Civil Engineering

The graduate program and research goals of the Department of Civil Engineering are consistent with the mission of both Queen's University and the civil engineering profession. These goals, which reflect the educational, professional and research needs of society and the environment are as follows:

• to attract and educate students at the graduate level who, upon completion of their studies, will possess an advanced understanding of the state-of-the-art and state-of-practice within selected areas of the natural environment and infrastructure and will have the potential to be among the nation's best and whose excellence will be respected by the international community.
• to advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-practice through a combination of internationally recognized research in specific areas and nationally respected service to the profession, to government and industry, and to society in general.

• Health and Safety in Civil Engineering Research
• Structural design of buried pipes
• Pipe repair using liners
• Pipe replacement using bursting
• Horizontal directional drilling
• Serviceability of Concrete Structures
• Assessment and Monitoring of Infrastructure
• Advanced Materials for Civil Engineering
• Advanced Reinforced Concrete
• Advanced Infrastructure Materials
• Advanced Steel Design
• Prestressed Concrete
• Design of Concrete Structures with Fibre Reinforced Polymers
• Approximate Structural Analysis
• Advanced Soil Mechanicas
• Foundation Engineering
• Landslides
• Geotechnical analysis 1: Elasticity
• Geotechnical analysis 2 : Inelastic analysis
• Human Factors and GeoEngineering Projects
• Geosynthetics in Geotechnical Engineering
• Landfill Design
• Advanced Fluid Mechanics
• Environmental Fluid Dynamics
• Water Waves
• Hydrodynamics of Coasts and Estuaries
• River Morphodynamics
• River Engineering
• Computational Hydraulics
• Fundamentals of Coastal Engineering
• Subsurface Contamination
• Flow and Transport in Fractured Rock
• Analytical and Numerical Methods in Groundwater Modeling
• Gases in Groundwater
• Field Methods in the Hydrogeology of Fractured Rock
• Chemistry of Natural Waters
• Biological Treatment Processes
• Biomass Conversion
• Theory of Groundwater Flow and Transport
• Ph.D. Thesis

Requirements

• Successful completion of a research Master's degree 
• Letter of Intent
• Current CV including a list of all previous academic awards and publications (both abstracts and full papers)
• For international students, if required, a TOEFL total score of at least 550 (paperbased) or TOEFL iBT minimum scores of: writing (24/30); speaking (22/30); reading (22/30); listening (20/30), for a total of 88/120. Applicants must have the minimum score in each test as well as the minimum overall score.
• Transcripts
• Two current academic recommendations are required from professors under whom the applicant has recently studied.
• IELTS (International English Language Testing System) - score of 7 on the academic module
• Pay the non refundable application fee on-line (currently $105 CDN).

Scholarships

• Basic Funding Package (teaching and research assistantship, internal fellowships, bursaries and incremental growth).minimum $18,000; most students receive between $18,000 and $22,000 per year
• Queen’s Graduate Awards (QGA)
• Graduate Entrance Tuition Awards (GETA)
• International Tuition Awards (ITAs)
• Conference Travel Awards