Lab Facilities
The Environmental Engineering Section of the Department of Civil Engineering utilizes two main laboratories: Analytical Environmental Engineering Labs and the City of Toronto and surrounding areas as a "living" lab.
The analytical laboratories are on the fourth floor of the Galbraith Building, and house state-of-the-art facilities for teaching, research, and chemical and microbial analysis.
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Teaching Laboratory
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Analytical Laboratory
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The Matthew Bartley Smith Teaching Laboratory serves both undergraduate and graduate courses. Up to 40 students may be instructed at a time in this facility, which is equipped with a variety of instrumentation and equipment needed to support course lab assignments. The facility also includes two walk-in constant temperature rooms.
The Nora Vaughan Graduate Research Laboratories consist of three separate rooms for research projects, the Ann Bartley Smith Analytical Laboratory, a room for microbiology work, a general work/wash room, a chemical and apparatus storage room, and the office of the laboratory supervisor. Each research laboratory is equipped with a fume hood, acid and solvent storage cabinets, and two double-basin sinks.
The Ann Bartley Smith Analytical Laboratory houses analytical equipment including gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, an atomic adsorption spectrometer, and other tools. Students undertaking laboratory-based research also have access to analytical equipment at other locations in the University.
If you would like to know more about the research conducted in the laboratories contact the appropriate professor directly:
The Toronto area, which provides a rich source of environmental problems and data, also serves as a real world laboratory for much of the research in the areas of water resources, environmental decision making and sustainable infrastructure. For more information on this research, please see the description of
General Areas of Research in Environmental Engineering or go to the pages of the individual professors.
