The Smeal College Trading Room is a vital link between classroom learning and business practice. It will give students live experience the turbulent world of global trading and risk management, exposure that prepares them from day one for careers. This is an ambitious step to push the technological frontier of business education. There will be three display boards running stock quotations and other data on a continuous feed in the Trading Room, as well as nearly 44 trading stations. These stations will be equipped as a trading desk would be in a Wall Street firm - with computer screens providing data feeds from multiple sources.
Plans also call for a multipurpose lab, a systems office, and a student lounge area.
Additional fund-raising will further support its construction and ongoing operation. The converging economy demands graduates grounded in financial and global markets.