University of Waterloo Systems Design Engineering 2017 Class Profile | by Joey Loi | Medium

Sometimes a yearbook doesn’t quite cut it. In our final semester of university, the Systems Design Engineering class of 2017 was curious and wanted to dig a little deeper. We wanted something that captured our five years at the University of Waterloo and could give a sense of who we had become. What resulted was an in-depth survey, asking questions that covered everything from co-op salaries to love lives, from family origins to dreams for the future. 94% of the 82 students participated, resulting in a complete and comprehensive profile of our class. Here are a few highlights from our class profile (or see the full version): By the final co-op term, over 40% of the class was working in the US [slide 9]. One driving factor was likely the massive salary gap between US and Canadian jobs, with Canadian salaries averaging $25.40/hr CAD, while those in the US averaging almost twice that at $49.40/hr CAD [8]. This gap is in part due to the significant exchange-rate boost (1 USD = 1.31 CAD at

Sometimes a yearbook doesn’t quite cut it. In our final semester of university, the Systems Design Engineering class of 2017 was curious and wanted to dig a little deeper. We wanted something that captured our five years at the University of Waterloo and could give a sense of who we had become. What resulted was an in-depth survey, asking questions that covered everything from co-op salaries to love lives, from family origins to dreams for the future. 94% of the 82 students participated, resulting in a complete and comprehensive profile of our class. Here are a few highlights from our class pr