Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Beamish-Munro Hall - 45 Union Street K7L 3N6 Kingston, ON, Canada

With plans for a career in aerospace engineering, Maranda Cherry a Metis third-year Engineering Physics student, president of Queen's Rocket Engineering Team and Queen’s First Nations Launch rocket team anticipates success in 2021. https://engineering.queensu.ca//queens-rocket-engineering-

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Bruce Mitchell (Sci’68), for whom the award-winning Mitchell Hall is named, has received an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the Fall 2020 convocation ceremony, which is available now to view in its entirety. https://engineering.queensu.ca//engineering-alumni-support

Today, on #LGBTQSTEMDay, we celebrate, promote, and advocate for diversity and inclusivity in engineering at Queen's. Members of Queen's EngiQueers student group talk about the organization in an EngSoc Q&A from last summer: https://engsoc.queensu.ca/index.p/2020//15/edi_engiqueers/

A multidisciplinary group of faculty and post-doctoral researchers in partnership with Queen’s Ingenuity Labs Institute has received a $850,000 grant to advance the development of intelligently adaptive augmented reality and virtual reality simulations. As a research institute with a mandate specifically seeking to explore and integrate artificial intelligence, robotics and human-machine interaction, the Ingenuity Lab is perfectly positioned to support this type of deeply interdisciplinary project." https://engineering.queensu.ca//ai-ar-medical-education-re

Our new Chair for Women in Engineering, Heidi Ploeg, will join an exclusively Kingston-based panel to explore gender barriers, role models, and how to introduce young girls to engineering. To reach 30% female engineers by the year 2030, the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers believes engineering employers have a significant role to play. How can companies and employers recruit and retain more women? https://ospe.on.ca/register/?type=event&id=2397

Today, on National Philanthropy Day, we say thank you to everyone who has supported the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science and helped change the life of a student and our community.

Mitchell Hall, Queen’s newest building which opened just two years ago, has received the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals’ Award of Merit in Conservation: Engineering for the work of preserving the heritage of the building, including the original 1930s historical facade. https://engineering.queensu.ca//mitchell-hall-receives-nat