McGill University Faculty of Engineering

McGill University Faculty of Engineering

Governance
Dean	Christophe Pierre
Departments
Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Mining, Metals and Materials Engineering School of Architecture School of Urban Planning
Non-Departmental Programs
Institutes	McGill Institute for Advanced Materials McGill NanoEngineering Research

The Faculty of Engineering is one of the constituent faculties of the McGill University in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemical, civil, computer, software, electrical, mechanical, metals and materials, and mining engineering, as well as architecture and urban planning. The faculty also teaches courses in bio-resource engineering (Faculty of Agriculture) and in biomedical engineering (Faculty of Medicine) at the masters level.

The faculty includes five departments and two schools:

• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Mining, Metals and Materials Engineering
• School of Architecture
• School of Urban Planning

Established in 1871, the mining engineering program is the oldest in Canada.^[1] It is the oldest program of its kind in North America, followed closely by the one offered at Colorado School of Mines, established in 1874.

McGill was the first university in Canada to give instruction in Applied Science. Out of this legacy grew today's faculty of engineering.

Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics

The Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics (est. 1871) offers programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department currently has 23 full-time faculty members. In addition, an industrial perspective is provided in the classroom by adjunct professors who are practicing civil engineers. The Department of civil engineering is ranked 1st or 2nd in Canada and top 10 worldwide.

There are approximately 200 undergraduate and 80 graduate students in the department, of whom nearly one-half are women and one-third are from outside Canada. Broad programs of study are available that offer specialized courses in all areas of civil engineering. Facilities include state-of-the-art teaching, research and computing laboratories

School of Urban Planning

The Macdonald-Harrington Building, named in honor of William Christopher Macdonald. Since 1987, the Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning have been housed in the Macdonald-Harrington Building, which was originally constructed in 1896 by Sir Andrew Taylor (Architect) to accommodate the Departments of Chemistry and Mining by 1896. The building was renovated for Architecture and Urban Planning by architects Ray Affleck and Arcop Associates in 1987.

The School of Urban Planning is a unit within the Faculty of Engineering. The school is a corresponding member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.^[2] The present director is Raphaël Fischler.

McGill was the first university in Canada to offer a full-time program in urban planning. An interdisciplinary program through which students combined a master's degree in their original field was combined with urban planning was established in 1947. An autonomous program was established in 1972. In 1976, the School of Urban Planning was established as a unit within the Faculty of Engineering. The School of Architecture is also a unit within the Faculty of Engineering.

The School offers three Master of Urban Planning programs (a Core Program, with a concentration in Transportation Planning, and with a Concentration in Urban Design) and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Policy, and Design program. Major research areas include the Community-University Research Alliance (CURA), Transportation Research at McGill (TRAM), and Whole-corridor Urban Design Strategies (WCUDS).

School of Architecture

The School of Architecture offers a program in architecture accredited by the Canadian Architectural Certification Board at at the bachelor level B.Sc. (Arch.) and M.Arch. (Professional), M.Arch. (Post-professional), and the Ph.D. ^[3] It operates out of the Macdonald-Harrington Building, 815 Sherbrooke Street West.

It is a school within the Faculty of Engineering. A chair in architecture at McGill University was established in 1896 within the Faculty of Applied Science (now Faculty of Engineering) by Sir William C. Macdonald. At that time, the program leading to the professional degree was four years in length and the School operated in the Macdonald Engineering Building under the leadership of its first Director, Stewart Henbest Capper.

List of Directors:

• Stewart H. Capper
• Percy Erskine Nobbs
• Ramsay Traquair
• Philip Turner
• John Bland
• Norbert Schoenauer
• Bruce Anderson
• Derek Drummond
• David Covo
• Michael Jemtrud

Faculty include Michael Jemtrud and Alberto Pérez-Gómez. Notable graduates include Arthur Erickson, Raymond Moriyama, Witold Rybczynski, and Moshe Safdie

See also

McGill University School of Architecture

References

1. ^ http://www.mcgill.ca/minmat/mining/
2. ^ http://www.acsp.org/membership/corresponding-members
3. ^ http://www.raic.org/architecture_architects/becoming_an_architect/education_e.htm Architecture Canada

External links

• Faculty of Engineering
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Department of Mining, Metals and Materials Engineering
  • School of Architecture
  • School of Urban Planning