Thursday, November 17, 2011
Waterloo Engineering has ranked an impressive second in Canada in the 2011 Taiwan Ranking’s engineering field. In the ranking’s engineering subjects Waterloo’s chemical engineering was ranked first and electrical engineering was ranked second. The rankings are conducted by researchers at National Taiwan University and sponsored by the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT). They use eight indicators, all based on bibilometric data sourced through Thompson Reuters products (the SCI and SSCI indices, and Essential Science Indicators and Journal Citation Reports), including some measures of the last 11 years and some measures of the most recent year.