March 15, 2005
MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Amy Hewes
College of Engineering
(805) 756-6402
ahewes@calpoly.edu
Cal Poly Groundbreaking for New Engineering
Complex
Set for Thursday, March 17
To: Education reporters, City Editors, Assignment Editors,
Photo Editors
From: Cal Poly College of Engineering
What: Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker, College of Engineering Dean Peter Y. Lee, and major donor Paul Bonderson will don hard hats and wield shovels to celebrate the start of construction for two new engineering buildings - the Bonderson Engineering Projects Center and the Engineering IV building.
When: Thursday, March 17, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Where: Construction area on North Perimeter across from the Kennedy Library, near the Advanced Technology Laboratory
President Warren J. Baker, College of Engineering Dean Peter Y.
Lee, and alumnus donor Paul Bonderson will symbolically break ground
March 17 on the Bonderson Engineering Projects Center and the Engineering
IV building – new state-of –the-art facilities that
will change the face of engineering at Cal Poly.
The Bonderson Engineering Projects Center will provide almost 19,000
square feet of laboratories and work and assembly space for individual
and collaborative student projects. Cal Poly alumnus Paul Bonderson
(EE ’75) and his wife Sandy funded the facility with a $5
million gift in 2001. They recently pledged an additional $3.2 million
toward completion of the project.
The Engineering IV building is a 104,000-square-foot facility with a construction budget of $28 million. It will house modern classrooms for aeronautical, mechanical, civil, environmental, industrial and manufacturing engineering programs.
“Together, Engineering IV and the Bonderson Engineering Projects Center will create a lab-centered, state-of-the-art learning environment for the future,” said Dean Peter Lee.
A press release with more details of the projects will be available at the groundbreaking.
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