Campus of Michigan Technological University

Michigan Technological University's campus sits on 925 acres (374 ha) on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake.

In 1945 the members could no longer support the needs of the course and sold it to Michigan Tech for the amount of one dollar.

The Portage Lake Golf Course is located only a few miles from the Michigan Tech campus on US-41.

It used to house the library, administrative offices, and mineral museum back when Tech was still the Michigan College of Mines.

It replaced the second oldest building on campus, the materials processing laboratory, which had housed the shops for several engineering departments.

Since the building has existed, it has had only a few accidents, the most notable two being a ventilation problem causing lead fumes to build up in the labs and the explosion of a batch of volatile chemicals being used in a polymer synthesis process which nearly killed a research assistant, Michael Abbott.

Chem Sci was built for easy modification of key systems in order to keep up with the needs of the lab facilities.

One example of this is the design of the ventilation system, which was placed on the outside of the building and covered in the same red brick as the rest of the structure for easy access during renovations.

Michigan Technological University proposed to begin the construction of an environmentally friendly building in the summer of 1996.

The primary goal of the building was to help all MTU graduates become environmentally literate, providing leadership for a sustainable future.

MTU was not able to cover the entire cost of the construction of the building, so they needed to find other sources of income.

The Dow building currently houses the biology learning center, an exterior solar space- by setting the building back, designers created a courtyard to screen northern winds, making it 10 degrees warmer in all seasons, natural lighting and ventilation, and a rooftop greenhouse for biology research.

[8] At the time of its construction, the EERC was described as having a "strikingly modern design" [9] by some and "basically cement, brick, glass and steel"[10] by others.

[14] The museum displays the importance and beauty of minerals and its significance to development of Michigan over 150 years ago, educates people about the value of mineralogy and geology, and helps promote a better understanding of the need to protect specimens.

These labs cover a wide variety of subjects from environmental optics, to cosmic rays.

[17] Located "just a short walk from the core of the Michigan Tech campus",[18] the building is in a residential area, next to Jim's Foodmart.

The ALC is currently the largest (capacity 72 students) instructional space at Tech that enables highly interactive, collaborative/active learning pedagogies.

The ALC features a very extensive video switching network that allows instructors to both push material to student group work spaces and to pull the results of problem solving or discussion from student work groups for sharing across the entire class.

Originally built in 1967, the U. J. Noblet Forestry and Wood Products Building was expanded in 2000 with the addition of Horner Hall and the Hesterberg Atrium.

A Rhizotron is also housed in this building that allows undergraduates to complete non-invasive studies of underground processes that involve root systems, decomposition, organisms, and bacteria.

The Rhizotron is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service research station located on campus.

The main room on the first floor of Walker is the HDMZ or Humanities Digital Media Zone which houses classrooms, a lab of Apple Mac minis with the full Adobe Creative Suite, the CinOptic Enterprise office,[26] and the consultant desk where students in humanities classes can check out equipment such as cameras.

Tech continued to play at the Dee Stadium until the MacInnes Student Ice Arena was built in 1972.

[47] The completion of the construction of Hillside Place for the fall 2010 semester removed the need for this additional off-campus housing.

[53][25] Sperr Hall was constructed in 1901 and housed mining engineering, it was later demolished in 1970 to make way for the Electrical Energy Resource Center[25][54]