Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Civil Engineering


Mackenzie Building 3432
Telephone: 520-5784
Fax: 520-3951

The Institute


Director of the Institute:
G.A. Hartley
Associate Director of the Institute:
Erman Evgin

Established in 1984, the Institute combines the research strengths and resources of the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University and the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa. Programs leading to master’s and Ph.D. degrees are available through the Institute in a wide range of fields of civil engineering. Programs in water resources engineering, and in transportation engineering are centred at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, respectively. Programs in environmental, geotechnical, and structural engineering are available at both universities. Graduate students may pursue their research on either university campus, depending upon the choice of program and supervisor. Registration will be at the university to which the student’s supervisor is affiliated. Requests for admission may be sent to the Director of the Institute.

Members of the Institute

The “home” department of each member is indicated by (C) for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University and (O) for the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa. A.O. Abd El Halim, Transportation, Pavements and Materials, Geometric Design (C)
Kazimierz Adamowski, Hydrology, Stochastic and Statistical Analyses (O)
G.E. Bauer, Geotechnical Engineering, Earth Retaining Structures, In-Situ Testing (C)
J.J. Beaudoin,*Cement Chemistry, Strength of Composite Materials (O)
D.W.R. Bell,* Transportation, Engineering Economics and Policy, Airport Planning (C)
J.P. Braaksma, Transportation, Airport Planning, Traffic Engineering, Pedestrian Circulation, Terminal Design (C)
Mo-Shing Cheung,* Finite Element Analysis, Bridge Engineering (O)
S.C.H. Cheung,* Environmental Engineering, Solid and Radioactive Waste Disposal (C)
S.E. Chidiac,* Heritage Structures, Durability, Mathematical Modelling (C)
R.L. Droste, Environmental Engineering, Water and Wastewater Treatment (O)
S.M. Easa,* Highway Geometry, Reliability Concept, Planning (C)
Erman Evgin, Finite Elements, Soil Plasticity, Environmental Geomechanics (O)
G.Y. Felio,* Performance and Rehabilitation of Urban Infrastructure, Water Distribution System (C)
B.N. Fellenius,* Geotechnical Engineering, Deep Foundations (O)
Leta Fernandes, Environmental Engineering, Agricultural Waste Management (O)
N.J. Gardner, Structures, Reinforced Concrete, Earthquake Engineering, Construction Loads (O)
V.K. Garga, Geotechncial Engineering, Dams, Harbours, Heavy Foundations (O)
G.A. Hartley, Structural Analysis, Finite Elements, Building Frame Analysis (C)
N.M. Holtz, Computer-Aided Structural Engineering (C)
J.L. Humar, Structures, Earthquake Engineering, Computer-Aided Design (C)
W.F. Johnson,* Urban Transportation Planning and Management (C)
Deniz Karman, Environmental Engineering, Air Pollution and Control (C)
K.J. Kennedy,* Environmental Engineering, Waste Water Treatment (O)
S.J. Kennedy, Steel Structures, Composite Structures, Material Behaviour, Experimental Methods, Computer-Aided Structural Engineering (C)
A.M. Khan, Transportation, Systems Planning, Engineering and Management (C)
D.T. Lau, Earthquake Engineering, Numerical Methods and Modelling of Structures , Monitoring of Structures (C)
K.T. Law, Geotechnical Engineering, Embankments, In-Situ Testing (C)
R.R. Mayes,* Engineering Management (C)
R.M. Narbaitz, Waste Treatment (O)
Simon Ng, Structures, Numerical Methods, Dynamic Behaviour (O)
W.J. Parker, Environmental Engineering, Waste Water Treament, Hazardous Waste Management, Solid Waste Management (C)
B.N. Persaud,* Transportation, Traffic Engineering, Highway Safety (C)
A.G. Razaqpur, Structures, Concrete, Numerical Methods (C)
Murat Saatcioglu, Building Structures, Reinforced Concrete, Earthquake Analysis and Design (O)
J.J. Salinas, Building Structures, Wood Engineering, Structural Reliability (C)
E.J. Schiller, Environmental Engineering, Water Supply and Irrigation (O)
A.P.S. Selvadurai,* Geotechnical Engineering, Continuum Mechanics, Applied Mathematics (C)
L.A.Y. Shallal,* Transportation, Planning and Management, Traffic Engineering (C)
T.S. Sridhar, Environmental Impact Assessment, Wastewater Treatment, Hazardous and Radioactive Waste, Pollution Control (C)
G.T. Suter, Structural Engineering, Masonry Structures (C)
O.J. Svec,* Geomechanics, Pavement Materials, Numerical Methods (C)
Hiroshi Tanaka, Structures, Wind Engineering (O)
D.R. Townsend, Water Resource Engineering, Applied Hydraulics, River Engineering (O)
Paul Van Geel, Environmental Engineering, Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport, Waste Disposal (C)
E.W. Wright,* Structures, Computer-Aided Design (C)

Master’s Degree

Admission Requirements

The normal requirement for admission to the master’s program is a bachelor’s degree with at least high honours standing in civil engineering or the sub-disciplines normally considered to be civil engineering. Applications to a qualifying program will also be considered from graduates of other engineering programs or honours science programs under the following conditions:

1.    Graduates from engineering or honours science programs with a mathematics content equivalent to the civil engineering program will have to take a minimum of four qualifying undergraduate civil engineering courses in their area of graduate specialty

2.  Graduates from other science programs will have to take all the core engineering undergraduate mathematics courses in addition to the requirements specified in (1) above.

The undergraduate courses required will be specified in the Certificate of Admission.

Undergraduate civil engineering courses will not be accepted towards a graduate degree. Graduate students may still be required to take undergraduate courses for credit to fulfil the admission requirements.

No more than one half of the program credit requirements or that stipulated in the regulations of the university in which the student is registered, whichever is less, can be transferred at admission. At least one half of the course work must be taken at the Institute.

Program Requirements

The requirements for course work are specified in terms of credits: one credit is one hour of instruction per week for one term. The requirements for the master’s degree by thesis are:

The requirements for the master’s degree by course work are:

Doctor of Philosophy

Admission Requirements

The normal requirement for admission into the Ph.D. program is a master’s degree with thesis in civil engineering.

Program Requirements

The requirements for course work are specified in terms of credits: one credit = one hour/week for one term.

Students who have been permitted to transfer into the Ph.D. program from a master’s program without having completed the master’s degree, will require thirty course credits for the Ph.D. degree which include transfer of credits from the incompleted master’s program.

Graduate Courses

In all programs, the student may choose graduate courses from either university with the approval of the adviser or the advisory committee. Graduate courses are listed below, grouped by subject area. Course descriptions may be found in the departmental section of the calendar concerned. All courses are of one term duration. The codes given in parenthesis are those used by the University of Ottawa. Courses beginning with “82" are offered at Carleton University and those beginning with ”83" are offered at the University of Ottawa. Not all courses listed are necessarily given during one academic year.

Geotechnical and Soils

82.529 (CVG7100)
Case Studies in Geotechnical Engineering

82.530 (CVG7101)
Advanced Soil Mechanics I

82.531 (CVG7102)
Advanced Soil Mechanics II

82.550 (CVG7104)
Earth Retaining Structures

82.551 (CVG7105)
Foundation Engineering

82.552 (CVG7106)
In-situ Methods in Geomechanics

82.553 (CVG7107)
Numerical Methods in Geomechanics

82.554 (CVG7108)
Seepage and Water Flow Through Soils

82.580  (CVG7305) — 82.584(CVG7309)
Special Topics in Geotechnical Engineering

83.500 (CVG5100)
Deep Foundations

83.501 (CVG5101)
Advanced Rock Mechanics

83.502 (CVG5102)
Theoretical Soil Mechanics

83.503 (CVG5103)
Dam Engineering

83.504 (CVG5104)
Soil Testing and Properties

83.505 (CVG5105)
Slope Stability

83.506 (CVG5106)
Site Improvements

83.509 (CVG5170)
Geotechnical Engineering in Cold Regions

83.512 (CVG5171)
Strength and Deformation Behaviour of Soil and Rock

83.513 (CVG5173)
Soil Dynamics

83.514 (CVG5174)
Soil Plasticity

83.515 (CVG5175)
Mathematical Modelling and Finite Element Applications in Geotechnical Engineering

83.516 (CVG5176)
Soil Structure Interaction

83.517 (CVG5177)
Offshore Geotechnique

83.518 (CVG5178)
Ice Mechanics

Structural Engineering

82.511 (CVG7120)
Introductory Elasticity

82.512 (CVG7121)
Advanced Elasticity

82.513 (CVG7122)
Finite Element Methods in Stress Analysis

82.514 (CVG7123)
Earthquake Engineering and Analysis

82.515 (CVG7124)
Advanced Finite Element Analysis in Structural Mechanics

82.516 (CVG7137)
Dynamics of Structures

82.520 (CVG7138)
Engineered Masonry Behaviour and Design

82.522 (CVG7139)
Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures

82.523 (CVG7125)
Theory of Structural Stability

82.524 (CVG7126)
Behaviour and Design of Structural Steel Members

82.525 (CVG7127)
Analysis of Elastic Structures

82.526 (CVG7128)
Prestressed Concrete

82.527 (CVG7129)
Advanced Structural Design

82.528 (CVG7130)
Advanced Reinforced Concrete

82.560 (CVG7131)
Project Management

82.561 (CVG7140)
Statistics, Probabilities and Decision-Making Applications in Civil Engineering

82.562 (CVG7141)
Advanced Methods in Computer-Aided Design

82.563 (CVG7132)
Computer-Aided Design of Building Structures

82.564 (CVG7142)
Engineering Management

82.565 (CVG7143)
Design of Steel Bridges

82.566 (CVG7144)
Design of Concrete Bridges

82.575  (CVG7300) — 82.579(CVG7304)
Special Topics in Structural Engineering

83.521 (CVG5142)
Advanced Structural Dynamics

83.522 (CVG5143)
Advanced Structural Steel Design

83.523 (CVG5145)
Theory of Elasticity


83.524 (CVG5147)
Theory of Plates and Shells

83.526 (CVG5150)
Advanced Concrete Technology

83.527 (CVG5151)
Flow Induced Vibration

83.528 (CVG5152)
Steel Bridges

83.529 (CVG5153)
Wind Engineering

83.530 (CVG5144)
Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design

83.531 (CVG5156)
Finite Element Methods I

83.532 (CVG5146)
Numerical Methods of Structural Analysis

83.533 (CVG5157)
Finite Element Methods II

83.535 (CVG5148)
Prestressed Concrete Design

83.536 (CVG5155)
Earthquake Engineering

83.537 (CVG5158)
Elements of Bridge Engineering

Transportation

82.533 (CVG7103)
Pavements and Materials

82.534 (CVG7150)
Intercity Transportation, Planning and Management

82.535 (CVG7151)
Traffic Engineering

82.536 (CVG7152)
Highway Materials

82.537 (CVG7153)
Urban Transportation, Planning and Management

82.538 (CVT7154)
Geometric Design

82.539 (CVG7155)
Transportation Supply

82.541 (CVG7156)
Transportation Economics and Policy

82.542 (CVG7159)
Transportation Terminals

82.543 (CVG7158)
Airport Planning

82.585  (CVG7310) —  82.589(CVG7314)
Special Topics in Transportation Planning and Technology

Water Resources

83.550 (CVG5110)
Hydraulics of Open Channels

83.551 (CVG5111)
Hydraulic Structures

83.552 (CVG5114)
Hydraulics and Porous Media

83.553 (CVG5115)
Advanced Fluid Mechanics

83.556 (CVG5120)
Water Resources Systems

83.558 (CVG5122)
Groundwater and Seepage

83.559 (CVG5123)
Advanced Topics in Hydrology

83.561 (CVG5125)
Statistical Methods in Hydrology

83.562 (CVG5126)
Stochastic Hydrology

83.563 (CVG5127)
Hydrologic Systems Analysis


83.564 (CVG5128)
Water Resources Planning and Policy

83.566 (CVG5131)
River Engineering

83.567 (CVG5140)
Irrigation and Drainage

83.568 (CVG5135)
Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries

83.582 (CVG5118)
Theory and Operation of Hydraulic Models

83.583 (CVG5119)
Computational Hydraulics

Environmental

83.590 (CVG5130)
Wastewater Treatment Process Design

83.591 (CVG5132)
Unit Operations of Water Treatment

83.593 (CVG5139)
Environmental Assessment of Civil Engineering Projects

83.594 (CVG5136)
Water and Wastewater Treatment Laboratories

83.595 (CVG5137)
Water and Wastewater Treatment Process

83.596 (CVG5133)
Solid Waste Disposal

83.597 (CVG5134)
Chemical Analysis for Environmental Engineering

Directed Studies

82.596 and 82.597 Engineering Directed Studies

83.570 (CVG6108)and83.571(CVG6109)
Individual Directed Studies

83.600 — 83.603 (CVG6300 — 6399)
Advanced Topics








Projects and Theses

82.590 Civil Engineering Project

82.599 M.Eng. Thesis

82.699 Ph.D. Thesis

CVG6000 Civil Engineering Report/ Rapport en génie civil

CVG7999 M.A.Sc.Thesis/Thèse

CVG9998 Comprehensive Examination (Ph.D.)






Examen de synthèse du doctorat

CVG9999 Ph.D. Thesis/Thèse