McGill University Faculty of Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering is one of the constituent faculties of the McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemical, civil, computer, software, electrical, mechanical, metals and materials, and mining engineering, as well as architecture and urban planning. The faculty also teaches courses in bio-resource engineering (Faculty of Agriculture) and in biomedical engineering (Faculty of Medicine) at the masters level.

McGill was the first university in Canada to give instruction in Applied Science. Out of this legacy grew today's faculty of engineering. The faculty includes five departments and two schools:

The Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics (est. 1871) offers programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department currently has twenty-three full-time faculty members. In addition, an industrial perspective is provided in the classroom by adjunct professors who are practising civil engineers. The Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics is ranked first or second in Canada and top ten worldwide. The lowest average accepted for Fall 2011 was ninety-one percent for students outside of Quebec.

There are approximately two hundred undergraduate and eighty graduate students in the department, of whom nearly one-half are women and one-third are from outside Canada. Broad programs of study are available that offer specialized courses in all areas of civil engineering. Facilities include state-of-the-art teaching, research, and computing laboratories.

Established in 1871, the mining engineering program is the oldest in Canada. It is the oldest program of its kind in North America, followed closely by the one offered at Colorado School of Mines, established in 1874. In the mid 1960s mining engineering at universities in Canada was suffering. Toronto closed its school; McGill had only one undergraduate student and its Professor of Mining was due to retire. In 1964 John Ross Bradfield, Chairman of Noranda, was asked to form a committee to study and resolve the problem. The result was the raising of funds to help finance a Chair of Mining at McGill and to persuade Professor Frank T.M. White to come from the University of Queensland in Australia to take the position of Chairman of the Department of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics. Professor White initiated a program that graduated a large cohort of postgraduate engineers, many of whom served to rebuild the educational capacity of mining throughout Canada. This, together with the contribution that he made in promoting mining education, resolved the crisis. Professor White died in 1971; McGill University and the Canadian Mineral Industry Education Foundation set up the F.T.M. White Award to honour him for his outstanding contribution to mining education in Canada.

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