CMU President Farnham Jahanian
the Mechanical Engineering Department
announced in October 2018 a $30 million
to accommodate its growing number
lead grant from the Allegheny Foundation
of students, and expand its collection
to build a brand-new Scaife Hall. The new
of state-of-the-art lab facilities for 21st-
building will replace the current home of
century engineering research. Celebrating its 57th birthday this
the Department of Mechanical Engineering and will carry the same name. New Scaife Hall will be sited in the same
year, the once-futuristic looking building, encased in metal scaffolding and nestled
location of the current building, next to the
beside its “potato chip” lecture hall,
new ANSYS Hall and Hamerschlag Hall. It
recalls a previous era. Perched above the
will feature modern laboratories, flexible
leafy edge of Junction Hollow, ever-more
classrooms, and formal and informal
modern buildings in the surrounding
collaborative spaces. Doubling the size of
campuses have sprouted up around it
its predecessor, the new building will allow
since its 1962 construction.
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