The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers some of the most dynamic, innovative and cross-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs in Canada leading to Bachelor, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in both Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering.
We have introduced two exciting new programs; a B.Eng. in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering and a Master of Infrastructure Protection and International Security.
The Department has an intensive research enterprise including an NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Fire Safety Engineering and a Canada Research Chair in the Analysis and Management of Risk Associated with Civil Engineering Applications and Practices, and a Canada Research Chair in Wastewater and Public Health Engineering.
Quick Links
News
Carleton students win the 2012 CITE Student Competition
The Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE ) held their annual student competition at Carleton University in March 2012. Nine teams from Carleton and the University of Waterloo participated. The students had backgrounds in both transportation engineering and environmental engineering. All from Carleton University, the winners of this year’s presentation are below: 1st: Alex ... more
Most downloaded paper of conference
The paper of Carleton University’s research group: “A comparison of different laboratory techniques to simulate stress and moisture history of hard rock mine tailings” has been selected as the most downloaded paper in the Tailings and Mine Waste 2011 Conference. Ph.D. Candidate Farzad Daliri, attended the conference and presented the paper in Vancouver . Farzad ... more
Students awarded MH Waste Management Awards
Morrison Hershfield Limited’s Ottawa Environmental Department recently sponsored an Award of Distinction for the top student as well as awards for the top two term projects for ENVE 4101 Waste Management at Carleton University. The awards were handed out at a recent presentation ceremony hosted by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and attended ... more
Professor Hadjisophocleous awarded best paper of symposium
Professor Hadjisophocleous attended the International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security in New York, where he presented two papers. The first paper presented experimental work on the interaction of tunnel suppression with tunnel ventilation systems and the second experimental results on the heat release rate of railcar fires. The second paper was selected as the ... more
Luz Adriana Puentes wins Michael Bozozuk Award
The Ottawa Geotechnical group has awarded the 2012 (36th) Michael Bozozuk Student Forum Award. The Michael Bozozuk Student Forum is an annual student presentation competition organized by the Ottawa Geotechnical Group (OGG). Luz presented her master’s research on the Influence of Wettability on the Recovery of Entrapped LNAPLs via Surfactant Flushing, supervised by Dr. Paul Van Geel. ... more