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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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.