University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON
N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567
Staff and Faculty Directory
Contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
If you are enrolled in either an associated program (Software, Mechantronics, or Nanotechnology Engineering) or a recognized option (for example, the Digital Hardware Option for Computer Science students) that requires Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) courses, Quest should allow you to enrol in the required courses. If you have not yet added the relevant option to your academic plan, you must submit a Plan Modification Form to your home department undergraduate academic advisor (or equivalent). Once this form has been processed, you should be allowed to enrol in the course in Quest).
If you do not have the specific prerequisites for a course, you will be required to fill in and submit a Course Override Form adding the course. This must be submitted to one of our two Undergraduate Advisor/Co-ordinators. There are two possibilities:
1 If an instructor has not been assigned to a course when the form is received, it will be held by the ECE Undergraduate Office until an instructor has been designated. It is possible to find the course instructor by viewing the Schedule of Classes for Undergraduate Students.
All Course Override Forms, once signed, will be returned to the student's home department for final approval (which may still refuse your request to take the course).
If you would like to take an ECE course but are not enrolled in a recognized option, you may continue to follow the same process as for students who are enrolled in a recognized options, however, you will be required to submit a Course Override Form and that form will be held until at least one week after start of the open enrollment period to ensure that there are enough positions for ECE students and students enrolled in recognized options. The Course Override Form must be submitted to the Undergraduate Advisor/Co-ordinator.
All Course Override Forms, once signed, will be returned to the student's home department (which may still refuse your request to take the course).
If you are not a uWaterloo student, you must contact the Registrar's Office to enrol in an ECE course. Please do not contact the ECE Department as course enrollment for non-uWaterloo students is outside our jurisdiction.
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON
N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567
Staff and Faculty Directory
Contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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