Engineering Laboratory, Amherst

Name: Engineering Laboratory
Address: 160 Governors Drive, Amherst, United States

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The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering is one of the schools and colleges at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was established on September 1, 1947 as the School of Engineering and now considered as the best public engineering school in New England, enrolling 2250 undergraduate students and 610 graduate students including 300 M.S. students and 310 Ph.D. students for the 2018–2019 school year. The College of Engineering at UMass Amherst has eight buildings, including the Elab II, research facilities, computer labs, and graduate offices. It has more than 16,000 living alumni around the world. ()

Established: 1947 (77 years ago)Coordinates: 42°23'41"N, 72°31'49"W

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160 Governors DriveAmherst United States

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Engineering Laboratory – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mullins Center, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Campus Pond, Old Chapel.

0.4 miS
Convention center, Basketball, Hockey
Mullins Center, Amherst
11 min walk • The William D. Mullins Memorial Center, also known as the Mullins Center, is a 9,493-seat multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
0.5 miSE
Museum, Art museum, Modern art museum
University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst
13 min walk • The University Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The UMCA has been housed in the university's Fine Arts Center since 1975, after the university began collecting works in 1962.
0.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Campus Pond, Amherst
11 min walk • The Campus Pond at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a pond located in the center of campus that was created in the early 1890s. It is bordered to the south by the Fine Arts Center.
0.4 miS
Church, Romanesque revival architecture, Romanesque architecture
Old Chapel, Amherst
11 min walk • Old Chapel, formerly known as the Old Chapel Library is a former library on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst that is on the National Register of Historic Places.
0.5 miE
Observatories and planetariums
Orchard Hill Observatory, Amherst
12 min walk • The Orchard Hill Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at the highest point on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. Constructed in 1965, the observatory is a red brick building with a 16-inch Cassegrain reflector optical telescope.
0.6 miSE
Music and shows, Nightlife, Music venue
Fine Arts Center, Amherst
17 min walk • The Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is an arts center located just north of downtown Amherst, Massachusetts and contains a concert hall and a contemporary art gallery.
0.4 miSE
Art gallery, Museum, Universities and schools
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
11 min walk • The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
~1880 ftS
Library
W. E. B. Du Bois Library, Amherst
10 min walk • The W. E. B. Du Bois Library is one of the three libraries of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, the others being the Science and Engineering Library, and the Wadsworth Library at the Mount Ida Campus. The W. E. B.
0.8 miS
Tower
Calvin Coolidge Tower, Amherst
20 min walk • The University of Massachusetts Amherst housing system is made up of six dormitory areas, two apartment areas, and one hotel. At UMass Amherst, first year students are required to live on campus. Housing is open to all full-time undergraduate students, regardless of year.
0.7 miS
Tower
John F. Kennedy Tower, Amherst
19 min walk • The University of Massachusetts Amherst housing system is made up of six dormitory areas, two apartment areas, and one hotel. At UMass Amherst, first year students are required to live on campus. Housing is open to all full-time undergraduate students, regardless of year.
1.2 miS
Football, Sport venue, Sport
Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium, Amherst
32 min walk • Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It has been the Massachusetts Minutemen football team's home stadium since 1965, with the exception of 2012 and 2013, when the team played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.

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Which popular attractions are close to Engineering Laboratory?

Nearby attractions include University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Amherst (6 min walk), University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Amherst (6 min walk), University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Natural Sciences, Amherst (8 min walk), Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst (9 min walk).