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Congratulations, you’re in!

Women in Engineering would like to invite you to an exclusive event on on Saturday, March 10, 2018.

Hear from faculty and staff at Waterloo Engineering, meet current students, and learn about the support that 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.

We anticipate that spaces will fill quickly, so register today to save spaces for you and your family.

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.

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.