Ranked among the top 50 engineering schools worldwide, Waterloo Engineering is committed to leading engineering education and research.
We are the largest engineering school in Canada, with 10,898 enrolled in 2025, and expansive range of state -of- the -art, future ready labs powered by industry and government funding. In 2024/25, external research funding from Canadian and international partners exceeded $103 million, up $24 million from prior year, this strong growth is reflective of our extensive industry partnerships and the excellence of our engineering research programs.
News
Targeted drops of boiling coolant could help cool AI data centres
Researchers at Waterloo Engineering are developing a system to cool power-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) data centres more economically by targeting sudden hotspots on computer chips with a single drop of boiling coolant.
The concept builds on the team’s previous work to wrap drops of one liquid in a thin skin of another and combines general immersion cooling with inexpensive deionized water with limited use of much more costly coolant.
Civil prof remembered for devotion to students
Waterloo Engineering is mourning the loss of a retired civil engineering professor and early graduate whose landfill research earned him an international reputation and whose students repeatedly ranked him among the best professors in his department.
Dr. Grahame Farquhar (BASc ’64, MASc ’66) died November 1, 2026, at the age of 87. A longtime professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, he received the University of Waterloo’s Distinguished Teacher Award in 1982, a recognition his family says he counted among his proudest professional moments.
Engineering professor takes the helm of the Water Institute
A professor at Waterloo Engineering is the new director of the Water Institute, which brings together expert researchers from all six faculties at the University of Waterloo for a common cause.
Dr. Nandita Basu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, as well as earth and environmental sciences, who holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology, started her three-year term as director this month.
Events
Fall Open House
Waterloo Engineering invites our future undergraduate students and their supporters to campus for Fall Open House to explore what the University of Waterloo has to offer!
Professional headshots for Engineering students
CCD and EDGE are offering FREE headshots for Faculty of Engineering students. It will take place on November 18, in the bridge between PSE (formerly E7) and E6, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. No registration required, we will be offering walk-in appointments on a first-come first-served basis. Please bring your WATcard with you.
CPI Talk: Somebody else's problem: Verifiability and accountability in Canadian online elections
Most online voting systems used in Canadian municipal elections provide no public evidence that votes were recorded and counted. Voters, candidates, and courts are asked to accept the result on trust. Over several election cycles, working only from publicly observable information, our group has found a range of vulnerabilities in these systems. Without verifiability, attacks could go undetected.
In this talk, we will share early observations from the 2026 municipal election and examine why assigning responsibility for the integrity of online elections has proven so difficult.