Facilities

The offices and facilities used for instruction and research in engineering are located in the following buildings on the North and Central campuses:

North Campus

• Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL)
• Aerospace Wind Tunnel Laboratories
• Ann and Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building
• Bonisteel Interdisciplinary Research Building
• Carl A. Gerstacker Building
• Chrysler Center for Continuing Engineering Education
• Computer Science and Engineering Building
• Dow Connector Building
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building (EECS)
• Engineering Programs Building (EPB)
• Engineering Research Building
• Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Building (EWRE)
• François-Xavier Bagnoud Building (FXB)
• George Granger Brown Laboratories (GGB)
• Herbert H. Dow Building
• Industrial and Operations Engineering Building (IOE)
• James and Anne Duderstadt Center
• Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory
• Mortimer E. Cooley Building
• Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Building (NAME)
• Phoenix Memorial Laboratory
• Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center (LEC)
• Robert H. Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF)
• Space Research Building
• Walter E. Lay Automotive Engineering Laboratory
• Walter E. Wilson Student Team Project Center

Central Campus

• West Hall: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Hydrodynamics Laboratories

Laboratories and other facilities are described within the sections on Undergraduate Degree Programs.

The Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center (LEC)

The Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center, the College of Engineering's "front door," houses the deans' offices and provides lounge, meeting and conference space for the College.

LEC, named in honor of the late Robert H. Lurie (BSE IOE '64, MSE '66), was made possible by a $12 million gift from Ann Lurie, Bob's wife. Bob and his partner, Sam Zell (AB '63, JD '66), were national leaders in commercial real estate who were also participants in other business ventures, such as the Chicago Bulls and the White Sox.

The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower, which stands on the North Campus Diag,  along with the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building and the Robert H. Lurie Nanofabrication Facility are also the result of generous gifts by Ann Lurie.

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center is a 255,000 square-foot integrated technology instruction center that houses collections of information resources that are normally found in a traditional library and provides high-tech equipment to further explore the physical and simulated world. Users are invited to the Duderstadt Center to locate information, create new artifacts and make the results of their own inquiries available to others.

Within the Duderstadt Center, users will find studios equipped with the latest technologies for visualization and virtual reality, design, digital video and audio creation, distance learning and collaboration. The Center has network connectivity, from casual seating to teaching facilities. The Duderstadt Center also houses the library collections of the College of Engineering, the  A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the School of Art & Design.

Walter E. Wilson Student Team Project Center

Some of our most highly sought after students have participated in our national championship and world-recognized student teams. One of the best ways for students to gain critical hands-on experience as well as important team, organizational, and management skills is through engineering design-build-test competitions. Student team projects provide practical design and fabrication experience that complements classroom instruction, in addition to real-life lessons in working cooperatively with others.

The Walter E. Wilson Student Team Project Center, named for University of Michigan College of Engineering alumnus Walter E. Wilson (BSE ME '33), provides students with designated space for student teams involved in national competitions.

This 11,000-square-foot center, is located on the NE corner of north campus and is adjacent to the Wave Field (e.g. see http://www.umich.edu/~gonorth/ ) and the Engineering Programs Building (EPB). It houses space and equipment for design, assembly, machining, electronics, composite lay-up and painting for more than two dozen student teams, groups and classes, and is accessible to qualified students 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  More information can be found at: http://www.engin.umich.edu/teamprojects/.

Use of Facilities

Laboratory, classroom and office equipment, shops, the library and the computer labs are examples of a wide variety of facilities that serve as aids for instruction and research. Their use is limited to the purpose for which they are made available and any misuse will be subject to disciplinary action.

Student identification cards are required for entrance to many campus facilities, especially certain laboratories and libraries. These cards are issued at the Student Activities Building (SAB) in Room 100 and Room 1000, the Central Campus Recreation building in Room 3269, the Wolverine Tower in Room 2506 or the North Campus Entrée Plus Office in room B430 of the Pierpont Commons on North Campus.

Computing

The College of Engineering's Office of Information Technology and CAEN provide the College with a comprehensive set of computing technologies that support its instructional, research, administrative and service missions. CAEN's high performance desktop computers, up-to-date data network, software library and overall information technology environment improve the quality of education and research throughout the College. Talented staff and the aggressive pursuit of innovative technologies ensure that CAEN remains a leader among its peers in academia and industry.

The College computing environment is comprised of an integrated set of resources at the College, department and lab levels that together total over 10,000 network attached devices. CAEN-supported student computing labs provide approximately 1,000 desktop computers, most of which are available to students on a drop-in basis, 24 hours a day. These computing labs offer a large array of software for engineering design and analysis, software development and personal productivity.  A high-performance computing environment comprising over 2300 CPUs is maintained jointly by the Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) and CAEN. CAEN also provices web services to the College community as well as instructional and collaborative technology support throughout many of the labs, classrooms and conference rooms in the College.

A modern college-wide network infrastructure provides the College with robust wired and wireless networks. Wireless Ethernet is available across the College. All network wall jacks provide at least 100 Megabit Ethernet connectivity and many locations provide Gigabit Ethernet as well. High speed network backbones connect all of the buildings in the College and also provide high speed connectivity to the rest of campus, the Internet and Internet2.

Library Resources

The Art, Architecture and Engineering Library and staff are located in the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. It is one of more than 19 divisional libraries in the University Library system. The Duderstadt Center is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the academic year. The library's collection of over 600,000 volumes covers all fields of engineering and is considered one of the largest in the country. The library subscribes to almost 2,000 journals and e-journal titles. The library maintains a large collection of technical reports, standards, government documents, U.S. and foreign patents and reserve materials for coursework.

The library subscribes to many online resources such as books, conference proceedings, reports and reference materials. These online resources can be accessed from on and off campus. The subject specialist librarians and staff also provide electronic course reserves, course related instruction programs, and computerized reference searching to help students, faculty and researchers make effective use of information resources available both on the University campus and from around the world. More information on library resources can be found at http://www.lib.umich.edu/aael.