Chair of Undergraduate Studies: D.J. Turcke
Office: Ellis Hall, Room 201
Telephone: (613) 533-2126
E-mail: turcke@civil.queensu.ca
2nd Year Advisor: A. da Silva
3rd Year Advisor: B.H.Kueper
4th Year Advisor: D. Turcke

Civil Engineers are responsible for the planning, design, construction, and management of the built environment - the infrastructure. This infrastructure, which provides for the delivery of essential services, consists of the world’s highways, bridges, railroads, airports, and mass transit systems. It is our sewage treatment plants, water supply systems, and reservoirs, as well as our industrial plants and power producing plants. It is our waterways, coastal areas, and ports; our homes, schools, and commercial complexes. Civil Engineers are also responsible for the compatibility of the infrastructure with the natural environment. They manage flood prediction, urban runoff, air pollution control, remediation of groundwater contaminants, control of discharge into lakes and rivers, and coastal processes involving the protection of sensitive wetlands and animal habitat. We have developed an innovative program with a choice of emphasis on either the infrastructure or the environmental fields while still allowing the opportunity to choose subjects of personal interest leading to a more specialized career or to the development of a broader background within the profession. Our program emphasizes communication, leadership, teamwork and decision making skills, and develops positive attitudes and values towards environmental, social and professional ethics and life-long learning.

Civil Engineering Curriculum

NOTE: Elective courses not on these lists may be taken with the permission of the Chair of Undergraduate Studies.

Second Year Common Core

Third Year Common Core

Infrastructure Option (CE1)

Environmental Option (CE2)

Fourth Year Common Core

Infrastructure Option (CE1)

Environmental Option (CE2)

Technical Electives

Students may take no more than two technical electives offered by departments other than Civil Engineering.

Infrastructure Option (select 3)

Environmental Option (select 3)

Complementary Studies

The minimum required complementary Studies component for this program is 403 AU. This total includes Engineering Economics (CIVL 463) and Communications (CIVL 204, CIVL 304, CIVL 305 and CIVL 409) in the core program. In addition, students complete 42 AU of Linkage and Professional Issues normally taken in the First Year (APSC 190), and 102 AU chosen from approved Lists A, B or C, of which at least 72 AU must be taken from List A (refer to the Complementary Studies section of this Calendar for the approved lists.)