Facilities

Confluence Hall

The Engineering Department is housed in the Confluence Hall building. It was opened on January, 2018. Information about this building is listed below.

• 68,700 square feet - total
  • 54,700 square feet – mechanical and civil engineering programs
  • 14,000 square feet – Eureka! McConnell Science Museum
• $26.4 million - funded by CMU with $5.5 million from Eureka!
• 22 classrooms/labs/shops
  • Includes classroom/lab hybrid rooms; computer labs; project labs; specialty labs; and machining, welding and wood shops
• Room for student club projects
• 15-foot wind tunnel
• Labs and shops filled with leading edge equipment and tools including a hydraulic ironworker, CNC plasma table, tensile machine, optical comparator and much more
• Green Globes certified for sustainable and energy efficient construction
• Connected to the campus geo-thermal exchange system
• General contractor – Shaw Construction
• Bennett Wagner Grody Architects