Civil Engineering

Overview of the Civil Engineering Program

Civil engineers plan, design, and build the infrastructure, which we all use, everyday. Most of us cannot imagine a world without roads, bridges, water supply, waste treatment facilities, and power delivered to our homes. Civil engineers not only build these facilities but manage, operate, and maintain them 24 hours each day.

If you are intrigued by technologies for planning and building civil infrastructures and urban systems, the program offered in the Department can prepare you for success in this rewarding field. You will receive a balanced education composed of the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to become a valued professional. The program provides students with the basic knowledge and skills to enter the civil engineering profession.

In the first two years of the program, you will see how the major areas environmental, geomatics, geotechnical, structural, and transportation engineering come together to form the field of civil engineering. In the third year of the program, you will choose either to remain in the regular Civil Engineering stream or specialize in Geomatics Engineering option.

If you continue in the regular Civil Engineering Stream, you will concentrate on construction management, engineering law, advanced concrete and structural design, highway engineering, and either solid waste management and advanced structural analysis. You will be prepared for work in the areas of environmental, geo-environmental, transportation, structural, and project management. Potential employers include construction companies, consulting engineers, construction materials suppliers, municipalities, and other government agencies.

Our Geomatics Engineering Option, unique in Canada, reflects changes to the surveying profession, which has evolved beyond data collection. The program curriculum focuses on modern spatial 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. As a graduate of the Geomatics Engineering program, you will be in demand in this rapidly changing and booming field. Potential employers include companies and organizations from nearly all segments of the commercial, public, government, and academic communities.

Industrial Internship Program

Optional Industrial Internship Program (IIP): Third year student with CLEAR academic standing may opt to enroll in the IIP. If they are selected by one of the partner corporations, they spend a period of 12-16 months, from May to September of the following year, as engineering interns at the corresponding corporations. After the completion of the industrial internship, students return to the academic program to complete their final year of studies. Enrollment in the IIP extends the program to five years.

The IIP students register in the course WKT 088 Industrial Internship Program during the academic year in which they work as interns. This course is graded on a pass/fail basis. A PSD grade has no numerical value and is not included in a student's grade point average; a Failure is graded as an 'F' and is included in a student's grade point average. Participation and successful completion of the IIP, however, appears in the student's academic transcript.

A graduate of the Civil Engineering Stream or Geomatics Engineering Option will be eligible for certification by the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) as a Professional Engineer (P. Eng.). A graduate of the Geomatics Engineering Option will also be eligible for certification by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyor (AOLS) as an Ontario Land Surveyor.

First Year Transition Program

The objective of the Transition Program is to provide the first year students, who may need more time to adapt to the demanding university curriculum, with an immediate opportunity to upgrade their academic standing. In the second semester, Phase I of the Transition Program offers the course MTH 140 in parallel to the second semester regular program courses. Students who have failed or are missing any one of these courses at the end of the first semester (VENR1) are required to upgrade their academic standing through enrolling in the Transition Program. During the condensed Spring term (May July), Phase II of the Transition Program offers the courses MTH240, PCS211, and CPS125. These courses represent a repeat of the second semester regular program courses that were not taken by students enrolled in Phase I of the Transition Program.

Degree

Accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB), the Department awards a Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) degree to graduates from both the Civil Engineering program and Geomatics Engineering program.

First-Year Studies

Course load is approximately 26 hours per week including lecture hours and lab hours. The courses include Calculus I & II, Chemistry, Engineering Mechanics and Graphics, Digital Computation and Programming, Materials Science Fundamentals, Linear Algebra, Physics I & II, and two Liberal Studies courses.

Admission Requirements

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