Cornell Engineering Quad Preview

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Olin Hall

Begin your tour in front of Carpenter Hall. Look north, across the street.Olin Hall was built in 1942, endowed by Cornell trustee Franklin W. Olin, Class of 1886, as a tribute to his son, Franklin Jr., Class of 1912, who died at age 30. Olin is the home of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and most Engineering Student Services offices.

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Carpenter Hall

You will find the College of Engineering administration, including the dean, in Carpenter Hall, as well as the Engineering Library, which hosts the Academic Computing Center.Carpenter Hall, built in 1957, is named for Walter S. Carpenter Jr. (1888 through 1976), an engineering student who dropped out senior year, but later became president of E. I. du Pont deNemours.The offices of Engineering Cooperative Education and Career Services are also in Carpenter.

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Pew Engineering Quad

*Walk east up the walkway and into the Engineering QuadJoseph N. Pew is the benefactor of the Engineering Quad. He earned his Cornell degree in mechanical engineering. Joe and his brother Howard later founded Pew Charitable Trusts and endowed the Engineering Quad and a professorship at Cornell.The sundial, designed by Dale Corson (president emeritus and a former dean of the college), was built in Cornell's machine shop in 1980 and is accurate within 30 seconds.

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Duffield Hall

Duffield Hall, the newest building on the Quad, opened in 2004. Its primary benefactor is David Duffield, a 1962 graduate of the College of Engineering and founder of PeopleSoft.The focus of Duffield is interdisciplinary research in nanoscience; the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, located in Knight Lab on the second floor, is one of four National Science Foundation research facilities on campus.The Duffield atrium is open 24/7, with comfortable alcoves for collaborative work and convenient wireless Internet access. The atrium also houses Mattin’s Café, which offers à la carte breakfast and lunch items.Be sure to visit the Cornell Reuleaux collection while in the atrium — these kinematic models were cutting-edge teaching tools for engineers in the 19th century and Cornell has the largest collection in the world.

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Phillips Hall

One of the country's first academic programs in electrical engineering was introduced at Cornell in 1883. It is now called Electrical and Computer Engineering and has its home base in Phillips Hall, which was opened in 1955, honoring Ellis L. Phillips, an 1895 electrical engineering grad.

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Rhodes Hall

Completed in 1991, Rhodes Hall is headquarters for the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and provides space for other departments as well.The building was named for Frank H.T. Rhodes, an emeritus member of the faculty of Earthand Atmospheric Sciences, who served as Cornell’s ninth president from 1977 to 1995.To the left as you enter Rhodes is the Emerson Manufacturing Teaching Lab. Any member of the campus community who has had the proper training may use the lab.

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Upson Hall

Upson Hall occupies the southeast corner of the Engineering Quad. Upson is a horizontal block with a flat roof. It sits on a blind loggia supported by rectangular supports clad in gray Ithaca stone. The infill between the piers is glass. The upper stories are framed in limestone panels. The center portion is divided by vertical aluminum mullions. Between them run alternating strips of yellow terracotta panels and aluminum-cased windows.

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Kimball Hall

At the east end of the building complex known as Kimball-Thurston-Bard, you’ll find Kimball Halland one of the college’s newest research facilities: the KAUST-Cornell Center for Energyand Sustainability, which investigates organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials for applications in carbonc apture and sequestration, photovoltaics and energy storage, water desalination, and oil and gas production.The name Kimball Hall honors Dexter S. Kimball (1865 – 1952), who became the first dean of engineering when the colleges of mechanical engineering and civil engineering merged in 1921.

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Thurston Hall

Next in the complex is Thurston Hall, named for Robert Henry Thurston who was director of the Sibley School in the late 1800s.The glass windows in the hallway on the first floor provide a bird’s-eye view of the George Winter High Bay, one of the components of the Bovay Civil Infrastructure Laboratory complex, a facility of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. This facility supports the NSF-funded George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), of which Cornell is one of 15 nationalsites. The Cornell NEES site is designed for testing lifelines,for example, evaluating theeffects of earthquake-induced ground rupture on polyethylene and welded steel pipelines

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Bard Hall - Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Over the past 100 years, materials scientists have made tremendous advances in developing revolutionary materials that shape everyday life. They work to create and improve the materials from which all engineered objects are made. MSE graduates are in demand in every sector and industry.Bard Hall is named for School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) benefactor Francis N. Bard, a 1904 mechanical engineering grad who prospered in the metals industry.Visit the rock parks outside of Bard if you have time. Then walk down the stairs on your left between Bard and Hollister toward Snee.

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Snnee Hall - Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Snee Hall is a must-see. In the atrium, check the seismograph to see if there’s significant seismic activity anywhere on the planet.Down the hall to the left you’ll find a comfortable reading room; to the right, the Timothy N. Heasley Mineralogical Museum, which contains precious and semi-precious stones from all over the world.This building, home to Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, was funded by William E. Snee, a 1925 Cornell chemical engineering grad who prospered in the oil and gas exploration business

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Hollister Hall - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hollister Hall is headquarters for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). CEE has three broad intellectual areas: Civil Infrastructure, Environment, and Engineering Systems and Management.A favorite among CEE’s sophisticated research facilities is the DeFrees Hydraulics Lab,the focal point of research and experimental studies in the environmental fluid mechanics and hydrology program. The state-of-the-art turbines and tilting water tanks reproduce some of nature’s hydrodynamic complexities in a variety of test conditions.Hollister Hall was opened in 1959; it is named in honor of Solomon Cady Hollister who was dean of the college for 22 years, beginning in 1937.

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Physical Sciences Bldg

Beyond the Engineering QuadThe Physical Sciences Building is located on East Avenue, across the street from the Arts and Sciences quadrangle, about 10 walking minutes from the Engineering Quad.Completed in 2010, the Physical Sciences Building, a joint project of the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering, accommodates 15 to 20 research groups in the Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Engineering’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics, and enhances interdisciplinary collaboration in such areas as nanoscale science, x-ray and accelerator physics, chemical biology, and biological physics.

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Clark Hall - School of Applied and Engineering Physics

Clark Hall is directly east of the Physical Sciences Building. Clark’s second floor houses administrative and faculty offices of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics; research and teaching labs are adjacent in the new Physical Sciences Building.The school’s location allows close collaboration with theDepartments of Physics and Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the Arts College. Clark Hall opened in 1964, a gift of William Van Alan Clark and Edna McConnell Clark

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Weill Hall

Weill Hall is on Tower Road just east of Corson-Mudd Hall.Weill Hall (named for benefactors Sanford I. Weill ’55 and Joan Weill) is one of the nation’s premier life sciences facilities. The $162 million, 263,000-square-foot facility opened in June 2008 and is home to Engineering’s newest department, Biomedical Engineering, which integrates medicine and engineering.The building offers cutting-edge laboratories and meeting places for interdisciplinary research and teaching in the biological, physical, engineering, computational, and social sciences. Thebuilding is also home to the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology.