YOU ARE HERE Tour Destinations Computer-aided Engineering (CAE), 1410 Engineering Drive Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive Engineering Mall, on Engineering Drive Materials Science, 1509 Engineering Drive Engineering Research Building (ERB), 1500 Engineering Drive Mechanical Engineering, 1513 Engineering Drive Engineering Centers Building (ECB), 1550 Engineering Drive Lot 17, Engineering Drive

Next to ERB is the stately Mechanical Engineering Building, the first structure on the present engineering campus that was built specifically for engineering. It is headquarters for the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering departments, as well as many laboratories and a recently refurbished student study area. And more uniquely, ME houses the Department of Engineering Physics working nuclear reactor.

The 70-plus-year-old building is scheduled for a facelift beginning in 2003. Actually, "facelift" is an understatement: The $33 million project will completely gut the old building and place a four-story building in the center, on the site of the old "sawtooth" section, built in 1921. the remainder of the old building will be completely renovated, preserving the building's original facade.

Other Images:

• Early photo of Mechanical Engineering (46K JPG)
• Lobby artwork (31K JPG)
• Peer inside the nuclear reactor (17K JPG)

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