About the Program
MIPIS is designed to offer students a cross-disciplinary understanding of critical infrastructure protection (CIP) challenges. Students with an engineering background, in addition to specializing in infrastructure engineering design, mitigation, and management, will take courses in national security policy, CIP risk management, intelligence and terrorism. Students with a policy background will reinforce their national security policy, intelligence, and terrorism expertise with an understanding of infrastructure engineering design and mitigation.
Academic Regulations
- See the General Regulations section of this Calendar.
Admission Requirements
- The minimum requirement for admission into the Master’s program is a B.A. (Honours) degree in a discipline related to International Affairs or a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. Students will normally be expected to have high honours standing to be considered for admission into the program.
- In conformity with the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, applicants whose first language or language of instruction for their first degree is not English must be tested for proficiency in English. Applicants in this situation must submit a CAEL Assessment™ score of a minimum of 70 or a TOEFL score of 250 (computer-based).
- Students admitted to the M.I.P.I.S program must have successfully completed at least 0.5 credit in microeconomics or engineering economics, and must demonstrate some capacity in basic mathematics. Students who have not completed either senior secondary school mathematics or introductory microeconomics at the time of their application will have their admission into the program made conditional upon successful completion of MATH 0005 (Precalculus: Functions and Graphs) or ECOR 3800 (Engineering Economics) or their equivalent.
Program Requirements
Students in the M.I.P.I.S. program are required to successfully complete a total of 5.0 credits. Additional requirements may be stipulated, depending on the background of the individual student.
Students have the choice of several program options:
- 5.0 credits of course work only
- 4.0 credits of course work and a 1.0 credit research project
- 4.0 credits of course work and a 1.0 credit research essay.
All masters students are required to complete:
Four compulsory courses (2.0 credits):
- 0.5 credit in IPIS 5101 Critical Infrastructure Protection: Issues and Strategies
- 0.5 credit in IPIS 5102 Introduction to Infrastructure Management
- 0.5 credit in IPIS 5103 Infrastructure Engineering Principles
- 0.5 credit in IPIS 5104 (INAF 5244) Terrorism and International Security
1.0 credit selected from:
- IPIS 5301(INAF 5201) (0.5 credit) Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation
- IPIS 5302 (INAF 5202) (0.5 credit) International Security after the Cold War
- IPIS 5303 (INAF 5204) (0.5 credit) Intelligence Statecraft and International Affairs
- IPIS 5304 (INAF 5224) (0.5 credit) Intelligence and National Security: Policies and Operations
- IPIS 5305 (INAF 5234) (0.5 credit) National Security Policy and Law
1.0 credit selected from:
- IPIS 5501 (0.5 credit) Transportation and Aviation Security
- IPIS 5502 (0.5 credit) Infrastructure Assets Management
- IPIS 5503 (CIVE 5611) (0.5 credit) People in Fires
- IPIS 5504 (CIVE 5609) (0.5 credit) Fundamentals of Fire Safety Engineering
- IPIS 5505 (0.5 credit) Geohazards
- IPIS 5506 (0.5 credit) Public Health Safety
- IPIS 5507 (0.5 credit) Blast-load Effects on Structures
Remaining 1.0 credit may be selected as follows:
Coursework Program Option:
- 1.0 credit from (a) graduate courses listed above, or courses offered by the Faculty of Engineering or the Faculty of Public Affairs that have been selected in consultation with, and approved by, the MIPIS Director and Associate Director.
Research Project Option:
- 1.0 credit in IPIS 5907 Infrastructure Engineering Project
Research Essay Option:
- 1.0 credit in IPIS 5908 Research Essay