Canada's Largest Engineering School

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.

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Three Waterloo Engineering alumni are infusing Ontario’s summer scene with handcrafted ice cream, Egyptian street food and craft beer.

Ajoa Mintah (BASc ’01, chemical engineering), Amr Elmazariky (MASc ’11, electrical and computer engineering) and Jim Murphy (BASc ’95, chemical engineering) all worked as engineers before becoming successful entrepreneurs in the food and beverage sector.

A Waterloo Engineering graduate student who restarted her academic journey in Canada after the war in Ukraine has been recognized internationally for her research in AI-powered sports analytics.

Kseniia Buzko arrived at Waterloo through a summer program for displaced Ukrainian students, later completing her undergraduate degree with top marks and joining the Department of Systems Design Engineering's Vision and Image Processing Research Group as a master’s student.

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