After more than a year of construction, students and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford started spring semester classes on Jan. 9 in the George B. Duke Engineering and Information Technologies Building.
The 39,000-square foot, $24.5 million building is home to new engineering shops and labs, a virtual reality lab, networking lab, makerspace, large fabrication space and communal areas.
The new building will be home to engineering, computing and energy programs, including two new four-year engineering technology programs.
Dr. Michael Liu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering technology, was teaching his first class in the building, Mechanical Dynamics, on the morning of Jan. 9 to a few upper-level students: Nicholas Haner of…