Hardaway Hall

Hardaway Hall

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Building # 1072 | Abbreviation: HR
College of Engineering

  • Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
  • Mechanical Engineering - Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies

Hardaway Hall, built in 1936 for the College of Engineering, is home to the department of aerospace engineering and mechanics and the department of mechanical engineering.

The building contains a water tunnel facility and wind tunnel lab along with the James Massey Hire Jr. and Mildred Ray Hire Design Clinic Laboratory. The first floor contains classrooms, labs, and a break room with vending machines. The second floor contains offices for the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Departments along with faculty offices, classrooms, and a student lounge.

Hardaway Hall, which was completed in 1936, is named for Col. Robert A. Hardaway who became the University’s first full-time civil engineering professor in 1882.

Information collected from The University of Alabama : a guide to the campus by Robert Oliver Mellown (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1988), and The University of Alabama, a pictorial history by Suzanne Rau Wolfe (University : University of Alabama Press, c1983).