On October 2, the Minister of Industry Tony Clement, Harinder Takhar, MPP for Mississauga-Erindale and Professor Ian Orchard, Vice-President and Principal of U of T Mississauga, celebrated the groundbreaking of the Instructional and Laboratory Project at the UTM.
The project received federal and provincial funding totalling $70 million through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program and Ontarios 2009 Budget.