

IGERT trainees have access to a wealth of resources to assist them with their research and general graduate education. These same resources are also used for public outreach activities and courses that trainees complete as part of the IGERT experience. Resources include state-of-the-art laboratory facilities equipped with a wide spectrum of instrumentation to measure and analyze physical, chemical, and biological pollutants, moisture, comfort parameters, toxicological markers, human productivity, and more. Extensive computational facilities are also available to IGERT trainees. A test house facility (UTest House) is under development and should be available for educational and research activities by the summer of 2007. Finally, state-of-the-art educational software to perform building mass and energy balances (BMEB) has been developed to assist IGERT trainees and others with improving their understanding of the complex and often non-linear interactions between building components and their effects on indoor environmental quality.