GE Aerospace EPISCenter

Heapy designed the Mechanical-Electrical systems and provided Commissioning Services for the 115,000 SF Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research and Development Center (EPISCenter).

The $55 million Research and Development Center is located on roughly eight acres on the University of Dayton’s campus on River Park Drive. The University worked with GE Aerospace to provide a state-of-the-art laboratory testing facility. The design meets both the University of Dayton standards and GE Aerospace System requirements. The facility includes six specialized testing cells and laboratories for aircraft power system testing as well as both wet and dry testing labs for normal and high-altitude testing.

The facility houses laboratories supporting turbine engine development and testing. Specifically, testing labs focused on materials testing and failure, electronics/power testing, calibration facilities, PMEL facilities, as well as computational fluid dynamics modeling centers. Additionally, the facility includes several testing modules for complete operational characteristics of turbine engines including conversion of power and discharge to grid and related SCADA systems.

The center will focus on several markets, including end-to-end electrical power starter/generation, conversion, distribution, and load technologies for civil and military aerospace applications.