McGill University Faculty of Engineering
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The Faculty of Engineering is one of the constituent faculties of the McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
in Montréal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
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, Canada
Canada
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, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemical, civil, computer, software, electrical, mechanical, metals and materials, and mining engineering, as well as architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
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. It is the oldest program of its kind in North America, followed closely by the one offered at Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Mines
The Colorado School of Mines is a small public teaching and research university devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources. Located in Golden, Colorado, CSM was ranked 29th, in America among national...
, 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
McGill was the first university in Canada to offer a full-time program in urban planning. An interdisciplinary program
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged....
through which students combined a master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
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.
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
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. 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 NobbsPercy Erskine NobbsPercy Erskine Nobbs was a Canadian architect who was born in Haddington, Scotland and trained in the United Kingdom. He spent most of his career in the Montreal area...
- Ramsay Traquair
- Philip Turner
- John Bland
- Norbert Schoenauer
- Bruce Anderson
- Derek Drummond
- David Covo
- Michael JemtrudMichael JemtrudMichael Jemtrud is a McGill University associate professor of Architecture , and Director of the School of Architecture at the school.-Education:...
Faculty include Michael Jemtrud
Michael Jemtrud
Michael Jemtrud is a McGill University associate professor of Architecture , and Director of the School of Architecture at the school.-Education:...
and Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Alberto Pérez-Gómez is an architectural historian and is also known as a theorist and a promoter of phenomenology. Born December 24, 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico, he graduated as an engineer and architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico and pursued graduate studies in the history...
. Notable graduates include Arthur Erickson
Arthur Erickson
Arthur Charles Erickson, was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from McGill University.-Biography:...
, Raymond Moriyama
Raymond Moriyama
Raymond Moriyama, CC, O.Ont is a Japanese-Canadian architect. He has designed several buildings at Brock University from the 1970s through the latest campus expansion and is the University's former chancellor....
, Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski , is a Canadian-American architect, professor and writer.Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He attended Loyola High School , located on Sherbrooke street, in Montreal-Ouest...
, and Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA is an architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, and author. Born in the city of Haifa, then Palestine and now Israel, he moved with his family to Montreal, Canada, when he was 15 years old.-Career:...