Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science

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Fast Facts

• Maclean's magazine ranks Ryerson #1 for producing Leaders of Tomorrow, and #2 as Most Innovative.
• Ryerson is home to one of the fastest growing university-based biomedical physics groups in Canada.
• Aerospace Engineering at Ryerson is one of only two such undergraduate programs in the country.
• The George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre is a state-of-the-art science, technology, and research facility spanning almost an entire city block in downtown Toronto.
• The Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science (FEAS) is one of the largest of its kind in Canada, with 5,000 undergraduate students enrolled in 15 undergraduate programs, and 1,100 graduate students in 13 master’s and six doctoral programs.
• Ryerson’s Aerospace Computational Laboratory is a node for the High Performance Computational Virtual Laboratory for the Greater Toronto Area. The HPCVL is an interuniversity high-speed computation network which acts as a virtual supercomputer, providing the intensive computation power needed in the solution of complex problems in engineering and other disciplines.
• Research funding at Ryerson has doubled in the past five years.
• The university's faculty members have the the highest rate of publications growth at any Canadian university over the past decade. Ryerson's rate of growth in publications is more than double that of the second-place finisher nationwide. 
• Ryerson has jumped ten spots in the past four years in Canada’s Top 50 Research Universities rankings. In the undergraduate category, Ryerson placed second as university of the year. 
• Ryerson was awarded a Chair in Design Engineering by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), one of only 16 chairs to be awarded in Canada.
• The Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science has created the Centre for Urban Energy (CUE), a unique research and technology demonstration centre devoted to the discovery and commercialization of innovative, practical solutions to urban energy issues.