Before students begin to file into the Engineering Tutoring Center on a recent fall day, Kathy Friedenreich does a quick scan of the room. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The work stations are neatly organized. The glass white boards and tables \u2013 perfect for diagramming engineering equations \u2013 have been wiped clean of the previous day\u2019s work. The center is immaculate.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Students soon begin to arrive for the day\u2019s tutoring sessions, ranging from individual, drop-in and group appointments. And ever since the Brown-Kopel Center opened its doors in August, students have been arriving to the Tutoring Center in record numbers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cWhen we were located in the Shelby Center, no one really knew where the Tutoring Center was,\u201d said Friedenreich, an academic counselor for the college and manager of the Tutoring Center. \u201cStudents had to intentionally seek us out before. Now that we\u2019re in Brown-Kopel, the students see us. We are where the students are now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In addition to its new location in the heart of the engineering campus, the Tutoring Center has also dramatically expanded its space. The 1,303-square-foot room it now occupies dwarfs its previous location in the Shelby Center, which measured in at 523 square feet.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n