Engineering Hall
From U of I Wiki
Engineering Hall serves as the primary anchor point for the College of Engineering and houses administrative offices as well as academic facilities. Built in 1894, it is the oldest surviving building on the Engineering portion of campus. It was designed by George Bullard, a University alumnus as part of a University held architecture competition and is an example of the Renaissance Revival style of architecture. The 63,800 square foot building cost $162,278 to construct and featured an interior richly appointed with oak and a ceiling paneled in Washington fir. It was the first University building constructed solely for the use of a single college.
It is located at 1308 W. Green Street in Urbana, just north of the Illini Union. In the back of the back of building there is a patio which overlooks the Bardeen Quad and Boneyard Creek. Inside the building there are four floors. The most common floors used by students are the first and fourth. The first floor has some classrooms and is also home to many engineering societies. Offices for the Engineering Council, National Society of Black Engineers, and Society of Hispanic Engineers anchor the east end, while offices for the Society of Women Engineers, Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Omega Epsilon, and Society of Business and Management in Engineering anchor the west end.
The second and third floor are where many of the administrative offices are located. The fourth floor has two main Windows Engineering Work Station computer labs. These computer labs are frequented by several students during the day. Because of its location on the fourth floor, many lazy students feel the need to use the single building elevator located in the middle of the building. However, because the elevator is slow and there is only one, it often causes much aggravation among engineering students.
