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Transportation Education Center

     

Nationally recognized programs deserve first-class facilities, and plans are on the drawing board for a modern complex that will serve SIUC’s renowned transportation programs: aviation management, aviation flight, aviation technologies and automotive technology, as well as the master’s in public administration with an aviation administration concentration. The TEC will include five existing buildings and four new buildings at the Southern Illinois Airport between Carbondale and Murphysboro.

Transportation Education Center

Architectural rendering of Transportation Education Center

Project highlights include

  • New structures encompassing 260,000 square feet.
  • Replacement of outdated facilities and laboratories as well as crowded learning environments.
  • Sufficient space to house $10 million in equipment purchased by and donated to the automotive and aviation programs.
  • The main TEC building will house classrooms, corporate facilities and meeting rooms, computer center, libraries, laboratories, flight simulator and more.
  • Automotive fleet building.
  • Power plant test facility.
  • Cost: $39 million
  • Funding source: State of Illinois, funds not yet appropriated.