The Wayne and William White Engineering Design Centre officially opens today. The facility was made possible by a $2.5 million donation by UBC Mechanical Engineering alumnus William White (BASc ’67), and his twin brother, Wayne White (BASC ’67 Metallurgical Engineering).

“We are very grateful to Wayne and William White for their generosity and vision,” says Applied Science Dean Tyseer Aboulnasr. “They have contributed to a learning environment where students can develop into professional engineers equipped to tackle society’s most pressing issues.”

“It gives us great pleasure to provide a facility that we would have greatly enjoyed and benefited from as students,” says William White.

The $8.5 million Wayne and William White Engineering Design Centre is the first and only building on campus specifically intended to connect students from all UBC’s engineering programs in order to promote interdisciplinary team work, increasingly the norm in industry.

Read the full media release here.