Annual Report 2018-2019
Education and Training TISED educates future engineers, urban planners, and architects by offering training opportunities, new courses, integrating sustainability into programs, and enhancing education 'outside the classroom'. Teaching focuses on effective, practical, cutting-edge theories and strategies relevant to the development of sustainable engineers, architects, and planners' career paths. TISED offers a growing catalogue of interdisciplinary sustainability-focused courses, and a master’s program in Sustainability in Engineering and Design is under development.
Master’s Program: M.Eng in Sustainability in Engineering and Design TISED is excited to report that substantial progress has be made since the last annual report. The program has passed all the internal review steps at McGill and is almost ready to be submitted to the provincial government for approval. This review of a new degree program has been a long process requiring consultations at numerous stages. Building upon the original business case, the master’s program was first approved by the McGill Faculty of Engineering in May 2018. Over the summer, TISED continued working on building up the internal proposal by obtaining final approval of future courses and setting up the program’s support infrastructure. The program was approved by the Council of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (CGPS) in September 2018. Progress on the program has increased as we get closer to our goal. A new master’s program manager, Gary Ng, was hired in October 2018 to finish the work on the 300plus page proposal to the Government of Quebec. The proposed program and budget were endorsed by the APC Subcommittee on Courses and Teaching Programs (SCTP) in January 2019. In quick succession, the Academic Policy Committee (APC) of the McGill Senate and then the full McGill Senate gave final approval to the sustainability program in February 2019. Now we are working on obtaining physical resources for the program and the final preparation of the document that will be sent out to the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI) and to the Québec Ministère de l’éducation et de l’enseignement supérieur. The goal is to deliver the submission to the BCI and the Quebec Government by the end of summer 2019 for review in the fall of 2019.
TISED Course Offerings
In 2018-2019, TISED offered four courses to graduate and upper-level undergraduate (U3) students in the Faculty of Engineering. Three of these courses were returning courses: ‘Energy Analysis’, ‘Sustainable Urban Communities’, and ‘Life Cycle-Based Environmental Footprinting’. ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Engineering Infrastructure’, was offered for the first time this year, and more new courses are planned for the upcoming academic year. These courses will eventually become part of the master’s program. TISED promotes interdisciplinary education through its course offerings, seeking to attract students across academic units. Students from all seven Faculty of Engineering
