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Welcome to the Western Engineering website. Please take a moment to explore our site to learn more about our innovative programs, leading-edge research and interesting people.

My name is Andrew Hrymak and I joined Western Engineering in July 2009 as Dean. I am inspired in my role as Dean to work with our Western Engineering faculty and staff to provide a rewarding engineering education and create opportunities for internationally competitive research and scholarship. Western Engineering provides me an excellent opportunity to further these goals, as I hope we can address your interests.

The Faculty of Engineering at The University of Western Ontario is just over 55 years old. Since opening the doors in 1954, our Faculty has grown to approximately 66 staff and 92 faculty members. We call four buildings on Western’s campus home - the Spencer Engineering Building, the Thompson Engineering, the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory and the LEED-certified Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion – in addition to research facilities across the City of London, including the Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources (ICFAR), the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes (home to the Three Little Pigs Project), and the Wind Engineering, Energy and Environment Dome (WindEEE – to be constructed 2012).

Approximately 1,200 undergraduate students are enrolled in one of our undergraduate programs and close to 540 graduate students are completing degrees at the Master’s or Doctoral levels.

Undergraduate students studying at Western Engineering have opportunities to explore options not available at other schools, such as our Dual Degree Programs with prestigious professional schools on campus such as the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western Law, as well as with programs in the other Faculties at Western. In addition, we offer an innovative Accelerated Master’s Program, co-op and internships, and numerous leadership opportunities.

Our faculty members conduct leading-edge research in topical areas that benefit society. Areas of special expertise include: energy, biomedical applications of mechatronics, natural disaster mitigation and management, water technologies, nanotechnology, and much more. Students at the undergraduate and graduate level benefit from this knowledge, as faculty members draw from their research to teach in our classrooms.

Western’s president, Dr. Amit Chakma, (who also is a chemical engineer) has identified internationalization as one of the key areas for development at Western. Western Engineering aims to be known internationally and learn from the world. We already have an exciting program in Civil and Environmental Engineering in the area of International Development, where students work with faculty to prepare themselves for engineering projects in developing countries. We are looking to expand our international links further in research, and undergraduate and graduate exchange opportunities. Stay tuned for more information.

If you have any questions about Western Engineering I encourage you to contact me at WEDean@eng.uwo.ca.

Sincerely,

Andrew N. Hrymak
Dean, Western Engineering


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