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 University, you learn concepts and theories in our classrooms and labs. By the end of the third year of your undergraduate program, you can choose between the regular Civil Engineering stream or the Geomatics Engineering option for your fourth year of studies. The Civil Engineering stream focuses in the areas of environmental, geo-environmental, geo-technical, transportation, structural/materials and project management. The Geomatics Engineering option curriculum focuses on modern spatial data management systems with applications in satellite positioning, digital image processing and mapping, remote sensing and photogrammetry, geographical information systems and computer and communication technologies. Our department enrolls over 500 undergraduate students and over 125 graduate students. Our PhD program started in September 2004 and it is growing steadily every year. 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 their great successes and the many awards that they have received. Our students have also won many awards in different categories in the Concrete Canoe Competition and the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR). Ryerson students won Third Place overall and also received the award for Best Concrete Mix Design in the 2011 (GNCTR).This past year Ryerson University has been named an ACI Outstanding University for Student Activities, Ryerson is one of fifteen Universities that reached this level of recognition in 2010. This year also, a fourth-year Capstone Design Project group won Third Place in the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Competition and a Thesis Degree Project Group won Third Place in the 2011 Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Undergraduate Students Competition. A graduate studies student placed Second in the 2011 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Competition, Southern Ontario Section. Geomatics engineering graduate students won the First Four Places at the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors Annual Research Posters 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 and labs. Your teachers include faculty members who have won national, provincial and university awards for their teaching. Our faculty members have also collectively published over 300 peer-reviewed journal papers and won over 30 national and international awards.

I hope that you will find the information in this Student Handbook useful. For more details, visit our website at www.ryerson.ca/civil. Should you require assistance, please contact me.

Best Regards,

Dr. Khaled Sennah, P.Eng.

Chair