Also rated within the top 101-150 programs in the world were the Faculty's water resources and telecommunication engineering disciplines.

Engineering students at McMaster University can purchase leather jackets with their faculty and graduation date embroidered on the arms and back of the coat.

The musical takes a well known play, theme, or story and uses it as inspiration, but with a new script that includes jokes about professors, courses, faculty, and "arties".

McMaster's Faculty of Engineering emerged from Hamilton College in 1958 and hence adopted a red fireball as its own emblem in 1960.

[9] The fireball symbol is used widely by both the faculty and students to represent everything from culture, to excellence in research and innovation, as well as the energy that cuts across science and engineering.

[10] In 2016, the Engineering Student Society of Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario applied to make the fireball a registered trademark.

[11] The faculty's facilities include: The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster is home to the world's most advanced microscope.

[12] It was designed and built as a thesis project by four Mechanical Engineering students: Patrick Burton, Braden Kurczak, Michael Paddags, and Peter Whitred.

The clock was designed in large part in a four-month period at the end of 2002, with some features that were originally intended for an outdoor installation.

The clock keeps time through the use of a synchronous alternating current motor, which regulates its speed based on the frequency of the electricity that it is fed.

The two ring sections are made of forged stainless steel,[12] with machined surfaces, and facets cut using a robotic six-axis water jet cutter.

The total cost of the clock was approximately $20,000 CAD, which was raised through donations, with donors listed on a nearby plaque.

Other portions of the gear train are mounted on bronze bearings; these are expected to have a shorter wear life and will likely have to be replaced sooner than other gearbox components.

The Geneva wheel, made of aluminum for ease of manufacture, has also experienced some wear and will eventually need to be remade (the mechanism used in the clock differs slightly from the one shown in the graphic as it has only four spokes).