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INSPIRING SPACES:
Innovation and Wellness Centre
Situated in the new Innovation and Wellness Centre, the Innovation Commons will be a dedicated space for bringing our engineering community together. Part of the revitalization of the previous Physical Education Centre at 67 Union Street, this leading-edge facility will be the heart of engineering teaching, research, and collaboration. The generous donors who contributed to the “Inspiring Spaces” building fund understand the value of an inclusive, interdisciplinary environment—and their generosity is providing the necessary physical space to build community and stimulate new ideas. New undergraduate teaching and design studios, interdisciplinary research clusters, and flexible innovation space will bring together professors, undergraduate, and graduate students from a range of disciplines to collaborate in a dynamic and academic social environment.
Building update: October 11, 2016 The university announced a $30 million investment from the Government of Canada, $20 million of which is to revitalize 67 Union Street. The building will be dramatically transformed to accommodate three of the Principal’s top priorities, including establishing a new space for the Faculty of Engineering, a home for our campus-wide innovation initiative, and a contemporary and integrated space for our Innovation and Wellness Centre.
A tribute to a professor
Brian Livingston still remembers the “quiet and kind “professor who used what was then a unique education method: having his students learn by teaching others. It was an approach that resonated with Livingston, who has decided to honour his former professor, the late Dr. Hugh G. Conn, BSc’31, LLD’81, through the Inspiring Greatness Campaign by funding a classroom on his behalf. Livingston, who is also a member of the Campaign Cabinet, says that excellent teachers and the camaraderie on campus were significant factors in his education and subsequent career. “Professor Conn, my thermal dynamics teacher, used a self-paced method, and he also had upper-year students teach first-year students,” he says. “It was a novel approach, and it was a great way to reinforce our learning.” Livingston went on to law school after a short stint as an engineer, and enjoyed a 30-year career at Imperial Oil. Livingston is paying tribute to his professor by contributing to the Engineering Campaign’s building fund on his behalf. The new Innovation Commons, a dedicated space for engineering teaching and research, is part of the revitalization of the previous Physical Education Centre, a plan that Livingston says appeals to him and many who contributed to the fund. “It’s wonderful to see that we are restoring these historic buildings while adding spaces that embrace new ways of learning,” he says. “It’s a great way to combine tradition and the Queen’s spirit with a leading-edge facility for discovery.”
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THE COMPLETE ENGINEER
Brian Livingston, Sc’76
