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to study and business and law, respectively, alongside the engineering program. The Lassonde School of Engineering was established in November 2011 with funding from founding donor Pierre Lassonde, the

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. Students from the Faculty of Science and Engineering formally joined the Lassonde School of Engineering on May 1, 2013. On April 8, 2016, Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence opened. The building, designed by Greg Woods for ZAS Architects has no lecture halls and is modelled after the

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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

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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-years, comprising 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 enrolled. The Lassonde School of Engineering began 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. The Lassonde School of Engineering has a philosophy which focuses on creating "well-rounded" engineers. In October 2015, the Lassonde School of Engineering accepted $1.5 million from

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Undergraduate programs

Engineering The following programs are accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board: * B.Eng -

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...

* B.Eng - Computer Engineering * B.Eng - Electrical Engineering * B.Eng -

Geomatics Engineering Geomatics is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the " discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information". Under another definition, i ...

* B.Eng -

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...

* B.Eng -

Software Engineering Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...

* B.Eng -

Space Engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

Computing *

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, BA, iBSc, iBA -

(Accredited by the Computer Science Accreditation Council) * BSc, BA -

Computer Security Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, t ...

(Accredited by the Computer Science Accreditation Council) * BA - Digital Media (offered jointly with the Faculty of Fine Arts) Earth & Space Science * BSc - Earth & Atmospheric Science * BSc - Space Science

Graduate programs

(MASc & PhD) *

(MSc & PhD) * Electrical Engineering (MASc & PhD) * Computer Engineering (MASc & PhD) *

(MASc & PhD) * Earth & Space Science (MSc & PhD) *

(MASc & PhD)

References

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