Max W & Maileen Brown Family Hall Renovation

History & Tradition Meet Modern Innovation

With state-of-the-art labs and collaborative spaces, the renovated Max W & Maileen Brown Family Hall allows more students to take their next giant leap in electrical and computer engineering.

Purdue ECE is Growing

The Max W & Maileen Brown Family Hall renovation helped accommodate and support our ever-increasing student enrollment with world-class facilities that allow for flexibility and collaboration — while also providing student-focused lab space uniquely configured for electrical and computer engineering.

Naming Opportunities

Your support for the Max W & Maileen Brown Family Hall renovation creates an exciting hub where students and faculty can collaborate and advance their research, while also allowing more students to pursue their passions in modern and interactive spaces.

Exploration Graduate Wing

The renovated graduate wing provides high-quality, next-generation research spaces for graduate students and faculty to collaborate, conduct world-changing research, and solve grand challenges in engineering.

Discovery Undergraduate Wing

Featuring renovated instructional labs, a teaming studio, lounges, graduate assistant offices, and an equipment shop, this is truly the undergraduate hub of ECE.

Instructional Labs and Graduate Computational Research

These labs with open and flexible layouts support our growing number of students and include areas for student benching, lab prep, and equipment storage.

Equipment Shop

This state-of-the art workshop offers a secure and organized location for equipment use and storage, providing students and faculty with a safe environment for working and learning together.

Graduate Teaming Studio

Providing a comfortable space for graduate students to brainstorm ideas, this studio features a pool table, chess set, soft seating, a writable wall, and other furnishings to encourage collaboration.

Undergraduate Teaming Studio

This studio includes a collaborative space for undergraduate students to study and receive help from graduate assistants, whose offices are nearby.

Classrooms and Offices

New workspaces, glass-front offices, and labs unite students, lab staff, and faculty in an interactive environment.

Alumni Wall

Alumni who make a gift will be recognized on this centrally located wall.

Building renderings subject to change.

Learn More

Contact David Shindley at dmshindley@purdueforlife.org to learn how you can support this project.