The building, designed by Greg Woods for ZAS Architects has no lecture halls and is modelled after the flipped classroom concept.

The façade was designed by Dieter Janssen in collaboration with Mesh Consultants and Blackwell Engineering.

The Lassonde School of Engineering began a 50-50 initiative to have a student body that is 50% female and 50% male.

In October 2015, the Lassonde School of Engineering accepted $1.5 million from IFlytek to create a neural computing and machine learning research laboratory.

[6] The same company was later placed on a Bureau of Industry and Security blacklist for allegedly enabling human rights abuses in Xinjiang with its technology.