Queen's Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
| Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science | |
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| Former names |
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| Established | 1893 |
| Type | Faculty |
| Academic affiliation | Queen's University |
| Location | Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Dean | Kevin Deluzio |
| Alumni | 15,000+ |
| Website | engineering |
The Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science is the faculty responsible for all students pursuing degrees in the various engineering disciplines at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Undergraduate students are represented by the Engineering Society.
The Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science offers the following programs:
All programs marked with * are Engineering Science programs.
Queen's Engineering students share a common first year program meaning they are not required to select a discipline until after they have completed their first year of studies.
In 1893, the Ontario government established the Kingston School of Mining, coinciding with the location of Queen's University, but existing legally as a separate institution. When Queen's became a secular institution in 1910, the School of Mining officially joined with the University and subsequently renamed itself the Faculty of Applied Science.
The first woman to graduate from the Faculty, in 1946, was Dorothy Snook (née Heartz), born in Montreal and a long time resident of Truro, Nova Scotia. In the twenty-first century, 31% of the Engineering Class of 2020 are women, one of the highest percentages of any major engineering program in the country.
In early 2010, the Faculty of Applied Science was re-branded, after a vote throughout the faculty, as the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science.
The Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science's newest building, the Integrated Learning Centre, was officially opened in June 2004 as Beamish-Munro Hall. This unique facility designed to support and stimulate undergraduate learning includes multi-purpose rooms, shared teaching laboratories, prototyping workshop rooms, convenient space for students to work on projects together, environmentally-sustainable features, Live Building systems through which the building itself can be used as a learning tool, and a three-storey-high living wall which acts as a biofilter. Most of the rooms as well as laboratories can be used freely, and some of them can be booked. The Tea Room is a student-run café with objectives of environmental sustainability, opened in the Integrated Learning Centre in the fall of 2006.
Following concerns of high maintenance costs, the living wall was removed in 2015, to be replaced by a piece of artwork designed by Toronto-based artist Kwest in collaboration with engineering students.
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