Volunteer opportunities

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.

CURRENTLY SEEKING CLIENTS

ESC470 - Energy Systems Capstone Design

This one-term 4th year capstone coure in EngSci's energy systems major is offered in the Fall Term (September to December).

Students work with clients who provide a focused opportunity relevant to their business. Please find a more detailed description and submission instructions here.

Submissions will close at 5:00 PM EDT on Monday, July 31, 2023.

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.

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 acting Curriculum Officer, Don Newton, at curric.engsci@utoronto.ca.

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.

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 12,000 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.

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.

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.

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

Every year, the Engineering Alumni Network (EAN) recognizes excellence amongst our peers through the EAN Awards.

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

• Malcolm McGrath Alumni Achievement Award for volunteer service
• 7T6 Early Career Award for alumni 1 - 10 years after graduation
• 2T5 Mid-Career Achievement Award for alumni 11 - 25 years after graduation
• Hall of Distinction
• Engineering Alumni Medal

2023 EAN AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

The recipients will be announced in September 2023.
Details about the 2024 awards will be announced in January 2024.

Find award criteria, nomination instructions, and past award winners at the above link.

Become an ESROP Assessor

Every year the Division of Engineering Science selects about 50 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 last year's students went.

Looking for a way to give back to EngSci and help current EngSci students?  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 mid-January to assist us in selecting the best and the brightest? Our annual call for volunteer assessors will be posted in late fall of 2023.

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.