The Campus and Facilities
The
campus is located on U.S. Highway 40, approximately two miles east of Terre
Haute. The 200-acre site is one of natural beauty, with two lakes, rolling,
wooded hills and meadows and provides an excellent environment for educational
and co-curricular activities. Buildings are designed and sited to blend with the
natural setting.
Moench
Hall, Olin Hall, and Crapo Hall house laboratories, classrooms, and offices for
nearly all of the academic departments. Some laboratory courses are taught in
the Rotz Laboratory, which houses the Institute’s wind tunnels and engine test
equipment. The lower level of Crapo Hall houses the Waters Computer Center. The
President’s office and the administrative offices for Academic Affairs and
Institutional Research and Assessment are located in Hadley Hall.
The
John A. Logan Library contains over 50,000 volumes. Its atmosphere is enhanced
by the Tri Kappa Collection of Indiana artists’ works. The Computer Science
Department and the Learning Center are housed in the lower level of the
building.
The
Grace and Anton Hulman Memorial Union, which overlooks the larger campus lake,
features a glass-enclosed dining room which seats 500 persons, the food service,
private dining rooms, snack bar, bookstore, formal lounge and game room. The
east wing of the building is dedicated to Chauncey Rose. Memorabilia associated
with the school’s founder and a 115-piece 19th Century British watercolor
collection are on display in this wing. The offices of student life, the campus
bookstore, the medical services offices, and student counseling services are all
located on the ground floor of the Union building.
The
center of the varsity and intramural athletics and recreation is the Rose-Hulman
Sports and Recreation Center. This facility was completed in 1997 and contains
the Institute’s competition gymnasium, the Samuel F. Hulbert Arena, as well as
the swimming pool, fieldhouse, fitness facilities, locker rooms, intramural and
practice facilities, and Athletic Department offices.
Seven
residence halls provide on-campus housing for 680 students. These buildings
include Deming, Baur-Sames-Bogart, and Speed, Mees, Scharpenberg and Blumberg
halls. (Refer to campus map on page 166 for the campus plan and location of the
buildings.)
Degree
programs in chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering,
electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering are accredited by the
Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology (ABET). Rose-Hulman is accredited by the North Central Association of
Colleges and Schools and by the Department of Public Instruction of the State of
Indiana. The chemistry curriculum has been approved by the Committee on
Professional Training of the American Chemical Society.
In
addition to institutional membership in the American Society for Engineering
Education, the Institute is also a member of the Association of Independent
Technological Universities, a group formed to further the interests of private
engineering schools.