Engineering Buildings

Engineering Education and Research Center full of Texas engineering students

The Cockrell School campus has been transformed in the last 15 years, beginning with the opening of the Biomedical Engineering Building in 2008 and continuing today with the 2022 opening of the Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building. The Engineering Education and Research Center, which opened in 2017, is the school’s main hub for collaboration, community and creativity. Our buildings feature welcoming spaces for students to study and work on collaborative projects, renovated classrooms and state-of-the-art research labs, and represent the world-changing ideas and discoveries from Texas Engineers.

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Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)

Home to the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

ASE Building Highlights:
  • Collaboration zones for students and faculty
  • Space object visualization lab
  • New autonomous UAV and human-centered robotics labs
  • Boeing Aircraft Systems and Integration Lab
  • Texas Spacecraft Laboratory
  • New wind tunnel
  • 86,000 gross square feet

Biomedical Engineering Building (BME)

Home to the Department of Biomedical Engineering

BME Building Highlights:
  • Nine optics labs with two stories underground to minimize effects of vibration
  • Eight tissue-culture rooms
  • A dozen wet labs and several dry labs
  • Three computational labs for medical research
  • Electronics lab and teaching space
  • 202,000 gross square feet

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building (CPE)

Home to the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering

CPE Building Highlights:
  • Unit Operations Center with new process control equipment and distillation column
  • Real-time Operations Center, Drilling Automation Lab and Zonal Isolation Lab
  • Undergraduate computer labs
  • Caudle Student Learning Center
  • Lawn features four-story tall “Clock Knot” sculpture, a landmark of the Texas Engineering campus
  • 226,000 gross square feet

Engineering Education and Research Center (EER)

Home to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Student Services and other engineering programs

EER Building Highlights:
  • Grand atrium for gathering and studying
  • Café and library
  • 23,000-square-foot National Instruments Student Project Center, home to Texas Inventionworks
  • Advising services, career center, student organization suite, student life offices and study abroad office
  • 299-seat Mulva Conference Center and Auditorium
  • Texas Instruments Laboratories
  • Texas Innovation Center
  • North tower dedicated to multidisciplinary research labs
  • 450,000 gross square feet

Engineering Teaching Center (ETC)

Home to the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering

ETC Building Highlights:
  • Large T-Room study space and computer lab
  • Undergraduate research labs and senior design collaboration spaces
  • Studio and facilities for virtual teaching and learning
  • Research centers for additive manufacturing, nanomaterials, medical device development and more
  • Outdoor walkway and bridge that connects to CPE and south side of engineering campus
  • 230,000 gross square feet

Ernest Cockrell Jr. Hall (ECJ)

Home to the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and the Cockrell School Dean’s office

ECJ Building Highlights:
  • Career center interview rooms
  • Architectural engineering design studio
  • Student-project labs and collaboration spaces
  • Indoor walkways connect to EER
  • Located along Waller Creek, which serves as a living classroom
  • 239,000 gross square feet

Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building (GLT)

Home to multidisciplinary research and teaching in energy and the Texas Executive Education office

GLT Building Highlights:
  • Flexible, energy-specific classrooms
  • Student project spaces
  • Energy-focused labs and research centers
  • Lounge and lecture hall for studying, teaching and hosting events
  • Outdoor walkway and bridge that connects to ECJ, EER and north side of engineering campus
  • 184,000 gross square feet