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April 22, 2022

$20M gift triggers new engineering hall at WSU

By EMMA HINCHLIFFE
A/E Editor

Rendering courtesy of WSU [enlarge]
WSU aims to break ground on the hall in 2024.

With the aid of a $20 million endowment from Edmund and Beatriz Schweitzer and Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, WSU announced its plans to construct a new building for its Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.

In honor of the endowment — which is one of the largest philanthropic gifts in the university’s history — the new building will be called Schweitzer Engineering Hall. The project will serve as a “central hub” for engineering and design students. The building’s programming will include classrooms, student collaboration and club activity zones, first-year student engagement studios, senior capstone project design spaces, and centers for academic advising, tutoring and career counseling.

WSU said it will select a design-build team for the project next year and is aiming to break ground in 2024.

The construction of Schweitzer Engineering Hall will be the first phase of the university’s long-term capital plan to modernize engineering facilities on the Pullman campus.

Edmund Schweitzer, founder, president and chief technology officer of Schweitzer Engineering, completed his doctorate at WSU in 1977. He was a former faculty member at WSU and Ohio University before starting Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in the basement of his Pullman home.
 

Emma Hinchliffe can be reached by email or by phone at (206) 622-8272.




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