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Oct. 11, 2004 – Groundbreaking ceremonies
for the University of Utah's new John E. and Marva M. Warnock
Engineering Building will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday Oct. 15
at the construction site southeast of the Merrill Engineering
Building on Central Campus Drive.
Program speakers include John Warnock, co-founder and co-chairman
of Adobe Systems, Inc.; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
and former Utah Gov. Michael O. Leavitt; Shane V. Robison, executive
vice president and chief technology and strategy officer for Hewlett
Packard; and University of Utah President Michael K. Young. Tours
and an open house for alumni will follow the groundbreaking.
The $28 million building was funded through $15 million in state
building bonds and $13 million in private funds. It is named for
John and Marva Warnock – both of whom are University of
Utah alumni – in recognition of more than $9 million in
total contributions to the university, including two Presidential
Endowed Chairs and $6 million for the building.
The heart of the building will be the Michael O. Leavitt Student
Learning Center. With computer-based classrooms and teaching labs,
quiet study areas and a cafe, the center will provide the academic
home of the engineering campus. The center honors former Gov.
Leavitt’s extraordinary commitment to engineering education
and technology development.
Among the Warnock Engineering Building’s high-tech facilities
will be the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute,
where faculty and students are dedicated to creating new computing
techniques, tools and systems for solving problems that affect
human life.
When complete in the fall of 2006, the 100,000-square-foot structure
will provide the physical hub for engineering students and faculty.
Architects for the project are Anshen & Allen of San Francisco
with Prescott Muir of Salt Lake City. Jacobsen Construction is
the general contractor.
Marva Warnock (B.S. ’66) is a designer and partner with
Marsh Design in Palo Alto, Calif. John Warnock (B.S. ’61,
M.S. ’64, Ph.D. ’69) is co-chairman of the board of
Adobe Systems, Inc., a company he co-founded in 1982 with Charles
Geschke. Warnock pioneered the development of world-renowned graphics,
publishing, web and electronic document technologies that revolutionized
publishing, design and visual communication. He holds six patents
and is one of the world’s most respected software innovators.
In addition to the Warnock’s cornerstone gift, the building
campaign attracted more than 500 individual gifts from engineering
alumni and friends.
With approximately 2,200 undergraduates and 700 graduate students,
the College of Engineering is the University of Utah’s fourth-largest
college. The college is best known for its advanced work in computer
graphics, robotics, multiphysics simulation, and bioengineering
– with outstanding research centers and institutes in seven
academic departments. Strong multidisciplinary teams conduct much
of the most advanced research with a focus on large, complex problems.
The faculty and graduates are highly entrepreneurial and have
spun off more than 100 companies.
University of Utah College of Engineering
External and Community Relations
1495 E. 100 South, Room 203, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-1114
(801) 581-7194 or 587-9410
www.coe.utah.edu
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