Tuesday, November 22, 2011
There’s a significant ݮƵ Engineering presence in the new $26 million ݮƵ Region Museum located on Huron Road in Kitchener. The museum was designed by Toronto architects Moriyama and Teshima with ݮƵ architecture graduate Brian Rudy as the project architect. The project was managed by another ݮƵ graduate architect, Roger Farwell, of the Walter Fedy partnership. Display’s include the famous ݮƵ Pump, co-designed by Alan Plumtree in the Faculty of Engineering in 1978. The museum’s temporary gallery’s “Unconventional Thinking: Innovation in ݮƵ Region,” features many ݮƵ Engineering spin-off companies that contribute significantly to ݮƵ Region.