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 Return to: School of Engineering and Applied Science
The School of Engineering and Applied Science occupies 420,000 sq. ft. of academic and research facilities, most of which is within a cluster of eight buildings adjacent to Thornton Hall, the School’s “front door” which faces McCormick Road. Thornton is the School’s oldest and largest building, which primarily houses administrative and academic office functions in five separate wings, while newer buildings now provide most of the laboratory space. A major exception to this is the newly-renovated cleanroom facility, which includes 10,000 sq. ft. of both electronic and soft/bio-materials microfabrication resources and associated labs in the lower level of Thornton’s C and E wings. The Dean’s Office, Center for Engineering Career Development, the Center for Diversity in Engineering, and many other student services are found in Thornton, as well as the departmental offices of Engineering and Society and Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Olsson Hall houses the departmental and faculty offices of Engineering Systems and Environment, and the entire second floor was renovated in 2018 to become the Link Lab, a cyber-physical research center that brings together faculty and students from multiple departments to stimulate interdisciplinary discovery. Rice Hall anchors the south-eastern corner of the School. It was constructed in 2011 as an information technology center, and houses the Computer Science department and the Computer Engineering program, as well as a number of modern classroom and instructional laboratory facilities.
Wilsdorf Hall, Jesser Hall, and the Chemical Engineering Research Building provide most of the “wet” laboratory facilities for the School, and form an interconnected complex in the northwest part of the School, adjacent to the Chemistry Building which belongs to the College of Arts and Sciences. The departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering primarily occupy these spaces, with the Nano-materials Characterization Facility providing a core of electron microsopy, x-ray spectroscopy and other characterization tools for research use and academic training opportunities.
The Mechanical Engineering Building supports large instructional and research laboratories for mechatronics, photonics, aerodynamics, and other “dry lab” disciplines. It also houses many large classrooms, as well as the departmental offices of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering. Albert Small Building contains research administration functions, as well as the Applied Mathematics program, a core academic area for engineering students.
Biomedical Engineering is housed alongside School of Medicine departments in Medical Research Buildings 4 and 5, adjacent to the UVA Hospital, approximately ½ mile east of the main School complex. Additional satellite facilities include the Aero Research Lab, which supports a hypersonic wind tunnel, OMERF, which is focused on robotics research and extracurricular student projects, and Lacy Hall, which provides state-of-the-art machining and fabrication equipment for experiential learning and research activities. All of these are located on Observatory Mountain, a wooded hill ¼ mile west of the central building complex. The Center for Applied Biomechanics, which is at the UVA Research Park ten miles north of the University, brings together medical and mechanical engineering researchers under one enterprise.
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