AMHERST, N.Y. — As we look to the future here in Western New York, the University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences could play a prominent role in training and educating the new scientists and engineers in filling positions in regional and national high-tech firms. They are planning a new building and additional faculty to help in that process. On the sprawling UB North Campus, there’s a space issue for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences now based at Davis Hall. “This is an amazing building that we’re in now,” Dean Kemper Lewis said.