All first-year students enrol in September and spend the first fall term together at the University, after which they are divided into different streams depending on their plan of study. All students have the same total time on campus and in industry regardless of how their particular stream is scheduled. All students complete the last term of the plan together prior to graduation.
The following can be found in this Calendar:
Admission for Applicants Not Currently Completing Ontario Secondary School
Applicants must provide strong, recent grades in the required Ontario high school courses or their equivalent. Courses taken at Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and similar non-university, post-secondary institutions elsewhere are normally not accepted as equivalent to the required high school courses. The University has developed special pre-university mathematics, physics, and chemistry courses which can be taken online as an alternative. To discuss admissibility and appropriate qualifying studies, applicants are advised to contact the director of admissions for the Faculty of Engineering in the fall of the year prior to entering first year.
Admission to Advanced Standing
Admission beyond 1A term is limited to applicants who have an academic and work experience background that is considered equivalent to the particular class they would join. Due to the co-operative nature of a Faculty of Engineering plan, no student will be admitted above 3A. Any student admitted to the 3A term will be required to enrol in the winter term, and to complete satisfactorily the final four academic terms, and the final three work terms and work reports.
Credit for previous work experience can be applied only to those work terms preceding the level of admission and cannot exceed three work terms. Students who are readmitted to an engineering plan are required to clear all previous failures.
Admission of Applicants with a Technical Degree
Applicants who already possess an undergraduate degree in a technical area such as engineering, science, or mathematics will normally be considered for admission into an undergraduate engineering plan only if space remains after all other qualified applicants have been considered. Postgraduate or graduate studies may be more appropriate for these applicants.