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Engineering an Equitable and Sustainable Future

We are the University of Waterloo chapter of Engineers Without Borders Canada — a community of systems change leaders mobilizing engineering and technology to address urgent global challenges, in Canada and beyond.

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Explore Our Work

Portfolios

Explore the podcast, advocacy, fundraising, and other portfolios our members lead throughout the year.

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Design Teams

See the hands-on engineering projects our student design teams are building, from wind turbines to carbon capture.

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About Us

Learn about our mission, values, and the people leading our chapter’s work at Waterloo.

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Systems Change, Not Just Solutions

Our mission is to create systemic change through community-driven collaboration. We mobilize the engineering community and leverage technological innovation to address urgent and important global challenges, guided by our four strategic goals: optimization, innovation, localization, and advocacy. As the chapter founded at the same university where EWB Canada began in 2000, we carry that same commitment to asking not "what do we bring?" but "what do communities need?"

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Become a Systems Change Leader

Whether you are a first-year student or about to graduate, there is a place for you in our chapter. Join our research, education, advocacy, or fundraising teams and help engineer a more equitable and sustainable future.