Science and Engineering Quad

The Science and Engineering Quad (SEQ), completed in 1999, extends an architectural axis that connects it with the Main Quad and the Libraries. The SEQ includes a teaching facility with high-tech lecture halls; buildings for the Statistics and Electrical Engineering departments; the McCullough Annex, which houses laboratories dedicated to materials research; and a landscaped courtyard.

The buildings that form the SEQ are sleek, angular and positively modern, yet the free-standing arcades and walkways that frame the quadrangle echo the cloistered design of the 19th-century Main Quad. Located next to the SEQ are other important engineering structures, including the William Gates Computer Science Building and the Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems.

Stanford graduates William Hewlett and David Packard donated the majority of funding for the $120 million SEQ project.

The entrance to the David Packard Electrical Engineering Building, part of the SEQ and home to the Electrical Engineering department. Photo: L.A. Cicero

The SEQ's distinctive teaching facility features high-tech lecture halls used by the Physics, Chemistry and Biology departments. Photo: L.A. Cicero

Related information:

Website for the Teaching Center at SEQ