University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567
Staff and Faculty Directory
Contact the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
As a civil, environmental, geological, and architectural engineering student at Waterloo you'll automatically be entered into the engineering co-op program. Co-operative (Co-op) education combines formal classroom teaching with on-the-job experience.
Co-op will provide you with a unique schedule for school by having you alternate between school and work every 4-months or 8-months. After the first academic term on campus, students alternate between classroom and engineering-related work experience every four or eight months.
The Co-operative Education office provides students with professional career guidance, contacts potential employers and arranges on-campus job interviews for co-op students. Through a matching system, where students rank employers and employers rank students, a compatible job match may occur.
Depending on your program you will be entered in a different co-op stream that will start either 4 or 8 months into your first year. NOTE: Environmental Engineering, Geological Engineering, and Architectural Engineering students will be in Stream 4S, which means your first work term will begin in January of your first year. Civil Engineering students will be in Stream 8S, which means your first work term will begin in May of your first year.
Throughout your degree, you'll gain up to two years or a year of real-world experience, build connections in industry and strengthen your professional skills with WatPD-Engineering, an online program that covers résumé writing, networking and more.
The Co-operative Education department on campus provides students with professional career guidance, contacts potential employers and arranges on-campus job interviews for co-op students.
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567
Staff and Faculty Directory
Contact the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Office of Indigenous Relations.