page_title: Campus of Michigan Technological University
section_title: The Electrical Energy Resource Center
hierarchical_section_title: Campus of Michigan Technological University / Campuses and buildings / Academic buildings / The Electrical Energy Resource Center
caption_attribution_description: The sign for w:Michigan Technological University in w:Houghton, Michigan along w:U.S. Route 41. This file was uploaded with Commonist.
context_page_description: Michigan Technological University's campus sits on 925 acres on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake.
context_section_description: The "EERC" is home to both the Department of Electrical Engineering and Michigan Tech Telecom services.
  The EERC was built starting in 1974 and opened in 1976, with energy in mind throughout the design.  At the building's groundbreaking in 1974, R.L. Smith (president of Michigan Tech at the time) described the building's intended use in terms of energy, stressing the importance of educating the next generation of engineers to learn to use and transport energy efficiently.
  At the time of its construction, the EERC was described as having a "strikingly modern design"  by some and "basically cement, brick, glass and steel"  by others.  The building was designed to be energy efficient, hence the lack of large windows on the east and west faces (windows are a major source of heat loss).
  Several previous buildings, including Sperr Hall and Hotchkiss Hall, were demolished to make way for the EERC.
  The A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, named in honor of Professor Arthur Edmund Seaman who was the head of the Michigan Tech geology department from 1899–1928, was located on the fifth floor of EERC building in Michigan Tech between 1976 and 2011. Before the EERC building was constructed, the museum was housed in Hotchkiss Hall.  The museum displays the importance and beauty of minerals and its significance to development of Michigan over 150 years ago, educates people about the value of mineralogy and geology, and helps promote a better understanding of the need to protect specimens. In 2011, the museum moved out of the EERC to near the Advanced Technology Development Complex on campus.
caption: Rozsa Center and campus sign on US 41
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