University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering - Academics

Academics

There are 4,850 undergraduate students and 1,600 graduate students enrolled in the faculty, with 40,000 living Skule alumni worldwide. The undergraduate programs are conducted by the departments of chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, materials, mechanical, and mineral engineering. Courses in several majors overlap: the electrical engineering curriculum shares courses with the computer engineering curriculum in the first two years, while chemical engineering shares a set of courses with the environmental engineering option of the civil engineering department. The undergraduate engineering science program consists of courses from a broad range of departments and places greater emphasis on theory than in a traditional engineering curriculum. In the final two years of the program, each student specializes in one of several concentration options, including biomedical engineering, aerospace engineering, and nanotechnology.

The faculty requires undergraduate students to accumulate 600 hours of engineering work experience, commonly obtained through employment in between academic terms. Students may also choose to participate in a paid internship program called the Professional Experience Year, which involves employment at an engineering company for a period of 12 to 16 months. The Jeffrey Skoll program allows engineering students to earn a bachelor's degree in engineering from the faculty followed by a Master of Business Administration degree from the Rotman School of Management.

Departments

  • Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
  • Civil and Mineral Engineering
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering

Divisions

  • Environmental Engineering and Energy Systems
  • Engineering Science

Specialized institutes

  • Institute for Aerospace Studies
  • Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering

Affiliated research institutes and centres

  • Centre for Chemical Process Metallurgy
  • Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies
  • Pulp and Paper Centre
  • Centre for Technology and Social Development
  • Emerging Communications Technology Institute
  • Centre for Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging
  • Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship
  • Lassonde Institute
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems Centre and Test Bed
  • Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology
  • Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering
  • Centre for Global Engineering
  • Identity, Privacy and Security Institute
  • Institute for Optical Sciences
  • Centre for Advanced Diffusion-Wave Technologies
  • Centre for Applied Power Electronics
  • Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research
  • Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
  • Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering
  • Centre for Studies in Molecular Imaging
  • Centre for Nanostructured Polymeric and Inorganic Materials

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