Miltiadis Marinakis Hall, the newest state-of-the-art STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) academic building at the world-renowned Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, was recently dedicated by Academy President Rear Admiral Francis X.
McDonald, USMS, and Evangelos Marinakis, founder and chairman of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp., whose generous donation helped make the building possible.
State-of-the-art laboratories across 4,000 square meters Purpose-built to advance experiential learning in engineering, marine technology and related disciplines, the building contains classrooms and specialized instructional spaces totaling 4,000 square meters, including a fabrication lab, makerspace, operations and controls lab, electronics lab, and dedicated biology, physics and chemistry laboratories.
It is also the academy’s first net-zero energy-ready building and the first campus facility connected to MMA’s new geothermal heat loop.
Every student at the academy, regardless of major, will take classes in it.
The tour with Evangelos Marinakis and the curriculum The dedication day began with a tour of the building, led by Rear Admiral McDonald and academy staff.
In the laboratories, daily life had already begun before the official opening: faculty and cadets had moved into the new spaces and welcomed Marinakis and his guests amid their work.
The tour also offered a glimpse of how the curriculum takes shape.
In the control systems lab, Mark Whalen, associate professor and chair of the Energy Systems Engineering Department, explained that the lab grew out of recommendations from the industry advisory council that meets twice a year: “Several years ago they said we need more automated controls curriculum for....
