Civil Engineering (Non-Thesis) (M.Eng.) (45 credits)
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Degree: Master of Engineering
Program credit weight: 45
Program Description
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.
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 Seminar (3 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 664 | MEng (Non-thesis) Research Seminar. | 3 |
MEng (Non-thesis) Research Seminar. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course will expose the students to various civil engineering research issues. Lectures will be given by faculty, invited speakers from industry, and graduate students. Each student is required to prepare a written technical paper and make an oral presentation. | ||
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
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 512 | Advanced Civil Engineering Materials. | 3 |
Advanced Civil Engineering Materials. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Production, structure and properties of engineering materials; ferrous alloys, treatments, welding, special steels, cast iron; ceramic materials; polymers; composite materials; concrete, admixtures, structure, creep, shrinkage; asphalt and asphaltic materials; clay materials and bricks; impact of environment on material response, durability, quality assessment and control, industrial specifications; recent advances. | ||
| CIVE 602 | Finite Element Analysis. | 4 |
Finite Element Analysis. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Development of displacement based simple and high order, one, two and three dimensional elements for linear elastic stress analysis. Variational and other methods for element formulation. Plate bending and shell elements. Finite element programming. Use of package programs in static analysis of structures. | ||
| CIVE 603 | Structural Dynamics. | 4 |
Structural Dynamics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Dynamic loads on structures; equations of motion of linear single- and multiple-degree-of-freedom systems and of continuous systems; free and forced vibrations; damping in structures; modal superposition and time-history analysis; earthquake effects; provisions of the National Building Code of Canada for seismic analysis. | ||
| CIVE 609 | Risk Engineering. | 4 |
Risk Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Quantitative analysis of uncertainty in planning, design, construction, operation and rehabilitation of engineered facilities. Interprets fundamentals of probabilities, random processes, statistics, and decision analysis in the context of engineering applications, in particular description of variability of loads and environmental conditions, material properties performance prediction, system reliability analysis, and risk-based decision analysis. | ||
| CIVE 623 | Durability of Construction Materials . | 4 |
Durability of Construction Materials . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Durability-related deterioration mechanisms relevant to construction materials with an emphasis on promoting sustainability in the construction industry. Portland cement concrete, asphalt cement concrete, masonry, steel, wood, and fibre reinforced composites. Factors affecting durability, service life prediction, diagnosis, remediation, and protective measures. Introduction to relevant standards, specifications, guides, and design codes. | ||
Environmental/Hydraulics-Water Resources
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
| CIVE 572 | Computational Hydraulics. | 3 |
Computational Hydraulics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Computation of unsteady flows in open channels; abrupt waves, flood waves, tidal propagations; method of characteristics; mathematical modelling of river and coastal currents. | ||
| CIVE 584 | Mechanics of Groundwater Flow. | 3 |
Mechanics of Groundwater Flow. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Origins and types of groundwater; Darcy's law; hydraulic anisotropy; conservation laws; fundamental equations of porous media flow; Laplace's and Poisson's equations: analytical solution of potential flow problems; determination of hydraulic conductivity; flow in unconfined and confined acquifers; seepage modelling; unsaturated flow; transient flows in porous media; introduction to computational methods. | ||
| 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 677 | Water-Energy Sustainability. | 4 |
Water-Energy Sustainability. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Sustainable water resources management: water requirements and frameworks for allocations for agriculture, urbanization, resource extraction, energy production and the environment. Analysis and modelling of the constraints and implications, within and across sectors, of water allocation and energy production choices and their climate change impacts. Critical assessment of contemporary case studies related to the water-energy nexus | ||
Transportation
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 540 | Urban Transportation Planning. | 3 |
Urban Transportation Planning. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Process and techniques of urban transportation engineering and planning, including demand analysis framework, data collection procedures, travel demand modelling and forecasting, and cost-effectiveness framework for evaluation of project and system alternatives. | ||
| CIVE 542 | Transportation Network Analysis. | 3 |
Transportation Network Analysis. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to transportation network algorithms; analytical frameworks used in traditional transportation network software, including routing algorithms, deterministic equilibrium approach, static traffic assignment, dynamic traffic assignment, vehicle routing algorithms, network reliability and design and several stochastic variants. | ||
| CIVE 560 | Transportation Safety and Design. | 3 |
Transportation Safety and Design. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Fundamental concepts on transportation safety, traffic data collection techniques, crash database management, statistical methods for safety analysis, network screening methods, evaluation and design of treatments, railway safety analysis, surrogate safety methods, intersection safety and engineering countermeasures, non-motorized safety and facilities designs and accident severity analysis. | ||
| CIVE 609 | Risk Engineering. | 4 |
Risk Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Quantitative analysis of uncertainty in planning, design, construction, operation and rehabilitation of engineered facilities. Interprets fundamentals of probabilities, random processes, statistics, and decision analysis in the context of engineering applications, in particular description of variability of loads and environmental conditions, material properties performance prediction, system reliability analysis, and risk-based decision analysis. | ||
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.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 507 | Wind Engineering. | 3 |
Wind Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Davenport wind loading chain, wind climate, atmospheric boundary layer and turbulence, wind risk and statistics, bluff body aerodynamics, wind loads and structural responses, aeroelastic effects, building code approaches to estimate design wind loads, wind energy and sustainability, and introduction to wind tunnel tests and computational fluid dynamics. | ||
| CIVE 520 | Groundwater Hydrology. | 3 |
Groundwater Hydrology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Fundamentals of subsurface hydrological processes. Field data and simulation under parameter uncertainty. Numerical modelling. Quantifying groundwater resources and groundwater flow to wells. Groundwater sustainability from a multidisciplinary perspective including engineering and policy. | ||
| CIVE 521 | Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment. | 3 |
Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Environmental impacts and applications of nanomaterials. Topics: physicochemical characterization of nanoparticles in aquatic media, colloid chemistry for understanding nanoparticle aggregation and mobility in the environment, mechanisms of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production by nanomaterials, nanomaterials for environmental remediation and water treatment, methodologies for assessing nanoparticle toxicity, novel research developments. | ||
| CIVE 527 | Renovation and Preservation: Infrastructure. | 3 |
Renovation and Preservation: Infrastructure. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Maintenance, rehabilitation, renovation and preservation of infrastructure; infrastructure degradation mechanisms; mechanical, chemical and biological degradation; corrosion of steel; condition surveys and evaluation of buildings and bridges; repair and preservation of materials, techniques and strategies; codes and guidelines; case studies, sustainable development; group project. | ||
| CIVE 528 | Design of Wood Structures. | 3 |
Design of Wood Structures. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Review of wood material properties and grades. Design of sawn lumber and timber tension, bending, compression and beam-column members. Design of engineered wood products, glued-laminated and cross-laminated timber members. Design of connections. Moisture and humidity effects, deterioration and protection, fire performance, prescriptive design versus engineering design. | ||
| CIVE 550 | Water Resources Management. | 3 |
Water Resources Management. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. State-of-the-art water resources management techniques; case studies of their application to Canadian situations; identification of major issues and problem areas; interprovincial and international river basins; implications of development alternatives; institutional arrangements for planning and development of water resources; and, legal and economic aspects. | ||
| CIVE 557 | Microbiology for Environmental Engineering. | 3 |
Microbiology for Environmental Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Microbiological concepts applied to the practice of environmental engineering and biotechnologies including the following topics: cellular and pathway organizations, evolution, growth, gene expression, horizontal gene transfer, metabolic microbial diversity, ecosystem structures, and quantitative mathematical modelling. | ||
| CIVE 561 | Greenhouse Gas Emissions. | 3 |
Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Greenhouse gas inventories at various scales from national to institutional. Emission estimation methods including field measurements and engineering calculations for anthropogenic sources including fossil fuel combustion from transportation and energy production, cement production, hydroelectric reservoirs, oil and gas systems, landfills, wastewater treatment and sewer systems, and agriculture. Technical and policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Group project. | ||
| CIVE 570 | Solar Driven Environmental Processes and Technologies | 3 |
Solar Driven Environmental Processes and Technologies Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of natural and engineered processes that are driven by solar energy. Fundamental physics of light and environmental photochemistry. Terrestrial energy balance. Solar driven environmental transformation and decay processes, including chemical and biological case studies. Solar energy harnessing materials and their applications in sustainable green energy generation and environmental remediation including solar cells, photocatalysts, solar heating and cooling, and solar water treatment. | ||
| CIVE 573 | Hydraulic Structures. | 3 |
Hydraulic Structures. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Hydraulic aspects of the theory and design of hydraulic structures. Storage dams, spillways, outlet works, diversion works, drop structures, stone structures, conveyance and control structures, flow measurement and culverts. | ||
| CIVE 574 | Fluid Mechanics of Water Pollution. | 3 |
Fluid Mechanics of Water Pollution. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Mixing, dilution and dispersion of pollutants discharged into lakes, rivers, estuaries and oceans; salinity intrusion in estuaries and its effects on dispersion; biochemical oxygen demand and dissolved oxygen as water quality indicators; thermal pollution; oil pollution. | ||
| CIVE 577 | River Engineering. | 3 |
River Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Fluvial geomorphology; sediment properties; river turbulence; mechanics of the entrainment, transportation and deposition of solids by fluids; threshold of movement; bed forms; suspended load, bed load and total load equations; stable channel design and regime rivers; river modelling; river engineering; and river management. | ||
| CIVE 604 | Theory of Plates and Shells. | 4 |
Theory of Plates and Shells. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Analysis of stresses and deformations in plates bent by transverse loads. Circular and rectangular plates. Membrane theory of shells. Axially symmetric bending of cylindrical, conical and spherical shells. Shells of revolution; theory of shallow shells. Use of package programs in the analysis of plate and shell structures. | ||
| CIVE 605 | Stability of Structures. | 4 |
Stability of Structures. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Buckling of elastic columns by equilibrium analysis. Buckling of inelastic columns. Energy analysis and approximate methods. Stability of frames. Torsional buckling of columns and flexural-torsional buckling of beams. Buckling of plates and axially compressed circular cylindrical shells. Stability analysis using the finite element method. | ||
| CIVE 607 | Advanced Design in Steel. | 4 |
Advanced Design in Steel. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Design and behaviour of cold formed and hot rolled structural steel members and systems. Lateral load resistance design of steel roof diaphragms, flexural design of composite slabs, bracing requirements and design procedures for steel structures, floor vibration, member torsion, slender members and design procedures for low rise steel frame buildings. | ||
| CIVE 612 | Earthquake-Resistant Design. | 4 |
Earthquake-Resistant Design. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Static and dynamic analyses, design codes, effects of local ground conditions, ductility demands on structural components. Inelastic behaviour of beams, columns, joints, shear walls and bracing under cyclic loading of steel concrete and masonry structures. Design applications. | ||
| CIVE 614 | Composites for Construction. | 4 |
Composites for Construction. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Fibre reinforced plastics (FRP), civil engineering applications; fibre, matrix, processing; plymechanics, strength, rigidity, stability, durability; FRP rebars and tendons for concrete, laminates for strengthening, pultruded beams and columns, FRP stay-in-place formwork for concrete, FRP - glulam beams; design criteria, design project. | ||
| 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. | ||
| CIVE 616 | Nonlinear Structural Analysis for Buildings. | 4 |
Nonlinear Structural Analysis for Buildings. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Methods of geometric and material nonlinear static and dynamic analysis, cumulative damage effects, concentrated and distributed plasticity models, pushover analysis, response modification and performance-based design. The class integrates state-of-the-art simulation models and methods with physical experimentation of structural components and energy dissipation devices for nonlinear analysis and evaluation of buildings. | ||
| CIVE 617 | Bridge Engineering. | 4 |
Bridge Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Bridge components, connections, and constraints; girder bridges; arch bridges; cable-stayed and suspension bridges; probabilistic design; design loads; analysis of superstructures; evaluation, repair, and rehabilitation of bridges; coastal bridge vulnerability; seismic design and retrofit of bridges; case studies. | ||
| CIVE 622 | Prestressed Concrete. | 4 |
Prestressed Concrete. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Material properties; prestressing methods and systems; the behaviour and design of members subjected to axial forces, bending, shear and torsion; prestress losses; design of statically determinate and indeterminate structures; composite precast construction; prestressed concrete floor systems. Application to bridge design. | ||
| CIVE 625 | Condition Assessment of Existing Structures. | 4 |
Condition Assessment of Existing Structures. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Procedures and testing techniques for the in situ and laboratory evaluation of existing structures and infrastructure materials. Destructive and nondestructive techniques, forensic analysis, and evaluation and deterioration mechanisms are addressed through lectures and case studies. | ||
| CIVE 628 | Advanced Design of Wood Buildings . | 4 |
Advanced Design of Wood Buildings . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced design of wood buildings: calculation of gravity and lateral loads, lateral design principles, load-resisting systems for multi-storey wood buildings. Design of multi-storey light-framed wood buildings, mass timber buildings. Design of connection systems. Hybrid timber buildings. Innovative structural systems for timber buildings. | ||
| 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. | ||
| CIVE 661 | Modelling of Transportation Emissions. | 4 |
Modelling of Transportation Emissions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Interactions between transportation modeling and emissions modeling; models for on-road and non-road emissions; impacts of technology, fuel quality, and driving behaviour on the generation of vehicle emissions. Effects of alternative fuels. | ||
| CIVE 663 | Environmental Fate of Organic Chemicals. | 4 |
Environmental Fate of Organic Chemicals. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Theoretical and applied environmental organic chemistry concerning organic pollutants in aquatic and soil systems. Topics include: vapour pressure; activity coefficient and aqueous solubility; air-liquid phase partitioning; sorption; bioaccumulation and biomagnification; hydrolysis and nucleophilic substitution reactions; redox reactions; legacy pollutants; pollutants of emerging concern; novel research developments. | ||
| CIVE 683 | Advanced Foundation Design. | 4 |
Advanced Foundation Design. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Earth retaining structures, retaining walls, braced excavations, tie-back anchors. Buried structures, earth loading, arching, embankment loading. Soft ground tunnelling, ground response to tunnelling, surface settlement prediction. Design of shallow foundations, bearing capacity and settlement. Design of deep foundations, single pile, pile groups, laterally loaded piles. | ||
| CIVE 686 | Site Remediation. | 4 |
Site Remediation. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Field investigations; geotechnical and geophysical techniques; hydrogeological conditions; risk assessment; contaminant transport; remedial action plan; containment systems (gas, surface water, and ground water); on-site and off-site treatment techniques (solidification, stabilization, landfilling, and soil washing); In-situ treatment techniques (physical, biological, and chemical). | ||
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:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 691 | Research Project 1. | 1 |
Research Project 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report. | ||
| CIVE 692 | Research Project 2. | 2 |
Research Project 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report. | ||
| CIVE 693 | Research Project 3. | 3 |
Research Project 3. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report. | ||
| CIVE 694 | Research Project 4. | 4 |
Research Project 4. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report. | ||
| CIVE 695 | Research Project 5. | 5 |
Research Project 5. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report. | ||
| CIVE 696 | Research Project 6. | 6 |
Research Project 6. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report. | ||
| CIVE 697 | Research Project 7. | 7 |
Research Project 7. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report. | ||
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.