Since 2021, University of Engineering Students have had 1 or 2 teams every year place 1st or 2nd at the Western Engineering Competition (WEC) and move forward to the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC).  

  • In March 2025, 12 students advanced to the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. UVic was the only school to win two gold medals!

    • Programming (team of 4)

    • Debate (team of 2)

    In addition, The Programming team also received the Canadian Engineering Grand Challenges Design Award as well!

  • In 2024, they had a Re-engineering team move forward from WEC

  • The full participation in the Fall, then they will be sending 39 students to the Western Engineering Competition (WEC), which this year is being hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Where UVic won 4 of the 8 categories:

    • Consulting

    • Re-Engineering

    • Programming

    • Debate

  • In 2023, they had a Programming and Senior Design team move forward from WEC, and Senior Design got 1st at CEC.

  • In 2022, they had a Consulting team move forward from WEC,

  • In 2021, they had 2 Programming teams move forward from WEC and get 1st place and 2nd place at CEC.