Notre Dame CBE News: Stinson - Remick Hall is open! Thanks!

Notre Dame CBE news!  Stinson-Remick Hall is open!  Thanks to all who contributed!

I am pleased to announce that as of this semester, Stinson-Remick Hall, a new teaching and research building for the engineering college has opened.  It is built around a clean room and 2 floors of multiple function rooms that comprise the McCourtney Learning Center -- which is used by undergraduate engineers of all disciplines and class levels.  Research activities include new energy technologies that employ ionic liquids, nano-electronics and nano-optoelectronics for the next generation of electronic devices, micro and nano fluidic devices for medical diagnostics and therapeutics, nanoscale bio-electronics to address problems at the interface of living tissue and artificial devices and actinide chemistry technologies to address nuclear waste.

Faculty and graduate students from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department are playing an active role in most of these research efforts.  Our undergraduates … those so lucky as to be taking “Junior Lab” are enjoying the brand new laboratory built just for this purpose.  Rather than toiling for hours below ground, they now have a lab with windows (well into the atrium) looking out from its prominent position at the top of the main staircase.  “Senior Lab” will use this room as well.  Our biomolecular engineering laboratory will be housed in another new lab just across the atrium.

This new building will enable Notre Dame Engineering to grow to a new, higher level of prominence.  The better laboratories and the clean room in the new facility will enable research that could not be done previously at Notre Dame and will attract talented students and faculty who might not have otherwise come to Notre Dame.  For undergraduates, in addition to more research opportunities and better chemical engineering laboratories, the ample study and group-work space will make all of those late nights not only more pleasant, but more productive.       

So on behalf of the chemical engineering students and faculty, I would like to all of you who contributed your hard-earned money to this building!  Further we want to laud the efforts of Professor Frank Incropera who was Dean of Engineering while planning and fundraising was completed for this building.  Of course, none of this would have been possible without the support of the central administration of the University.