Leinweber Innovation Laboratory

An Ideation Space

Presenting the Leinweber Innovation Laboratory

The state-of-the-art Leinweber Innovation Laboratory opened to the University of Michigan and the greater scientific community in 2024. The lab is designed to foster collaboration among teams in separate areas, in one group, or in secure sessions.

Innovative technology enables teams to present, strategize, design and collaborate using the connected audiovisual technology from the University of Michigan’s North Campus or to join from anywhere in the world.

The laboratory includes these features:

• An open collaborative space that may be used for secure sessions, partitioned into separate meeting spaces using glass sliding doors, or used as a whole
• Four meeting studios, Explorer, Venture, Discovery, Frontier, named after NASA mission classes with implications for discovery and innovation
• Two private study pods in the back, Curiosity and Perseverance, named after Mars rovers that involved both CLASP and SPRL contributions
• The Orbiter Conference Room, a separate, private conference room named after the Solar Orbiter mission and other missions launched into orbit

Read more about the Leinweber Innovation Laboratory in an article about the Grand Opening.