Infrastructure Protection and International Security
Infrastructure Protection and International Security Committee
3452 Mackenzie Building
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M. Infrastructure Protection and International Security
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 and Postdoctoral Affairs, applicants whose first language or language of instruction for their first degree is not English must be tested for proficiency in English as specified in the General Regulations section of this Calendar.
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 successfully completed senior secondary school mathematics will have their admission into the program made conditional upon successful completion of MATH 0005 (Precalculus: Functions and Graphs). Students who have not successfully completed introductory microeconomics or engineering economics at the time of their application will have their admission into the program made conditional upon successful completion of ECOR 3800 (Engineering Economics) or an equivalent course.
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.
Unless otherwise specified with a [1.0] following the course number, courses carry a value of 0.5 credit. All masters students are required to complete five credits:
2.0 credits in:
- IPIS 5101 Critical Infrastructure Protection: Issues and Strategies
- IPIS 5102 Introduction to Infrastructure Management
- IPIS 5103 Infrastructure Engineering Principles
- IPIS 5104 Terrorism and International Security (INAF 5244)
1.0 credit from:
- IPIS 5301 Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation (INAF 5201)
- IPIS 5302 International Security after the Cold War (INAF 5202)
- IPIS 5303 Intelligence Statecraft and International Affairs (INAF 5204)
- IPIS 5304 Intelligence and National Security: Policies and Operations (INAF 5224)
- IPIS 5305 National Security Policy and Law (INAF 5234)
- IPIS 5320 Topics in Infrastructure Security
1.0 credit from:
- IPIS 5501 Transportation and Aviation Security
- IPIS 5502 Infrastructure Assets Management
- IPIS 5503 People in Fires (CIVE 5611)
- IPIS 5504 Fundamentals of Fire Safety Engineering (CIVE 5609)
- IPIS 5505 Geohazards
- IPIS 5506 Public Health Safety
- IPIS 5507 Blast-load Effects on Structures
- IPIS 5520 Topics in Engineering of Critical Infrastructure
1.0 credit remaining 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 [1.0] Infrastructure Engineering Project
Research Essay Option:
- 1.0 credit in IPIS 5908 [1.0] Research Essay
