Orthotics & Prosthetics Education Center, CSU Dominguez Hills

The Orthotics and Prosthetics Department is currently located off-campus in a 12,000 SF Los Alamitos office park, approximately 16 miles away from the CSUDH main campus in Carson. To address this issue, AC Martin designed a new 5,000 GSF Orthotics and Prosthetics Education Center to be built adjacent to the existing College of Continuing and Professional Education (CCPE) building. The new education center will house a megatronics lab, student lab, a maker space, clinical space, and shared resources for storage and deliverables. The O+P program will utilize existing classroom space in the CCPE building for lecture courses. CSUDH extensively studied how to bring the O+P program to the main campus, including scenarios for renovations, new construction, and nearby property purchases. However, the construction of a new O+P facility on campus yielded the most long-term operational savings as well as most closely meeting the needs of the program.

Bringing the O+P program back to the main campus provides many advantages, including closer connection to the College of Health and Human Development, College of Continuing and Professional Education, and University services and resources.