The Lassonde School of Engineering was established in November 2011 with funding from founding donor Pierre Lassonde, the Government of Ontario and York University.[3] Students from the Faculty of Science and Engineering formally joined the Lassonde School of Engineering on May 1, 2013.[4]
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 flipped classroom concept. The façade was designed by Dieter Janssen in collaboration with Mesh Consultants and Blackwell Engineering.
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.
York University officially launched its engineering programme in Fall 2001 in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.[4][5] The first programmes were in computer, geomatics and space engineering, and engineering physics.[5] Professor and Dean of Pure and Applied Science, Robert Prince led the development of the engineering programme, and York University's first woman Dean of Science, Gillian Wu, oversaw the next stages of development, including changing the name of the faculty to Science and Engineering in 2004.[5] The next stage was to gain professional accreditation for the programme.
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 IFlytek to create a neural computing and machine learning research laboratory.[6] The same company was later placed on a Bureau of Industry and Security blacklist for allegedly enabling human rights abuses in Xinjiang with its technology.[7]
There are currently two undergraduate student government bodies at Lassonde:
Lassonde Student Congress, as the faculty student government, representing all undergraduate students to the Faculty Council and the York University Senate, and
Graduate students can participate departmental graduate student associations affiliated with the York Graduate Student Association, which consist of the following:
Civil Engineering Graduate Students Association, CEGSA
Digital Media Graduate Students Association, DMGRADS
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Students Association, EECS-GSA
Earth and Space Science Graduate Students Association, ESS
Additionally, students can become members of and hold positions in various student organizations and clubs across campus ranging from interest groups to design teams. Some notable Lassonde affiliated student organizations are:
York University Robotics Society, YURS
Computing Students Hub, CSHub
Car Society at York, CarSocY
Women in Science and Engineering, WISE
Civil Engineers of Lassonde / CSCE York University Student Chapter, CEL.
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