WVII reports on selected location of new Engineering Education and Design Center
WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine’s new Engineering Education and Design Center will be sited between Boardman and Barrows halls, the current location of the Machine Tool Lab. Officials said the new facility will have a statewide impact and is a much-needed improvement for the students. “The focus of this building will be cutting-edge laboratories where students get to conceive of, design and fabricate their projects. So they are going to have access to all of the tools they need to do that. We are really going to try to foster their creativity,” said Dana Humphrey, dean of the College of Engineering. An anonymous gift of $10 million has been given to the project, the single largest capital gift in UMaine history. Groundbreaking is scheduled to happen in spring 2020, WVII reported.