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A Purdue Icon - Creation, Life, and Legacy (Hardcover)
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A Purdue Icon - Creation, Life, and Legacy (Hardcover)
Series: The Founders Series
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The former Purdue Power Plant (HPN) with its iconic smoke stack and
the attached Engineering Administration Building (ENAD) at the very
heart of campus played important roles for most of the twentieth
century. To many Purdue students and alumni, the smoke stack not
only symbolized the emphasis at Purdue on technology but also
provided a visible marker for the Purdue campus. The smoke stack
was lovingly referred to by many as "Purdue's finger to the world."
Amid controversy, the smoke stack was demolished in the early 1990s
when the Purdue Clock Tower was constructed to locate the campus on
the landscape. A Purdue Icon: Creation, Life, and Legacy is an
edited volume that speaks to the history of the Power Plant, from
the initial need for increased power and heat to meet a growing
campus demand and its Romanesque architecture that allowed it to
fit contextually on the campus, to the people who worked to bring
heat and power to the campus by keeping the boilers up and the
students who experienced the principles and applications of
mechanical engineering through active learning. This book tells the
story of the transition to alternative power and heat sources at
the University, the decommissioning of the Power Plant, the
controversy about what was to be done with this important site at
the heart of the campus, and the challenges associated with the
Power Plant's potential reuse or demolition. The unique problems
faced with demolishing a contaminated building in the middle of a
major research university campus are insightfully explored before
introducing the Thomas S. and Harvey D. Wilmeth Active Learning
Center-a potential new Purdue icon.
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