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 post-graduate level in advanced fields. To strengthen this vision further, the department has also identified four key areas of advanced training in the discipline and, as a result, is offering optional certificates in these areas: Sustainable Energy, Computer Networking Security, Management Sciences, and Software Engineering.

Students completing the Graduate Diploma program in Sustainable Energy are expected to:

• gain exposure to different aspects of sustainable energy sources including the theory, operation and analysis of wind turbines, fuel cells and solar cells; and
• develop skill and knowledge in interfacing these energy sources with the electric utility grid and their effects on electricity market pricing.