UTSA | Catalyst 2020
Meet the New Science and Engineering Building
The Science and Engineering Building houses laboratory, classroom and collaborative space.
The newly opened, $95 million Science and Engineering Building (SEB) was the largest construction project in UTSA history. The 153,000-square-foot facility provides laboratory, classroom and collaborative space for academic and research programs in brain health, chemical engineering, biology and chemistry. Many of the laboratories in the building are surrounded in glass so students and visitors can witness the work underway, a concept known as science on display. The collaborative design encourages interaction among students from different majors, which has been shown to engage more students in research and improve student retention and graduation rates. The SEB features 17,000 square feet of makerspace where engineering students design, test and fabricate their senior projects; a dedicated space for the students, faculty and staff in UTSA’s Brain Health Consortium; and a two-story distillation column for chemical engineering research. In the innovative biology and chemistry instructional laboratories, undergraduate students have the opportunity to both learn from lab classes and participate in research with UTSA’s world-class faculty. SEB is the first new building at UTSA since the North Paseo Building opened in 2014.
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