Faculty of Engineering

The scope of Mechanical Engineering is so wide and its services so universally needed as a basic part of all kinds of engineering work that the mechanical engineer is in demand in all industries. Mechanical engineers are required in the field of power generation, where they deal with steam, diesel, or other internal combustion engines, and with hydraulic or gas turbines; in the field of heating, ventilation and refrigeration; in the design, analysis, and production of machines and equipment, for example, safety equipment, material handling equipment, automobiles, locomotives, marine vessels, furnaces, boilers, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, motors, generators, and machine tools. They are employed in industries whose function is concerned with manufacturing, steel production, mining, transportation, communications, oil refining, chemical manufacture, paper, sugar, textiles, aerospace, nuclear energy, natural gas production and transmission, and construction. The undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering is designed to provide the student with a firm grasp of the fundamentals of mathematics, physics, and engineering as well as to provide some opportunity for specialization in the later years. The degree of BASc in Mechanical Engineering is accredited and permits registration as a Professional Engineer in the Professional Engineering licensing body in every Canadian province upon completion of the work experience requirement and upon passing the exams in law and ethics.

The Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program contains a core of basic subjects that must be taken by all students. The first year shares some courses with Civil and Electrical Engineering. The second and third years provide courses in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering with further development in mathematics and physics. Opportunities for specialization exist during the fourth year, where a choice of elective courses arranged into six different areas of specialization is available. Non-technical (complementary studies) courses are distributed throughout the program but do not appear in all terms.