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We were excited to host and welcome 80 and their parents to campus on October 14, 2017, to join us for Go Eng Girl.  We heard inspiring stories of the pathway to engineering from Amma Wakefield, asked questions, solved problems and learned about what's needed to take the next step towards post-secondary study in Engineering.

Check out a little snippet of the day!

Professor Mary Wells was invited to a panel on The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss 'The Changing Face of Engineering'. You can watch or listen to the full discussion below.  

Go ENG Girl 2016 was a big success! Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers, students and parents! 

Check out the full story at CTV News :) 

The weather was hot and beautiful and the 2016 WiE BBQ was lots of fun! Over 400 faculty, staff and students came out to the event today which was supported by 30 AMAZING volunteers.

A second-year student at Waterloo Engineering is the winner of a $5,000 scholarship from an organization that has promoted engineering as a career choice for young women in Canada for more than 25 years.

The Ontario Network of Women in Engineering has developed a new video to highlight the perspectives that young girls have about engineers. The video also highlights amazing female engineers!

Women make up 50 per cent of the population, but they are under-represented in many science and engineering disciplines. Mining and metallurgy is one of the least gender-diverse sectors, with women currently representing about 15 per cent of technical people. Diversity improves perspective; it gives us the full picture, which vastly increases our chances of producing breakthrough discoveries and innovation.

The winner for the June 2015 Convocation is Lydia Terisno, a graduate from the Chemical Engineering program with an outstanding academic record.

Lydia has maintained an academic standing of "Excellent" throughout her academic terms and has achieved high grades in some of her courses.  She consistently ranked as one of the top students in her class. Ms Terisno has remained the Dean's Honour list for her entire undergraduate career and will graduate top of her class.

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.

On December 6^th, 2014 we will remember fourteen young women who lost their lives 25 years ago in 1989.  On this day, known now as the “Montreal Massacre”, an enraged gunman, roamed the corridors of Montreal's École Polytechnique and killed 14 women, 12 of whom were engineering students. Details of the event outlined how the gunman went into a classroom of engineering students on the last day of classes before exams began. He separated the men from the women and opened fire on the women.