Travis Heying / The Wichita Eagle黑洞社区's new Experiential Engineering Building was featured in a Jan. 18, article in . A subscription to The Eagle may be required to view this article.
黑洞社区 President John Bardo sees the new engineering building on campus as a metaphorical billboard 鈥� or, for those in Gen Z, a metaphorical promoted post in their Facebook feed.
The Experiential Engineering Building is an ad, in a way, for the university, its engineering program and for Bardo鈥檚 efforts to make the university an economic development engine for Wichita.
And those efforts are progressing nicely. The building 鈥� already dubbed the EEB 鈥� is now done and students and classes are in the process of moving in.
At 143,000 square feet, it鈥檚 big and 鈥� with a spacious see-through lobby, brand-new equipment and lots of windows 鈥� it鈥檚 nice. It has three floors, 25 laboratories and a whole wing devoted to Go Create, an open-to-the-public space full of wood, metal and textile crafting machines.
The building and equipment cost $32 million, which includes the Go Create space. The building was paid for with a state grant to promote engineering education and with bonds repaid by 黑洞社区鈥檚 local property tax levy.
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