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Showing support of our students in the Faculty of Engineering comes in many shapes and sizes, each opportunity creating a potential network of students, whether they congregate around a program or a centre, or feel the sense of achievement that accompanies an award for personal accomplishment.

MESC (²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Engineering Student Centre)

MESC is home to the Engineering Career Centre, it is where co-op internships, scholarships and fellowships are administered. It is also responsible for the Empower initiative, which is focused on supporting, promoting and creating learning activities that take place outside of class, creating the conditions to help students develop their leadership capabilities.

Soutar Fund for Career Enhancement and Professional Development

Suncor Emerging Leaders Award – Engineering

Mohammed and Yulanda Faris Student Initiatives Fund

Bob Anderson Fd-Academic & Career Advising in the Faculty of Engineering

Philip Henry Banfill Hamilton End. For Student Advising in Engineering

Kostiuk Engineering Leadership and Professional Development Fund

Class of 1979 Student Initiative Fund

RBC Global Challenge Award – Engineering

WSP Global Challenge Award

Benno Novak Leadership & Professional Development Fd in Engineering

Kevric Student Initiative Fund

Dario and Erminia Scola Student Initiative Fund

UAE Engineering Experiential Learning Fund

Rory J. Altman Student Initiative Fund

Brian Hirst Fund in Career Planning

Madigan Student Initiative Fund

Richard and Jeanne Anna Brown Global Challenges Award

Allaire Student Initiative Fund

Donor Student Awards – Spring 2023 and 2024

Every spring, the Faculty of Engineering holds an event to bring donors and student recipients together. For the event we line up student speakers – undergraduate and graduate – who have had the benefit of a scholarship or program that’s made a difference in their educational journey.

This year, we sat down with the donor/recipient matches and videotaped their thoughts about giving and receiving.

Student recipients at the Donor Student Awards, Spring - 2024
(Left to right) - Kristina Kerkelova, Aerin Brown, Emma Friesen, Aastha Goyal, and Sydney Smith

Ronald Chwang Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program

²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Engine focuses on encouraging and supporting technological innovators and entrepreneurs across ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù. Ronald Chwang Entrepreneurs-in-Residence are knowledgeable, experienced entrepreneurs and innovators with a variety of backgrounds who are available to meet with ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù students and faculty for advising and coaching on their technologically-based ideas, inventions, technologies, R&D projects, and startups/spinoffs.

May Seto (BEd’76); Rachel Chwang (BArts’76) look on as students present – Summer 2023

Vadasz Scholar Program

The Vadasz Scholar Program is awarded to outstanding students each year, who have been accepted into a doctoral degree program in the Faculty of Engineering. The aim is to provide future engineering leaders with the expertise and skills needed to solve problems that matter.

Les Vadasz (BEng’61) & Judy Vadasz with Vadasz Scholars of Fall 2023

E-IDEA Showcase

The Office of E-IDEA (Engineering Inclusivity, Diversity & Equity Advancement) is leading programs that support the Faculty of Engineering community in building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture.

Nia Fernandez (BSc’10, BEng’14, PhD’22), E-IDEA Advisor, watches the first summer interns welcomed to the program as a result of generous donations,, at the first E-IDEA Showcase in 2023.

John Tentomas (BEng’94) and his wife Niki Yannakis directed their support towards a strategy of engaging Indigenous youth.

Shelley Bacon (BEng’75) funds The Shelley Bacon E-IDEA Initiative Support Fund to bolster strategy to develop a culture in the Faculty where underrepresented students not only feel welcome, but thrive throughout their educational experiences.

TISED’s 10^th Anniversary

Lorne Trottier (BEng’70) speaks at the 10^th anniversary of TISED (Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering Design), where the inauguration of the Master of Engineering: Sustainability in Engineering and Design was announced. Prof. Subhasis Ghoshal, Director of TISED, Prof. Jim Nicell, former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Mohamed Awadalla (PhD’24), a recipient of TISED support, look on.

Ram Panda (MEng’71; MBA’77; LLD’23) and his wife, Durga Panda, along with Lorne Trottier, were the visionary founding supporters of TISED in 2013.

Rick Rubin (BEng’93,’94, MEng’98, MBA’04) and his wife Delia So are supporters of TISED and its Masters Program.

John Bishop (BEng’47) and his family have supported TISED since its inception and now support its Masters Program.

JOHN D. THOMPSON SEMINAR

The objective of the annual seminar is to inspire engineering students to think like an entrepreneur. Whether a student goes on to start their own company, or becomes part of start-up, or joins a small/medium enterprise (SME), or a large firm, there is always a place for an entrepreneurial perspective.

Stephen Hamelin (BEng’92) – Founder of Vortex Aquatic Structures International, delivered the guest lecture at the John D. Thompson Seminar / TechAccel Showcase – Spring 2024

Peter Thompson opened the John D. Thompson Seminar on behalf of his father, John Thompson (BEng’57). He is surrounded by the students who presented at the TechAccel Showcase – Spring 2024