The Central Plant generates 52,000 pounds of steam per hour in the winter months and 12,000 pounds throughout the summer.

Junkins Electrical Engineering Building
6251 Airline Road
Dallas TX 75205

Named in memory of the late Jerry R. Junkins, former chief executive officer of Texas Instruments as well as an SMU trustee and alumnus, this building is occupied primarily by SMU’s Electrical Engineering Department. The first floor has classrooms and lecture halls, all of which are equipped with wireless technology that will enable students to download presentations onto laptop computers or share notes with each other. Two of the first floor classrooms also have state-of-the-art distance learning equipment that can send audio and video signals to any classroom in the building as well as via satellite to National Technological University and other customers of the School of Engineering’s distance education programs. The ground floor and second floors have a variety of teaching and research labs that will allow the department to expand and update its work in digital signal processing, optoelectronics, microelectronics and biomedical research, as well as wireless communications and networking. The second floor also has a board room that features a walk-out balcony overlooking Airline Drive. The Junkins Building was designed by Hahnfeld Associates of Fort Worth in association with Ellerbe Beckett of Minneapolis. Built in 2002, the building took 156,000 person-hours to build and includes 93,000 bricks, 3,157 cubic yards of concrete and 2,800 pieces of cast stone. Visit the School of Engineering for more information.