Events

Alumni, students, employers, industry partners, media, and members of the general public are invited to join us in the Pearl Sullivan Engineering Building (formerly Engineering 7) for the Capstone Design Symposium.

It's a full day of discovery at TronCon 2026! TronCon will coincide with the Mechatronics Capstone Design Symposium to give alumni an opportunity to view the newest batch of Capstone design projects (FYDPs) by fourth year mechatronics students, get involved in judging the capstone design projects, and reconnect with the Tron community at the event and at the dinner that follows. 

The FIRST Robotics Waterloo Regional Competition brings teams of Ontario's brightest high school students to the University of Waterloo campus to battle head-to-head with student-designed, remote-controlled robots. Built from scratch, these five-foot tall, 140-pound robots compete in high intensity robo-sports.

Watch as 12 outstanding Capstone teams compete for over $100k in prizes. These teams were shortlisted from over 50 entries representing most programs in the Faculty of Engineering. The Esch Awards support creative and entrepreneurial students in the pursuit of research and development and its commercialization for the benefit of Canada.

Building a startup, venture, or applied project often means making decisions with incomplete information. This practical working session will help participants identify real market signals before spending months on the wrong customer, pricing, message, or channel.

The session is designed for students, graduate students, founders, startup operators, and project builders interested in entrepreneurship, innovation, commercialization, and applied decision-making. Participants will learn how to recognize common decision traps, separate real market signals from polite feedback, and think more clearly about what to test before building, selling, or scaling further.

The session is led by Vivian Wang, an MBET graduate student at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business and founder of Growth Partner AI, which was recently recognized as part of Scale Up Canada’s Waterloo 50.

Mary Wells, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, is excited to share an update to the a transformative new vision for Waterloo Engineering - one that positions the Faculty as leaders driving meaningful change for the future.

Engineering alumni are invited to explore the strategic plan and join one of the upcoming alumni roundtables (two virtual options are available on MS Teams: June 16 and June 17, 2026). The roundtables will provide an opportunity to discuss how this vision will create tangible, positive impacts worldwide.

Mary Wells, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, is excited to share an update to the a transformative new vision for Waterloo Engineering - one that positions the Faculty as leaders driving meaningful change for the future.

Engineering alumni are invited to explore the strategic plan and join one of the upcoming alumni roundtables (two virtual options are available on MS Teams: June 16 and June 17, 2026). The roundtables will provide an opportunity to discuss how this vision will create tangible, positive impacts worldwide.