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Additional Tour Stops

These are stops that are not required to talk about on tour, but may be beneficial to know about if questions arise, or as fillers throughout your tours. 

Honors College and Residences

Overview

    • Located in the heart of the student success corridor, you will find an Indiana first: an academic residential college, where some of Purdue's brightest minds live, learn, and build a community.
    • It’s a contemporary, dynamic environment that artfully integrates next-generation learning facilities with living space – large and small study rooms, quiet reading nooks, comfy lounges and living rooms, modern offices and a convenient restaurant.
    • One of the facility’s most prominent features is the Honors Hall with seating for over 400 – perfect for lectures, presentations, movies, and special events.
    • The four pillars of the honors college are leadership development, undergraduate research, community and global experiences, and interdisciplinary academics. Click here to read more

Bechtel Innovation Design Center (BIDC)

Overview

    • Bechtel was inspired by students who asked for an advanced prototyping facility (Makerspace) where they could come together to design and build solutions to real-world problems.
    • Supports students from across Purdue as they pursue personal, entrepreneurial, societal, team, and class related projects.
    • Bechtel offers CNC tools, a waterjet cutter, laser cutter and engraver, 3D plastic printing, paint and surfacing, welding, woodworking tools, and electronics assembly.
    • Many of the tools in bechtel include a budget for each student to use the facilities.
    • Click here to learn more 

Hagle Hall

Overview

    • New home for Purdue Bands & Orchestras (over 1100 students!
    • Hagle Hall is a state of the art facility that was funded entirely through Alumni Donations.
    • Every room has sound dampening and Hagle now includes 3 large rehearsal rooms that can be used simultaneously, 12+ practice rooms open all day, an extensive band library, and a performance balcony where small pep bands can play in between classes.
    • Practice Rooms: Only available to those enrolled in an ensemble through their department.

Purdue's World Largest Drum

    • The Big Bass Drum originally debuted in 1921, and is now over 100 years old.
    • It is about 500 pounds and stands approximately 10 feet tall on its carriage, although the exact dimensions are secret, and known only by the members of the Drum Crew (the Drum crew is typically around 8-10 people each year).
    • The Drum was once stolen by opposing football fans and went missing. It was found a few days later on the roof of the Armory, and nobody knew how it got there.
    • The drum also once fell off a truck while being transported and totaled an 18 wheeler semi, but the Drum rolled away with barely a scratch!
    • Since it's creation in 1921, the Drum has traveled with the marching band to every performance and football game since, including international trips to Ireland, China, Colombia, and more!!

Gateway Complex: Dudley Hall and Lambertus Hall

Overview

    • The new complex will provide a total of 255,000 gross square feet. (primarily for instructional laboratories, faculty offices, design studios and collaborative spaces)
    • Consisting of two connected buildings named Dudley Hall and Lambertus Hall, the complex will increase both the quality and quantity of instructional lab space.
      • Will provide more dedicated spaces for active learning and lab-centric instructional methods, and bring together labs that are currently geographically separated.
    • New laboratories for Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Construction Management Technology, School of Engineering Technology, Department of Computer and Information Technology and Department of Computer Graphics Technology, plus faculty offices, will be located in the complex.

 

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