Tuesday, July 16, 2013

What's New This Summer?

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Hope everyone is having a fantastic summer! Today marks our last day of SOAR (Summer Orientation and Registration). In total we had 6 different sessions which brought together our group of incoming students. This was an opportunity for both freshman and transfer students to meet each other, potentially find roommates, register for classes, and learn more about what is offered on campus. Hopefully those of you who came to SOAR had an enjoyable experience. We can't wait for you to arrive on campus later next month!

Besides welcoming our students to campus, we have also been undergoing some major construction. If you have been to campus recently you may have seen the commotion around Sleith Hall. Sleith holds our Engineering classrooms and the building is the midst of impressive renovations. The plan is to put on an additional 8,600 square feet on the back end of the building and also complete $8.6 million worth of interior updating. We hope that the entire project should be completed by 2014. Further updates include:

  • A second computer facility
  • Four laboratory facilities for the Civil and Environmental Engineering program
  • Freshman Design and Innovation Lab
  • An expanded Instrumentation Lab
  • A hospital suite, built to simulate a hospital environment for the rapidly growing program in Biomedical Engineering
Additional classrooms, offices, conference rooms, and increased space for student services are also in development. There will also be several updates in technology within each classroom in Sleith. To see some of the pictures of the construction progress thus far please visit this link: Sleith Hall Renovation Pictures.

Drew