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When the College of Engineering was first founded at West Virginia University in 1887, it was a hodgepodge of departments lacking a unifying location. Its first dedicated building, Machinery Hall, came online six years later in 1892 and was quickly outgrown. After many fits and starts, which included two fires, what is now known as the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources moved to its current home on WVU’s Evansdale Campus. The campus is home to the Engineering Sciences
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Building, the Mineral Resources Building, and the Engineering Research Building. The expansion continues with the $43.5 million Advanced Engineering Research Building. Scheduled for completion in 2014, the facility will provide new research laboratories, a second clean room, and state-of-the-art laboratories to meet the needs of high-technology learning and discovery.
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“This building will be a game-changer. It will help our talented faculty propel WVU to new heights of international leadership in engineering and energy research.” —James P. Clements, president, West Virginia University
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“This building is classrooms, where the best and the brightest are going to be educated. This building is creativity, where great minds will share, innovate, and create. This building is research, where boundaries will be pushed and limits challenged. This building is community, where bonds will be developed and leadership will be discovered. This building is the future, where students and faculty alike, are going to be pushed further, challenged, and made prepared. This building is WVU.� —Cody White, mechanical engineering and Russian studies major, from Charleston, W.Va.
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“History can be made with buildings but buildings don’t make history. Bricks and mortar won’t do research. Steel and glass won’t discover new technologies. That will be done by you.” —Benjamin M. Statler
“This facility will house leading-edge scientific equipment in a shared space, fostering a collaborative environment. If West Virginia University is to continue to conduct vital research that can enhance our lives in such areas as energy, advanced materials, nanotechnology, civil infrastructure, and biometrics, a new building such as this is needed to create an interactive, educational/research environment.” —Cerasela Zoica Dinu, assistant professor, chemical engineering
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“It is well known that many great ideas become reality when talented people of different backgrounds have a place where they can collaborate and exchange thoughts. We want this new building to help serve that purpose on this campus for technological advances. Within the walls of this new building will be an exciting learning environment that allows faculty and students to work together collaboratively in emerging fields and across established disciplines.” —Gene Cilento, Glen H. Hiner Dean of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
Building at a Glance:
• Size: 95,000 gross square feet on four floors
• Features: 33,000 square feet of flexible and environmentally safe laboratory and research space, as well as an 8,000-square foot clean room; offices, classroom, computer classroom, a learning center, and graduate student space will occupy 29,000 square feet of the building
• Budget: $43.5 million
This building is creativity, where great minds will share, innovate, and create.
A number of naming opportunities exist within the new Advanced Engineering Research Building. They include: Building..................................................................................In Consultation Cleanroom Suite......................................................................... $2 million Main Lobby..................................................................................... $500,000 Learning Center.......................................................................... $500,000 Tiered Lecture Hall................................................................... $250,000 Computer Classroom............................................................ $250,000 College Conference Room.............................................. $250,000 Specialty Equipment Laboratories........................... $200,000 Large, General Purpose Laboratories ................. $150,000
For more information and to make a gift, please contact: Bob Bragg Director of Development Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources 304-293-4036 robert.bragg@mail.wvu.edu
Small, General Purpose Laboratories ................. $100,000
Garth Lindley Associate Director of Development Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources 304-293-4156 garth.lindley@mail.wvu.edu
Faculty Offices.................................................................................. $10,000
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Chem/Bio Laboratories....................................................... $150,000
Office of the Dean Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources West Virginia University 367 Mineral Resources Building PO Box 6070 Morgantown, WV 26506-6070 304.293.4821 statler-info@mail.wvu.edu www.statler.wvu.edu