Cecil College

Engineering and Mathematics Building

LEED Gold® Certification

The new Engineering and Mathematics Building, along with the renovation of existing science laboratories on campus, was designed to celebrate science education and mathematics and to train new professionals for the county’s growing R&D industry. A significant feature of the campus master plan, this landmark building occupies a prominent location at the main entrance to campus, welcoming visitors to a modern center of higher learning. The building’s positioning and design allow it to serve as a physical, visual, and pedestrian link between the upper and lower quadrants of Cecil College’s hilly campus. The building design emphasizes this connecting role with the creation of two parallel monumental communicating stairs, both inside and outside the building, linking the two main areas of campus. The Engineering and Mathematics Building also defines and frames the amphitheater-like upper quadrant of the campus.

Innovative and extensive sustainability features, as well as the ability for instructors and students to tap into real-time building data, bring the building infrastructure into the fabric of the curricula being taught. This redefines the Engineering and Mathematics Building as an integrated component of the teaching and learning experience.

The new structure contains science teaching laboratories with supporting equipment and prep rooms, mathematics classrooms, group seminar rooms, a multi-media room, a distance-learning classroom, office suites, a fabrication shop, a mentoring center, and a testing center. Of particular note, most of the interior public space is a dynamic environment for outside-the-classroom group learning and collaboration available to all students.