WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State President John Bardo says a second company has agreed to a joint venture at the university’s innovation campus.
Bardo said Thursday at a Kansas Board of Regents meeting that French company Dassault Systemes will create a manufacturing research center on the innovation campus. The center will include six robots that will be able to complete a 9-by-4-by-4-foot machine.
The Wichita Eagle reports the university announced earlier this year that Airbus will move to the innovation campus from its current office in downtown Wichita.
Bardo plans to start the 120-acre innovation campus with a $43 million Experiential Building. Plans call for spending another $70 million for a new business school. Prep work on the Experiential Engineering building has begun, and a groundbreaking is expected in the coming months.