The Waterloo Engineering Endowment Fund, believed to be the first and largest student-run endowment fund in Canada, has just passed the $10 million plateau. To mark the milestone students and others celebrated with cake in the foyer of Carl Pollock Hall on November 17. The fund, better known by its acronym WEEF, was created in 1990 by engineering students John Vellinga and Avi Belinsky to help fund student projects and support student teams above and beyond what was provided by the university.
Engineering ties inside and outside new museum
There’s a significant Waterloo Engineering presence in the new $26 million Waterloo Region Museum located on Huron Road in Kitchener. The museum was designed by Toronto architects Moriyama and Teshima with Waterloo architecture graduate Brian Rudy as the project architect. The project was managed by another Waterloo graduate architect, Roger Farwell, of the Walter Fedy partnership. Display’s include the famous Waterloo Pump, co-designed by Alan Plumtree in the Faculty of Engineering in 1978.