Lakehead University

Lakehead University offers an interdisciplinary Master of Science in Engineering (MSc Eng) in Environmental Engineering through the Faculty of Engineering. The program prepares engineering and science students to address the environmental implications of industry and community development. Faculty members from the Chemical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Departments, as well as the Biology, Chemistry, Forestry and Geology Departments collaborate to deliver courses and supervise research thesis projects. Students can complete the program on a full- or part-time basis with evening lectures and labs. Part-time students may complete their thesis research at their employer's premises.
   Degree requirements for the Environmental Engineering Program consist of four half-courses, one half-course graduate seminar and a graduate thesis. Three of the four half-courses must be selected from the core graduate curriculum in Environmental Engineering. Upon the approval of the Engineering Graduate Studies Committee, one of the four half-courses can be a senior undergraduate elective course.
   Core graduate courses include biological treatment processes, environmental chemistry, experimental design and analysis for environmental engineers, geoenvironmental engineering and physicochemical treatment processes.
   Elective graduate courses address the following topics: assessment and remediation of contaminated sites, emerging topics in aquatic science, engineering hydrology, experimental methods and information management, groundwater hydrology, mine waste management, pulp and paper industrial waste management and turbulent transport in environmental engineering.
   Senior undergraduate elective courses include: ecosystem restoration, electrochemical engineering, environmental control, environmental engineering, hazardous and industrial waste management, kraft mills and the environment, principles of unsaturated soil mechanics and waste containment systems and solid waste management.
   By the end of the second term, students must submit a research thesis topic to their thesis supervisor and the Office of Graduate Studies. The thesis should constitute an original contribution to the field of Environmental Engineering or a critical analysis of a published work.
   Environmental Engineering students are expected to complete degree requirements within two years of continuous full-time registration. With the appropriate approvals, time extensions will be granted for exceptional circumstances on a per term basis for up to a three term limit. Additional details on "period of Study" are provided in the Lakehead University course calendar.