Buildings and Campus Infrastructure Flashcards
Beck Venture Center
31,000-square-foot building, combines unique spaces, supportive programming and rich resources designed to help Mines students, faculty and alums successfully launch companies based on their breakthrough ideas, solutions and technologies.
$19.2 million facility, LEED Gold Certified. Mike and Kelly Beck are donors.
Labriola Innovation Hub
Centerpiece of the Mines Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem and the Labriola Innovation Complex. (Beck Center and McNeil Hall are a part of this ecosystem).
The $18.6 million, 37,000-sqft building supports interdisciplinary teamwork and creativity, including maker spaces, project team spaces, creativity and collaboration spaces and design project classrooms.
McNeil Hall
Enable curriculum and programming across campus designed to instill entrepreneurial and business principles and foster innovative thinking. Where students take their initial Engineering and Design Class.
Alderson Hall
Completed 1953 and named after Victor C. Alderson, who served as president from 1903 to 1913 and from 1917 to 1925. He established the first petroleum engineering curriculum at Mines.
Currently houses:
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Trefny Innovative Instruction Center and the Writing Center.
Alderson Hall’s Four-Story Stained-Glass Window:
Made of full antique, mouth-blown glass (custom-ordered from all over the world). Designed by artist Barbara Saull and Michael Shields
Illustrates the concept of “flow.”
*A major addition was completed in 1994.
Alpha Phi International Sorority
Established at Mines in 2000.
It is one of four sororities on campus and part of the Colorado School of Mines Panhellenic Council.
The sorority houses 20 women; however, there are over 60 active members.
Alpha Phi’s philanthropy is women’s heart health.
ALPHA TAU OMEGA FRATERNITY
More than 234,000+ men have become ATOs.
Leadership Development Fraternity
Arthur Lakes Library
40 dual-monitor lab systems available in rooms 119, 266, 270, and in many of the Study Rooms.
Lab build includes ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Mathcad, MATLAB, Mathematica, MS Office/Project/Visio, SOLIDWORKS and more.
Configurable study space with white boards offers individual or group collaboration workspaces, we have laptop tables. Visit the quiet floor for no distractions. You can even reserve a Study room online!
Tutoring is available from noon–11 pm, Sunday–Thursday.
Book & Brew is staffed entirely by Mines students, serving local coffee in sustainable products.
Special Collections
Aspen Hall
Renovated in 2012 and houses 23 upperclassmen students with single, double and triple rooms. Additionally, there is a community bathroom per floor, two study lounges, community living room, kitchen facility, recreation room and laundry facility. A basketball court and barbecue area were added for fun and relaxation.
BEN H. PARKER STUDENT CENTER
Your one-stop for all things student-related:
1. Student Life
2. Student Activities
3. Involvement and Leadership (SAIL)
4. Mines Activities Council (MAC)
5. Student Government
6. Financial Aid
7. The Registrar
8. International Programs
9. The Bursar and Cashier
10. Career Center
11. Graduate Studies
12. Mines Internet Radio and the Oredigger newspaper.
13. Bookstore
14. Periodic Table Food court
Berthoud Hall
Est. 1940. Named after Mines’ first geology professor, Edward L. Berthoud. It houses the Geology and Geological Engineering Department.
Berthoud Hall was a Works Progress Administration project; WPA was an agency of the New Deal.
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Established in 1908. It is one of seven fraternities on campus and part of the Interfraternity Council.
The fraternity houses up to 36 men; however, there are 80 active members.
Beta’s current philanthropy is suicide prevention.
Bradford Hall
First student housing made available to students in 1954.
Named after A. Hartwell Bradford, a graduate, generous contributor and founder of the West Coast Refining Company and the Arrowhead Oil Company.
One of four traditional-style residence halls on campus, offering one community-style restroom per floor, a laundry room facility and a social lounge area.
Brown Hall
Opened in April 1981 and named after George R. Brown.
Built for mining and basic engineering, it currently houses the departments:
1. Computer Science
2.Electrical Engineering
3. Mechanical Engineering
4. Mining Engineering.
Brown is also home to several makerspaces, including Blaster Design Factory, the Outlet, the Machine Shop and the Garage, and the Blaster’s Brew coffee kiosk. On the roof of Brown is a ground station, built in support of the Mines Cube Satellite program.
Center for Academic Services and Advising (CASA)
CASA Academic Advising Coordinators advise all new students through the Mines Core Curriculum until they officially declare their major and transition to a faculty advisor.
Academic support services offered include:
Tutoring, Core Supplemental Instruction (CSI), and academic coaching.
Faculty hold office hours on a regular basis in CASA and will frequently meet with students in our study hall, which is a welcoming place to study alone or in groups.
Center for Technology and Learning Media (CTLM)
Opened in 2001 and houses Information and Technology Solutions as well as physics and computer labs.
Visit the ITS Technology Museum: https://its.mines.edu/tech-museum/
Center for Technology and Learning Media (CTLM)
Opened in 2001 and houses Information and Technology Solutions as well as physics and computer labs.
Visit the ITS Technology Museum: https://its.mines.edu/tech-museum/
The Gordian Knot: In 333 BC, wintering at Gordian, Phrygia (in present-day Turkey), Alexander the Great attempted to untie the Gordian Knot. A legend claimed that whoever untangled the knot would rule Asia. But finding no end to the knot, or a way to untie it, he sliced it in half with his sword. Alexander went on to conquer Asia and the term “cutting the Gordian Knot” became a metaphor for an intractable problem solved by a bold stroke. Sculpture on campus unveiled in 2008.
Chauvenet Hall
Currently houses the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department.
Funded with the school’s first monetary gift: $25,000 from the chairman of the board of trustees and former student Winfield S. Stratton. A mining magnate who discovered the Independence Mine and launched the Cripple Creek gold rush.
Stratton gave the check to President Regis Chauvenet to use as he saw fit. The state later reimbursed funds for the Assay Building, freeing the gift to go toward construction of Stratton Hall in 1904. In 1950 the Assay Building and adjacent heating plant were joined, and the building renamed Chauvenet Hall.
The Clear Creek Athletic Complex
Marv Kay Stadium at Campbell Field, Stermole Soccer Stadium, Mines Softball Field, Jim Darden Field and the Stermole Track and Field Complex.
Coolbaugh Hall
built in 1951 and named after Mines’ longest-serving president, Melville C. Coolbaugh. It houses the Chemistry Department, as well as the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
Coolbaugh House
built by former Mines President Melville F. Coolbaugh in 1922. The house has been used for many purposes over the years and was designated a City of Golden Historic Landmark in 1985. It currently houses the Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP).
*The MEP Program was established in 1989. Over the years, MEP has played a significant role in promoting the ongoing commitment to create a more diverse and inclusive learning community at Colorado School of Mines.
-Leadership opportunities within professional societies
-Academic support—MEP/CASA tutors
-Undergraduate research opportunities
-Professional development
-WIRED: Work/Interview, Resume/Experience Day—Career Fair Preparation
-Scholarship search assistance
-Networking with industry and community representatives for internship and employment opportunities
-Annual MEP Banquet honoring graduating students
Professional Societies:
-American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES)
-National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
-Out in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (oSTEM)
-Society of Asian Scientist and Engineers (SASE)
-Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering
The new building opened in September 2017 and welcomed its first students in January 2018. CoorsTek and the Coors family unprecedented $27 million investment.
A significant milestone in a multigenerational academic, research and career opportunity partnership between Mines, the Coors family and CoorsTek, the world’s leading engineered ceramics manufacturer.
Establishment of the CoorsTek Research Fellows Program and a range of high-tech equipment purchases, including one of the most advanced electron microscopes in the United States.
The Colorado School of Mines Department of Public Safety (Mines Police Department)
Full-service law enforcement agency. 24/7 service to the campus.
EARTH MECHANICS INSTITUTE
The Excavation Engineering and Earth Mechanics Institute (EMI) was established at Colorado School of Mines in 1974. Over the 30 years of its existence, EMI has developed a suite of physical property tests, cutter and cutterhead evaluation procedures for performance prediction, project costing, and design of mechanical rock excavation tools for all types of mechanical excavators in mining, civil underground construction, and micro tunneling. The developed test procedures and the performance/cost prediction models have been validated with extensive field data from excavation and drilling projects around the world.
The Edgar Mine in Idaho Springs
In the 1870s, it produced high-grade silver, gold, lead and copper. Today, as an underground laboratory for future engineers, it produces a valuable experience for those who are being trained to find, develop and process the world’s natural resources.
The Edgar Mine was named after the Edgar mineral vein that runs along the hillside above the mine. Mines acquired the mine in 1921 when officers of the then bankrupt Big Five Mining Company agreed to lease the mine to the school. Mines has since acquired additional workings and land to form the present experimental mine holdings, which are now the property of the school.
Mines students gain hands-on experience in underground mine surveying, geological mapping, rock fragmentation and blasting, mine ventilation field studies, rock mechanics instrumentation practice, underground mine unit operations and mine safety.
By the completion of the course, students have earned safety credentials in underground mining from a Mine Safety and Health Administration-certified mine safety training instructor.
Elm Hall
Built in 2014 and is Mines’ newest housing option. Mines Market, catered by Sodexo, is the main dining hall for Mines students, faculty and staff. Elm Hall also houses the Blaster Card and Campus Living office.
ENGINEERING HALL
Built in 1894, Engineering Hall is the oldest building on campus and originally housed the physics and drafting departments.
It currently houses the Division of Economics & Business.
In 1916, as part of an agreement with the school, the Bureau of Mines used Engineering Hall to refine a significant quantity of radium. Detailed in the February 1919 issue of Mines Magazine, the work was clearly carried out at a time when the dangers of radiation were poorly understood, and the thorough decontamination process that followed years later involved removal of almost all of the building’s interior.
The Engineering Annex
Built in 1950 and currently houses the Engineering, Design, & Society Division, which includes the Cornerstone and Capstone Design Courses and the Humanitarian Engineering program.
