University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering is one of six faculties at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. As of 2006, it has 5,109 undergraduate students, 1,115 graduate students, and 219 professors. The Faculty of Engineering houses 7 academic units, and offers different degrees in a wide variety of engineering disciplines.
The Faculty of Engineering is unique in the way that all undergraduate students are automatically enrolled in the co-operative education program, in which they alternate between four-month academic and work terms throughout their five years of undergraduate career.
Every engineering disciplines are divided into classes of approximately 100 students, in which they share most of their class time together, as well as co-op terms.
Departments
The faculty presently houses six departments and one school. They are the School of Architecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Management Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Department of Systems Design Engineering.