Civil Engineering (B.Eng.) (139 credits)
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Degree: Bachelor of Engineering
Program credit weight: 139 credits
Program Description
The B.Eng. in Civil Engineering program focuses on the scientific, analytical, and engineering skills needed to shape the world through sustainable, resilient, and innovative design. The program provides a strong foundation in core competencies including solid and fluid mechanics, soil behaviour, structural analysis, environmental and transportation systems, and hydraulics and water resources management. Fundamentals are applied through project-based learning, real-world applications, and exposure to the latest advancements in engineering science, computing, and emerging technologies. Areas of specialization include: structural, geotechnical, water resources, transportation, or environmental engineering. A broader interdisciplinary training is available by combining civil engineering topics from across the program’s sub-specialties.
Required Year 0 Courses (26 credits)
Generally, students admitted to Engineering from Quebec CEGEPs may be granted transfer credit for Year 0 courses.
For information on transfer credit for French Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate exams, Advanced Placement exams, Advanced Levels, and Science Placement Exams, see http://www.mcgill.ca/engineering/current-students/undergraduate/new-stud... and select your term of admission.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CHEM 110 | General Chemistry 1. | 4 |
General Chemistry 1. Terms offered: Fall 2026 A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table. | ||
| CHEM 120 | General Chemistry 2. | 4 |
General Chemistry 2. Terms offered: Winter 2027 A study of the fundamental principles of physical chemistry. | ||
| MATH 133 | Linear Algebra and Geometry. | 3 |
Linear Algebra and Geometry. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization. | ||
| MATH 140 | Calculus 1. | 3 |
Calculus 1. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications. | ||
| MATH 141 | Calculus 2. | 4 |
Calculus 2. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series. | ||
| PHYS 131 | Mechanics and Waves. | 4 |
Mechanics and Waves. Terms offered: Fall 2026 The basic laws and principles of Newtonian mechanics; oscillations, waves, and wave optics. | ||
| PHYS 142 | Electromagnetism and Optics. | 4 |
Electromagnetism and Optics. Terms offered: Winter 2027 The basic laws of electricity and magnetism; geometrical optics. | ||
Required Non-Departmental Courses (22 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| COMP 208 | Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and Engineering . | 3 |
Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and Engineering . Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Programming and problem solving in a high level computer language: variables, expressions, types, functions, conditionals, loops, objects and classes. Introduction to algorithms such as searching and sorting. Modular software design, libraries, file input and output, debugging. Emphasis on applications in Physical Sciences and Engineering, such as root finding, numerical integration, diffusion, Monte Carlo methods. | ||
| EPSC 221 | General Geology. | 3 |
General Geology. Terms offered: Fall 2026 An introductory course in physical geology designed for majors in civil and mining engineering. Properties of rocks and minerals, major geological processes, together with natural hazards and their effects on engineered structures are emphasized. The laboratory is an integral part of the course which includes rock and mineral identification, basic techniques of airphoto and geological map interpretation, and structural geology. | ||
| FACC 150 | Foundations of Engineering Practice and Communication | 3 |
Foundations of Engineering Practice and Communication Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Introduction to engineering practice and communication. Professional conduct and ethics, engineer's duty to society and the environment, sustainable development, occupational health and safety. Strategies for researching, generating, developing, organizing, and presenting ideas in a technical setting; communicating to different audiences; editing and revising communication materials; and public speaking. | ||
| FACC 250 | Responsibilities of the Professional Engineer. | 0 |
Responsibilities of the Professional Engineer. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 A course designed to provide all Engineering students with further training regarding their responsibilities as future Professional Engineers. Particular focus will be placed on three professional characteristics that future engineers must demonstrate: i) professionalism, ii) ethical and equitable behaviour, and iii) consideration of the impact of engineering on society and the environment. | ||
| FACC 300 | Engineering Economy. | 3 |
Engineering Economy. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Introduction to the basic concepts required for the economic assessment of engineering projects. Topics include: accounting methods, marginal analysis, cash flow and time value of money, taxation and depreciation, discounted cash flow analysis techniques, cost of capital, inflation, sensitivity and risk analysis, analysis of R and D, ongoing as well as new investment opportunities. | ||
| FACC 400 | Engineering Professional Practice. | 1 |
Engineering Professional Practice. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Laws, regulations and codes governing engineering professional practice. Responsibility and liability. Environmental legislation. Project and organization management. Relations between engineer and client. Technical practice - analysis, design, execution and operation. | ||
| MATH 262 | Intermediate Calculus. | 3 |
Intermediate Calculus. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Series and power series, including Taylor's theorem. Brief review of vector geometry. Vector functions and curves. Partial differentiation and differential calculus for vector valued functions. Unconstrained and constrained extremal problems. Multiple integrals including surface area and change of variables. | ||
| MATH 263 | Ordinary Differential Equations for Engineers. | 3 |
Ordinary Differential Equations for Engineers. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 First order ODEs. Second and higher order linear ODEs. Series solutions at ordinary and regular singular points. Laplace transforms. Linear systems of differential equations with a short review of linear algebra. | ||
| MATH 264 | Advanced Calculus for Engineers. | 3 |
Advanced Calculus for Engineers. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Review of multiple integrals. Differential and integral calculus of vector fields including the theorems of Gauss, Green, and Stokes. Introduction to partial differential equations, separation of variables, Sturm-Liouville problems, and Fourier series. | ||
Required Civil Engineering Courses (70 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 202 | Construction Materials. | 4 |
Construction Materials. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Classification of materials; atomic bonds; phase diagrams; elementary crystallography;imperfections; engineering properties, uses and durability of metals, concrete, wood, polymers, composites and asphalt; sustainable development; group laboratory projects. | ||
| CIVE 205 | Statics. | 3 |
Statics. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Systems of forces and couples, resultants, equilibrium. Trusses, frames and beams, reactions, shear forces, bending moments. Centroids, centres of gravity, distributed forces, moments of inertia. Friction, limiting equilibrium, screws, belts. | ||
| CIVE 206 | Dynamics. | 3 |
Dynamics. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Kinematics and kinetics of particles, systems, and rigid bodies; mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum. Moving coordinate systems. Lagrange's equations. Vibrations and waves. | ||
| CIVE 207 | Solid Mechanics. | 4 |
Solid Mechanics. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Stress-strain relationships; elastic and inelastic behaviour; performance criteria. Elementary and compound stress states, Mohr's circle. Shear strains, torsion. Bending and shear stresses in flexural members. Deflections of beams. Statically indeterminate systems under flexural and axial loads. Columns. Dynamic loading. | ||
| CIVE 208 | Civil Engineering System Analysis. | 3 |
Civil Engineering System Analysis. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Introduction to civil engineering systems; system modelling process; systems approach and optimization techniques; linear programming; simplex method; duality theory; sensitivity analysis; transportation problem; assignment problem; network analysis; introduction to integer, nonlinear, and dynamic programming methods. | ||
| CIVE 210 | Surveying. | 2 |
Surveying. Terms offered: Summer 2026 The construction and use of modern survey instruments; transit, level, etc.; linear and angular measurements and errors; horizontal and vertical curves; error analysis, significance of figures; use of computers and software; recent developments. | ||
| CIVE 219 | Introduction to Design in Civil Engineering. | 3 |
Introduction to Design in Civil Engineering. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Introduction to design in the context of civil engineering and its sub-disciplines. Identification and formulation of problems. Definition of objectives, constraints and success criteria. The creative process, including idea generation, evaluation of options, and decision making. Conceptual designs considering technical and non-technical factors. Team-based collaborations and stakeholder engagement. Strategies for knowledge acquisition, planning, task allocation, execution, and delivery of projects. Written and oral communications. | ||
| CIVE 224 | Sustainability in Civil Engineering Practice. | 3 |
Sustainability in Civil Engineering Practice. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Exploration of the social, environmental, and economic impacts of technologies through case studies from the past, present, and future, with an emphasis on civil engineering practice. A systems approach to engineering, considering broader constraints, objectives, risks, and impacts. Professional obligations and responsibilities. Decision-making considering tradeoffs, competing goals, ethical issues and ambiguity. Use and abuse of sustainability metrics. Collaborative and inclusive approaches to problem formulation, problem solving, design and implementation. Strategies for minimizing or mitigating unintended negative consequences of technologies. Sustainability frameworks such as circular economy, industrial ecology, and technological stewardship. | ||
| CIVE 225 | Environmental Engineering. | 4 |
Environmental Engineering. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Introduction to environmental engineering; mass balance analyses in engineered and natural systems; foundations of environmental chemistry and microbiology; water, soil, air pollution characterization, transport, and control; water quality parameters; drinking water and wastewater treatment technologies; environmental risk assessment; waste management; applicable sustainable practices; experimental errors; instrumentation principles. | ||
| CIVE 289 | Design Graphics in Civil Engineering. | 3 |
Design Graphics in Civil Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The design process and the role of visualization in the production of engineering designs. Engineering drawing techniques of free-hand sketching, isometric drawings,orthographic projections. Drawings for geometry of construction and detailed civil engineering drawings.Technology and standards of engineering graphic communication. Drafting with CAD software with 2-D and 3-Drepresentation. | ||
| CIVE 290 | Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer. | 3 |
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Thermodynamic states and processes, properties of pure substances, phase equilibria; internal energy, enthalpy, and entropy; equations of state; specific heats; work and heat interactions; conservation of mass; First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics for open and closed systems; gas-vapour mixtures; humidity and psychrometrics; introduction to heat transfer via conduction, convection, and radiation; combined resistance networks; engineering applications. | ||
| CIVE 302 | Probabilistic Systems. | 3 |
Probabilistic Systems. Terms offered: Winter 2027 An introduction to probability and statistics with applications to Civil Engineering design. Descriptive statistics, common probability models, statistical estimation, regression and correlation, acceptance sampling. | ||
| CIVE 311 | Geotechnical Mechanics. | 4 |
Geotechnical Mechanics. Terms offered: Fall 2026 The origin and formation of soils. Soil classification systems and phase composition in soils. Stress states in geotechnical materials. Total stresses, pore fluid pressures and effective stresses. Terzaghi's concept of effective stresses. Time-dependent influences of pore pressure development during loading. Water flow in porous media. Darcy's law. Laboratory and field measurement of hydraulic conductivity. Hydraulic conductivity of soil composites. Deformation of geomaterials. Elastic deformations and consolidation behaviour. Failure of soils. The Mohr-Coulomb criterion. Stress paths. Dilatancy, Taylor's interpretation of stress dilatancy and applications. | ||
| CIVE 317 | Structural Engineering 1. | 3 |
Structural Engineering 1. Terms offered: Fall 2026 The design process; loads, sources, classifications, load factors, combinations; limit states design; structural systems and foundations; choice of materials; virtual work and energy methods; statical and kinematic indeterminacy; slope deflection method, introduction to matrix methods; analysis of indeterminate systems; force envelopes. | ||
| CIVE 318 | Structural Engineering 2. | 3 |
Structural Engineering 2. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Durability and service life; fire resistance and protection; steel, reinforced concrete and timber; behaviour and design of components in tension, compression, bending and shear; slenderness, global and local instability; axial load and moment interaction; curvature, deflection, ductility; connections; bond and anchorage of reinforcement; simple footings. | ||
| CIVE 319 | Transportation Engineering. | 3 |
Transportation Engineering. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Introduction to design and operating principles and procedures for surface transportation systems, including vehicle motion and performance, pavements, geometric design of roadbeds, vehicle flow and capacity, traffic control, demand, supply and cost concepts. | ||
| CIVE 320 | Numerical Methods. | 4 |
Numerical Methods. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Numerical procedures applicable to civil engineering problems: integration, differentiation, solution of initial-value problems, solving linear and non-linear systems of equations, boundary-value problems for ordinary-differential equations, and for partial-differential equations. | ||
| CIVE 323 | Hydrology and Water Resources. | 3 |
Hydrology and Water Resources. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Precipitation, evaporation and transpiration. Streamflow, storage reservoirs, flood routing. Groundwater hydrology. Ecohydrology. Statistical analysis in hydrology, stochastic modelling. Simulations using hydrologic models. Case studies in flood damage mitigation, surface and ground water management, and water-energy-food nexus. | ||
| CIVE 324 | Project Management. | 3 |
Project Management. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Civil engineering project management life cycle including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing; scope definition, feasibility analysis, economic evaluation, scheduling, quantity and cost estimation, financing, procurement, contracting; frameworks for risk management, quality assurance, performance measurement; leadership, accountability, communication, organizational behaviour; multi-criteria decision analysis under uncertainty; software tools including emerging artificial intelligence. | ||
| CIVE 327 | Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics. | 4 |
Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Fluid properties; hydrostatics; dimensional analysis and similitude, fluxes of mass, momentum and energy; Bemoulli's equation; method of control volume; streamline curvature; potential flow and boundary layers; pipe flow, hydraulic machinery and introduction to open-channel flow. | ||
| CIVE 419 | Final Civil Engineering Design Project. | 5 |
Final Civil Engineering Design Project. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Team-based capstone design project under the supervision of an experienced engineer. Design project topics: environmental engineering, water resources engineering, transportation engineering, geotechnical engineering or structural engineering. Problem definition, iterative solution-finding process, and final design. Professionalism, economic, environmental, societal, safety and regulatory aspects of design. Preparation and delivery of technical reports and oral presentations, reflecting standards of professional practice. | ||
Complementary Courses (21 credits)
List A - Design Technical Complementaries
6-15 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 416 | Geotechnical Engineering. | 3 |
Geotechnical Engineering. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Earth pressure theory, retaining walls, sheet pile walls, braced excavations. Slope stability analysis. 2D flow through isotropic and anisotropic soils. Bearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundations, stress distribution. Deep foundations, single pile, pile groups. Geotechnical investigation and reports. | ||
| CIVE 421 | Municipal Systems. | 3 |
Municipal Systems. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Design of water-related municipal services; sources of water and intake design; estimation of water demand and wastewater production rates; design, construction and maintenance of water distribution, wastewater and stormwater collection systems; pumps and pumping stations; pipe materials, network analysis and optimization; storage; treatment objectives for water and wastewater. | ||
| CIVE 428 | Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering. | 3 |
Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Application of continuity, energy and momentum equations to open channel flow; design of channels considering uniform flow and flow resistance, non-uniform flow and longitudinal profiles; design of channel controls and transitions; unsteady flow and flood routing; river ice engineering; sediment transport and river morphology; sustainability in river engineering; industry standard numerical models. | ||
| CIVE 430 | Water Treatment and Pollution Control. | 3 |
Water Treatment and Pollution Control. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Principles of water and sewage treatment. Water and sewage characteristics; design of conventional unit operations and processes; laboratory analyses of potable and waste waters. | ||
| CIVE 440 | Traffic Engineering and Simulation. | 3 |
Traffic Engineering and Simulation. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Driver, vehicle and traffic flow characteristics; origin-destination studies, traffic studies and analysis, queuing theory applications, microsimulation, highway design and capacity analysis, non-motorized facility design, HOV lane design, public transportation priority design, parking analysis, traffic signal design and control, traffic microsimulation with HCS, VISSIM and SYNCHRO. | ||
| CIVE 462 | Design of Steel Structures. | 3 |
Design of Steel Structures. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Design of structural steel members: plate girders, members under combined loadings, eccentrically loaded connections, composite floor systems. Design of single-storey concentrically braced frame buildings subjected to gravity, wind and seismic loading. Introduction to design software. | ||
| CIVE 463 | Design of Concrete Structures. | 3 |
Design of Concrete Structures. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Design of reinforced concrete members: beams, one-way slabs, columns, disturbed regions, two-way slabs, shear walls, footings, retaining walls. Aspects of seismic design of columns and shear walls. Introduction to design software and the design of prestressed concrete members. | ||
List B - General Technical Complementaries
0-9 credits from the following, or from other suitable undergraduate or 500-level courses:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CHEE 521 | Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment. 1 | 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 446 | Construction Engineering. | 3 |
Construction Engineering. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Construction and as-built documents; means and methods; equipment economics, selection, management and maintenance; construction loading; operational planning; field communication; task coordination and contingency planning; quality control; safety tools and processes; hazards and risks; excavation, trenching and tunneling challenges; inspection; joining techniques; formwork design; temporary structures, shoring and support, relevant codes. | ||
| CIVE 460 | Matrix Structural Analysis. | 3 |
Matrix Structural Analysis. Terms offered: Winter 2027 Computer structural analysis, direct stiffness applied to two and three dimensional frames and trusses, matrix force method, nonlinear problems, buckling of trusses and frames, introduction to finite element analysis. | ||
| CIVE 470 | Undergraduate Research Project. | 3 |
Undergraduate Research Project. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Independent research project under the supervision of an academic staff member. Selection of a research problem, formulation of hypotheses and objectives, research design, literature review, analysis, discussion, report. | ||
| CIVE 480 | Data-Driven and AI Methods. | 3 |
Data-Driven and AI Methods. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to computational and AI-driven approaches for solving civil engineering problems, with emphasis on reproducible workflows and end-to-end data pipelines. Acquisition, cleaning, analysis, and interpretation of real world datasets to build practical analytics and machine learning solutions for transportation, infrastructure, and environmental applications. Exploratory data analysis, regression and evaluation, introductory machine learning and neural networks, and the practical application of large language models and retrieval-augmented generation for engineering analysis and documentation. | ||
| CIVE 507 | Wind Engineering. | 3 |
Wind Engineering. Terms offered: Fall 2026 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 512 | Advanced Civil Engineering Materials. | 3 |
Advanced Civil Engineering Materials. Terms offered: Winter 2027 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 520 | Groundwater Hydrology. | 3 |
Groundwater Hydrology. Terms offered: Winter 2027 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. 1 | 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: Fall 2026 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: Fall 2026 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 529 | Structural Design Optimization. | 3 |
Structural Design Optimization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to optimization; formulation of topology optimization using ground-structure or density-based approach. Optimization of structural members including beams, columns and frames. Graphic statics, load path, and form finding. Application of graphic statics to trusses and cable-supported structures in buildings and bridges. | ||
| CIVE 540 | Urban Transportation Planning. | 3 |
Urban Transportation Planning. Terms offered: Fall 2026 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: Winter 2027 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 543 | System Dynamics for Civil and Environmental Engineering | 3 |
System Dynamics for Civil and Environmental Engineering Terms offered: Winter 2027 Systems modelling, simulation, and analysis for transportation, energy, structural, construction, and environmental engineering. Overview of common feedback phenomena and their analysis using causal loop diagrams. Simulation using stock-flow, event-based, and agent-based approaches. Network representation and state-space representation of complex systems. Markov decision process. Model calibration and testing. System forecasting and optimization. | ||
| CIVE 545 | Life Cycle Assessment and the Circular Economy | 3 |
Life Cycle Assessment and the Circular Economy Terms offered: Winter 2027 Fundamentals of life cycle assessment (LCA) for civil engineering, focusing on the integration with circular economy and life cycle costing. Circular economy and LCA methods standardized by International Organization for Standardization. Integration of environmental metrics into life cycle costing. Combining LCA, circular economy and life cycle costing methods. Application of LCA in environmental and economic decision-making related to specific civil engineering projects, focused on topics such as buildings and transportation. | ||
| CIVE 546 | Selected Topics in Civil Engineering 1. | 3 |
Selected Topics in Civil Engineering 1. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Special topics related to Civil Engineering will be presented by staff and visiting lecturers. | ||
| 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 555 | Environmental Data Analysis. | 3 |
Environmental Data Analysis. Terms offered: Winter 2027 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 557 | Microbiology for Environmental Engineering. | 3 |
Microbiology for Environmental Engineering. Terms offered: Fall 2026 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 560 | Transportation Safety and Design. | 3 |
Transportation Safety and Design. Terms offered: Fall 2026 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 561 | Greenhouse Gas Emissions. | 3 |
Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Terms offered: Winter 2027 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 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 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 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. | ||
| URBP 551 | Urban Design and Planning. | 3 |
Urban Design and Planning. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Fundamentals of city-building in Canada relative to municipal, regional, and provincial actions used to guide urban growth and development. Contemporary urban design in major metropolitan centres as shaped by legal, political, and cultural realities. Current preoccupations in city-building: reurbanisation and adaptive reuse of infrastructure, collaborative multi-stakeholder projects, strategic initiatives, changing relationships between professional experts and grassroots actors. Introduction to specific aspects of practice: public participation and community engagement; land development and real estate; project feasibility and implementation; policy monitoring and evaluation; emergent city-building regimes. | ||
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Students may choose only one of CHEE 521 Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment. or CIVE 521 Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment..
Complementary Studies - Humanities and Social Sciences, Management and Law (6 credits)
Generally, students admitted to Engineering from Quebec CEGEPs are granted transfer credits for 3 credits (one course) from the Complementary Studies Group B list.
Faculty of Arts
200 or 300 level courses in the following departments excluding seminars, field courses, surveys, special/selected topics courses, courses with physical, natural or medical sciences, mathematics, and statistic contents, and courses reserved for major or Honours in the relative programs:
Anthropology (ANTH)
Art History and Communications (ARTH and COMS)
East Asian Studies (EAST)
Economics (ECON) (any 200- or 300-level course excluding ECON 227D1/D2 and ECON 337)*
French Language and Literature (FREN)* (excluding FREN 222 and FREN 333)
French Language Center (FRSL courses 200 level or higher)
History and Classical Studies (HIST and CLAS—excluding HIST 339)
Institute for Gender, Sex, and Femenist Studies (GSFS)
Institute for Study of Canada (CANS and INDG)
Islamic Studies (AFRI and ISLA)
Jewish Studies (JWST)
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (GERM, HISP, ITAL, LLCU, and RUSS)
Philosophy (PHIL) (excluding PHIL 210 and PHIL 310)
Political Science (POLI) (excluding POLI 311)
Religious Studies (CATH and RELG)
Sociology (SOCI) (excluding SOCI 211, SOCI 331, SOCI 342, SOCI 343, and SOCI 350)
OR from the following list:
Desautels Faculty of Management
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUSA 465 | Technological Entrepreneurship. 1 | 3 |
Technological Entrepreneurship. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Concentrating on entrepreneurship and enterprise development, particular attention is given to the start-up, purchasing and management of small to medium-sized industrial firms. The focal point is in understanding the dilemmas faced by entrepreneurs, resolving them, developing a business plan and the maximum utilization of the financial, marketing and human resources that make for a successful operation. | ||
| INDR 294 | Introduction to Labour-Management Relations. 1 | 3 |
Introduction to Labour-Management Relations. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 An introduction to labour-management relations, the structure, function and government of labour unions, labour legislation, the collective bargaining process, and the public interest in industrial relations. | ||
| INTG 215 | Entrepreneurship Essentials for Non-Management Students. 1 | 3 |
Entrepreneurship Essentials for Non-Management Students. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Fundamental concepts, theories, and practices of entrepreneurship. Focus on identifying opportunities, developing business ideas, and understanding key components of starting and managing a business. | ||
| MGCR 222 | Introduction to Organizational Behaviour. 1 | 3 |
Introduction to Organizational Behaviour. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure. | ||
| MGCR 352 | Principles of Marketing. 1 | 3 |
Principles of Marketing. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies. | ||
| ORGB 321 | Leadership. 1 | 3 |
Leadership. Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Leadership theories provide students with opportunities to assess and work on improving their leadership skills. Topics include: the ability to know oneself as a leader, to formulate a vision, to have the courage to lead, to lead creatively, and to lead effectively with others. | ||
| ORGB 420 | Managing Organizational Teams. 1 | 3 |
Managing Organizational Teams. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Theory, research, and applications. Principles of team processes and effectiveness in organizational settings, specifically the theoretical developments and empirical findings of group dynamics and team effectiveness, and practical strategies and skills for successful management of organizational teams. | ||
| ORGB 423 | Human Resources Management. 1 | 3 |
Human Resources Management. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Issues involved in personnel administration. Topics include: human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, organization development and change, issues in compensation and benefits, and labour-management relations. | ||
Faculty of Science
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENVR 203 | Knowledge, Ethics and Environment. 2 | 3 |
Knowledge, Ethics and Environment. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies. | ||
| ENVR 400 | Environmental Thought. 2 | 3 |
Environmental Thought. Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars. | ||
| MATH 338 | History and Philosophy of Mathematics. | 3 |
History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery of the infinitesimal and integral calculus by Newton and Leibnitz. Demonstration of how mathematics was done in past centuries, and involves the practice of mathematics, including detailed calculations, arguments based on geometric reasoning, and proofs. | ||
| PSYC 100 | Introduction to Psychology. | 3 |
Introduction to Psychology. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Introduction to the scientific study of mind and behavior, including basic concepts and methods in psychology while also highlighting the relevance of psychology to everyday life; attachment, aggression, depression, parenting and personality change. | ||
Faculty of Engineering
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ARCH 528 | History of Housing. | 3 |
History of Housing. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Indigenous housing both transient and permanent, from the standpoint of individual structure and pattern of settlements. The principal historic examples of houses including housing in the age of industrial revolution and contemporary housing. | ||
| FACC 220 | Law for Architects and Engineers. | 3 |
Law for Architects and Engineers. Terms offered: Fall 2026 Aspects of the law which affect architects and engineers. Definition and branches of law; Federal and Provincial jurisdiction, civil and criminal law and civil and common law; relevance of statutes; partnerships and companies; agreements; types of property, rights of ownership; successions and wills; expropriation; responsibility for negligence; servitudes/easements, privileges/liens, hypothecs/ mortgages; statutes of limitations; strict liability of architect, engineer and builder; patents, trade marks, industrial design and copyright; bankruptcy; labour law; general and expert evidence; court procedure and arbitration. | ||
| FACC 500 | Technology Business Plan Design. | 3 |
Technology Business Plan Design. Terms offered: Fall 2026 This course combines several management functional areas such as marketing, financial, operations and strategy with the skills of creativity, engineering innovation, leadership and communications. Students learn how to design an effective and winning business plan around a technology or engineering project in small, medium or large enterprises. | ||
| FACC 501 | Technology Business Plan Project. | 3 |
Technology Business Plan Project. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Students work in teams to develop a comprehensive business plan project based on a technological or engineering innovation while utilizing site visits. | ||
* Restriction applies to the courses that are reserved for the majors and Honours.
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Note: Management courses have limited enrolment and registration dates. See Important Dates at http://www.mcgill.ca/importantdates
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Note: INTG 215 is not open to students who have taken INTG 201 and INTG 202.
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Note: ENVR courses have limited enrolment.