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Located on Central Campus, the Georgia Tech Student Center is dedicated to recreation and socialization for Georgia Tech students. Constructed in 1970, the building initially covered about 100,000 square feet and contained, among other features, a Post Office , cafeteria, ballroom, and one of the only on-campus bowling alleys in the Southeast .
The Historic District of the Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as the Old Campus of Georgia Tech or the Hill District, is significant in the areas of architecture, education, engineering and science, as well as landscape architecture. The area is a Registered Historic Place and part of the central campus of Georgia Tech.
Atlanta during the Civil War, c. 1864 The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon, Georgia, after the Civil War, believed that ...
In 2003, the playing surface was renamed "Cremins Court" in honor of Bobby Cremins, Georgia Tech's head coach from 1979 to 2000. On February 21, 2008, the men's basketball game between Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia was cancelled due to a leak in the roof that was caused by hard rainfall that had accumulated over the day.
Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the school offers degree programs in Aerospace engineering that are accredited by ABET. [1] It is a department under the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering. As of 2024, the Chair of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering is Mitchell L.R. Walker, Ph.D.
In 2000, the building was financed by a $15 million donation from successful internet entrepreneur and former Georgia Tech student Chris Klaus. [1] [2] Klaus was a founder of both Kaneva and Internet Security Systems. [3] At the time of Klaus' contribution, it was the fifth-largest contribution by an individual in Georgia Tech's history. [1]
Georgia Tech admitted its first Black students in 1961. Deanna Yancey, who earned an undergraduate engineering degree from Penn State University in 2020, ...
The Marcus Nanotechnology Building (MNB) is a Georgia Institute of Technology facility. The building was constructed on the site of the Electronics Research Building, the former home of GTRI's Information and Communications Laboratory.