The new facilities will provide expanded space for our growing engineering and physics programs and other science fields. Their proximity to Sankey Hall and McMichael Science Center will offer exciting synergies between the worlds of science, design thinking, making, entrepreneurship, sales and marketing.
The first of two planned buildings in Elon University’s foundational Innovation Quad will be named Founders Hall thanks to a naming commitment from Furman ’56 and Susan Moseley as part of the Elon LEADS Campaign.
Innovation Quad at a Glance
Grand challenges: Flexible spaces enabling students to collaborate in teams across the academic year as they take on the required and challenging two-semester Grand Challenges course as outlined by the National Academy of Engineering.
Workshops: Dynamic engineering workshops that provide prototyping, testing and reconstruction of student projects.
Reaching for the stars: Dedicated space for celestial observation and computational astrophysics.
Engagement spaces: Connected laboratories and classrooms, and student areas opening to the courtyard of the new quad that will anchor our discovery hub.
Location: Between McMichael Science Center and Richard W. Sankey Hall. This discovery hub creates another quadrangle that will link to the current quad featuring the Inman Admissions Welcome Center, Carol Grotnes Belk Library, Koenigsberger Learning Center and Moseley Center.
Naming Opportunities for the Innovation Quad
- Named
- Available
$7.5 million level:
- Innovation Quad Two
$5 million level:
- Innovation Quad One (Founders Hall)
$2.5 million level:
- Innovation Plaza
$1 million level:
- Colonnades
- Founders Hall (first floor) – Main assembly hall
- IQ Two (first floor) – Building entry/lobby
- IQ Two (second floor) – Material Science research lab
$500,000 level:
- Founders Hall (first floor) – Engineering Design lab
- Founders Hall (first floor) – Advanced Prototyping
- Founders Hall (first floor) – Engineering Prototype lab (2)
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Mechatronics lab
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Engineering Design lab
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Virtual Reality lab
- IQ Two (first floor) – North terrace
- IQ Two (first floor) – Bio-instrumentation lab
- IQ Two (first floor) – Dean’s suite
- IQ Two (first floor) – Environmental Engineering research lab
- IQ Two (second floor) – Collaborative space
- IQ Two (second floor) – Physics classroom & lab (2)
- IQ Two (second floor) – Mechanical Engineering classroom & lab
- IQ Two (second floor) – Conference room
- IQ Two (third floor) – Biomedical and Environmental lab (2)
$250,000 level:
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Collaborative space
- IQ Two (first floor) – Foundational Engineering classroom
- IQ Two (first floor) – Bio-Physics
- IQ Two (first floor) – Conference room
- IQ Two (first floor) – Faculty office pod (2)
- IQ Two (first floor) – Dean’s office
- IQ Two (second floor) – Faculty office pod (2)
- IQ Two (third floor) – Astronomy classroom & lab
- IQ Two (third floor) – General Physics/Electrodynamics
- IQ Two (third floor) – Faculty office pod (2)
- IQ Two (third floor) – Collaborative space
$150,000 level:
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Astrophysics (2)
$100,000 level:
- Founders Hall (first floor) – Engineering Coatings lab
- Founders Hall (first floor) – Engineering Lab Manager
- Founders Hall (first floor) – 3D Printer portal
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Large quiet study space
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Large quiet study space (2)
- IQ Two (first floor) – Student engagement space (2)
- IQ Two (first floor) – Dean reception space
- IQ Two (second floor) – Student engagement space (2)
- IQ Two (third floor) – Student engagement space (2)
$50,000 level:
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Small quiet study space
- Founders Hall (second floor) – Small quiet study space (2)
- IQ Two (first floor) – Faculty office (12)
- IQ Two (first floor) – Break room
- IQ Two (second floor) – Faculty offices (8)
- IQ Two (third floor) – Faculty offices (8)
Founders Hall Classroom Lab
Founders Hall Collaboration Space
Founders Hall Lobby
Founders Hall Prototyping Lab
Founders Hall Classroom Lab
Founders Hall Collaboration Space
Founders Hall Lobby
Founders Hall Prototyping Lab
People are going to study our program and see that we can be a leader globally in engineering studies mixed with a liberal arts background. Other schools don’t offer the same kind of program.
For more information about naming opportunities for the STEM and Engineering Facilities, please contact: