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The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building is a $95 million, 230,000 sqft integrated research and educational facility designed by David King located on the Beckman Quad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The building houses the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within the Grainger College of Engineering. The center is home to numerous classrooms, lecture halls, offices, 20 hands-on laboratories, an Open Projects Laboratory, a café, and a grand atrium for students to study in.

Sustainability
The facility was designed to be among the largest zero-energy buildings in the country, achieving LEED Platinum Certification in 2019, and in February 2023, became the first building on the UIUC campus to be zero-energy certified, earning the Zero-Energy Certification from the International Living Future Institute.

The building contains multiple features to maintain its net-zero status, like chilled beams, heat recovery wheels, and a rooftop solar array.

The building's design received the Green Good Design Award from the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum in 2012.

First Floor
The first floor contains the atrium, which is a large open place for students to study, and is often used to host student events and corporate receptions. There are two large lecture halls, as well as the Grainger Auditorium, which provides ample room for both students and professors for larger classes. The floor also showcases the Intel nano-fabrication laboratory, developed in 2014. The lab allows undergraduate students to become familiar with the processes to make microprocessor chips. There is also the Texas Instruments Electronic Design Laboratory, which is a workspace designed for entering undergraduate freshmen. In the northwest quadrant of the building features both the Electronics Services Shop and the Supply Center, which work to provide students with outside-the-classroom tools and parts to develop new projects. The building also features the Daily Byte , a café that offers baked goods and other foods for students, as well as the ECE RSO Office, a hub for students within organizations to work, as well as relax.

Upper Floors
The second through fifth floors are primarily classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, but also includes the ECE Open Lab on the second floor, which is a laboratory designed to provide students with other tools to work on projects that aren’t homework. The second floor is also home to the ECE advising office.

Student Organizations
The ECE Building is home to countless registered student organizations (RSOs) and societies.

HKN is an electrical and computer engineering honor society, founded at UIUC, making it the first chapter in the country. A HKN landmark symbol is also built outside of the building.

Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering (WECE) is an RSO dedicated to providing female students with opportunities to succeed within the field.

Pulse is an RSO which holds the annual event “Pulse: Frontiers”, inviting undergraduates to participate in a hardware hack-a-thon, along with corporate sponsored tech talks.

IRIS (Illinois Robotics in Space) “is a multidisciplinary organization that gives students the opportunity to develop an innovative robotic system in a peer-based learning environment.” They compete in the NASA Lunabotics Competition.

InSPIRE (The Institute of Scientific Progress, Innovation, Research and Edu-Training) is an RSO dedicated to developing new hands-on projects and other renewable energies, such as the solar powered table outside the building, which uses solar electricity to power the outlets built into the table.

Statues
The building has two sculptures on display outside of the facility. “Diss-connections” by John Adduci at the southwest entrance, as well as “Amplifiers” by Nicole Beck at the eastern entrance. Both statues were unveiled to the public on the unveiling of the building, October 10, 2014. Diss-connections “reminds students of one of the most fundamental elements of engineering: wire. He came up with the design for the ECE building’s west entrance while touring Everitt Lab and seeing wire everywhere he looked.” Amplifiers “is a representation of the work of two ECE ILLINOIS legends, John Bardeen and Nick Holonyak Jr. The piece representing Bardeen is on the north, and Holonyak, the south.”