Environmental Systems Engineering (MASc, MEng, PhD)
Reach the next level in your engineering career through the University of Regina's environmental systems engineering graduate programs. Gain additional expertise in areas such as:
- Air quality management
- Energy and environment
- Environmental modeling/simulation/optimization
- Geotechnical engineering
- Groundwater contamination
- Industrial air pollution control
- Risk assessment
- Solid and hazardous waste management
- Sustainability and urban development
- Transportation engineering
- Water and wastewater treatment
- Water resources engineering
Admission to environmental systems engineering programs is flexible. Courses start three times every year. Tailor the program to your career goals with several environmental systems engineering degree options.
- Master of Applied Science – Thesis (30 credit hours) – A research-focused program culminating in a thesis.
- Master of Applied Science – Co-op (38 credit hours)
- Master of Engineering – Project (30 credit hours) – Complete a project to combine your academic knowledge with professional experience.
- Master of Engineering – Co-op (38 credit hours)
Designed for practicing engineers wanting to build their areas of expertise and experience, U of R's environmental systems engineering master’s degree programs leverage project-based learning. Master of Applied Science in Environmental Engineering and Master of Engineering Co-op students complete two four-month or one eight-month co-op work placement through our Co-operative Education & Internships program. Earn $8,000-$13,000 per semester while you gain firsthand environmental engineering knowledge.
We also offer the following doctoral programs:
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Systems Engineering (60 credit hours) (after Master's degree)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Systems Engineering (63 credit hours) (after MEng degree)
Work closely with U of R environmental systems engineering faculty members who conduct groundbreaking research in areas like:
- AI application in water resources
- Air pollution control
- COVID-19 and the environment
- Data-driven solid waste management policy
- Drinking water safety and lead in drinking water
- Eco-friendly corrosion inhibitors
- Environmental risk management
- Greywater and wastewater treatment and reuse
- Modeling and simulation in environmental hydraulic engineering
- Sustainable ground security
- Water-health-energy nexus
- Zero-waste issues
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What Is Environmental Systems Engineering?
The world faces severe environmental challenges, and environmental systems engineers provide ethical, comprehensive solutions. At the University of Regina, we find the answers by breaking down boundaries and cooperating between engineering disciplines to enact true change.
Take a front-seat role in tackling important environmental issues with an environmental engineering graduate degree from the U of R.
Environmental Systems Engineering Meet Your Faculty
Why Study Environmental Systems Engineering at the University of Regina?
The U of R is the perfect place to earn your master of environmental systems engineering degree because we cherish the future of the world. In the University of Regina's strategic plan, environmental and climate action is one of the five main pillars. Learn to enact environmental change through project-based knowledge and hands-on experience.
Popular master of environmental systems engineering courses include:
- Industrial wastewater treatment and reuse – Highlights current and new industrial wastewater management strategies, as well as treatment process design theory.
- Solid waste disposal, management and site remediation – Completely covers sustainable solid waste management and landfill environmental technology. Includes a paper critique project.
- Hazardous waste management and site remediation – Includes a real-world environmental remediation course project.
- Sustainable mine waste management.
- Improvement of geo-materials including slurries, soils and rocks.
- Modeling of energy and environmental management systems.
Real-world environmental engineering
Environmental engineering courses focus on learning while doing practical engineering work. In our master’s programs, you can complete two 4-month co-operative education experiences, or one 8-month experience while earning a salary if you choose the co-op program.Environmental focus
Some environmental engineering master’s programs take a civil engineering-focused approach to coursework. Not U of R's. Gain knowledge from a completely environmental engineering-based perspective.Engaging environmental research
Enjoy a research-intensive culture thanks to a small student-to-professor ratio. We build personal attention into our environmental engineering programs. Get the support you need to tackle huge environmental challenges.Leading professors
Learn from world-class professors, such as Dr. Gordon Huang, a world leader in environmental informatics research, or Dr. Jinkai Xue, who gives voice to issues of drinking water safety and public health protection through interviews with major media outlets.Dr. Ng’s passion for his field was contagious and led me to having greater pride in my chosen profession, which I am happy to have taken with me into the start of my engineering career.
Frequently Asked Questions
Take the opportunity to connect with fellow graduate-level engineering students through the Regina Engineering Graduate Students Association.
Also, build your professional network through these additional engineering clubs!
- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
- Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Mitacs
- RAM Techtron Airlock Team
- Regina Engineering Concrete Toboggan Team (RECT)
- Regina Engineering Graduate Students Association
- Regina Engineering Student Society (RESS)
- Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE)
- URobotics
Program Foundations and Goals
Find ways to limit air pollution, manage waste and protect water resources and other habitats. Keep your community and the world safer and more productive. The environmental systems engineering graduate programs focus on real experience and intense research, so you can apply your skills to make the world a better place.Experience
Take courses on the cutting edge of environmental systems engineering practices. Use your project, thesis or co-op experience to springboard your environmental systems engineering career to the next level.Research
Research with professors who lead in fields like wastewater management. Environmental engineering graduate students often participate in their supervisor's and other faculty members' research projects.Succeed
Gain the experience you need to further your environmental systems engineering career through cutting-edge courses, research in response to industry requests, co-op opportunities and more.What Can You Do With an Environmental Systems Engineering Degree?
U of R environmental systems engineering graduates vie for prestigious and impactful engineering jobs with government, not-for-profit organizations, and public sector employers across Canada or wherever in the world they choose to live and work. Our graduates are employed by companies such as Brandt, Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Government of Canada, Ministry of Energy and Resources, Government of Saskatchewan, SaskEnergy, SaskPower, Stantec, The Mosaic Company, and more.
The jobs graduates go on to include:
- Environmental systems engineer
- Test engineer
- Engineering manager
