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POLYTECHNIC BUILDING NEARS COMPLETION
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Seabaugh Polytechnic Building at Semo
A brand new Southeast Missouri State University 60,000 square foot building for which Southeast alums Otto and Della Seabaugh provided a leadership gift of $1 million to help match a $5.6 million legislative appropriation for building construction is nearly completed in Cape Girardeau.
The facility will include general classrooms, an interactive television classroom, 17 specialized teaching and research laboratories and an industrial use/lease space to serve regional industry involved in production, training and research.
The $7.9 million facility will house the recently formed Polytechnic Institute, which includes the University’s Department of Industrial Technology, accredited by the National Association of Industrial Technology. The architectural firm of William B. Ittner, Inc., of St. Louis designed the building, which will be the “anchor” for the northeast part of the campus. The facility will be adjacent to the campus science quadrangle and will have command of the surrounding area with a prominent view of the Mississippi River and easy access and regress from the campus.
The department currently is housed in the aging Serena Building, where it has been located since 1906. The new facility will provide space for training for industries and the latest advanced manufacturing technology for students. The building is expected to be completed in spring 2001.
The building is named for the Seabaughs of Cape Girardeau, who, last year, made provisions to fund construction of the new facility. Otto Seabaugh is a 1936 industrial education graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. His wife, Della, graduated from Southeast in 1941 with a bachelor of science in education--elementary education degree, with an English major.
The building will contain three networked computers labs, five classrooms complete with the latest instructional technology packages, and one interactive television classroom, funded through a $200,000 Southwestern Bell Foundation grant, to accommodate expanding outreach programs which include a 2+2 program in St. Louis. Dedicated technology labs will include automated manufacturing systems, multimedia, computer aided drafting and design, industrial power, industrial controls, computer networking, manufacturing, materials testing, and fluid power. Rockwell Automation is sponsoring the industrial controls lab with gifts of equipment valued at $150,000. The building has been designed for easy expansion.
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