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Support for Buildings
As technology keeps advancing at an amazing pace, Michigan Tech needs to build new facilities and upgrade existing ones to keep up. We always have some kind of building or renovation project in the works, and we can use support from private donors like you. On this page, you will find information on which projects we are currently working on and how you can help. We also invite you to read about how support from donors like you have made some of our recently completed projects a success.
Current Projects
Wadsworth Hall Renovation
MTU's largest residence hall gets renovated
Michigan Tech's Board of Control gave final approval Oct. 7, 2003 to a major renovation of the university's largest residence hall.
The board passed a bond issue to fund the $31.3-million project, which beings in December and will be completed by fall 2005, said William Blumhardt, director of facilities management.
Media Relations
Octobet 3rd, 2003.
Recent Successful Projects
Dreams realized
The Opie Library and Rekhi Hall completed
New learning opportunities, new information initiatives, and the beginnings of an improved look along Townsend Drive: these two new buildings will provide all of these benefits to Michigan Tech and its students.
The Opie Library features twenty-two small-group study rooms, which serve Michigan Tech's emphasis on team learning. It is equipped with the latest technologies, including an information wall that provides the latest on library and campus activities, as well as a steady stream of news and weather.
Kanwal and Ann Rekhi Hall features distinctive copper architecture and centralized space for computer science facilities.
Dedication Ceremony Handout, April 29th 2005
Advanced Technology Development Complex
Outreach benefits community, local economy
Essentially, the ATDC serves as a testing and prototyping facility.
If provides 27,500 square feet of space for high-tech business start-ups, prototyping, research, testing laboratories for the Keweenaw Research Center and the Michigan Department of Community Health, conference space, and business support services offered through MTU's Corporate Services and the Michigan Tech EnterPrise SmartZone. It also houses the Ford Student Design Center.
The Keweenaw Research Center, on of many research arms of Michigan Tech, will operate a full chassis dynamometer laboratory here, as well as manage the complex. Unique among universities, the ATDC will have both a chassis dynamometer and an acoustic chamber. In addition, a high-ventilation room accommodates safe testing of running engines and chemical experiments. The exhaust system was funded by the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
Dedication Ceremony Handout, April 29th 2005
Naming Information
One major draw to supporting a new construction project is the ability to name certain parts of a building, or even the building itself. Because the monies received from donors are so vital to the completion of the project, you have the opportunity to name virtually any part of a building. The level of giving required for naming rights varies from project to project, depending on the total cost of the project and the percentage of the cost supplied by donors.
For more information on naming rights to specific projects, contact either the Michigan Tech Fund or the department in charge of the project.