Welcome to Management Science and Engineering at the University of Waterloo
Management science and engineering is a broad and interdisciplinary study of problem solving and decision making in organizations.
It uses a combination of analytical models, data science, and behavioural sciences to address society's most complex problems.

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From Waterloo to NVIDIA's Global AI Infrastructure: A Management Engineering Story
Management Engineering sits at the intersection of engineering rigor, systems thinking, operations research, and organizational design; the exact foundation of one of the most in-demand careers in technology: Technical Program Management. A TPM owns the delivery of complex, cross-functional programs end to end, requiring technical credibility and organizational range in equal measure. That is Management Engineering’s graduate profile, almost word for word. What makes graduates of the program genuinely irreplaceable is malleability, trained to see the structure of systems rather than the surface of any one industry, they can enter any domain and lead.
Prof. Houra Mahmoudzadeh becomes President of CORS
Congratulations to Prof. Houra Mahmoudzadeh on becoming the President of the Canadian Operational Research Society. She formally took over leadership from Marco Bijvank at the CORS 2026 Annual General Meeting.
Management Sciences degrees conferred at Spring 2026 convocation
Management Engineering and Management Sciences graduating students participated in the Spring 2026 convocation, held on the evening of Saturday, June 20.