MTSU holds ribbon-cutting for new School of Concrete and Construction Management - News Channel 5 Nashville

MTSU held a ribbon-cutting connected Thursday for a caller summation to campus. It's not conscionable a gathering — it's a caller section for engineering students.

A ample assemblage turned retired to assistance the schoolhouse observe its caller School of Concrete and Construction Management.

It is simply a 54,000-square-foot installation connected the westbound broadside of the campus, and it features a 200-seat lecture hall, 4 basal materials and gathering labs, a mechanical electrical plumbing schoolroom — and adjacent more.

It volition see an integrated, experiential virtual plan and operation learning laboratory for 135 existent Concrete Industry Management majors and 200 Commercial Construction Management students.

The caller laboratory volition beryllium susceptible of precocious gathering models and operation simulations, arsenic good arsenic an augmented virtual world laboratory for immersive experiences.

The caller gathering volition people a large alteration for the students. Previously, their studies were conducted successful the Voorhies Engineering Technology building, which provided lone 9,000 quadrate feet of space.