Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering

Civil engineers plan, design, supervise construction, manage, and maintain facilities that are familiar to most people. They are involved with infrastructure and environmental projects such as bridges, dams, highways, water and waste-water treatment plants, airports, and flood control systems. Civil engineers increasingly use new technologies such as Geographical Information/Positioning Systems, advanced materials, remote sensing and monitoring in their projects.
Courses include engineering materials, fluid mechanics, structural design, infrastructure engineering and construction management, finite element method, application of geographic information systems, economics, transportation planning, environmental analysis and design, hydrology, and technology and society.

What is unique about this program at the U of M?
The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board has fully accredited the program, and this accreditation is recognized as equivalent in seven countries outside Canada. The U of M is the home of the National Centre of Excellence on Intelligent Sensing for Innovative Structures (ISIS Canada). Students have access to computer labs and well-equipped facilities such as the Hydraulics Research and Testing Laboratory. Students participate, and perform well in several technical society competitions, and have been successful in national scholarship and other competitions.