Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering

Completion Date: 2007

Assignable Sq. Ft.: 109,670 – Cost: $52 million

As the academic gateway to Purdue Engineering, Armstrong Hall is where many take their first step in their pursuit to become engineers. This facility houses Engineering Administration, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), Engineering Education, Materials Engineering, the Minority Engineering Program, and the Women in Engineering Program.

Purdue leveraged $37.7 million in state funds to raise an additional $10 million in private gifts for the Armstrong project, including $2.5 million from Caterpillar, Inc., $1 million from Stephen Bechtel, Jr., $1 million from K.O. Johnson, and $1.9 million from Heddy Kurz.

Biomedical Engineering Building

Completion Date: 2006

Assignable Sq. Ft.: 53,844 – Cost: $25 million

The Biomedical Engineering Building, a four-level facility containing both undergraduate and graduate teaching and research facilities, is a first at any academic institution in Indiana. It will house the newly established Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and provide a synergistic environment for all students, faculty, and staff within the school. Located in Purdue's Discovery Park, this building will link the school with many of the life science and nanotechnology initiatives occurring campus-wide.

Twelve million dollars of the building's cost is funded through private donations, including $5 million from the Whitaker Foundation, an independent foundation based in Arlington, Virginia. The foundation was established as a trust in 1975 to support research and education in biomedical engineering.

Birck Nanotechnology Center

Completion Date: 2005

Assignable Sq. Ft.: 105,245 – Cost: $58.3 million

This leading-edge national center located in Purdue's Discovery Park will, when complete, expand the frontiers of nanoscale research and be one of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the world, with specialized labs for nanoscale chemistry, biology, and physics; semiconductor-grade clean rooms; and office space for faculty, post-docs and graduate students from various disciplines across Purdue's campus.

A majority of this center's cost was covered by a $30 million contribution from Michael and Katherine Birck and a $10 million gift from Donald and Carol Scifres. The Lilly Foundation contributed $9 million.

Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering

Completion Date: Dedicated in 2004, occupancy began Jan. 2005

Assignable Sq. Ft.: 44,687 (new addition) – Cost: $19.5 million

Forney Hall's five-story addition and remodeling of the current building has transformed this 1940's structure into a 21st century learning and research environment equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and high-performance instrumentation. The new addition includes a 200-seat auditorium and two 60-seat classrooms, a unique fundamentals laboratory for hands-on undergraduate learning, an advanced laboratory for student research, and new labs for bioengineering, catalysis, and nanoscience research.

The addition to Forney Hall was paid for entirely with private donations, including $10 million from Robert and Marilyn Forney, both of whom are 1947 chemical engineering Purdue alumni, and $2 million from the Dow Chemical Company.

The Robert & Terry Bowen Civil Engineering Laboratory for Large Scale Research

Completion Date: 2003

Assignable Sq. Ft.: 57,641 – Cost: $11 million

Bowen Lab gets its muscle from the lab's strong floor and a 40-foot L-shaped strong wall that provides the capacity to test full-scale buildings up to four stories tall. With a clear ceiling height of 54 feet, loading apparatus, and advanced instrumentation, Bowen Lab is setting a new standard for materials and structures testing.

Potter Engineering Center