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The Stephen J.R. Smith Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s University, commonly known as Smith Engineering, is the engineering faculty at Queen's University at Kingston, located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The faculty offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in engineering and has partnered with other faculties within the university to offer dual degrees. The faculty was founded in 18931 as the Kingston School of Mining and joined with Queen's University in 1910. In 2023, the faculty was renamed in honour of Stephen Smith, a former alumnus of the university and donor.
The Stephen J.R. Smith Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s University, commonly known as Smith Engineering, is the engineering faculty at Queen's University at Kingston, located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The faculty offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in engineering and has partnered with other faculties within the university to offer dual degrees. The faculty was founded in 1893 as the Kingston School of Mining and joined with Queen's University in 1910. In 2023, the faculty was renamed in honour of Stephen Smith, a former alumnus of the university and donor. ==History== In 1893, the Ontario government established the Kingston School of Mining, coinciding with the location of Queen's University at Kingston, but existing legally as a separate institution. When Queen's became a secular institution in 1910, the School of Mining officially joined with the university and subsequently renamed itself the Faculty of Applied Science. The first woman graduated from the faculty in 1946. As of 2023, 27% of the undergraduate engineering students are women, one of the highest percentages of any major engineering program in the country. In 2010, the Faculty of Applied Science was re-branded, after a vote throughout the faculty, as the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science. In 2021, Queens University Engineering joined with the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, McMaster University and University of Western Ontario to form an academic partnership called the IBET PhD Project, to increase academic and industry diversity by creating new fellowships for Indigenous and Black students pursuing doctoral degrees in mathematics and engineering to prepare for careers as professors and industry researchers. On November 2, 2023, the faculty was renamed the Stephen J.R. Smith Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen's University in recognition of a $100 million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, a graduate of the faculty. ==Notable alumni== Michael Serbinis (B.Sc.(Eng.) 1996) CEO and founder, Kobo, League Derek Muller (B.Sc.(Eng.) 2004) Science communicator, and television personality, creator of YouTube channel Veritasium Dalton Kellett (B.Sc.(Eng.) 2015) A. J. Foyt Enterprises Racing driver Donald Lindsay (B.Sc.(Eng.) 1980) -- CEO of Teck Resources Limited Donald Charlesworth B.Sc.(Eng.) Nuclear scientist, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Mark Charlesworth B.Sc.(Eng.) (1981) Co-developer of CorelDraw software Ian Rae B.Sc.(Eng.) (1980) Co-developer of CorelDraw software Walter F Light B.Sc.(Eng.) (1949) Former CEO of Nortel Faqir Chand Kohli (B.Sc.(Eng.) 1948) Former Director of Tata Consultancy Services, the "father of the Indian software industry" Geoffrey Ballard (B.Sc.(Eng.) 1956) Hailed as "Master of Modern Technology" by CBC Newsworld Gururaj Deshpande (PhD) Founder and Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Inc. and member of the MIT Corporation. Alfred Bader B.Sc.(Eng.)(1945) Founder of the Sigma-Aldrich Corporation Denzil Doyle (B.Sc.(Eng.) 1956) Founding President of Digital Equipment Corporation's subsidiary in Canada Stephen J.R. Smith (B.Sc.(Eng.) 1972) Canadian businessman; co-founder of First National Financial Corporation ==See also== Engineering traditions in Canada Iron Ring Women in engineering ==References== ==External links== Official Smith Engineering website Engineering Society of Queen's University Clark Hall Pub History of Clark Hall and Biography of Arthur Lewis Clark Integrated Learning Centre
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