Former names School of Engineering Type Professional Faculty Website lassonde.yorku.ca Founded 2011 Academic affiliation York University | Established 2011 (2011) Dean Janusz A. Kozinski Province Ontario Number of students 2,000 | |
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Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Address 4700 Keele St, North York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada Profiles | ||
Lassonde school of engineering at york university
The Lassonde School of Engineering is a professional engineering school of York University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school's stated goal is to create so-called "renaissance engineers," entrepreneurial engineers with a social conscience and a sense of global citizenship. Lassonde also incorporates crossover programming with York University’s Schulich School of Business and Osgoode Hall Law School to study law, business and entrepreneurship alongside the engineering program.
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- Lassonde school of engineering at york university
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The Lassonde School of Engineering was established in November 2011 with funding from founding donor Pierre Lassonde, the Government of Ontario and York University. Former students in Engineering, Computer Science and Earth & Atmospheric Science programs from the Faculty of Science and Engineering formally joined the Lassonde School of Engineering on May 1, 2013.
The Founding Dean of the Lassonde School of Engineering is Janusz A. Kozinski.
On April 8, 2016 Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence opened as the home of the Renaissance Engineer. The building, designed by Greg Woods for ZAS Architects has no lecture halls and is modelled after the flipped classroom concept. The façade was designed by Dieter Janssen in collaboration with Mesh Consultants and Blackwell Engineering.
History
The Lassonde School of Engineering was created in November 2011. In May 2013 students and faculty members in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering (both previously part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at York University) joined the Lassonde School of Engineering.
In September 2013 the first group of new first-year Lassondians, 397 students, joined the Lassonde School, including the first students in the new Electrical Engineering program.
In September 2014 the first students in Lassonde's new mechanical engineering and civil engineering programs begin their studies at Lassonde.
The Lassonde School of Engineering challenged itself with a 50-50 initiative to have a student body that is 50% female and 50% male. In April 2016 the Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence was officially opened, becoming the newest engineering building on the York-Keele campus.
The Lassonde School of Engineering is known for their "Renaissance Engineering" philosophy, which focuses on creating more "well-rounded" engineers by creating a unique curriculum to inspire creative, ingenious thinking.
Undergraduate Programs
Engineering
Computing
Earth & Space Science