Department of Civil Engineering » University of Toronto

Programs & Courses

Courses

• CIV515H1 - Structural Dynamics
• CIV1171H - Principles of Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design
• CIV1199H - Special Studies in Civil Engineering - Structures Under Blast and Impact
• CIV11xxH - Advanced Modelling of Structures under Extreme Loading Conditions
• CIV11xxH - Seismic Design with Advanced Supplemental Damping and Isolation Systems
• CIV1198H - Special Studies in Civil Engineering - Infrastructure Resilience Planning
  This course goes through the infrastructure resilience planning process, exploring each concept and the supporting tools available to the planner. At its core, the course is about critical thinking with an applied science bias that incorporates the contextual influences of business continuity, socio-economics and the physical environment. The course comprises 26 contact hours, 14 project hours, private study and a final examination. Upon completion, students will be able to inform and manage the infrastructure component of Operational Resiliency and Business Continuity Planning.
• CIV1xxxH - Infrastructure Protection
  This course goes through the delivery of infrastructure protection within an infrastructure resilience plan. The threat and hazard spectra and resiliency requirements are extracted to develop a design concept, site layout and protection systems integration. At its core, the course is about the critical application of resilience parameters to proposed and existing infrastructure. The course comprises 26 contact hours, 14 project hours, private study and a final examination. Upon completion, students will be able to manage the delivery of the infrastructure protection component of Operational Resiliency. (An understanding of Blast Effects and structural resilience is also required for those wishing to practice)

Seminars

• Critical Infrastructure Resilience
  Infrastructure Resilience is an extension of organisational resilience, which is defined as “the positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar” event. To be resilient, a structure must be able to absorb or adapt to the incident/event allowing the functions that it contains or enables to continue unimpeded or to recover within a specified amount of time. The infrastructure and the operations that it supports are indivisible. This seminar explores that relationship.
• Discourses on the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure
  Five essays are provided for pre-reading. They are not complete research papers, nor indeed conclusive arguments. They are “thought pieces” that present a simple hypothesis, intended to stimulate discussion. Deliberately provocative at times with the occasional tangent, the presented argument demands reasoned and balanced response. The reader is encouraged to read and consider each essay in turn, read further into the subjects presented and so prepare for seminar discussion. The essays each pertain to a different seminar. The seminars are sequenced to promote progressive understanding of the context and application of the infrastructure engineer practising in Canada.
• Blast Seminars
• Seismic Seminars

Internships

RCI facilitates paid internships with companies working at the leading edge of capability development in infrastructure resilience and physical protection. Intern selection is highly competitive among appropriate Masters programme students and graduates with many intern projects providing suitable research opportunities for the Masters’ dissertation.

Working with the employer, the RCI provides research supervision and professional development guidance, either in conjunction with the employer’s training scheme or directly. Throughout, the emphasis is on competency development following the Institution of Civil Engineers Chartered Engineer model and the Register of Security Engineers and Specialists competency criteria. Appropriate equivalent professional institution competency criteria can also be supported.