Co-Op Education with a Sustainability Lens: A Case Study from University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo is world renowned for its co-operative education program. This type of education model lends itself greatly to excellent employability and career success outcomes across all faculties. The Faculty of Engineering is the seminal faculty at the university, and has mandatory co-op built into its DNA. The multiple experience model has resulted in high employability and career readiness outcomes. As a deeper quality aspect of the co-op model, bearing in mind the critical need to graduate students who can advance sustainability in their careers, specific programming has been put in place to develop this change agent mentality and pathways that has shown excellent outcomes.