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Self-Guided Tour Welcome to Michigan Tech More than 7,000 students from more than 50 countries call Michigan Tech home. With over 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, forestry, business, computing, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences, Michigan Tech has been preparing students to create the future since 1885. Share your photos #michigantech @michigantech @michigan_tech • Fourth floor: Graduate School, Graduate Student Government • Fifth floor: Administration Career Services helps students secure co-ops, internships, and full-time jobs. Coaches help students write résumés, prepare for interviews, and negotiate job offers. Career Services also hosts two annual Career Fairs, bringing more than 415 companies to campus. Clock Tower Located in the heart of campus between the Memorial Union (34) and the MEEM (20) buildings, construction on the clock tower broke ground spring 2018 and was completed in August. Funds for the tower were made possible by the generous donation from the William (1969) and Ilene Memorial Union Building—34 Bernard Jr. family. The Bernard family A popular student gathering space, the hopes their donation inspires students to Memorial Union Building was named to create new traditions through the “ringing honor alumni who died in World War I, of the bell” to acknowledge special World War II, the Korean War, and recent events, historical holidays, and important conflicts. The North Coast Grill and Deli accomplishments of the student body. inside the MUB features home-style entrées, pizza, sandwiches, stir-fry, wraps, and ethnic specialties. Alumni House—9 The Campus Bookstore on the first floor Originally the president’s residence, is a great place to purchase new and used the building is now home to Alumni textbooks, school supplies, Michigan Tech Engagement and Annual Giving, and the apparel, and gifts. The MUB also features Michigan Tech Student Foundation. Our overnight guest rooms, meeting rooms, alumni are always welcome to stop in and ballroom space. Student organization and say hello. offices are also on the first floor. The John Edgar McAllister Welcome Center is a 3,000-square-foot addition to the building. Admissions staff invites you to stop by for a tour and learn more about the University. Academic Office Building—5 This building was once the library and administration building, and now houses R. L. Smith Mechanical Engineering– the School of Business and Economics, Engineering Mechanics Building—20 AACSB accredited in business—the same organization that accredits Harvard, Named after former Michigan Tech Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale. The president Ray Smith, the MEEM is where Department of Social Sciences, home to the you’ll find our Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics. Administration and Student Services journal Industrial Archeology, is also located here. The second-tallest building in the Upper Building—1 Peninsula, the MEEM consists of 11 floors “The Admin,” is home to the University’s with more than 55,000 square feet of administrative offices, including: lab space and spectacular views of the Keweenaw Waterway. • Garden level: University Marketing and Communications, Printing Services, Mail Services • First floor: Student Financial Services Center (Financial Aid/Cashiers), Wahtera Center for Student Success (Registrar, Enrollment Services, Dean of Students, Disability Services, and Orientation), Transportation Services • Second floor: International Programs and Services, Career Services, Center for Pre- ROTC Building—4 College Outreach, Enterprise Application Our Army and Air Force ROTC programs Services, Student Affairs Information are housed in the University’s original Systems gymnasium and clubhouse. Constructed in • Third floor: Counseling Services, 1904, the building has a suspended running Chemical Sciences and Institutional Equity, Student Conduct track in the auditorium. Engineering Building—19 Services ChemSci is where the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry are located. The Unit Operations Lab and Simulated Process Control Center are on to help build the hall. Kanwal is a computer- the first floor. While most schools have networking pioneer who now helps Indian a unit operations lab, we go further by immigrants start businesses in the United running the lab remotely. States. Students in the School of Business and Economics use the computer lab on the first floor, sponsored by Kimberly-Clark. In 1969, a time capsule was placed in the wall of this building, to be opened in 2050. Chemistry alumnus Melvin Calvin (1931) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961. Husky Statue The centerpiece of Husky Plaza–a nine- foot-tall, 1,600 pound, entirely hollow, bronze casted statue. The proud pup sits on a 25-ton, 1.8 billion-year-old boulder—a Grover C. Dillman Hall—14 gift from civil engineering alumnus Named after a former Michigan Tech Roland Huhtala (1974)—harvested from a president, this building houses the quarry near Covington, Michigan. 4,500 Department of Engineering Fundamentals, pavers—1,030 of which are personalized and an avenue for students who are not certain engraved–surround the dog, dedicated in which engineering major they want to 2014 to serve as the gateway to Alumni Way. pursue. He dons a white coat for National Engineers Week, sits nicely for thousands of photo ops Dillman is also home to numerous (er, selfies), and provides a centrally-located laboratories—like the Smash Lab—and meeting spot on campus. a large collection of rocks used for J. Robert Van Pelt and observation, labs, and tests. John and Ruanne Opie Library—17 Civil and Environmental Engineering Located at the center of campus, the courses also take place inside Dillman. library provides collections of books, journals, maps, and documents to support learning and research. The building has 250 computer workstations; new scanners and printers, including a 3D printer; upgraded wireless access; and functional, ergonomic furnishings and work spaces, including laptop bars and booths. The library also offers a meditation space on the third floor Dow Environmental Sciences and 24-hour access to a study room for and Engineering Building—8 students, faculty, and staff. The Dow houses the Department of Fisher Hall—15 Named for former Michigan Tech President Biological Sciences and the Department J. Robert Van Pelt and John Opie (1961), vice of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Fisher is home to the Departments of chair of the board and executive officer with This green facility, built with funds from the Physics and Mathematical Sciences. Built in General Electric, the library also houses Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation, 1962, it is named after James Fisher, former the archives and a complete collection of won awards for its design. head of the physics department. Many first- printed materials documenting the people The Department of Geological and Mining year classes are held here. and institutions of the local area. Engineering and Sciences is located on the Our largest lecture hall, Fisher 135, seats The Library Café offers Starbucks coffee, north side of the building. The Dow also 476 and is located in the southeast corner sandwiches, and snacks. features the Robbins Atrium named after of the building. Most weekends, this room Dick Robbins (1956) whose company made doubles as the campus movie theater. the tunneling machine that dug the English Michigan Tech Film Board shows recent Channel. movies at a low cost for students, staff, The building’s front atrium includes the faculty, and community members. Fusion Café, featuring smoothies, organic coffee, salads, wraps, and healthy snacks. Minerals and Materials Engineering Building—12 Known as the M&M, this building houses the College of Engineering, the Department Electrical Energy Resources Center—7 of Biomedical Engineering, the Department Inside the EERC (pronounced “erk”), you’ll Kanwal and Ann Rekhi Hall—28 of Materials Science and Engineering, and find the Department of Manufacturing and Rekhi Hall houses the College of the Pavlis Honors College. Mechanical Engineering Technology and Computing which includes the Department The lakeshore section of M&M has more Department of Electrical and Computer of Computer Science and the Division than 80 labs, and the undergrad labs on Engineering. The Paul and Susan Williams of Computer Network and System the sixth floor—which include a scanning Center for Computer Systems Research is on Administration, Cybersecurity, and electron microscope facility—are some of the fifth floor. The sixth floor features Senior Electrical Engineering Technology. the best in the country. Design project posters and the Electrical Kanwal (1969) and Ann Rekhi donated funds and Computer Engineering Women’s Center is located on the seventh floor. Pavlis Honors College is located on the • a modern language lab seventh floor and offers all students— • the McArdle Theatre regardless of GPA—the opportunity • the Multiliteracies Center to customize their degree through six • a costume design shop pathway options. • a lighting studio The M&M building has one of the few Michigan Tech has its own jazz band, university-run foundries in the country, concert choir, and two orchestras. The and houses three biomedical engineering world-famous Huskies Pep Band is open research labs: Regeneration and Repair, to students with at least one year of high Engineered Biomaterials, and Biosensors. school band experience. McNair Hall—38, 40 The McArdle