This new 285,500 sf five-story interdisciplinary engineering facility is being replaced through a phased demolition to provide new classrooms, wet and dry labs, research spaces, electronics labs, specialized robotics research labs, robotics/mechatronics instructional labs, lab support areas, computer labs, team collaboration areas and more. The facility will house the Frith First-Year Maker Space, aerospace, ocean engineering, and other engineering departments.

The first floor will support machine shops, research labs, a manufacturing high bay, and an existing Stability Wind Tunnel, built in the 1940s by NASA, one of the largest wind tunnels owned by a university in the country. The second floor will support the College of Engineering first-year experience with spaces for academic advising, a 200-person arena-style lecture hall, and classroom spaces. The second floor also features views to unique spaces on the first floor to inspire incoming and first-year students. Additional classrooms, flexible research lab spaces, and faculty and graduate student offices and workspaces will be dispersed throughout the third, fourth, and fifth floors.

A plaza for outdoor events and exhibits is located outside the glass, precast concrete, and Hokie Stone-clad building. The project scope included demolition of Randolph Hall. Upon completion, Mitchell Hall will be the largest building on the Blacksburg campus.