Ranked among the top 50 engineering schools worldwide, Waterloo Engineering is committed to leading engineering education and research.
We are the largest engineering school in Canada, with over 10,900 students enrolled in 2023. In 2023/24, external research funding from Canadian and international partners exceeded $79.3 million, a strong indication of our extensive industry partnerships and the excellence of our engineering research programs.
News
Student teams win over $100K at pitch contest
Twelve teams of fourth-year Waterloo Engineering students pitched their Capstone Design projects as viable startup ideas to a panel of industry judges at the 2025 Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards.
Ideas included a device to enhance sleep quality and cognitive function in children with epilepsy, and a novel material designed to improve efficiency in oil spill remediation.
Students bring solutions to Canada’s North through i-Capstone
A new partnership between the University of Waterloo and the City of Iqaluit is giving students the opportunity to apply their skills to real-world challenges while making a meaningful impact in Nunavut.
The collaboration was made possible through i-Capstone — Waterloo’s first interdisciplinary undergraduate capstone program. Bringing together students from all Faculties, i-Capstone empowers them to address complex community issues like sustainable housing, infrastructure, and urban planning for academic credit.
Student collective brings thousands of makers together
University of Waterloo students have built one of the fastest-growing local chapters of an international maker collective called Socratica. More than 2,500 students gathered at the 2025 symposium in Waterloo to build, innovate, design, engineer and collaborate.
The local chapter was founded in 2022 by two Waterloo Engineering students now in their fourth year, Anson Yu and Jocelyne Murphy from the Department of Systems Design Engineering. Its success stems from harnessing the Waterloo entrepreneurial ethos and inviting thousands of students from multiple disciplines to make magic together.
Events
Boston Alumni Social
The Faculties of Engineering and Science are delighted to host an alumni reception in Boston, at Industrious, Back Bay on April 9, 2025. Enjoy food and refreshments while you personally connect (or reconnect) with your University of Waterloo classmates and hear the latest news from Science and Engineering. Special thanks to Larry Kim (BASc '00) for hosting us.
Documentary Screening: "Rock This Town"
Rock This Town brings to life the exciting history of rock music concerts in KW from the 1960s and 1970s. An insider’s look into the gritty reality of building the local live music scene. This 70-minute documentary features interviews with music business pros plus performances by today’s musicians. Rock stars come and go but live music is here to stay!