Orientation Week 2011
More orientation week photos on our facebook page.
Why Engineering?
Fall Open House, November 5th
Come and visit Waterloo, find out more about our programs and campus. Register online
.Our Students...
- are bright, active, involved leaders and award-winning.
- have swept away all other North American engineering schools in a contest to build a greener SUV.
- made the Guinness Book of World Records for distance raced by a solar car.
- built award-winning flying robots and concrete toboggans.
- rode the Vomit Comet, performing experiments in zero gravity.
- started their own businesses and pitched theme park ideas to Disney.
- have been named the best co-op students in the region, the province, and the nation.
Waterloo Engineering's undergraduate program is ...
- Canada's Largest and Best - We're home to about 5,100 exceptional students.
- Recognized Internationally for Co-op - 100% undergraduate student participation in co-op giving you skills to start early on a successful career path.
- Successful - 98% of our graduates are employed within 6 months after graduation.
- Involved - We have two of the most active student societies in Canada, EngSoc and WASA.
- Around the World - Offering international exchange opportunities to 25 different countries with over 600 students on co-op outside of Canada each year.
- Diverse - Waterloo Engineering offers choice between 12 different disciplines of engineering and a leading professional architecture program.
What is Engineering?
Engineers are involved with every aspect of today's world. You might build a sustainable building, improve a transit system, reorganize a corporation, or design robots for dangerous jobs. Some of our students move on to law or medicine, or a business career. Some take postgraduate degrees to become professors, senior researchers, or consultants.
Ask yourself, what do I touch that’s not engineered? Engineering develops and delivers consumer goods -- builds networks of highways, air and rail travel, and the internet – mass produces antibiotics, creates artificial heart valves, builds lasers – offers wonders like imaging technology and conveniences like microwave ovens and compact disks. In short, engineering makes modern life possible.
William A. Wulf
President of the National Academy of Engineering
