Picture 1 - Future IT/E Building Site

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 would foster and produce quality graduates to supply the State with the well prepared labor pool for future generations.

The building envelope will be developed as a building no larger than a four stories tall, and set into the landscape as a stepped design.

The new IT building will be the home of the following departments/units: IFSM at 20,845 NASF; Center for Women in Information Technology at 530 NASF; additional space for the College of Engineering of 34,600 NASF; the IRC will relocate from it's current home with 7,010 NASF, Visual Arts, IMDA-MFA track of study will occupy 2,060 NASF. 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 16,075 NASF.

Picture 2 - Future IT/E Building Model

The current enrollment of nearly 200 FTE students 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 is being designed by HLM from the Bethesda Office and constructed by Whiting-Turner of Baltimore.

---

Project Cost = $ 37,430,000

---