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Program Description

This program of Master in Engineering is designed to provide practicing engineers with an opportunity to strengthen and extend the knowledge they have obtained at the undergraduate level, to develop their design skills, and to enhance their ability to present technical material in written form.

The Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc) program is intended for students who are interested in pursuing advanced studies and research at the postgraduate level. Students who wish to have the option of continuing on to a Ph.D. should enroll in the M.A.Sc program instead of the M.Eng. program

Admission Requirements

Applicants to the M.Eng. Program must hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent with high standing. Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree in architecture with high engineering content may also be considered for the M.Eng. program. Such students will be required to enroll in an extended program. The Faculty Graduate Studies Committee will
determine the acceptability of an applicant for admission to the program and may require an applicant to take specified undergraduate courses in order to qualify for acceptance. Qualified applicants requiring prerequisite courses may
be required to take such courses in addition to their regular graduate program. Applicants with deficiencies in their undergraduate preparation may be required to take a qualifying program. An ability to write simple programs in a
standard computer language will be assumed. Students lacking this skill will be required to register for the appropriate course. This course will be taken in addition to regular degree requirements. The Faculty reserves the right to
require applicants to write tests of competence in English as a second language, and to take any English instruction deemed necessary as a result of such tests.

Program Requirements and Curriculum

Students must complete 45 credits. Please refer to the Engineering Courses section , approved by the student's supervisor and either the Graduate Program Director or the Chair of the Department.

IMPORTANT: Required minimum acceptable academic performance .

Application

Applications for admission from within Canada must be complete by June 1 for the Fall term, October 1 for the Winter term, and February 1 for the Summer term. Applications from outside Canada must be complete by February 15 for the Fall term, June 15 for the Winter term, and October 15 for the Summer term.

Requirements for the Degree

  1. Credits. A fully-qualified candidate is required to successfully complete a minimum of 45 credits. For specific program requirements, refer to the relevant departmental entry in the following pages. Each individual program of study must be approved by the student’s department.
  2. Transfer Credits. Students may be granted transfer academic credits for, in general, not more than 12 credits taken in approved graduate studies prior to their entry into this program. A course submitted for transfer credits must be appropriate to the student’s program of study at Concordia University. An application for such credit will be considered only at the time of admission.
  3. Other Courses. A limited number of credits are recognized toward the Master of/Magisteriate in Engineering degree for courses taken under the heading Impact of Engineering on Society and for cognate courses taken from the MBA program. For details refer to the relevant departmental entry in the following pages.
  4. Cross-Registration. A student in the program wishing to take courses under the cross-registration scheme must first obtain approval of the Faculty Graduate Studies Committee.
  5. Time Limit. All work for a master’s/magisteriate degree for full-time students must be completed within 12 terms (4 years) from the time of initial registration in the program at Concordia University; for part-time students the time limit is 15 terms (5 years).

Project. Depending on individual department requirements, students may choose to do one or more projects as part of their program. They do so by registering for one or more of the sequence ENGR 6971, 6981, 6991. Where students choose to carry out a multi-course project, the project will be graded by at least two professors.

ENGR 6971 Project and Report I (4 credits). The purpose of the project report is to provide students in the M.Eng. program with an opportunity to carry out independent project work and to present it in an acceptable form. The project
may consist of the following:
1. A theoretical study of an engineering problem.
2. A design and/or development project conducted at Concordia.
3 . A design and/or project conducted as part of the student’s full-time employment, providing the student’s employer furnishes written approval for the pursuit and reporting of the project.
4. An ordered and critical exposition of the literature on an appropriate topic in engineering.


Before registration for a project course, a student must obtain written consent of a faculty member who will act as an advisor for the report. A form for this consent is available in the Office of the Dean of Engineering and Computer Science. A four-credit report is due on the last day of classes of the term (fall, winter, summer) in which it is registered. Students are expected to have a preliminary version of their report approved by their advisor before its final submission. On
or before the submission deadline, students must submit three copies of the report to their advisors, who will grade the report. One copy of the report will be returned to the students, one retained by the advisors, and one by the
department.
The report, including an abstract, must be suitably documented and illustrated, should be at least 5000 words in length, must be typewritten on one side of 21.5 cm by 28 cm white paper of quality, and must be enclosed in binding. Students
are referred to Form and Style: Thesis, Report, Term Papers, fourth edition by Campbell and Ballou, published by Houghton Migglin.

ENGR 6981 Project and Report II (4 credits)
ENGR 6991 Project and Report III (5 credits)
With the permission of their Department, students in the M.Eng. Program may register for these project courses if they wish to carry out a more extended project, or if they wish to complete further projects. Each project course requires
prior approval by the faculty member who has accepted to supervise the work. Students working on a multi-course project must register for the corresponding project courses in successive terms. For ENGR 6991 and multi-course projects, the report is due on the last day of classes of the last term in which they are registered. In the case of ENGR 6991 and multi-course project, three copies of the report must be submitted to the advisor on or before this deadline, and students are also required to make an oral presentation to the evaluators, and other members of the community. The report will be evaluated by the advisor and at least one other Engineering and Computer Science member of the Faculty. Transitional Arrangements: All students admitted for or after the summer 2001 session will be subject to the new set of degree requirements. Students admitted before the summer 2001 session will retain credits already earned and will receive credits for additional activities as set out in the supplement to the 2001– 2002 graduate calendar. They will have the choice of either the old or the new set of requirements. Old thesis and project numbers will be retained as a transitional arrangement for these students. The Graduate Program Director and student advisors will assist students in choosing how to meet the old or the new set of requirements. Students are not allowed to enroll in both old and new
versions of the same course.

Academic Regulations

All students registered in a Faculty graduate degree program are assessed at the end of each academic year. This assessment is based on:
  1. Courses for which a grade point value has been assigned subsequent to their admission to their program, or in the case of reinstated students, subsequent to their reinstatement
  2. Other degree requirements, for which no grade point value is assigned, such as doctoral/Ph.D. seminars, comprehensive examinations, doctoral research proposals and theses which are graded on a pass/fail or equivalent basis.
Standings of students are determined as follows:
  1. Good Standing. No failures on record, a maximum of one grade below B and a weighted cumulative grade point average of at least 3.00 based on a minimum of 8 credits.
  2. Failed Standing. Failure to meet the criteria for good standing.
  3. Reinstatement. Subject to regulation four below, failed students may apply to the Graduate Program Director of the appropriate Department for reinstatement. Where the recommendation is to reinstate, this will be forwarded to the Dean of Graduate Studies for approval. Any special conditions will be specified at the time of reinstatement.
  4. Withdrawal. Failed students who were previously assessed as failed must withdraw from the Faculty degree program.
  5. Graduation Requirements. To be considered for the award of a graduate degree, students must have satisfied all degree requirements and have obtained a weighted grade point average of 3.00 based on all courses credited towards the degree and taken at Concordia subsequent to first registration in the program, and a maximum of one grade below B.
Questions to the graduate program should be sent by email to the Program Director and the Program Assistant.
 

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