Volunteer opportunities - Engineering Science

We are currently seeking alumni for the volunteer activities below.

Don't see what you're looking for?

To explore further opportunities within EngSci:
Email Christina Heidorn (EngSci 9T1), EngSci's External Relations Officer.

For Faculty-wide volunteer opportunities:
Visit the U of T Engineering Alumni website.

Alumni clients - capstone design courses

Do you or your business have a problem you'd like help with? EngSci is looking for clients!

Some of our fourth-year capstone design courses work with clients to provide a focused opportunity to student teams.

If you feel you have an opportunity that might fit with a course related to one of EngSci's majors, please contact our External Relations Officer, Christina Heidorn, at engsci@utoronto.ca.

Calls for clients are usually posted in early and late summer. To ensure you receive notification, please update your email contact info here.

CURRENTLY SEEKING CLIENTS

ESC472 - Electrical & Computer Engineering Capstone Design

This one-term 4th year capstone course in EngSci's ECE major is offered in the Winter Term (January to April).

Students work with clients who provide a focused opportunity relevant to their business.

Past projects have involved a diverse range of topics and businesses, including:

A system to help identify which plastic was used in a 3D print for waste 3D print objects so they could be appropriately recycled
Signal processing pipeline for a biomarker extraction from multi-modal medical data
Signal process to aid in automated acoustic system tuning
Sensor node for forest fire monitoring
Financial data extraction transformation and loading from variety of sources
Improving latency in balloon-borne imaging telescope stabilization system

Please find a more detailed description and submission instructions here.

Submissions will close on Friday, October 31, 2025.

To ensure you receive notification of opportunities like this one, keep your profile in U of T Engineering CONNECT up-to-date, or update your alumni contact information here.

Host a student in your research lab

student in lab

Our Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program (ESROP) was created to harness and channel the enthusiasm that Engineering Science students have for research

It provides funding and placements for EngSci students who would like to spend a summer conducting research.

If you are a faculty member or researcher who is interested in hosting a student and would like to learn more, please contact our Curriculum & Research Officer, Don Newton, at curric.engsci@utoronto.ca.

Mentor a student

alumni and student mingling at a mentorship event at Hart House

Since 2005, the Alumni Mentorship Program (AMP) has fostered valuable relationships between Skule™ alumni and students. Alumni Mentors share their knowledge and experience and provide students with the encouragement and insights they need to get a great start to their careers and begin to set a course for the future.

The program runs throughout the academic year.

Alumni are welcome to join the AMP at any time. Mentors who are not matched with a mentee formally in October will be called upon over a dozen times throughout the year for one-off events related to mentoring students in a professional development setting.

Students' can join the program each fall.

See full program details here.

Hire a student or fellow graduate

The Engineering Career Centre (ECC) helps employers connect with current students and recent graduates for PEY Co-op placements, summer jobs, and full-time positions after graduation. The ECC can also arrange for employer info sessions to help raise your company's profile among students.

Alumni can also post job openings on the jobs board in U of T Engineering CONNECT to reach over 14,000 alumni and students.

If you'd like to publicize your job openings to EngSci students specifically, please contact our External Relations Officer, Christina Heidorn, at engsci@utoronto.ca.

Become a Regional or Class Ambassador

colourful Skule badges representing student groups

EngSci has over 6,000 alumni in around the world. We rely on many enthusiastic regional and class volunteers to help us stay in touch.

Become a Regional Ambassador to help support our existing communities or expand into new areas.

We also seek Skule™ Alumni Ambassadors who are essential to keeping your class connected with U of T Engineering. We are looking for alumni volunteers who keep in touch with their classmates and are willing to act as spokespeople for their graduating class and connect them for reunion events.

For more information, please contact Christina Heidorn, External Relations Officer, engsci@utoronto.ca.

Help shape the next class of EngSci

Become a Broad Based Admissions Assessor

Each year, the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering attracts impressive applicants from all over the world to join Canada’s #1 engineering school as an undergraduate student. While each applicant’s past academic performance is a critical factor in the admissions process, we firmly believe in the importance of understanding each prospect’s full potential through their extracurricular activities and future aspirations. Applicants share this information with the Admissions Committee through an Online Student Profile, which includes short written responses and video submissions. The Online Student Profile is imperative to the Faculty’s successful broad-based approach to admissions.

Alumni input enables the Faculty to extend offers of admission to talented future engineers.

Learn more about becoming an admissions assessor.

Nominate a fellow graduate for the EAN Awards

Being a U of T Engineering alumnus means being part of a group of leaders and innovators.

The Engineering Alumni Network (EAN) is a global community of more than 56,000 U of T Engineering alumni across 130 countries!

Each year, the EAN Awards celebrate our graduates’ notable achievements. We count on your insights and recommendations to identify your most inspiring classmates and colleagues. The awards are an important way for us to thank them for everything they contribute to our vibrant engineering community.

2025 EAN AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. We encourage you to nominate a fellow EngSci graduate for the 2026 awards. Nominations will open in late 2025 with a deadline in March 2026.

The EAN Awards include recognition for alumni at all stages of their career:

Rising Star Award
Research & Innovation Award
Industry Award
Citizenship Award
Distinguished Alumni Award
Honourary Alumnus/a Award

Find full details on the EAN Awards page.

Help us select students for summer research placement

collage of several photos of students at ESROP placement locations around the world

Become an ESROP Assessor

Every year the Division of Engineering Science selects about 40 students to complete summer research placements at top institutions around the world as part of its Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program called ESROP – Global.

See where some of the students have gone in previous years.

Looking for a way to give back to EngSci and support our current EngSci students' professional development? We are seeking alumni volunteers to help us assess the over 170 applications we expect to receive for this highly competitive program.

Can you spare about 2 hours of your time in early- to mid-January to assist us in selecting the best and the brightest? If so, keep an eye on your inbox in November/December for a call for volunteers.

To ensure you receive notification of opportunities like this one, keep your profile in U of T Engineering CONNECT up-to-date, or update your alumni contact information here.