AT A GLANCE
ENGINEERING INNOVATION
NEXUS BUILDING PROJECT
Our flagship building: a state-of-the-art
research and educational environment
located in the heart of campus.
O’CONNELL
CENTER
Future home of:
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Computer Engineering
Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station (EIES)
Engineering Innovation Institute (EII)
Engineering Leadership Institute (ELI)
Freshman design labs and senior capstone design
courses for all departments
• Faculty and student “collaboratory” spaces
BEN HILL
GRIFFIN
STADIUM
TURLINGTON
PLAZA
WEIL
HALL
NEXUS
BUILDING
REITZ
UNION
Key features:
Classrooms and
tools to benefit
ALL ENGINEERING
STUDENTS, from
freshman design
labs to senior
capstone design
courses
Faculty and student
COLLISION SPACES
to encourage
cross-disciplinary
collaboration
State of the art
BIOTECH lab
and ADVANCED
MANUFACTURING
facility to anchor
future innovation
with our growing
strengths
PROTOTYPING
LABS to enhance
hands-on learning
while bringing big
ideas to fruition
“Virtually every freshman engineering student who enters the college will benefit
from this building, as will more than 100 graduate students. These new facilities are
designed specifically to enhance their hands-on engineering experience and to further
boost their engineering education overall. Our goal is to see further improvement in
GRADUATION RATES, closer TIES WITH INDUSTRY and a direct enhancement on the
state’s WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT efforts.” - Dean Cammy Abernathy
88,000 SQ. FT. $53 MILLION
80,000 for new educational and research space
estimated total cost
TELEPRESENCE
LAB to build
21st century
communication and
networking skills
Architecture provided
by Grimshaw
• London-based
• Credentials include the
Experimental Media and
Performing Arts Center at
Renassalaer Polytechnic
Institute, the London School
of Economics New Academic
Building and Rogers Hall at
NYU Polytechnic School of
Engineering