MEng in Civil Engineering

at McGill University

Thesis Program Details:

The M.Sc. in Civil Engineering focuses on structures and structural materials; infrastructure rehabilitation; risk engineering; fluid mechanics and hydraulics; materials engineering; soil behaviour; soil mechanics and foundations; water resources engineering; environmental engineering; and transportation engineering. A two- to three-semester independent research project is undertaken in one of these fields, leading to a thesis.

Thesis Courses (27 credits)
 

• CIVE 630 Thesis Research 1 (3 credits)

• CIVE 631 Thesis Research 2 (3 credits)

• CIVE 632 Thesis Research 3 (3 credits)

• CIVE 633 Thesis Research 4 (6 credits)

• CIVE 634 Thesis Research 5 (6 credits)

• CIVE 635 Thesis Research 6 (6 credits)

Required Course

1 credit:
 

• CIVE 662 Master's (Thesis) Research Seminar (1 credit)
   

Complementary Courses (17 credits)

17 credits at the 500 or 600 level, with at least 8 credits at the 600 level.

Non-Thesis Program Details:

The MEng Non-Thesis program aims to provide a more professional orientation to graduate students. The main features of this degree program are:

A minimum of 15 credits selected from a list of research oriented courses

A maximum of 30 credits with emphasis on expertise (specialty area) for professional practice.

Research Seminar (3 credits)
 

• CIVE 664 MEng (Non-thesis) Research Seminar (3 credits)

List A: Research Courses

(12-42) credits

A minimum of 12 credits from research courses, from one of the research streams: 1) Infrastructure, 2) Environmental/Hydraulics-Water Resources, and 3) Transportation.

Infrastructure Stream
 

• CIVE 512 Advanced Civil Engineering Materials (3 credits)

• CIVE 602 Finite Element Analysis (4 credits)

• CIVE 603 Structural Dynamics (4 credits)

• CIVE 609 Risk Engineering (4 credits)

• CIVE 623 Durability of Construction Materials (4 credits)

Environmental/Hydraulics-Water Resources
 

• CIVE 555 Environmental Data Analysis (3 credits)

• CIVE 572 Computational Hydraulics (3 credits)

• CIVE 584 Mechanics of Groundwater Flow (3 credits)

• CIVE 651 Theory: Water / Wastewater Treatment (4 credits)

• CIVE 677 Water-Energy Sustainability (4 credits)

Transportation
 

• CIVE 540 Urban Transportation Planning (3 credits)

• CIVE 542 Transportation Network Analysis (3 credits)

• CIVE 560 Transportation Safety and Design (3 credits)

• CIVE 609 Risk Engineering (4 credits)

List B: Other Complementary Courses from the Department

0-30 credits

Courses from List A that are not used to fulfill the 15 credits requirement of Research Courses can be used also as complementary courses.
 

• CIVE 520 Groundwater Hydrology (3 credits)

• CIVE 521 Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment (3 credits)

• CIVE 527 Renovation and Preservation: Infrastructure (3 credits)

• CIVE 550 Water Resources Management (3 credits)

• CIVE 551 Environmental Transport Processes (3 credits)

• CIVE 557 Microbiology for Environmental Engineering (3 credits)

• CIVE 558 Biomolecular Techniques for Environmental Engineering (3 credits)

• CIVE 561 Greenhouse Gas Emissions (3 credits)

• CIVE 573 Hydraulic Structures (3 credits)

• CIVE 574 Fluid Mechanics of Water Pollution (3 credits)

• CIVE 577 River Engineering (3 credits)

• CIVE 604 Theory of Plates and Shells (4 credits)

• CIVE 605 Stability of Structures (4 credits)

• CIVE 607 Advanced Design in Steel (4 credits)

• CIVE 612 Earthquake-Resistant Design (4 credits)

• CIVE 614 Composites for Construction (4 credits)

• CIVE 615 Environmental Engineering Seminar (3 credits)

• CIVE 616 Nonlinear Structural Analysis for Buildings (4 credits)

• CIVE 617 Bridge Engineering (4 credits)

• CIVE 618 Design in Concrete 1 (4 credits)

• CIVE 622 Prestressed Concrete (4 credits)

• CIVE 625 Condition Assessment of Existing Structures (4 credits)

• CIVE 628 Design of Wood Structures (4 credits)

• CIVE 637 Discrete Choice Modeling in Transportation (4 credits)

• CIVE 652 Bioprocesses for Wastewater Resource Recovery (4 credits)

• CIVE 660 Chemical and Physical Treatment of Waters (4 credits)

• CIVE 661 Modelling of Transportation Emissions (4 credits)

• CIVE 663 Environmental Fate of Organic Chemicals (4 credits)

• CIVE 683 Advanced Foundation Design (4 credits)

• CIVE 686 Site Remediation (4 credits)

Project Courses

0 or 5-15 credits

Credits for a program may vary, depending on the amount of work involved. Project courses are chosen from the following:
 

• CIVE 691 Research Project 1 (1 credit)

• CIVE 692 Research Project 2 (2 credits)

• CIVE 693 Research Project 3 (3 credits)

• CIVE 694 Research Project 4 (4 credits)

• CIVE 695 Research Project 5 (5 credits)

• CIVE 696 Research Project 6 (6 credits)

• CIVE 697 Research Project 7 (7 credits)

Graduate courses from other McGill Engineering Departments are also allowed as complementary courses. A maximum of 1/3 of coursework credits can be taken outside McGill. Approval is required from the Department in both cases.

• Application form

• Application fee

• English Proficiency

• Transcripts

• Letters of reference

Annual tuition fees

CA $26,956