General Engineering

Program Overview

General Engineering

Engineering @ UWindsor

Program Overview & Highlights

• Co-op Available
• Honours 4-Year Program
• BASc

Find your engineering focus. All our engineering programs start with the same courses in first year so you can learn more about each field (civil, environmental, electrical, industrial and mechanical). Then choose an area of study for second year. You’ll receive guidance from our world renowned faculty, hands-on learning in a supportive environment and gain the skills needed for a successful career.

All engineering programs begin with a general first year that provides students flexibility in program choice. In your first year, you will learn and explore subjects important to engineering, including:

• Forces, motions and movement
• Electricity and magnetism
• Mathematics and its applications
• Design and graphical communications
• Chemical and material interactions
• Technical communications
• Professional issues in the engineering disciplines
• Introductory electrical and computing

State-of-the-art educational space providing real world learning opportunities.

Small classes, for a hands-on experience to motivate your career.

1st year allows you to explore various engineering fields with the support of industry leaders.

Learn More About Our Program

+450 engineering student co-op placements in Canada and worldwide

80+ research labs and centres

89.6% Employment rate of graduates1

1 Two Years after Graduation (OUGS Engineering, 2020)

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

• Course Requirements: Advanced Functions/MHF4U, Chemistry/SCH4U, Physics/SPH4U, English/ENG4U
• Strongly Recommended: Calculus & Vectors/MCV4U
• Minimum Average: 74% (74% average of all math and science courses except Biology/SBI4U)
• Mean Average: 88%

High School Student from Outside Canada and the United States (International)

• Course Requirements: Grade 12 Advanced Functions, Grade 12 Chemistry, Grade 12 Physics. Grade 12 English.
• Strongly Recommended: Grade 12 Calculus & Vectors
• Minimum Average: 74% (74% average of all math and science courses except Grade 12 Biology)
• Mean Average: 88%

Career Tracks

• State-of-the-art manufacturing and production
• Aerospace industry
• Renewable energies
• Systems design/operation/building/maintenance
• Water resources
• Transportation
• Pollution control and prevention
• Advanced computing and communications
• Medicine and medical technology
• Bio-based engineering
• Structural design
• Failure analysis
• Construction and infrastructure renewal
• Scheduling and optimization
• Automotive product development
• Environmental protection
• Project, process and systems management
• Robotics and advanced electronics
• Power generation and distribution

Related Programs

• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

If you did not take Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U) in high school, please identify yourself to the WINONE Office for First-Year Engineering by sending an email to . After review, you will likely be enrolled in alternate math courses.

Required Course Notes

Students entering all four-year undergraduate engineering programs will be automatically enrolled for the following five required courses:

• GENG 1101
• GENG 1102
• MATH 1270
• MATH 1720
• PHYS 1400

Required Courses

GENG 1102: Engineering Graphics

Visualization techniques, graphical communication using sketching, descriptive geometry, and computer-aided design (CAD) for orthographic projection, pictorial drawings, dimensioning, section views, and auxiliary views. Reading engineering drawings. Engineering graphics e-portfolio and CAD project to develop visualization skills and task completion skills. (Open only to Engineering students.) (4.5 hours weekly.)

GENG 1101: Engineering I

Overview of the engineering profession: fields, career development, sustainability, health and safety, relation to society, business and entrepreneurship, ethics, equity, and Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation process. Academic integrity, strategies for university success, academic regulations, engineering-related extracurricular activities. Effective oral and written technical communication: informative and persuasive presentations; resumes and job search communications; technical writing and formatting; information gathering and analysis; research documentation and referencing; the use of visual tools such as graphs, figures, and tables; e-portfolios; and technical reports. (Open only to Engineering students.) (3 lecture hours and 1.5 tutorial hours weekly)

MATH 1720: Differential Calculus

This course will cover trigonometric functions and identities, inverse trigonometric functions, limits and continuity, derivatives and applications, mean value theorem, indeterminate forms and l’Hôpital’s rule, antiderivatives and an introduction to definite integrals. This course is for students who have taken both Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U). Students who do not have credit for MCV4U should take MATH-1760. (Prerequisites: Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U) or MATH-1780.) (Antirequisite: MATH-1760.) (3 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

MATH 1270: Linear Algebra (Engineering)

This course will cover linear systems, linear transformations, matrix algebra, determinants, vectors in Rn, dot product, orthogonalization, diagonalization, eigenvectors and eigenvalues, in the context of and with an emphasis on a broad range of applications in Science and Engineering. (Prerequisite: MATH-1280 or both Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U)) (Antirequisite: MATH-1250, or MATH-1260.) (3 lectures hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

PHYS 1400: Introductory Physics I

First semester in a four-semester sequence in calculus-based introductory physics with an emphasis on mechanics. (Prerequisites: Grade 12“U” Advanced Functions and Introductory Calculus or equivalent. Recommended co-requisite: MATH-1720.) (3 lecture hours per week, 3 laboratory hours per week.) Open to students in Engineering, Human Kinetics, Forensic Science, Bachelor of Arts and Science, and all programs within in the Faculty of Science; exceptions only with the permission of the Head or designate. (Antirequisites: PHYS-1300, PHYS-1305.)