Price Faculty of Engineering

Community and partners

As a primary hub for engineering research and education in the prairies, our success is predicated on the success of our graduates. As the oldest engineering school in Western Canada, we continue to enjoy strong support from our many alumni and diverse community while building on past successes to forge new and innovative partnerships to meet industry demands.

From participating in one of our partnership programs to monetary donations, there are countless ways you can make a difference to the Price Faculty of Engineering and our students.

Make a donation
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Work with engineering students

Over 85 per cent of professional engineers in Manitoba are graduates of the Price Faculty of Engineering. Through our co-op and partnership programs, you can make valuable connections with early-career engineers, bringing benefits to your organization, participating students and the industry as a whole.

Community

High school engagement
Are you a supporter of a student who might be interested in pursuing engineering?

The Price Faculty of Engineering can create a unique experience for high school students, including field trips, lab tours, faculty presentations, or having a student ambassador visit your school.

We would love to connect with you!

Please download the resources below to share with students.
Request engineering engagement (form) What is Engineering? (PDF) Preliminary year fact sheet (PDF) Biosystems Engineering (PDF) Civil Engineering (PDF) Computer Engineering (PDF) Electrical Engineering (PDF) Mechanical Engineering (PDF)

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Support the Price Faculty of Engineering

By making a gift to the faculty, you are making a difference to the engineers of the future. The quality of our programs and spaces are all thanks to your generous support!

Whether you are passionate about student experiences, Indigenous achievements or cutting edge research, you have the opportunity to support the areas most important to you.

  • Price Faculty Strategic Initiatives

    Your gift advances initiatives that are otherwise out of immediate reach – developing a modern student learning commons, expanding makerspace facilities, updating signature learning spaces in the Faculty, and supporting student co-curricular student initiatives. 

  • Price Faculty of Engineering Endowment Fund

    Your gift supports strategic needs in undergraduate programs and facilities in the Faculty, including support for student design teams and groups, improvements to our technology infrastructure, and upgrades to undergraduate teaching labs across the Faculty.  

  • Price Faculty of Engineering Bursaries Fund

    Your gift substantially reduces the cost of an engineering education for students with demonstrated financial need, allowing students to focus on the defining moments of university - classes, extra-curricular teams and groups, student government, co-op/internships, and so much more. 

  • ENGAP Scholarship Fund and the ENGAP Bursary Fund

    Indigenous Canadian students in the ENGAP Program often face higher financial challenges than other students, and this fund is particularly impactful to supporting their success. 

  • WISE Kid-Netic Energy

    The largest K-12 community outreach program offered by UM. It brings engineering and science curriculum-based workshops for schools, clubs, and camps to children and youth in Winnipeg, rural and remote Manitoba. 

  • Indigenous Black Engineering Technology (IBET) Fellowship Fund

    We are proud to have joined the national IBET network to increase the numbers of Indigenous and Black engineering PhD students and future academics and practicing engineers.  

  • Douglas and Beverly Ruth Centenary Award in Engineering

    Your support furthers Dean Emeritus Doug Ruth’s vision to directly support student success in the Price Faculty of Engineering and make it accessible to as many students as possible.  

  • Engineering Building Fund

    Your support allows us to maintain these signature buildings as state of the art teaching, learning and research spaces. 

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  • At the Price Faculty of Engineering, our co-curricular student design competition teams excel! When you designate your support to any of these teams, your gift will go directly to students. 

    • Biomedical Engineering Design Team
    • UM Association of Tiny Tractors
    • UM Concrete Canoe
    • UM EARTH
    • UM Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race 
    • UM Robotics Team
    • UM Shell EcoMotion
    • UM Society of Automotive Engineers (Formula, Formula Electric, Baja, and Aero)
    • UM Space Applications and Technology Society
    • UM Steel Bridge Team
    • UM Unpiloted Aerial Systems Team
    • UM Wind Energy Design Team
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  • Other ways to support students and research 

    • Price Faculty of Engineering Student Recruitment Fund
    • Price Faculty of Engineering Graduate Student Recruitment Fund
    • Engineering Academic Excellence Scholarships
    • Engineering Graduate Fellowships Fund
    • ENGAP Bursaries for Co-op Students
    • Biomedical Engineering Alzheimer's Research

    To learn about alumni class funds and other named scholarships, bursaries and awards, please contact us. 

Alumni

As alumni, you are our best ambassadors, advocates, champions, thought-leaders and the finest example of how a degree from the University of Manitoba helps better our world.

Contact us

Price Faculty of Engineering
E2-290 Engineering and Information Technology Complex
75A Chancellors Circle
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg MB, R3T 5V6

eng.info@umanitoba.ca
204-474-9809
EITC 1, EITC 3, & SPEB: Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 10:00 pm
EITC 2: Monday to Friday 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
All EITC buildings: Saturday & Sunday 8:00 am to 6:00 pm