
Register now for March Break Open House!
Visit the University of Waterloo and find out more about what Engineering has to offer prospective undergraduate students. Drop in on the welcome booth in Engineering 7 to pick up your event guide and start the day's activities.
Engineering activities running throughout the day include:
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Information
sessions:
- Program-specific - find out more about your program of interest at an information session. Sessions run throughout the day with multiple sessions for each department (see schedule below).
- Admissions update sessions and an admissions information session for future applicants.
- Student experience panel - hear from current Engineering students at the University of Waterloo.
- Women in Engineering real talk panel and Q&A.
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Tours:
- General Engineering tours - go on a tour of the Engineering buildings, new and old, lead by a current Engineering student tour guide.
- Women in Engineering Living-Learning Community (LLC) tours - drop in to United College for a tour of the living-learning community exclusive to Women in Engineering.
- Nanotechnology Engineering lab tours - receive a tour of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC).
- Environmental, Geological, Civil, and Architectural Engineering tours - receive a tour of the labs and work spaces available for students in these programs.
- Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering lab tours - drop in to the Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering lab in E7 for a tour!
- Waterloo Microfluidics Laboratory (WML) lab tours - drop in to the Waterloo Microfluidics Laboratory (WML) lab in E5 for a tour!
- Information fair - speak to representatives from all 15 departments, cooperative education, international exchange, and more!
- Student Design Team fair - walk through the Sedra Student Design Centre as the student design teams showcase their projects.
There are many other events happening campus-wide for March Break Open House, including residence tours, university and colleges tours, information sessions, a student services fair, athletics and recreation facilities tours, and campus-wide tours.
To view a full schedule of events and find out more about what's going on around campus, check out the March Break Open House schedule page.
Engineering Sessions and Activities
All information sessions are 30 minutes unless otherwise noted.
Sessions and tours take place in Engineering 5 (E5), Engineering 7 (E7), Douglas Wright Engineering (DWE), Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC), and United College. Sessions and tours for the Architecture program take place at the School of Architecture Campus (ARC), 7 Melville Street South, Cambridge.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Information fair – E7 second floor | Student design team fair – E5 Sedra Student Design Centre | Women in Engineering Living-Learning Community tours – United College (departing every hour from E7 1st floor) | Nanotechnology lab tours - departing from Nanotechnology info fair booth | |
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10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Engineering tours – E7 first floor Ideas Clinic (60 mins.) | ||||
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering lab tours - E7 3443 | ||||
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | Waterloo Microfluidics Laboratory (WML) lab tours - E5 3008 | ||||
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | Environmental, Geological, Civil, and Architectural Engineering tours - departing from respective info fair booths |
10:30 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | 12:30 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. |
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Student life and diversity in Engineering - E5 3101/3102 | Biomedical and Systems Design Engineering - E5 3101/3102 | Women in Engineering real talk panel and Q&A - E5 3101/3102 | Biomedical and Systems Design Engineering - E5 3101/3102 | Student life and diversity in Engineering - E5 3101/3102 | Biomedical and Systems Design Engineering - E5 3101/3102 |
Architectural and Civil Engineering - E7 4417 | Chemical Engineering - E7 3343 | Nanotechnology Engineering - E7 4417 | Architectural and Civil Engineering - E7 4417 | Nanotechnology Engineering - E7 4417 | Architectural and Civil Engineering - E7 4417 |
Chemical Engineering sample lecture - DWE 2529 | Nanotechnology Engineering sample lecture - QNC 2502 | Software Engineering - E7 5353 | Chemical Engineering - E7 3343 | Software Engineering - E7 5353 | Software Engineering - E7 5353 |
Nanotechnology Engineering sample lecture - QNC 2502 | Management Engineering - E7 2317 | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering - E7 3353 | Management Engineering - E7 2317 | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering - E7 3353 | Electrical and Computer Engineering - E7 5343 |
Software Engineering - E7 5353 | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering - E7 3353 | Admissions update for current applicants (fall 2023 arrival) - E7 4043/4053 (15 mins.) | Electrical and Computer Engineering - E7 5343 | Environmental and Geological Engineering - E7 5343 | Admissions update for current applicants (fall 2023 arrival) - E7 4043/4053 (15 mins.) |
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering - E7 3353 | Environmental and Geological Engineering – E7 5343 | Admissions information for future applicants (pre-Grade 12) - E7 4043/4053 | Admissions update for current applicants (fall 2023 arrival) - E7 4043/4053 (15 mins.) | ||
Electrical and Computer Engineering - E7 5343 | Admissions update for current applicants (fall 2023 arrival) - E7 4043/4053 (15 mins.) | ||||
Admissions information for future applicants (pre-Grade 12) - E7 4043/4053 |
School of Architecture Sessions and Activities
Activities take place at the School of Architecture Campus (ARC), 7 Melville Street South, Cambridge. Pre-registration is required for all Architecture information sessions.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Portfolio displays - ARC 3003 | Self-guided tours | ||||
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10:30 a.m. | Architecture program overview - ARC 1001 | Architecture admissions next steps for current applicants (fall 2023 arrival) - ARC 1101 | ||||
11:30 a.m. | Architecture program overview - ARC 1001 | Architecture admissions next steps for current applicants (fall 2023 arrival) - ARC 1101 | ||||
12:30 p.m. | Architecture program overview - ARC 1001 | |||||
1:30 p.m. | Architecture program overview - ARC 1001 | Architecture admissions next steps for current applicants (fall 2023 arrival) - ARC 1101 |