Construction Engineering and Management Minor (B.Eng.) (24 credits)
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Degree: Bachelor of Engineering
Program credit weight: 24
Program Description
This Minor covers construction project management, law related to construction, labour-management relations, financial accounting and project finance, in addition to topics in other construction-related fields, architecture or mining engineering.
All courses in the Minor must be passed with a grade of C or better.
A maximum of 12 credits of coursework in the student's major may double-count with the Minor.
Minor Adviser: Prof. L. Chouinard, Macdonald Engineering Building, Room 491 (Telephone: 514-398-6446)
Minor program credit weight: 24 credits
Note: This Minor is particularly designed for Civil Engineering students, but is open to all B.Eng. and B.Sc.(Arch.) students.
All courses in the Minor must be passed with a grade of C or better.
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.
Prerequisites
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 208 | Civil Engineering System Analysis. | 3 |
Civil Engineering System Analysis. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to civil engineering systems; system modelling process; systems approach and optimization techniques; application of linear programming; simplex method; duality theory; sensitivity analysis; transportation problem; assignment problem; network analysis including critical path method; integer linear programming method. | ||
| CIVE 302 | Probabilistic Systems. | 3 |
Probabilistic Systems. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to probability and statistics with applications to Civil Engineering design. Descriptive statistics, common probability models, statistical estimation, regression and correlation, acceptance sampling. | ||
| COMP 208 | Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and Engineering . | 3 |
Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and Engineering . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| FACC 300 | Engineering Economy. | 3 |
Engineering Economy. Terms offered: Summer 2025 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. | ||
Required Courses: Management and Law (15 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 324 | Sustainable Project Management. | 3 |
Sustainable Project Management. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Lifecycle approach to project and construction management. Sustainable practices are introduced at all project stages: Team formation, materials and equipment use, cost estimation and economic valuation, financing, scheduling, quality control and safety, monitoring and performance assessment, decision-making. | ||
| FACC 220 | Law for Architects and Engineers. | 3 |
Law for Architects and Engineers. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| INDR 294 | Introduction to Labour-Management Relations. | 3 |
Introduction to Labour-Management Relations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| MGCR 211 | Introduction to Financial Accounting. | 3 |
Introduction to Financial Accounting. Terms offered: Summer 2025 The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results. | ||
| MGCR 341 | Introduction to Finance. | 3 |
Introduction to Finance. Terms offered: Summer 2025 An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities. | ||
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
3 credits from List A
6 credits from List B
List A
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ARCH 447 | Energy, Environment, and Buildings 2. | 3 |
Energy, Environment, and Buildings 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced exploration of the interrelationships among energy, environment, and building. Topics include energy efficiency, thermal envelopes, life-cycle design, materials selection, fluid mechanics of natural ventilation, thermal science of passive design, adaptive thermal comfort, the 'air-conditioning trap', the 'embodied carbon blindspot,' and the 'timber-carbon sink'. | ||
| ARCH 451 | Building Regulations and Safety. | 3 |
Building Regulations and Safety. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The study of building codes with specific emphasis on the National Building and National Fire Codes of Canada. Examples of existing buildings with assignments to illustrate regulations. Development of a systematic approach to the implementation of codes during the preliminary design stage of an architectural project. | ||
| MIME 322 | Fragmentation and Comminution. | 3 |
Fragmentation and Comminution. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Principles of drilling, penetration rates, and factors affecting the choice of drilling method. Characteristics of explosives, firing systems and blast patterns. Blasting techniques in surface and underground workings. Special blasting techniques at excavation perimeters. Vibration and noise control. Mechanical and continuous approaches to fragmentation, including longwall shearing and fullface boring. Economics of drill/blast practice, interface with transport and crushing systems, drivers for mine-to-mill integration including energy considerations. Modelling of fragment and particle size distributions; comminution as a transfer function. Comminution technology: crushing, grinding, size classification. Integrated analysis of fragmentation and comminution operations. | ||
| MIME 333 | Materials Handling. | 3 |
Materials Handling. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Physical and mechanical characteristics of materials related to loading, transport and storage. Dynamics of particles, systems and rigid bodies, mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum. Types and selection of excavation and haulage equipment. Layout of haul roads. Rail transport. Conveyor belts and chain conveyors. Mine hoists. Layout of mine shafts. | ||
List B
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CIVE 446 | Construction Engineering. | 3 |
Construction Engineering. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Project management principles; construction equipment economics, selection, operation; characteristics of building, heavy, marine, underground and route construction projects; international projects. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ECSE 461 | Electric Machinery. | 3 |
Electric Machinery. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Electric and magnetic circuits. Notions of electromechanical energy conversion applied to electrical machines. Basic electrical machines - transformers, direct-current motors, synchronous motors and generators, three phase and single phase induction machines. Elements of modern electronically controlled electric drive systems. | ||
| FINE 445 | Real Estate Finance. | 3 |
Real Estate Finance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Fundamentals of mortgages from the viewpoint of both consumer and the firm. Emphasis on legal, mathematical and financial structure, provides a micro basis for analysis of the functions and performance of the mortgage market, in conjunction with the housing market. | ||
| MIME 520 | Stability of Rock Slopes. | 3 |
Stability of Rock Slopes. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Properties of structural discontinuities. Influence of geological structures on slope stability. Kinematic analysis. Limit equilibrium methods. Empirical methods. Numerical modelling. Slope stabilization and monitoring. Case studies. | ||
| MIME 521 | Stability of Underground Openings. | 3 |
Stability of Underground Openings. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The properties of rock masses and stability classification systems. The influence and properties of geological structural features. Stability related to the design of underground openings and mining systems. Site investigations. Methods of stabilization. | ||
| MPMC 321 | Mécanique des roches et contrôle des terrains. 1 | 3 |
Mécanique des roches et contrôle des terrains. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Pressions de terrains au pourtour des excavations: solutions analytiques et numériques. Stabilité des excavations souterraines et à ciel ouvert: analyse des instabilités structurales par projection stéréographique méridienne, analyse des instabilités causées par les excès de contraintes. Soutènement. Surveillance. Études de cas. | ||
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