Part of Canada's largest engineering school, the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering department at the University of Waterloo is home to 2,400 undergraduates, 400 graduate students, faculty and staff.
Our programs are designed to produce skilled problem solvers, leaders and innovators able to create mechanical systems and electro-mechanical designs that impact industries and improve the world.
- First Canadian university with a full undergraduate Mechatronics Engineering program.
- First in the country to offer interdisciplinary research and collaborative programs in nanotechnology engineering.
Research
Research in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at Waterloo has a global impact. Waterloo is Canada's largest university for automotive research.
Department Seminars
Learn more about Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering past and current seminars and events. Information on Departmental, PhD and MASc events.
Career Opportunities
Check out our available faculty positions and consider working at the most sought-after engineering school in the country. Read more about department-specific opportunities.
News
Undergraduate-graduate student team joins forces to win student poster competition at international fluid dynamics conference
Connor Pryce, a 4A MME student, led the research that won the Student Poster Competition at the 2024 American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD) conference, the largest international event in Fluid Mechanics—held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
MME professors awarded $4 .4 million in funding from the Ontario Research Fund
Four professors in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering have been awarded $4.4 million total from the Ontario Research Fund (ORF) to support research that will help drive innovation towards the province’s future.
Building a life-sized Grumobile
A group of students, which included a few undergraduates from the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering department, got together with students in Systems Design Engineering, friends from Math, and even one of their good friends from the University of Cambridge to build the Grumobile from Despicable Me—just for fun!