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• ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering honours 100 years of the iron ring
• President’s Office display marks International Year of Quantum with new exhibit
• Remembering Art Green

��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering honours 100 years of the iron ring

By Angie Docking.

This year marks a major milestone for Canadian engineers: the 100^th anniversary of the iron ring. The small steel band, given during the Calling of the Engineer, is a symbol of humility, ethical responsibility, and pride in the profession.

��ݮ��Ƶ has a long-standing connection to this uniquely Canadian tradition, which is overseen by the Corporation of the Seven Wardens and 28 camps across Canada. Camp 15, ��ݮ��Ƶ, the regional body that administers the Calling of the Engineer ceremony on campus, was formally established in 1970 – just five years after ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering’s first graduating class received their rings from Camp 1, Toronto.

Since then, Camp 15 has grown to become one of the largest in the country, with over 44,500 iron rings distributed to ��ݮ��Ƶ graduates. Held each March, the ceremony marks students’ transition from the classroom to profession.

Join us for centennial celebrations

Dean Mary Wells and graduating students raise a can of Ring Road Lager at a recent grad class toast event.

Throughout 2025, ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering is honouring 100 years of the iron ring with a series of events and commemorative items — and we’re inviting the campus community to participate, too!

• Try the beer – Ring Road Lager, brewed by Elora Brewing Company (founded by ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering alumni), pays tribute to the iron ring’s centennial. .
• Celebrate the launch – Join us for the official Ring Road Lager launch event, featuring a talk and tasting with Elora Brewing CEO and alumnus Jim Murphy (BASc ’95, Chemical Engineering). Hosted by Vidyard co-founders Michael Litt (BASc '10) and Devon Galloway (BASc '10). Register here.
• Get the coin – The Royal Canadian Mint, in collaboration with Engineering Deans Canada and chaired by Dean Mary Wells, has released a limited-edition coin celebrating Canada’s engineering legacy. .
• Attend the talk – On May 28, ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering and TVO will co-host a public lecture presented by the TRuST Network in Engineering 7. The session will explore how ethics, public trust, and responsible innovation can shape the future of engineering in Canada. Register here.

President’s Office display marks International Year of Quantum with new exhibit

������Fiona Thompson and Kayleigh Platz.

This article was originally published on the Department of Fine Arts website.

Art Green, Professor Emeritus and former chair in the Department of Fine Arts, passed away on April 14, 2025.��

Arthur Green was born in 1941 in Frankfort, Indiana to a civil engineer father and a mother who combined colours and textures in patchwork quilt and flower gardens.�� He would later credit their combined influence for the visual language of his paintings.

He entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to study industrial design, but by the second semester had abandoned that to pursue a major in painting and drawing. Chicago itself had a huge influence on young Art and he absorbed the city’s architecture, museums, galleries, music and culture. In 1966, while pursuing his Master of Fine Arts, he was invited to join an exhibition with five other young artists - James Falconer, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum.�� They dubbed themselves the����and the group would become iconic in the Chicago art scene.

The next few years involved teaching (first grade 7 art and then at colleges in Chicago and Evanston) while the reputation of the Hairy Who, and their place among the Chicago Imagists continued to grow.�� However, in 1969 Art married Natalie Novotny and headed to Canada to take a teaching position at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Several years in Halifax were followed by time in Vancouver and Toronto until a one-year sabbatical replacement contract brought him to the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ in 1977. It was followed by an offer of a three-year (probationary tenure track) contract, which he accepted.

Art remained at ��ݮ��Ƶ until his retirement in 2006. He was a fundamental player in the creation of the MFA program, served as department chair twice, received a distinguished Teacher Award in 1990 and was given Faculty emeritus status in 2006. In 2016 he received an honorary doctorate of Fine Arts from The Art Institute of Chicago. Even more significant than any of those honours was the influence his teaching, encouragement and kindness had on three decades of students in the Fine Arts Department.��

After retirement Art continued his painting career and benefitted from a renewed interest in the Chicago art scene. Over the years his work has been the subject of over 26 solo exhibitions, featured in more than 120 group exhibitions, and in 2005, the Kitchener-��ݮ��Ƶ Art Gallery, Ontario mounted Heavy Weather, the artist’s first career retrospective. His paintings can be found in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), and Museum Moderner Kunst (Vienna, Austria).

Art is survived by his children Catherine Gardner (Mark) and Nicholas Green (Clodagh), his beloved granddaughters Sophia Gardner, Feodora and Fionnuala Green; his partner Bonnie Steinman and her family; his brother Don Green (Charlotte); his sisters-in-law Nadia Leininger, Nina Minett (Charles), Karen Green, and many nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by his wife of over 50 years, Natalie Novotny Green, his brother, Larry Green, and his parents Edward and Mabel Green.��()