You will pass Clark Hall, home of the environmental sciences department and library. Continue walking past Clark Hall, and you will go down a hill and across a bridge. Stop in front of the first building on your left immediately after crossing the bridge. This is Thornton Hall, which houses the engineering school. Housed in Thornton Hall and the buildings behind it, the engineering school contains approximately 1,600 undergraduate and 700 graduate students majoring in aerospace engineering, applied mathematics, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, engineering science, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, and graduate level programs.
Students spend their first year gaining a solid background in math and engineering sciences.
The engineering school maintains many special facilities, including computing centers for all engineering levels and a nuclear reactor. Visit the School of Engineering World Wide Web site. Continue along the sidewalk until you come to the Chemistry Building, also to your left. These buildings house laboratories, classrooms, and libraries for science courses in astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, and psychology. Students in the sciences have the opportunity to work closely with faculty members on research projects and independent studies.