The Engineering Campus is the colloquial name for the portions of campus surrounding the Bardeen Quadrangle and the Beckman Quadrangle at the
College of Engineering
Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering. It includes an initial education (bachelor's and/or master's degree), and any advanced education and specializations that ...
at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...
. It is an area of approximately 30 square blocks, roughly bounded by Green Street on the south, Wright Street on the west, University Avenue on the north, and Gregory Street on the east.
Bardeen Quadrangle
![UIUC Bardeen Quad](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/UIUC_Bardeen_Quad.jpg)
The Bardeen
Quadrangle, named for
John Bardeen
John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the tran ...
, is the central part of the Engineering Campus and home to most of the
undergraduate
Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-lev ...
facilities. As such, it is often known as the Engineering Quadrangle. The
Boneyard Creek
Boneyard Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 19, 2011 waterway that drains much of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. It is a tributary of the ...
runs through the middle of the quad.
Starting at Engineering Hall going clockwise:
Engineering Hall
Engineering Hall
Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...
is the administrative center for the College of Engineering and prominently faces the Illini Union across Green Street. In addition to dozens of administrative offices and conference rooms, there are numerous classrooms and a pair of computer labs for student use. Many engineering-related student organizations are based in Engineering Hall as well, including the professional societies such as Engineering Council,
SHPE
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1974 by a group of engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, analyze, build and test m ...
, and others. The rear side of Engineering Hall includes a veranda overlooking the
Boneyard Creek
Boneyard Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 19, 2011 waterway that drains much of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. It is a tributary of the ...
toward Grainger Library. Engineering Hall is the only building on campus to fully sport university colors with its recognizable orange brickwork.
Everitt Laboratory
![Uiuc everittlab](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Uiuc_everittlab.jpg)
Everitt Lab was the former home of th
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The building is named after the renowned ECE professor
William L. Everitt. The 4th floor contains communications and silicon chip manufacturing labs, and the Integrated Circuits Fabrication Lab is located in the lower levels. As the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering moved to the newly constructed Electrical and Computer Engineering Building in the summer of 2014, Everitt Lab is now being used as home of the Department of Bioengineering and additional engineering classroom space.
Talbot Laboratory
![Uiuc talbotlab](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Uiuc_talbotlab.jpg)
Named for
Arthur Newell Talbot
Arthur Newell Talbot (October 21, 1857 – April 3, 1942) was an American civil engineer. He made many contributions to several engineering fields including structures, sewage management, and education. He is considered to be a pioneer in ...
, Talbot Laboratory holds classrooms and small lecture halls, as well as extensive structural mechanics and fluid mechanics laboratory equipment. The second floor houses the Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering department, while the third floor is used for the Aerospace Engineering department, and includes offices for most of the Aerospace faculty as well as the McDonnell Douglas Computer Lab (commonly known as the "AeroLab"), a formerly windowless cell for Aerospace students to gather and collectively work and study. In January 2012, the west-facing side of the AeroLab was expanded to include windows that give students a view of Campustown and downtown Champaign in the distance.
Talbot Laboratory is known for containing one of largest tension and compression testing machines in the nation. The machine can apply 3 million pounds of force of either tension or compression, and can be rented out to outside companies for testing.
Grainger Engineering Library
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
The Mechanical Engineering Lab (MEL) is one of the buildings used by th
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering The building was renovated in 2002 and contains the John Deere Pavilion, the Ford Design and Manufacturing Lab, McGinnis Studios, and Rosenthal Galleries.
Materials Science and Engineering Building
The Materials Science and Engineering Building (MSEB) is home to th
Department of Materials Science and Engineering This building has been named a National Historic Physics Site by the
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...
.
Beckman Quadrangle
The Beckman Quadrangle is north of Springfield Avenue from the Bardeen Quad and is home to numerous undergraduate facilities as well as graduate facilities. The quad gets its name from
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) an ...
, which towers over the quad at its northernmost point.
Beckman Institute
Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building is the new home of th
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineeringstarted August 2014. Plans were in place in 2008 to move the ECE department from Everitt Laboratory to a new building as class sizes grew and bigger demands were placed on research space and lab classes. Construction started in January 2012 and the building was opened with the ceremony in October 2014. The new ECE building is the largest building in the world to have a net-zero energy design with 230,000 square feet of labs, classrooms, and facilities, including a state-of-the-art
nanofabrication
Nanolithography (NL) is a growing field of techniques within nanotechnology dealing with the engineering (patterning e.g. etching, depositing, writing, printing etc) of nanometer-scale structures on various materials.
The modern term reflects on a ...
lab.
Coordinated Science Laboratory
Hydrosystems Laboratory
The Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory is home of th
Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineeringgroup of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. It is named after the venerable Dr. Ven Te Chow. It houses an . research laboratory complete with, among others, flumes, a rainfall generator, and a hydraulic model of the Chicago River.
Digital Computer Laboratory
![Digital Computer Laboratory](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Digital_Computer_Laboratory.jpg)
The Digital Computer Laboratory (DCL) was the original home of the Computer Science department. The two-story building was constructed in 1958 at what was then the corner of Romine and Stoughton Streets, and was expanded in 1967. The original building contained ILLIAC I, one of the first supercomputers. In 1989, another addition added a third floor and enclosed the old building on three sides, and the building was re-addressed according to the location of its new main entrances near Springfield Avenue (the original building walls can still be seen from the inside). In 2004, the Computer Science department offices moved to the Siebel Center upon its completion, and most of the office space in DCL is now occupied by Technology Services at Illinois, the campus's central
IT department, which had previously shared the building with Computer Science. The DCL is also the home to the Engineering Career Services, and was also the former home to the Department of Bioengineering.
Kenney Gym
Kenney Gym is a
gym
A gymnasium, also known as a gym, is an indoor location for athletics. The word is derived from the ancient Greek term " gymnasium". They are commonly found in athletic and fitness centres, and as activity and learning spaces in educational ins ...
nasium on the corner of Springfield Avenue and Wright Street with a large selection of athletic equipment. It was home to the
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
team until the construction the
Huff Hall
Huff Hall is a 4,050-seat multi-purpose arena in Champaign, Illinois, United States. The arena opened in 1925 and was known as Huff Gymnasium until the 1990s. It is named after George Huff, who was the school's athletic director from 1895 to 193 ...
and is currently used by the
gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...
team.
Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
![Micro and Nanotechnology Lab](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Micro_and_Nanotechnology_Lab.jpg)
The Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory is used primarily for cutting-edge research in the field of
nanotechnology
Nanotechnology, also shortened to nanotech, is the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal o ...
and has recently undergone a major renovation to greatly expand its facilities. The laboratory now has over 8,000 square feet of clean rooms for research purposes.
Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
Named for
Nathan M. Newmark
Nathan Mortimore Newmark (September 22, 1910 – January 25, 1981) was an American structural engineer and academic, who is widely considered one of the founding fathers of earthquake engineering. He was awarded the National Medal of Science fo ...
, this lab is home to th
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Other Buildings
Separate from the two quads are numerous additional buildings that are affiliated with the College of Engineering.
Siebel Center for Computer Science
The Siebel Center is home to th
Department of Computer Science Officially opened on April 29, 2004, the Siebel Center began with the initial contribution of $32 million to the University by
alumnus
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for grou ...
and successful technology
entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
Thomas Siebel
Thomas M. Siebel (; born November 20, 1952) is an American billionaire businessman, technologist, and author. He was the founder of enterprise software company Siebel Systems and is the founder, chairman, and CEO of C3.ai, an artificial intellig ...
in 1999. The project's final cost came to roughly $80 million, with more than half ($48 million) having been paid for by the state of
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita ...
.
The Siebel Center houses the Department of Computer Science, which currently shares the distinction of being one of the top five
Computer Science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
departments in the nation with
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
, the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
,
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
, and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
.
The center has over 225,000 square feet (21,000 m²) of research, office, and laboratory space, an undergraduate population of 900, over 450 graduate students, and 100 faculty and research members.
Stats and Facts , Department of Computer Science at Illinois
/ref> The Siebel Center claims to be the first "Computing Habitat", featuring a fully interactive environment and intelligent building system. The facility is equipped with computer controlled locks, proximity and location sensors, cameras to track room activity, and other sensory and control features.
NCSA
Transportation Building
The Transportation Building is home to th
Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Building
The Mechanical Engineering Building (MEB) is one of the buildings used by th
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Ceramics Building
The Ceramics Building is part of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. There is a separate kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay int ...
building nearby.
Nuclear Engineering Laboratory
The Nuclear Engineering Laboratory houses classrooms and laboratories, as well as faculty and graduate student offices for th
Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Nuclear Radiation Laboratory
The Nuclear Radiation Laboratory is used by th
Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Loomis Laboratory of Physics
Loomis Lab is home to the highly ranked Department of Physic
The facility at 1110 W. Green Street in Urbana, IL, is the second building commissioned to house the department. It was constructed during 1958–1959 and dedicated in 1980 to the memory o
Francis Wheeler Loomis
(1889–1976), who during his tenure as head of department from 1929 until 1957 was instrumental in attracting world-class physicists to Illinois. It was under his leadership that the department established its world-renowned research program in solid state physics (now called condensed matter physics); that program—one of the first of its kind in the nation—today remains at the forefront of the field.
Materials Research Laboratory
The Illinois Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) is home to several large-scale research programs, including a NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology center, the BP-supported International Centre for Advanced Materials, several large DOE-funded efforts, as well as a number of other research activities. The MRL fosters interdisciplinary research at the forefront of materials science by bringing together world-class faculty and students in condensed matter physics, materials chemistry, and materials science in a highly collaborative research environment. The MRL also has as a core mission to provide characterization tools for materials research, and to meet this mission, the MRL facilities contain one of the most advanced collection of materials characterization tools at a university.
Engineering Sciences Building
The Engineering Sciences Building (ESB), located at 1101 West Springfield Avenue in Urbana, IL, is home to the internationally renowned Institute for Condensed Matter Theory (ICMT), established to provide condensed matter theorists and experimentalists (faculty and postdoctoral fellows) with a highly interactive research environment that provides members with the intellectual freedom to take on the most challenging, long-term research issues. ESB also is home to a number of individual research groups and other collaborative activities as well as the administrative offices of the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology center.
Superconductivity Center
The Superconductivity Center (SC) is home to the administrative offices of the Illinois Materials Research Laboratory and the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. The SC is also home to a number of individual research groups and facilities for materials characterization.
References
External links
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Buildings and structures of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Engineering Campus