The University of Waterloo’s MEng program in Electrical and Computer Engineering was created with the purpose of offering a course-based postgraduate degree to further educate, upgrade, and update the engineering workforce by providing a steady pool of engineers trained at a postgraduate level in advanced fields. To strengthen this vision further, the department has also identified four key areas of advanced training in the discipline. As a result the optional certificates are being offered in four areas: Computer Networking Security; Software Engineering, Sustainable Energy and Management Sciences.

Students completing Graduate Diploma program in Computer Networking Security are expected to:

• gain exposure to the fundamental, advanced, and  practical aspects of computer networks, security and distributed computing systems;
• acquire advanced knowledge in the field of local and wide area networks — both wired and wireless;
• become skilled in designing network based systems for parallel and distributed processing; and
• gain expertise in the security aspects of communication and distributed system applications.