About the Program
Established in 2000, the Institute combines the research strengths and resources of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University and the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. Programs leading to M.Eng., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering are available through the Institute. Registration will be at the university with which the student's supervisor is affiliated. Related fields of study and research in environmental engineering are also available through the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Civil Engineering (which offers graduate degrees in Civil Engineering) and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Ottawa (which offers graduate degrees in Chemical Engineering).
Admission Requirements
The requirement for admission to the master's program in Environmental Engineering is a four-year bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, other related engineering disciplines (Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, etc.), or Environmental Science disciplines.
All students entering the program are required to have courses in mathematics, probability and statistics equivalent to courses required in undergraduate engineering programs. Students admitted without full equivalency in these areas are expected to take appropriate undergraduate courses early in their studies. These courses will be additional to the normal degree requirements.
All students entering the program are also required to have taken undergraduate courses equivalent to the following:
Students registered at Carleton University
- MAAE 2300 Fluid Mechanics 1
- ENVE 3001 Water Treatment Principles and Design
- ENVE 3002 Environmental Engineering Systems Modeling
Students registered at the University of Ottawa in Chemical Engineering:
- CHG 3312 Fluid Flow
- CHG 3111 Unit Operations
- CHG 3127 Chemical Reactions Engineering
Students registered at the University of Ottawa in Civil Engineering
- CVG 2111 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
- CVG 2131 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
These courses are considered to provide the minimum background in fluid mechanics, and in physical, chemical, and biochemical treatment principles, necessary to adequately follow environmental engineering courses at the graduate level. Depending on their background, students may have been exposed to these principles through a different combination of courses in their undergraduate curriculum. Students entering the program without an equivalent background in these topics are expected to take these courses early in their studies and they are considered additional to those normally required for the degree.
Program Requirements
Study at the master's level can be pursued through a thesis leading to a M.A.Sc., a project option leading to a M.Eng., or a coursework option leading to a M. Eng. The requirements for coursework are specified in terms of credits. At Carleton University, 1.0 credit typically comprises three hours of lectures or seminars a week for two terms, or the equivalent. At the University of Ottawa, 1.0 course credit is one hour of instruction per week for one term. Thus 1.0 credit in Carleton University notation is equivalent to 6 course credits in the University of Ottawa notation.
Thesis Option (M.A.Sc.)
The requirements are:
- Completion of a minimum of 3.0 credits by course, with at least 0.5 credit from each of at least three of the areas of study listed below;
- Participation in the graduate seminar series (ENVE 5800) (0.0 credit);
- Completion and successful oral defence of a research thesis (ENVE 5909) (3.0 credits).
Project Option (M.Eng.)
The requirements are:
- Completion of a minimum of 4.0 credits by course;
- Completion of a project (ENVE 5900) (1.0 credit);
- Participation in the graduate student seminar series (ENVE 5800) (0.0 credit).
Coursework Option (M.Eng.)
The requirements are:
- Completion of a minimum of 5.0 credits by course;
- Participation in the graduate student seminar series (ENVE 5800) (0.0 credit).
Breadth Requirement
In keeping with the objective of ensuring a breadth of knowledge for graduates of the program, students in the master's program are expected to take at least one graduate level course from each of at least three of the following areas of study:
- Air Pollution
- Water Resources Management, Groundwater Management and Contaminant Transport
- Management of Solid, Hazardous, and Radioactive Waste, and Pollution Prevention
- Water and Wastewater Treatment
- Environmental Impact Assessment
This requirement serves the objectives of educating graduate professionals who are not only specialized in one area but who are sufficiently familiar with problems and different approaches in the other areas to enable them to interact readily at a >technical level with colleagues working in those areas. In addition to the courses associated with the individual areas, students will be encouraged to select courses from fundamental areas such as chemistry, numerical modeling, and applied statistics.
Master's candidates transferring from another university must take at least half their courses at the Institute.
Graduate Courses
Course selection is subject to the approval of the adviser or the Advisory committee. Students may choose courses offered at either university from among those listed below.
The courses listed below are grouped by area of study. Master's students must complete at least one course in three of the five areas. The Director will decide when a course offered under a Special Topics or Directed Studies heading can be considered to meet the requirements of a given area. Course descriptions may be found in the departmental sections of the calendars concerned. Course codes in parentheses are for University of Ottawa (CHG and CVG), and those that begin with the prefix "ENVE" or "CIVE" are offered at Carleton. Only a selection of courses is given in a particular academic year.
Full course descriptions for courses offered at Carleton can be found in the relevant courses section of this calendar.
- Air Pollution
- ENVE 5101(EVG 7101) Air Pollution Control
- ENVE 5102 (CVG 7161) Traffic-Related Air Pollution
- ENVE 5103 (CVG 7162) Air Quality Modeling
- ENVE 5104 (EVG 7104) Indoor Air Quality
- (CHG 8132) ENVJ 5105 Adsorption Separation Processes
Water Resources Management, Groundwater Management, and Contaminant Transport- ENVE 5301 (EVG 7301) Contaminant Hydrogeology
- ENVE 5302 (CVG 7163) Case Studies in Hydrogeology
- ENVE 5303 (EVG 7303) Multiphase Flow in Soils
- CIVE 5504 (CVG 7108) Seepage through Soils
- (CVG 5124) CIVJ 5605 Coastal Engineering
- (CVG 5125) CIVJ 5601 Statistical Methods in Hydrology
- (CVG 5126) CIVJ 5602 Stochastic Hydrology
- (CVG 5131) CIVJ 5606 River Engineering
- (CVG 5160) CVJ 5503 Sediment Transport
- (CVG 5162) CIVJ 5504 River Hydraulics
- (CHG 8158) ENVJ 5304 Porous Media
- ERTH 5403 (GEO 5143) Environmental Isotopes and Groundwater Geochemistry
- ERTH 5404 (GEO 5144) Groundwater Resources
- ERTH 5406 (GEO 5146) Numerical Methods in Hydrogeology
- ERTH 5407 (GEO 5147) Geochemistry of Natural Waters
- ERTH 5408 (GEO 5148) Theory of Flow and Transport in Porous Media
Management of Solid, Hazardous, and Radioactive Waste and Pollution Prevention- ENVE 5201 (EVG 7201) Geo-Environmental Engineering
- ENVE 5202 (EVG 7202) Contaminant Fate Mechanisms
- ENVE 5203 (EVG 7164) Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes
- (CVG 5331) ENVJ 5902 Sludge Utilization and Disposal
- (CVG 5133) ENVJ 5906 Solid Waste Disposal
- (CVG 5179) ENVJ 5908 Anaerobic Digestion
- Water and Wastewater Treatment
- ENVE 5001 (CVG 7160) Biofilm Processes
- (CVG 5130) ENVJ 5900 Wastewater Treatment Process Design
- (CVG 5132) ENVJ 5901 Unit Operations of Water Treatment
- (CVG 5134) ENVJ 5907 Chemistry for Environmental Engineering
- (CVG 5135) ENVJ 5608 Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries
- (CVG 5137) ENVJ 5905 Water and Wastewater Treatment Process Analysis
- (CVG 5138) ENVJ 5902 Advanced Water Treatment
- (CVG 5180) ENVJ 5909 Biological Nutrient Removal
- (CVG 5232) ENVJ 5911 Unit Operation of Water Treatment Lab [0.25 credit]
- (CVG 5238) ENVJ 5912 Advanced Water Treatment Processes Lab [0.25 credit]
- (CHG 8181) ENVJ 5501 Biochemical Engineering
- (CHG 8192) ENVJ 5502 Membrane Applications in Environmental Engineering
- (CHG 8198) ENVJ 5503 Reverse Osmosis
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- ENVE 5401(EVG 7401) Environmental Impacts of Major Projects
- (CVG 5139) ENVJ 5700 Environmental Assessment of Civil Engineering Projects
Other Courses
To fulfil the requirements beyond the 1.5 credits of area courses, students may choose from the following:
- ENVE 5402 (EVG 7402) Finite Elements in Field Problems
- (CHG 8153) ENVJ 5500 Statistical Modeling and Control of Dynamic Processes
- (CHG 8186) ENVJ 5506 Modeling of Steady-State Processes
- (CHG 8194) ENVJ 5504 Membrane Separation Processes
- (CHG 8195) ENVJ 5505 Advanced Numerical Methods in Transport Phenomena
- (CHG 8196) ENVJ 5507 Interfacial Phenomena in Engineering
- (CVG 5128) ENVJ 5604 Water Resources Planning and Policy
- CIVE 5601 (CVG 7140) Engineering Statistics and Probabilities
- CIVE 5304 (CVG 7150) Intercity Transportation
- CIVE 5305 (CVG 7151) Traffic Engineering
- CIVE 5307 (CVG 7153) Urban Transportation
Students may also, subject to approval, select courses from the graduate programs in Mechanical Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences, Geography and Public Policy and Administration at both universities.
- Seminars, Directed Studies and Special Topics
- ENVE 5800 Master's Seminar
- ENVE 5906 (EVG 6108) Directed Studies 1
- ENVE 5907 (EVG 6109) Directed Studies 2
- ENVE 7800 Ph.D. Seminar
- ENVE 5701 (ENV 7301) - ENVE 5705 (ENV 7305) Topics in Environmental Engineering
- Projects and Theses
- ENVE 5900 Environmental Engineering Project
- ENVE 5909 Master's Thesis
- ENVE 6909 Ph.D. Thesis
- (EVG 6000) Environmental Engineering Project
- (EVG 7999) Master's Thesis
- (EVG 9998) Comprehensive Examination
- (EVG 9999) Ph.D. Thesis
