
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Digital Media Tools Lab
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Collaborative Technologies Lab
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Sakai development (not production)
Usability Support and Evaluation Lab
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Supports students and faculty engaged in projects that
explore rich media and collaborative tools
Multi-purpose facility where faculty can come together
to share ideas and work with staff who are experts in
instructional technology and digital media
3D Lab
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Access to high-end technologies revolving around
computer modeling and visualization of multidimensional environments
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DMC Studios
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Smart Studios
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Video Studio – outfitted with professional sound,
lighting, and projection equipment.
Audio Recording Studio - a professional digital
multi-track studio
Electronic Music Studios - digital audio and MIDI
workstations.
GroundWorks Media Conversion Facility where anything analog can be digitized, and vice
versa
Multimedia Workrooms – DV/VHS video editing
and DVD authoring workstations
V-Room – an easy to use self-contained digital
audio recording booth
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Access to Resources on Student Terms = 24/7
DMC Initiatives
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Digital Asset Management System (DAMS)
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DAMS Living Lab is working to develop a campus
infrastructure that will enable faculty, students, and
staff to manage, share and publish digital richmedia such as digital video, audio and 3D -- and
do it as easily as they now manage text and
numerical data.
Grant Opportunities <Collaborative Spaces>
(GROCS)
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Provides collaborative space, equipment and
funding for student-initiated research. Working in
teams, students employ rich media in collaborative
academic projects.
http://www.dc.umich.edu/dmc/grocs/index.html
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A peer-to-peer learning space for student research
An “All-Flex” space was created to house six student research
teams in an 1,800 sq. ft. space where everything in the lab is on
wheels and umbilicals. Students reconfigured the several times
per day to accommodate collaboration and physical work space
needs.
A peer-to-peer learning space for student research
Plenty of whiteboards, 801.11b/g; 100MBit E’net
(Gigabit was available but went unused) and flexible
physical space enabled teams to work how they
wanted.
A peer-to-peer learning space for student research
For design review days like this, the space is
informally rearranged. Most teams used projectors
for their design reviews. Here, musicians, computer
science majors, education majors, artists and
biologists give feedback on a project.
A peer-to-peer learning space for student research
Workspaces could then be pulled together for a
team consultation in less than a minute.
A peer-to-peer learning space for student research
The dynamics of the space are quite complex, but in
the final evaluation, the student research teams
were highly enthusiastic about what the open,
flexible quality of the space enabled in both their
work and in their development as a community of
peers.
DC Performance Spaces
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Gallery
 traditional
exhibition space for visual and
multimedia work
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Video and Performance Studio
 black
box theatre, especially suited to
exploring roles for technology in performing
arts
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Flex-studio space as a magnet for interdisciplinary learning
A 4,000 square foot high-bay studio with lighting and sound
grids, and multiple projection arrays becomes a collaboration
and performance space for an interdisciplinary gaming course
(computer science, graphic designers, HCI students, electrical
engineers) ...
Flex-studio space as a magnet for interdisciplinary learning
... a performance space for
collaborative works combining
school of art, music, and
electrical engineering students...
Flex-studio space as a magnet for interdisciplinary learning
... or as a venue for dance, school of art and music school
student collaborations ...
DC General Facilities
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Video Conferencing Suite
 Flexible
space for 40 people, with a
lectern, outfitted with a built-in computer
and controls to other equipment
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Computing
 Over
400 workstations (PCs - Windows
and Linux, Macs & Unix)
 Wide range of software available
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Computers
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Study Group
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Photocopiers
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