Technology Center (Washington & Jefferson College)
| Technology Center | |
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Technology Center, as viewed from Presidents' Row
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| General information | |
| Type | Academic |
| Location | Washington, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40°10′17.7″N 80°14′18.9″W / 40.171583°N 80.238583°W |
| Inaugurated | Fall 2003 |
| Cost | $29.6 million |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 4 floors |
| Floor area | 74,000 square feet (6,900 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | MacLachlan Cornelius & Filoni |
| Main contractor | Landau Building Company |
The Technology Center is an academic building on the campus of Washington & Jefferson College housing the Information Technology Leadership program. It houses over 200 instructional computers for use by the Information Technology Leadership and related classes. A statue of a coal miner, representing the work ethic and spirit of Western Pennsylvania, sits in the green space in front of the building.
The building was known as the Vilar Technology Center, in honor of alum Alberto Vilar, who had pledged $18.1 million to construct the building. After he reneged on that pledge in 2003, the building was renamed the Technology Center and plans for it were scaled back. It is the sister building to The Burnett Center, sharing the same architect and general contractor.
The Technology Center is a four floor Gothic granite building with 74,000 square feet (6,900 m2) of floor space, including a "Global Learning Unit," classrooms, seminar rooms, and faculty and administrative offices." The building had over 200 instructional computers for use by the Information Technology Leadership and related classes The ground floor has an "Open Lab" of 39 computers for use by the campus community.
In 2007, a statue of a coal miner sculpted by local artist Alan Cottrill was erected outside the Technology Center. It is intended to represent the work ethic and spirit of Western Pennsylvania, as well as the dream that an education can allow people a chance to escape the coal mines.
The building was designed for, and is primarily used by, the Information Technology Leadership program. This academic discipline studies the traditional Information Technology field as a liberal art, where the core principles and interdisciplinary connections of the field are examined. Students in this program take a standard curriculum, augmented with focused study in one of 4 possible fields: computer science, data discovery, information systems, and new media technologies.
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