Civil Engineering
Hello
and welcome to the road to excellence!The Department of Civil Engineering vision is to become one of the best civil engineering programs in Canada, and we are making steady progress toward the realization of this goal.
When you study Civil Engineering at Ryerson you have choices. You can choose between the regular Civil Engineering stream and our unique Geomatics Engineering option. As an undergraduate you will learn concepts and theories in our classrooms and labs. The Civil Engineering stream will prepare you for work in the areas of environmental, geo-environmental, geo-technical, transportation, structural and project management. The Geomatics Engineering curriculum focuses on modern information management that integrate state-of-the-art theories, technologies, and applications of digital image processing and digital mapping, remote sensing and photogrammetry, geographical information systems, satellite positioning and navigation, and computer and communication technologies. Our department enrolls over 350 undergraduate students and over 150 graduate students. Our new PhD program started in September 2004 and it is growing steadily. Leaders from industry and government in our Advisory Council help keep our curriculum more relevant.
Our undergraduate and graduate students are excelling in many peer competitions at international, national and regional levels and we are very proud of the many awards that they have received. Recently, two fourth year undergraduate degree projects student groups placed First and Third in a national competition sponsored by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) at the annual conference in June 2008. In 2007 we had two groups of students enter the American Concrete Institute (ACI) International Competition and compete for the first time in the FRP Beam Competition and both groups won First and Second places. This last year Ryerson placed second among 21 competing teams in the ACI Concrete Construction Competition. Since 2004 our students have participated in the Concrete Canoe Competition and have won many awards in different categories. More recently in 2006 they won the Innovation Award and in 2007 they won First Place in Women's Sprint Race, and Second Place in Men's and Women's Endurance Races. We also had three teams compete in the 24th Annual Troitsky Bridge Building Competition (2008) in Concordia University and they achieved Third, Fourth and Thirteenth places out of twenty-six competing teams. Also in 2008 our students competed for the second time in the annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) in Sherbrooke, Quebec. This competition challenged twenty-four national teams of engineering students to be innovative and original in building a five-person toboggan made of concrete and our students achieved second place ranking and first place in the category of Best Steering! One of our fourth-year civil engineering undergraduate students won the Institute of Transportation Engineers Toronto/Hamilton Sections Student Paper Presentation Competition.
In the Department of Civil Engineering you will be taught by dedicated faculty members who are engaged in exciting engineering research and development projects, many in collaboration with industry who bring this expertise to the classroom. Your teachers will include faculty members who have won national, provincial and university awards for teaching. Our faculty members have collectively published over 300 peer-reviewed journal papers, won over 29 national and international awards, and published two bestseller books.
I hope that you will find this information useful. For more details, visit our website at www.civil.ryerson.ca. Should you require assistance, please contact me.
Best Regards,
Dr. Hesham Marzouk, Chair
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