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September 22, 1998 $17.2 million Calumet Classroom Office Building opens HAMMOND, Ind. -- A three-story, 100,000-square-foot, $17.2 million Classroom Office Building has opened at Purdue University Calumet in response to a need for more classrooms, laboratories and faculty offices. Construction lasted 22 months. The building, which features 50,187 assignable square feet, has 22 classrooms with audio-visual and computer access including U-shaped seminar rooms and 116 individual and departmental offices. Located on the north side of campus, the building has interconnecting, indoor walkways, resulting in climate-controlled linkage to the university's Anderson, Potter, Powers Computer Education and Gyte Science and annex buildings. The new structure houses the academic Departments of English and Philosophy; Foreign Languages and Literatures; History and Political Science; and Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics. The Departments of Construction Technology and Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision also are being housed in the building temporarily while a two-year renovation project takes place in the Anderson Building. Additionally, the offices of the School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, School of Technology and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs are occupants. "The Classroom Office Building contains student-friendly study and classroom space while providing faculty with easy to use, state-of-the-art technology to enhance their instruction," Purdue Calumet Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Sandra Singer said. "Consoles conveniently located in most classrooms allow faculty to project overhead transparencies, computer presentations and television images to a large screen with just the touch of a button. The classrooms are also wired to accommodate multiple computers." Other building features are six large offices for part-time faculty, research assistants and teaching assistants; four conference rooms; three office workrooms; six English labs (reading, writing and tutorial); two construction technology labs; two foreign language labs; one math computer lab; three manufacturing engineering technologies and supervision labs; a study and vending lounge; building storage; and various building equipment rooms. Writer: Wes Lukoshus, (219) 989-2217; e-mail, lukoshus@calumet.purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page