Master of Engineering (M.Eng., non-thesis, 45 credits) in Sustainability in Engineering and Design trains engineers, architects, and urban planners to tackle complex sustainability problems in an interdisciplinary environment.
Our program is designed to equip you with the essential concepts, skills, and tools to tackle sustainability challenges across various sectors. Whether you're looking to create more sustainable products, infrastructure, or services, you'll gain the knowledge needed to make a meaningful impact.
What You'll Learn:
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Core Competencies: Master sustainability concepts, systems-based problem-solving, and critical analysis techniques.
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Holistic Approach: Develop solutions using sustainability and systems-thinking strategies.
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Real-World Impact: Assess and evaluate sustainability solutions using quantitative metrics.
Why This Program?
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Develop Expertise in addressing the complexities of sustainability.
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Equip Yourself with Cutting-Edge Skills to analyze and solve real-world sustainability challenges.
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Join a Growing Industry that needs forward-thinking engineers, designers, and planners to lead the charge for a sustainable future.
4 Sustainability Streams
Stream 1: Sustainable Processes and Manufacturing
This stream focuses on sustainable industrial manufacturing, aiming to reduce energy, water, materials use, and environmental impact while improving product functionality. Students will study the impact of industrial chemicals and nanomaterials on the environment, as well as the technologies, policies, and institutions needed for sustainable solutions. Emphasis is placed on life-cycle assessments and systems-thinking, covering design, manufacturing, product use, and end-of-life phases.
Stream 2: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
This stream focuses on low-/no-carbon energy generation, distribution, and storage systems. Students will learn sustainable energy technology assessment and the link between energy and water resources. It covers renewable fuel production from biomass, waste, and CO2, as well as pollution control technologies to reduce environmental impacts from power generation. This stream is vital for understanding and addressing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change through advanced sustainability education.
Stream 3: Sustainable Urban Development
Urban populations are rapidly growing, especially in developing areas, creating a need to rethink urban spaces and systems. By 2050, 68% of the world’s population will live in cities, presenting opportunities for sustainable urban development. This stream teaches sustainable design and development, focusing on urban renewal, growth, and densification to reduce resource use, waste, and energy. It covers the design of residential, public, and transportation systems, integrating socio-cultural and environmental factors for a holistic approach to urban planning and architecture.
Stream 4: Sustainable Infrastructure
Critical urban infrastructures like buildings, bridges, and transportation need to minimize resource use, waste, and energy to achieve sustainability. Cities consume 75% of global energy and emit up to 76% of CO2. Common materials like steel, cement, and glass have high energy and emissions footprints. This stream focuses on developing sustainable materials, systems for resource recovery, and adapting infrastructure to climate change through better design and retrofits. The courses cover these essential topics.Core Courses (27 Credits):
Core Courses (27 credits)
8 required courses that provide a strong foundation in sustainability issues, systems thinking, and analytical skills.
Core Courses
SEAD 500. Foundations of Sustainability for Engineering and Design.
Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Perspectives and debates from different disciplines and fields on sustainability and how it may be conceptualized, operationalized and evaluated; its implications for problem formulation and policy analysis, ethical considerations and strategies of implementation related to engineering and design; the need for integrating multiple perspectives and dimensions; stakeholder perspectives.- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.
- NOTICE: Students in the TISED Master program only may enroll in this course
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Credits: 4Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Critical analysis of the importance of energy to society, the unsustainability of the current energy system, and potential options for a sustainable energy system. Topics include: peak oil and climate change, fundamental energy metrics, traditional and alternative primary and secondary power systems, and energy storage technologies. Quantitative energy analysis is applied to a set of case studies investigating energy use, energy generation, and energy storage and transport.- (3-0-9)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
- Not open to undergraduate students in Chemical Engineering.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Introduction to Life Cycle-Based Environmental Footprinting and the application of basic methods for life-cycle environmental inventory and impacts modeling. LCA theory and quantitative analysis, approaches for assessing and reducing the environmental impacts of product, process, and technology systems. System boundary and functional unit design approaches, process-based and input-output-based methods for modeling mass and energy flows in life-cycle systems. How LCA can facilitate sustainable technology innovation and deployment, behavioural and societal changes, and policies, standards and regulations.- (3-0-6)
- Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
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Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Micro and macroeconomics of sustainability, market structures, principles of substitution, market failures and externalities, monetization and pricing of externalities. Policy instruments, permits and licenses, mandates, incentives, penalties, taxation and eco-social principles, mechanism design, the principles of life cycle analyses and the circular economy. Impact of engineering on ecological and economic sustainability.- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Industrial ecology theory, concepts, normative goals and analytical methods. Material and energy flows, environmental impacts of industrial activities, systems thinking, transitioning from linear to closed loop systems, recent contributions to sustainable product systems, urban metabolism, optimized materials or energy management, development of a circular economy, new environmental policies and business models based on product or material lifecycle information. Consumer and organizational behaviour in transitioning to sustainable industrial systems.- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Role and importance of engineering decisions of environmental, social, and economic problems and the application of decision-making approaches and tools to engineering sustainability. Multi-criteria decision-making, uncertainty analysis, game theory, sustainability metrics, life cycle analysis evaluation and impact assessment methodologies, design problem formulation, stage-dependent strategies, case studies.- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Graduate Studies)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.Description
Governance models for sustainability and their competitive market advantages, sustainability investment case studies, common misconceptions and limits of sustainability and economic theory, structural and institutional changes for sustainability, systems theory and managerial approaches, business risk and competitive strategies, sustainability and financial acumen, communicating sustainability performance metrics in business.- Restrictions: Open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register subject to approval by professor.
- 1. Must have completed a minimum of 9 credits from the list of core courses in the M.Eng. in Sustainability in Engineering and Design; Non-Thesis program.
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Credits: 5Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Graduate Studies)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.Description
Team project designing an improved product or service, as measured by a range of sustainable design and economic criteria.- Restrictions: Open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register subject to approval by professor.
- 1. Must have completed a minimum of 9 credits from the list of core courses in the M.Eng. in Sustainability in Engineering and Design; Non-Thesis program.
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Complementary Courses (18 Credits):
Students will take 12 to 18 credits from courses in one or two streams:
Stream 1: Sustainable Processes and Manufacturing
CHEE 511. Catalysis for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals.
Credits: 3Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Introduction to catalytic processes for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. Topics: From fossil fuel to renewable fuel. Syngas vs. platform route. Biomass upgrading. Renewable natural gas. CO2 as chemical building block. Theory of photo- and electro-catalysis.- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisites: CHEE 204 and CHEE 310 or permission of instructor.
- Course open to U3 Chemical Engineering undergraduate students and graduate students in Chemical Engineering.
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CIVE 512. Advanced Civil Engineering Materials.
Credits: 3Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 202
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.- 3-0-6
- Offered each year, one year by the Department of Chemical Engineering and one year by the Department of Civil Engineering
- Prerequisite(s): CHEE 315 or CIVE 225 or MIME 356 or equivalent; and CHEE 310 or CIVE 430 or CHEM 233 or equivalent; or permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CIVE 521.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.- Offered in alternate years.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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Credits: 3Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.).- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331, MECH 341.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Fundamentals of both product and process engineering with an emphasis on life cycle models and sustainability. Practical and theoretical topics, methodologies, principles, and techniques. Practical methods such as Life Cycle Analysis, eco-design strategies, streamlined Life Cycle Assessment, environmental impact assessment, and Life Cycle Engineering. Introduction to important product development theories and life cycle assessment theories.- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 360
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Credits: 3Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Fundamentals of air flow in underground mines. Thermodynamics of mine ventilation. Gases, dust, fire and Radon control. Thermal comfort. Mine heat transfer. Refrigeration systems, Ventilation-on-Demand. Optimization of mine ventilation design.- (3-0-6).
- Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for Summer 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.Description
Statistics and probability theory used in reliability. Reliability analysis, measure and networks. Reliability prediction, modelling and testing. Concepts of preventive and corrective maintenance. Reliability based maintenance. Control and management of reliability systems. Quality and safety associated with maintenance analysis. Inventory control. Reliability based optimization.- **This course will be held on May 15, 17, 19, 26, June 2, 9 & 16.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the third lecture day.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: This course is open to students in U3 and above
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Stream 2: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
CHEE 511. Catalysis for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals.
Credits: 3Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Introduction to catalytic processes for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. Topics: From fossil fuel to renewable fuel. Syngas vs. platform route. Biomass upgrading. Renewable natural gas. CO2 as chemical building block. Theory of photo- and electro-catalysis.- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisites: CHEE 204 and CHEE 310 or permission of instructor.
- Course open to U3 Chemical Engineering undergraduate students and graduate students in Chemical Engineering.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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Credits: 4Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Primary energy resources, thermodynamics of power generation, conventional and renewable. Electric power generation principles. Rotating and static power conversion, frequency and voltage control. Synchronous and induction generators, design and operation, grid integration requirements. Static power converter interfaces, principles and operation. Wind and solar generation principles, control, wind and solar farms. Energy storage technologies and their role in low-carbon power systems. Operations and planning of low-carbon power generation systems. Renewable integration studies.- (3-0-9)
- Prerequisites: ECSE 361 or ECSE 362 or ECSE 461
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECSE 463
- Winter semester course. Will be given in alternate years alternating with ECSE 563.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.).- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331, MECH 341.
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Stream 3: Sustainable Urban Development
ARCH 515. Sustainable Design.
Credits: 3Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
This course will address sustainable design theory and applications in the built environment with students from a variety of fields (architecture, urban planning, engineering, sociology, environmental studies, economics, international studies). Architecture will provide the focus for environmental, socio-cultural and economic issues.- Prerequisite: ARCH 377 or permission of instructor.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Design strategies of sustainable residential environments at the community and the unit levels. Historic references, siting principles, high density, healthy developments, green homes, urban renewal, circulation and parking, open spaces and implementation approaches.- Prerequisite: ARCH 377 or equivalent
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Credits: 3Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Designing for sustainable development to meet broad developmental goals. Innovative design approaches, strategies and projects to address these objectives via economic empowerment, food security, gender equity, health, sanitation, climate-change preparedness, and shelter-sector engagements.- (2-0-7)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderMECH 534. Air Pollution Engineering.
Credits: 3Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.).- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331, MECH 341.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
The importance of transit, walking, and cycling as modes of transportation in sustainable urban environments. Planning, design, and operation of mass transit systems, bikeways, and footpaths.- (3-0-6)
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Credits: 4Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Economic and financial aspects of urban transport policies and planning. Introduction to impact assessment techniques for major transport projects and policies; discussion of political debates concerning transport financing.- Prerequisite: An introductory course in microeconomics or permission of instructor.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Planning and urban design strategies for transforming suburban and exurban settings in North America to meet contemporary needs. Critical approaches to responsible practice in existing cultural landscapes. Adaptive reuse of public space, intensification, densification, transit-oriented retrofit of urban form, community-based design development.Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Stream 4: Sustainable Infrastructure
ARCH 515. Sustainable Design.
Credits: 3Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
This course will address sustainable design theory and applications in the built environment with students from a variety of fields (architecture, urban planning, engineering, sociology, environmental studies, economics, international studies). Architecture will provide the focus for environmental, socio-cultural and economic issues.- Prerequisite: ARCH 377 or permission of instructor.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Designing for sustainable development to meet broad developmental goals. Innovative design approaches, strategies and projects to address these objectives via economic empowerment, food security, gender equity, health, sanitation, climate-change preparedness, and shelter-sector engagements.- (2-0-7)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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Credits: 3Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 319 or permission of instructor.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Design of water-related municipal services. Estimation of water demand and wastewater production rates, conception of sources water intake, construction and maintenance of water distribution and wastewater / stormwater collection systems, selection of pumps and pipe materials, conception of pumping stations, planning of storage, and optimization of network. Emphasis on the theory and applications of life cycle analysis and of public acceptability specific to municipal system design.- Prerequisite: SEAD 520
- Restriction :Not open to students who are taking or who have taken CIVE 421.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Design principles of drinking water and wastewater resource recovery facilities. Characteristics of water and wastewater developed in theory and through laboratory exercises. Conventional unit operations; derivation and application of process models. Emphasis on the theory and applications of life cycle analysis (LCA) specific to the design of water and wastewater treatment facilities.- Prerequisite: SEAD 520
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CIVE 430.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Climate resilience and sustainability of engineering systems such as the built environment and engineering infrastructure in the context of a changing climate, possible mitigation and adaptation strategies and associated challenges and opportunities. Review of the basic principles that underpin the science of climate change; the role of global and regional climate models in predicting the behaviour of the climate system in response to different forcing scenarios, and the use of climate model outputs in support of across scale climate-resilience of various engineering systems including infrastructure systems.- (3-0-6)
- Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
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Credits: 3Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.- (3-0-6)
- Restrictions: Not to be taken by undergraduates before U3. Not open to M.Arch. students.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Economic and financial aspects of urban transport policies and planning. Introduction to impact assessment techniques for major transport projects and policies; discussion of political debates concerning transport financing.- Prerequisite: An introductory course in microeconomics or permission of instructor.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Planning and urban design strategies for transforming suburban and exurban settings in North America to meet contemporary needs. Critical approaches to responsible practice in existing cultural landscapes. Adaptive reuse of public space, intensification, densification, transit-oriented retrofit of urban form, community-based design development.Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Up to 6 credits from the following:
BIEN 520. High Throughput Bioanalytical Devices.
Credits: 3Offered by: Bioengineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Introduction to the field of high throughput screening (HTS) analytical techniques and devices used for genomics, proteomics and other "omics" approaches, as well as for diagnostics, or for more special cases, e.g., screening for biomaterials. Introduction into the motivation of HTS and its fundamental physico-chemical challenges; techniques used to design, fabricate and operate HTS devices, such as microarrays and new generation DNA screening based on nanotechnology. Specific applications: DNA, protein and diagnostic and cell and tissue arrays.- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderBREE 518. Ecological Engineering.
Credits: 3Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.Description
Concepts and practice of ecological engineering: the planned creation or management of a community of organisms, their nonliving surroundings, and technological components to provide services. Survey of applications such as constructed wetlands, aquatic production systems, green infrastructure for urban storm water management, environmental restoration. Taught cooperatively with a parallel course at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Online collaboration with an interdisciplinary, international team is an important component of the course.- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 518.
- One 3-hour lecture per week.
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderBREE 520. Food, Fibre and Fuel Elements.
Credits: 3Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.Description
Analysis and design incorporating the four elements required by organisms and biomass for food, fibre and fuel production (air, earth, energy, and water). Special emphasis will be placed on the demands and requirements of engineering systems to control these elements and allow optimal growth in semi-controlled and completely controlled environments.- Prerequisite: BREE 327
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderCHEE 541. Electrochemical Engineering.
Credits: 3Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Electrochemical systems: electrodes, reactors. Electrochemical stoichiometry, thermodynamics and kinetics. Mass and charge transport. Current and potential distribution in an electrochemical reactor. Electrocatalysis. Fuel cells technology. Batteries. Industrial electrochemical processes. Electrochemical sensors. Biomedical electrochemistry. Passivity, corrosion and corrosion prevention. Electrocrystalization. Experimental Methods.- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: CHEE 310 or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEE 489.
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderCHEE 543. Plasma Engineering.
Credits: 3Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Description of the plasma state and parameters, plasma generation methods, and of the related process control and instrumentation. Electrical breakdown in gases and a series of discharge models are covered. Plasma processing applications such as PVD, PECVD, plasma polymerisation and etching, environmental applications, nanoparticle synthesis, spraying and sterilization are treated.- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: CHEE 220 and CHEE 314 or equivalent.
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderCIVE 550. Water Resources Management.
Credits: 3Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
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.- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 323 or equivalent
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderECSE 507. Optimization and Optimal Control.
Credits: 3Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
General introduction to optimization methods including steepest descent, conjugate gradient, Newton algorithms. Generalized matrix inverses and the least squared error problem. Introduction to constrained optimality; convexity and duality; interior point methods. Introduction to dynamic optimization; existence theory, relaxed controls, the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. Sufficiency of the Maximum Principle.- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite(s): ECSE 343 or ECSE 543 or ECSE501 or COMP 540 or MATH 247 or permission of the instructor.
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderMECH 535. Turbomachinery and Propulsion.
Credits: 3Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Introduction to propulsion: turboprops, turbofans and turbojets. Review of thermodynamic cycles. Euler turbine equation. Velocity triangles. Axial-flow compressors and pumps. Centrifugal compressors and pumps. Axial-flow turbines. Loss mechanisms. Dimensional analysis of turbomachines. Performance maps. 3-D effects. Introduction to numerical methods in turbomachines. Prediction of performance of gas turbines.- (3-0-6)
- Corequisites: MECH 430
- Prerequisite: MECH 331.
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderMECH 559. Engineering Systems Optimization.
Credits: 3Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Introduction to systems-oriented engineering design optimization. Emphasis on i) understanding and representing engineering systems and their structure, ii) obtaining, developing, and managing adequate computational (physics- and data-based) models for their analysis, iii) constructing appropriate design models for their synthesis, and iv) applying suitable algorithms for their numerical optimization while accounting for systems integration issues. Advanced topics such as coordination of distributed problems and non-deterministic design optimization methods.- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MATH 264 and MECH 309
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderSEAD 600. Sustainability Research 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Independent research work on topic(s) chosen by consultation between the student and professor.- Restrictions: Must have completed a minimum of 9 credits from the list of core courses in the M.Eng. in Sustainability in Engineering and Design; Non-Thesis program.
- 1. Students must find a supervisor before registering for this course. Supervisors outside the Faculty of Engineering are subject to approval by the program director.
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderSEAD 602. Sustainability Research 2 .
Credits: 3Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Graduate Studies)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.Description
Continuation of the independent research work.- Restrictions: Must have completed a minimum of 9 credits from the list of core courses in the M.Eng. in Sustainability in Engineering and Design; Non-Thesis program.
- 1. Students must find a supervisor before registering for this course. Supervisors outside the Faculty of Engineering are subject to approval by the program director.
- Prerequisites: SEAD 600
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Launch Visual Schedule BuilderURBP 619. Land Use and Transport Planning.
Credits: 4Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)This course is not offered this catalogue year.Description
Analysis of transport and land use interactions in urban areas. Study of the impacts of transport systems on travel behaviour, residential and work location decisions, and urban form; discussion of implications for planning practice.Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Length of Program
The target time to complete the program is 16 months (or three academic semesters in the sequence of fall, winter and fall semesters) for all students. There will be no summer lecture courses offered, but students may undertake an optional research project course (SEAD 600 or 602)
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For any questions related to the MEng program, please contact us at grad.tised [at] mcgill.ca