Information for Undergraduates
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in Civil Engineering
The undergraduate program leading to the B.A.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering is designed to provide students with a grounding in both basic sciences and specific civil engineering skills. The program offers students the alternatives of a general civil engineering curriculum or, an environmental engineering option.
The first year common engineering program and the second year program in civil engineering include fundamental courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and structures. In the third and fourth years, the curriculum consists largely of civil engineering courses in various sub-disciplines including environmental, geotechnical, hydraulics, structures, and transportation engineering. Laboratory work is carried out in the third and fourth years. In the final year, students work in groups on a design or laboratory project; and a number of technical elective courses in the final year allow students to take additional courses in a preferred area of civil engineering.
The program is accredited periodically by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, most recently during 2006. Typically, about 400 students are registered in the program, and about 110 graduate in any one year. Civil Engineering graduates are employed by industry, government and engineering consulting firms that service the needs of local, regional, national and international clients.
Please visit the Faculty of Applied Science UBC Engineering website for details about admissions.
