Teaching Assistantships

All full-time graduate students (including M.Eng. students) are eligible to apply for Teaching Assistant (TA) positions, to assist undergraduate and graduate course instructors with duties that include supervision of labs, leading tutorials, and marking of assignments and term tests. The MIE Undergraduate Studies Office administers the application and selection process for undergraduate courses, a month or two ahead of each academic term; the MIE Graduate Studies Office does the same for graduate courses, at the beginning of each academic term. The terms of employment are set out in a Collective Agreement between the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3902 and the Governing Council of the University of Toronto.

The Department of MIE does not usually include money earned as a TA in calculating a student's funding package. As a result, students are not guaranteed TA positions, but rather are hired via a selection process that considers the recommendations of course instructors. TA applicants are thus encouraged to contact instructors for whom they would like to work, to make instructors aware of their credentials.