Events

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. 

70+ students, creators, tinkerers and members from the community are showing passion projects they've spent the year working on, and you're invited.

What you'll see: a robot that flips pancakes, a laptop turned into a trombone, AI designing live light shows, animatronic video game characters, handmade jewelry, live art, and 70+ other projects across every discipline.

Day 1 — March 21: features a showcase of live stage demos. Day 2 — March 22: an interactive gallery where you can try projects and meet the people who made them.

Free entry. Open to all students. RSVP at symposium.socratica.info

Capstone Design is the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in engineering design.

Come check out this year's Capstone Design Symposium!

Capstone Design is the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in engineering design.

Come check out this year's Capstone Design Symposium!

Capstone Design is the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in engineering design.

Come check out this year's Capstone Design Symposium!

Capstone Design is the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in engineering design.

Come check out this year's Capstone Design Symposium!

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.

Capstone Design is the culmination of the undergraduate student experience, creating a blueprint for innovation in engineering design.

Come check out this year's Capstone Design Symposium!

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.

Waterloo Engineering invites our future undergraduate students and their supporters to campus for March Open House to explore what the University of Waterloo has to offer!