Bioresource Engineering (Non-Thesis): Environmental Engineering (M.Sc.A.) (45 credits)
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Degree: Master of Science Applied
Program credit weight: 45
Program Description
This inter-departmental graduate program leads to a master's degree in Environmental Engineering. The objective of the program is to train environmental professionals at an advanced level. The program is designed for individuals with an undergraduate degree in engineering. This non-thesis degree falls within the M.Eng. and M.Sc. programs which are offered in the Departments of Bioresource, Chemical, Civil, and Mining, Metals, and Materials Engineering.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Research Project (6 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BREE 671 | Project 1. 1 | 6 |
Project 1. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Supervised research project. | ||
| BREE 672 | Project 2. | 6 |
Project 2. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Supervised research project. | ||
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BREE 671 Project 1. may also be taken as part of this requirement.
Required Courses (9 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BREE 533 | Water Quality Management. | 3 |
Water Quality Management. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The water phases of terrestrial ecological systems and the processes that link them. Physical, chemical, and biological properties of water, and water quality standards. The fate and transport of pollutants in rivers and streams, lakes, and wetlands. Methods to quantify soil carbon and nitrogen cycle to predict nutrient leaching. Impacts of human activities (e.g., agricultural drainage) on water quality and measures to improve drainage water quality. Assess the effectiveness of proposed engineering measures or management practices in improving or maintaining water quality of a real site/water body using numerical methods or a computer modelling approach. | ||
| CHEE 591 | Environmental Bioremediation. | 3 |
Environmental Bioremediation. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The presence and role of microorganisms in the environment, the role of microbes in environmental remediation either through natural or human-mediated processes, the application of microbes in pollution control and the monitoring of environmental pollutants. | ||
| CIVE 615 | Environmental Engineering Seminar. | 3 |
Environmental Engineering Seminar. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course will expose the students to various environmental engineering issues. Lectures will be given by faculty and invited speakers from industry. Each student is required to prepare a written technical paper and make oral presentation. | ||
Complementary Courses (19 credits)
Data Analysis Course
3 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AEMA 611 | Experimental Designs 1. | 3 |
Experimental Designs 1. Terms offered: Winter 2026 General principles of experimental design, split-plot designs, spatial heterogeneity and experimental design, incomplete block designs and unbalanced designs, analysis of repeated measures, multivariate and modified univariate analyses of variance, central composite designs. | ||
| CIVE 555 | Environmental Data Analysis. | 3 |
Environmental Data Analysis. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Application of statistical principles to design of measurement systems and sampling programs. Introduction to experimental design. Graphical data analysis. Description of uncertainty. Hypothesis tests. Model parameter estimation methods: linear and nonlinear regression methods. Trend analysis. Statistical analysis of censored data. Statistics of extremes. | ||
| PSYC 650 | Advanced Statistics 1. | 3 |
Advanced Statistics 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A course in advanced statistics with specialization in experimental design. | ||
Toxicology Course
3 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| OCCH 612 | Principles of Toxicology. | 3 |
Principles of Toxicology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. General principles of toxicology, routes of toxicant entry, human organs as targets of toxic action, adverse effects, time-course of reactions to toxicants. Risk assessment techniques, in vivo-in vitro toxicity models, links between human population observations and animal, cellular and biochemical models. | ||
| OCCH 616 | Occupational Hygiene. | 3 |
Occupational Hygiene. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the principles and practices of industrial hygiene designed to provide the students with the knowledge required to identify health and safety hazards in the workplace. | ||
Water Pollution Engineering Course
4 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 651 | Theory: Water / Wastewater Treatment. | 4 |
Theory: Water / Wastewater Treatment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Theoretical aspects of the chemistry of water and wastewater treatment. This will include acid-base and solubility equilibria; redox reactions; reaction kinetics; reactor design; surface and colloid chemistry; gas transfer; mass transfer; stabilization and softening; disinfection; corrosion. | ||
| CIVE 652 | Bioprocesses for Wastewater Resource Recovery. | 4 |
Bioprocesses for Wastewater Resource Recovery. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Technologies and design approaches for reclaiming water, nutrients, carbon and energy, while achieving protection of human and environmental health in the context of enhancing sustainability. Unit processes for both wastewater and solids-handling trains. Advanced mathematical modeling to describe suspended-growth and attached-growth multispecies bioreactors for aerobic, anaerobic and phototrophic processes. Microbial diversity in different reactor conditions, and specific population metabolisms explaining important stoichiometries and kinetics. Advanced molecular microbiology techniques to document microbial diversity and dynamics. Bioreactor designs in the context of stakeholder interactions and energy efficiency. | ||
| CIVE 660 | Chemical and Physical Treatment of Waters. | 4 |
Chemical and Physical Treatment of Waters. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Theory and design of specific processes used for the physical and/or chemical purification of waters and wastewaters, including mixing, flocculation, sedimentation, flotation, filtration, disinfection, adsorption, ion exchange, aeration, membrane processes, distillation, removal of specific inorganics and organics, taste and odour control, process control, sludge treatment. Laboratory exercises will complement theoretical aspects. | ||
Air Pollution Engineering Course
3 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CHEE 592 | Industrial Air Pollution Control. | 3 |
Industrial Air Pollution Control. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Air pollution effects, control laws and regulations, measurements; emission estimates, meteorology for air pollution control engineers, dispersion models, nature of particulate pollutants, control of primary particulates, control of volatile organic compounds, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides; air pollutants and global climate. | ||
| MECH 534 | Air Pollution Engineering. | 3 |
Air Pollution Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Pollutants from power production and their effects on the environment. Mechanisms of pollutant formation in combustion. Photochemical pollutants and smog, atmospheric dispersion. Pollutant generation from internal combustion engines and stationary power plants. Methods of pollution control (exhaust gas treatment, absorption, filtration, scrubbers, etc.). | ||
or an approved 500-, 600-, or 700-level alternative course.
Environmental Impact Course
3 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| GEOG 601 | Advanced Environmental Systems Modelling. | 3 |
Advanced Environmental Systems Modelling. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Simulation of environmental systems, focusing on problem definition, model development and model validation. | ||
or an approved 500-, 600-, or 700-level alternative course.
Environmental Policy Course
3 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| URBP 506 | Environmental Policy and Planning. | 3 |
Environmental Policy and Planning. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing environmental issues at various scales; characteristics of environmental issues, science-policy-politics interactions relating to the environment, and implications for policy; sustainability, and the need for and challenges associated with interdisciplinary perspectives; externalities and their regulation; public goods; risk perception and implications; the political-institutional context and policy instruments; cost-benefit analysis; multiple-criteria decision-making approaches; multidimensional life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; conflict resolution; case studies. | ||
or an approved 500-, 600-, or 700-level alternative course.
Further complementary courses (balance of coursework to meet the 45-credit program requirement):
Remaining Engineering or Non-Engineering courses from an approved list of courses, at the 500, 600, or 700 level, from the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Religious Studies, Desautels Faculty of Management, and Departments of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Economics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Geography, Occupational Health, Political Science, Sociology, and the Bieler School of Environment.