POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY 2005-2007

POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY PROFILE
lished by alumni to provide opportunities
for alumni gatherings and to represent
Polytechnic in the community. Alumni
organize reunions, by class year, discipline
or other criteria.
Each year, the POLYTECHNIC ALUMNI
recognizes alumni accomplishments
through different awards programs, including
the Distinguished Alumni Awards and
Dedicated Alumni Awards. In addition, it
funds annual scholarships for selected students
and presents annual awards to outstanding
graduating seniors and outstanding
athletes from Polytechnic sports teams.
The university provides alumni with
the opportunity to audit Polytechnic courses
at reduced tuition and use the Bern Dibner
Library of Science and Technology. Alumni
may open a free Polytechnic e-mail account
and have lifetime access to many of the services
offered by the Office of Career
Services.
Cable, the alumni magazine, is published
quarterly to provide current news and
information on the activities of the alumni
and Polytechnic. Every five years, the POLY-
TECHNIC ALUMNI publishes a directory containing
pertinent information on all known
alumni.
Alumni are invited to participate in varied
events and activities throughout the
year. These include Leadership Seminars,
Alumni-Student Mixers, Alumni
Leadership Breakfasts and the annual
Golden Jubilee and Silver Jubilee, celebrating
50th and 25th class anniversaries,
respectively. The polytechnic alumni also
sponsors trips and tours of interest to
alumni. Most important, through its numerous
activities, the polytechnic alumni provides
opportunities for alumni to maintain
ties to each other and the University.
Information regarding the organization’s
programs can be found in Cable or at
www.poly.edu/alumni.
The Office of Alumni Relations works
with the POLYTECHNIC ALUMNI to organize
many of its programs, provides administrative
and communication support and
assists academic and administrative offices
in keeping in touch with the more than
38,000 living alumni.
CAMPUSES
Brooklyn Campus
Six MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718-260-3600
Fax: 718-260-3136
E-mail: uadmit@poly.edu
Polytechnic’s main campus is located in the
center of downtown Brooklyn, a vibrant residential
and business community, surrounded
by cultural institutions such as the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn
Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum
and the Brooklyn Academy of Music
(BAM). The cultural richness of Manhatten
is easily accessible via public transportation.
The Brooklyn campus forms the nucleus of
MetroTech Center, the largest urban university-corporate
park in the United States.
Developed in the early 1990s, the 16-acre,
$1-billion complex features a tree-lined
commons and pedestrian walkways and is
home to several technology-dependent
companies that have fostered research and
employment relationships with the
University. They include the following:
• Securities Industry Automation
Corporation (SIAC) operates the computer
information networks of the New
York and American Stock Exchanges
and oversees their transaction-clearing
operations. SIAC built its 533,000-
square-foot office and data-processing
complex in MetroTech in 1990.
• KeySpan Energy (formerly Brooklyn
Union Gas Company) has its headquarters
in MetroTech in an 845,000-
square-foot office facility. Bear Stearns,
a major brokerage house, became a cotenant
of the building in 1992.
• JPMorgan Chase opened two major
office facilities totaling approximately
1.5-million square feet in 1992. The
buildings house the bank’s U.S. technology
and operations functions.
• New York Marriott Brooklyn Hotel is
Brooklyn’s first large hotel to be built in
half a century. The 376-room hotel
opened in 1998 and is attached to a 32-
story office tower, the Brooklyn
Renaissance Plaza.
• Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, New
York’s largest health-insurance company,
occupies nine floors in
MetroTech’s latest building, a 19-story
facility completed in 2003. Nearly 1,500
Empire employees are located in
322,220 square feet in the new building.
• Other MetroTech companies include
the headquarters for the New York City
Fire Department and the New York City
Police Department’s 911 Answering
Center.
The Brooklyn campus is easily accessible
from all parts of New York City, Long
Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. It is
served by New York City’s major subway
lines and is easily accessible by car from
the Brooklyn or Manhattan Bridges or the
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The
University is a member of New York City’s
“college town,” included on a list of colleges
and universities that are within either
a 10-minute walk or 15-minute subway
ride from the heart of the city. All commercial
MetroTech buildings have parking
facilities.
The Brooklyn campus is contained
within three acres in MetroTech and comprises
the following six buildings:
• Rogers Hall is the main academic building
and named after the late Harry S.
Rogers, Polytechnic’s fifth president
(1933-57). The building houses faculty
and department offices, classrooms,
research and teaching laboratories, cafeteria,
dinning hall, student lounge and
bookstore. The lower level houses offices
for student clubs and the Polytechnic
incubator Brooklyn Enterprise on
Science and Technology (BEST).
Starting in 1999, it underwent significant
improvements and renovations. Three
new facilities opened in 2000: a 9,000-
square-foot interdisciplinary laboratory
for undergraduate students in civil, chemical
and mechanical engineering; an
undergraduate computer lab center; and
a new facility for Polytechnic’s computing
infrastructure, containing all of the
University’s central servers and system
monitoring software.
• Bern Dibner Library of Science and
Technology/Center for Advanced
Technology in Telecommunications
(CATT) Building opened in 1992 and
provides 128,000 square feet of academic
space. The building houses several
key elements of the University: a stateof-the-art
library, named after the late
Bern Dibner ’21 H’59, a Polytechnic
alumnus, trustee and benefactor; the
prestigious New York State-funded
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