Building Innovation
The Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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A Dynamic New Building for U of T Engineering Versatile Student Club Space State-of-the-Art Event Space & Auditorium Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) Rooms Design, Fabrication & Prototype Facilities Multidisciplinary Design/Robotics & Mechatronics Industry Collaboration & The Hatchery Entrepreneurship, Global Engineering & Leadership Energy, Water, Infrastructure, Privacy & Security
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Making the Centre a Reality
Message From the Dean
The Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship represents a new era for U of T Engineering. The realization of this new building will enable our community of students and faculty to collaborate across all of the engineering disciplines to address critical global challenges. The Centre brings together the talents of our entire Faculty, and provides the space, facilities and collaborative environment needed to encourage students, researchers, alumni and industry partners to work together to launch their innovative ideas. This ambitious project is quickly becoming a reality thanks to the generous support of our alumni and friends. I am delighted with the initiative demonstrated by our community, including an impressive commitment from our undergraduate students, many of whom will graduate before the building is completed.
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In the pages ahead, you will see the exciting ways in which the new building is beginning to take shape. While the floor plans illustrated are subject to change, the intent is to give you a sense of the innovative learning and research spaces we are creating — spaces that embrace a new way of collaborative learning and knowledge creation that will help our students and researchers excel. Transformational initiatives like the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship will ensure that U of T engineers leverage the Faculty’s collaborative culture to create world-class educational experiences. We hope you will join us as we realize this exceptional facility that will be a true game changer for engineering education and research at U of T. Cristina Amon, Dean Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
Located next to iconic Simcoe Hall and facing St. George Street, the Centre will occupy the last available space on the St. George campus. The building is destined to be a landmark for the University of Toronto.
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A Dynamic New Building for U of T Engineering
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We’re setting a new standard for engineering education at the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. Our new state-of-the-art building will marry the best smart building design with engineering education practices. The result: one of the finest teaching and research environments available at any engineering school in the world.
The vital need for new instructional and research space is driven by two revolutionary trends. The first is a wholesale shift in our understanding of the best ways to learn and to teach. Educators now emphasize instruction combined with hands-on, collaborative work as the key to enhanced understanding as opposed to passive note-taking, which can result in poor information retention. The second trend is the expansion of engineering into many different disciplines such as health care, business systems and information technology. This expansion requires engineers to be highly adept not
only at working with other kinds of engineers but also with people from entirely different backgrounds. In fact, it is in these areas of overlap where innovation is most frequently found — with specialists bringing diverse skills to the table to work on common projects. The Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship is a response to the sweeping changes taking place in engineering. Dynamic, flexible environments will break down artificial barriers between people, foster collaboration, encourage active learning and accelerate innovation.
Toronto-based Montgomery Sisam Architects (MSA) and U.K.-based Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios were chosen as the architects for the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The team was selected due to their outstanding experience in creating dynamic teaching and research buildings which are energy efficient and sensitive to surrounding heritage structures.
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Innovative Design and Stateof-the-Art Spaces for Students, Alumni & Industry
The Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship will include carefully planned spaces for student learning and group work, as well as nerve centres for the Faculty’s cross-disciplinary research initiatives, along with space for alumni and industry.
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The lower level will house flexible facilities that directly serve the requirements of the Faculty’s more than 80 student clubs that involve some 1,700 students. The new student club space will feature essential and convenient storage, in a space that can support a range of important activities.
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The first floor of the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship will feature a grand entrance hall that will double as an event space. A 500-seat auditorium will be a marquee facility, unique in the world in its design to optimize audience engagement. Features to promote enhanced learning include tables to facilitate student group activities, wireless communications systems that allow students to engage in a dialogue with the professor and with one another; a large stadium-style projection wall that allows a clear view of even the smallest objects or experiments; theatre-quality lighting; and other innovations that encourage active learning and nimble transitions between lecturing and discussion.
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Beyond the traditional lecture hall and classroom, the building will feature unique spaces that encourage dynamic group work. These spaces, the Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) rooms, will be critical to supporting the design work that has become integral to engineering courses. Many of them will be open 24 hours a day to ensure that a group’s momentum is never lost to logistical considerations. TEAL rooms will feature movable chairs and group tables serviced by multiple screens that allow for a variety of configurations and easy movement. The second floor will also feature a number of other independent study areas.
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Along with additional study spaces, the third floor will contain a Fabrication Facility, Rapid-Prototyping Room and design rooms. These are the spaces where ideas will take shape. Tables for planning and execution of group projects will surround a light fabrication facility that allows students to move easily from light machinery back to their areas. Plans currently call for 40 such work spaces. Examples of work by first-year engineering students include everything from transit maps for the blind to space-efficient bike racks for busy streets to inventory systems for Second Harvest, a charity that distributes surplus food.
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This floor will feature additional Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) rooms (see page 10 for a description). It will also be home to two nerve centres: Institute for Multidisciplinary Design & Innovation UT-IMDI creates a unique project-based learning environment in collaboration with industry. It promotes awareness of design and development challenges facing industry and provides students with practical, industry-based training opportunities. Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics IRM builds innovative and rapidly developing sensing, actuation and computational capabilities to enable the development of next generation mechatronic and robotic systems that will impact almost all sectors of the economy.
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Launched in 2011, the Hatchery is a co-curricular program that provides the “live practice” of entrepreneurship by offering innovative programming and hands-on experiential opportunities. In its new home, the Hatchery will provide the space, equipment, mentoring and connections to funders, supporting student ventures from concept to prototype. Hatchery-born products include a customizable camera lighting system developed with the mentorship of an intellectual property lawyer, and a video conferencing tool to connect mental health therapists with patients. This floor will also provide a “home on campus” for Skule alumni. A number of Industry Presence Units occupied by Canadian and international companies will be located here. These rooms will add to our entrepreneurial and global engineering ecosystem while providing companies a valuable toehold within this innovative hotbed.
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Entrepreneurship, Global Engineering & Leadership
Additional Industry Presence Rooms will occupy the sixth floor. It will also be home to the following nerve centres: Engineering Entrepreneurship A place that provides a nexus for U of T’s many initiatives to combine business acumen with engineering and foster an entrepreneurial mindset among tomorrow’s engineers. Design innovation space to serve the Hatchery and its activities will be included on this floor. Centre for Management of Technology & Entrepreneurship CMTE is a multidisciplinary centre examining how to manage the multiple effects of technology on the workplace and society, with a particular focus on the Canadian financial services industry. Centre for Global Engineering CGEN educates global engineers, instilling them with global competencies; looks at creative solutions for global challenges such as sanitation, alternative energy, health costs and clean water; and focuses on adapting nimble engineering solutions from the developing world back to the developed world. Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering ILead seeks to build greater leadership capacity within the engineering professions by advancing leadership pedagogy.
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Energy, Water, Infrastructure, Privacy & Security
The top level of the building will be home to four multi-disciplinary research nerve centres: Institute for Sustainable Energy A unique gathering of researchers, students and teachers from across the University, ISE works together with partners from industry and government to increase energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of energy use and conversion. Centre for Water Innovation CWI develops new approaches to better stewardship of water resources from conservation to recycling of industrial water. Centre for Resilience & Critical Infrastructure This centre builds on U of T’s world-class reputation in structural resilience and addresses critical infrastructure challenges facing rapidly urbanizing societies. Institute for Privacy Security Mobile Internet Technologies The Identity, Privacy and Security Institute was established to carry out a pioneering, interdisciplinary program of research, education, outreach, industry collaboration and technology transfer with emphasis on technology, policy and science.
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A Sustainable Building that incorporates the latest in smart technology
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The building has been designed to incorporate some of the most sustainable design strategies that maximize energy efficiency. This includes drawing daylight deep into the building, reducing artificial lighting; rainwater collection and retention; and advanced air delivery systems.
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Making the Centre a Reality
Funding Opportunities There are many opportunities to make a lasting contribution to the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The Faculty seeks to raise $55Â million in philanthropic support for the Centre. Funding and naming opportunities exist for the building and each of its components, including the Hatchery, prototype facilities, classrooms, study areas and networking spaces. Matching funds are available for a limited time at a one-to-one ratio for gifts of $100,000 to $8 million. Gifts to support the Centre or any one of its nerve centres can be made as a one-time donation or pledged over five years. Contact us for more information on how to best direct your contribution to the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
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The Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an integral part of Boundless: The Campaign for the University of Toronto, which is raising $2 billion for Canada’s leading research university.
boundless.utoronto.ca/engineering
Office of Advancement Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering University of Toronto 35 St. George Street, Room 116 Toronto, ON M5S 1A4 Tel: 416-978-0380 Fax: 416-946-3450 advancement.coordinator@ecf.utoronto.ca