Future undergraduate students

Saturday, March 14, 2015 4:30 pm - 6:45 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WiE Welcomes YOU

Congratulations, you’re in!

Women in Engineering would like to invite you to an exclusive event on on Saturday, March 14, 2015.

Hear from Women in Engineering Chair, Prof. Mary Wells, meet current students, and learn about the support the University of Waterloo provides its female students. You will also meet some of your future female classmates while working together on a mini engineering project.

Sixty young women will discover firsthand what software engineering and coding are all about at the University of Waterloo this Saturday, February 21.

Hosted by the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering, Go CODE Girl aims to ignite interest in software and computer engineering at a time when students are thinking about their future careers and are choosing courses that will prepare them for further education.

Saturday, February 28, 2015 8:00 am - 8:00 am EST (GMT -05:00) Saturday, March 28, 2015 9:00 am - 9:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Senior Girls Club

Girls Club engages participants through activities designed to dispel stereotypes about engineers and scientists and inspire girls to pursue these studies in high school and post-secondary education.

For more information, please visit the ESQ website

Saturday, March 7, 2015 8:00 am - 8:00 am EST (GMT -05:00) Saturday, April 11, 2015 9:00 am - 9:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Junior Girls Club

Girls Club engages participants through activities designed to dispel stereotypes about engineers and scientists and inspire girls to pursue these studies in high school and post-secondary education.

For more information, please visit the ESQ website

Friday, May 1, 2015 12:00 am - Sunday, May 3, 2015 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Catalyst Conference

The conference is an exciting opportunity for grade 11 girls to participate in hands-on workshops, explore the University of Waterloo, meet engineering students, compete in a design competition, and experience life in residence! 

This year's conference will be held May 1st-3rd, 2015. Spots are limited to 50 female students, so make sure you get your application in early!

Monday, December 2, 2013

Educating girls about engineering

As a young girl, Jennifer Howcroft loved science as much as she loved helping people so she always assumed she’d become a medical doctor.

But when she heard about biomedical engineering in her teens, Howcroft knew she had found her true calling.  Biomedical engineering allowed Howcroft, now a doctoral student in Waterloo’s Department of Systems Design Engineering, to blend her passion for creating and building with her drive to improve the lives of people.

Alison Scott, a chemical engineering MASc candidate, has been awarded the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Vale Scholarship. Each year the prestigious scholarship of $10,000 is awarded to one woman enrolled full-time in an engineering master’s program at a Canadian university.

Scott, who graduated with her BASc in chemical engineering from Waterloo in 2013, is described as a great ambassador for engineering by Mary Wells, engineering's associate dean, outreach.