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The college's first completely new building in 30 years is a reality this fall. The Engineering Centers Building (ECB) truly marks a new chapter in the college's history.

The facility is designed from the ground up around the new approach to engineering education — participative, team-based learning. The student-focused areas of the building will become a center of student opportunity, leadership and creativity. In fact, engineering students had a hand in helping to plan the building's student areas.

The new facilities for working on student inventions, design projects and competitive efforts will allow the full expression of this crucial aspect of the undergraduate experience. These include the Phillips Discovery Center, the Tong Student Leadership Auditorium, the Myers Student Automotive Center and the Yu Innovation Laboratory.

ECB will also usher in a new era of synergy and partnership between engineering student organizations, important contributors to technical and leadership training. For the first time, engineering student organizations will be together in one area, with their own office space. Here they can exchange ideas and share resources.

With the move to the building of other programs, including Engineering Career Services and Technical Communications, Engineering Centers Building will become a hub of student activity.

The Engineering Centers Building will also be a premier research facility. It is designed to make interdisciplinary interactions between faculty and students much easier. since many exciting advances in engineering science take place in the boundaries between disciplines, the building will be a model facility for optimal research interaction. Some of the exciting, showcase research facilities include the Oscar F. Gusloff NanoMaterials Laboratory and the Edwin E. Bryant NanoFabrication Laboratory.

The building is the product of many years of planning and much hard work. A public-private partnership between the university, the State of Wisconsin and donors allowed the college to leverage private funds with state dollars to create a building that would truly meet leading-edge research and education needs.

Built on the site of post WWII temporary facilities, the Engineering Centers Building brings the Breese Terrace corner of the engineering campus firmly into the 21st century.

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