Oregon State University's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has announced a $20 million gift from alumnus Martin Kelley ('50) to support the construction of a new $45 million facility.

The design of the four-story, 146,000-square-foot Kelley Engineering Center will feature sustainable "green" design elements, including wireless classrooms, flexible learning laboratories, office clusters, "plug-and-learn" alcoves, and a centrally located "e-caf�" where faculty, staff, and students can gather to share ideas. In a departure from most academic engineering buildings, the labs in the new building will not be dedicated to individual faculty members; instead, each lab will be the central element of a research-learning suite surrounded by faculty and graduate student offices and assigned to a specific research project.

"Architecturally, the Kelley Engineering Center will embody our emphasis on an engineering education that is centered around extraordinary people working together to create the ideas and innovation necessary to build a better future," said enginnering school dean Ron Adams.