IT/E Building
The project location is immediately adjacent to the ECS Building. This free
standing 138,300 GSF 81,620 NASF will foster interaction between students
and faculty. It's location, adjacent to the existing Engineering building
and across the street from Academic IV will provide appropriate access for
interdisciplinary teaching which the building occupants and UMBC teaching
approach require. The project is envisioned as a model for creating
symbiotic relationships with the College of Engineering and related
information technology transference. This relationship will foster and produce quality graduates to
supply the State with the well prepared labor pool for future generations.
The building envelope was developed as a building no larger than four
stories tall, and set into the landscape as a stepped design.
The new IT/E building will be the home of the following departments and units:
IFSM, Center for Women in Information Technology, additional space for the College of Engineering,
the IRC will relocate from it's current home, Visual
Arts, and IMDA-MFA track of study. In addition, the
building will house general campus teaching space with four 60 seat classrooms;
three 40 seat classrooms, one 250 seat lecture hall; one 125 seat lecture hall,
and a presentation / faculty seminar room for a building total of around 16,075 NASF.
The current enrollment of FTE students is nearly 200, which is ahead of Regents
approved enrollment plan. The number of UMBC students majoring in both computer
science and information systems has increased more than 50% since 1993.
Currently, approximately 60% of our entering students are coming for programs in
science and technology related fields.
The project was designed by HLM from the Bethesda Office and constructed by
Whiting-Turner of Baltimore.
06.25.03 Project is now completed and in cleanup / external
integration phase. Furniture is also arriving and being moved in. The
building will be occupied and open for classes beginning fall semester of
2003.
|
substantial completion: Mar 2003
|
