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Minerals and Materials Engineering Building

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M&M Building

The world class facility, completed in 1992, houses all teaching and research activities of the Departments of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering and Mining Engineering, as well as the Institute for Materials Processing. The eight story main portion of the building is used primarily for research and advanced undergraduate work is built into the side of a hill with the north face fronting along the Portage Canal waterway. It is connected by overhead and underground walkways to the adjacent two story undergraduate complex. Gross square footage's are:

Research Building: 172,800 Gr.
Undergraduate (Benedict): 44, 400 Gr.
Total: 217,200 Gr.

M&M is Building 12 on the Michigan Tech campus map.

Research Building

The research wing (lakeside) is 310' long by 120' high giving a building face area roughly equivalent to that of a football field. The central utility service corridor spanning most of the floors is one of the unique design features making it possible to access/change utilities with relative ease and at minimal expense. Laboratories are located on either side of the service corridor, so that utilities can easily be brought into labs through walls separating the labs from the service corridor. Vibration-producing equipment located in the basement sits on a free floating slab. The outside walls are positioned on footings separated from this slab, thus isolating equipment on the upper floors from vibrations.

Undergraduate Building

A separate two story section of the Minerals and Materials building, connected by a skywalk and underground tunnel, houses undergraduate classrooms and laboratories. These include a 250 seat lecture hall, smaller classrooms and lecture hall, and the Gary Shannette undergraduate library. Thermal processing, X-ray diffraction, and mechanical testing laboratories in the facility are dedicated for undergraduate use. Metallography laboratories include optical and stereo microscopes with digital imaging capabilities.

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