Civil Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board
Engineer the foundations of the future
Entry in:
Fall and Winter
Launch your career
Build in-demand engineering skills with leading employers
Guided by innovators
Collaborate and learn from faculty shaping the future
Program overview
Imagine helping design the bridges people cross every day, creating sustainable cities or developing innovative solutions that protect communities and the environment. As a Civil Engineering student at Lassonde, you’ll join a community of students who are just as driven to make a difference. It’s a place where you don’t just study engineering, you experience it together.
You’ll explore how cities and infrastructure are designed, including transportation systems, water resources, structural design and environmental engineering. Along the way, you’ll also discover how engineers are responding to today’s biggest challenges like climate resilience, sustainable development and new materials that are changing how we build.
Beyond the classroom, learning comes to life. From hands-on projects and mentorship with upper-year students to time spent in spaces like the Sandbox, you’ll be part of a supportive group where ideas become real and classmates quickly become friends.
With flexible co-op opportunities, you’ll also gain hands-on experience that adapts to your goals and employer needs, helping you build confidence, connections and a clearer sense of where your path in engineering can take you. By the time you graduate, you won’t just have strong technical skills, you’ll have a network, real experience and a community that feels like family.
Why Civil Engineering at Lassonde
Engineering Block Model option
You can choose to start your journey in the Engineering Block Model, a first-year experience built to support both your learning and your sense of belonging.
Instead of balancing several courses at once, you will focus on one subject at a time, helping you stay present and fully engaged. Many students find this approach helps them feel more confident early on.
Learn from faculty driving innovation
Civil Engineering at Lassonde goes beyond traditional design. It’s closely connected to real-world innovation in how we build and maintain the spaces around us.
Students learn from leading faculty, including Professors Liam Butler, Magdalena Krol and Matthew Perras. Who are all part of a 2025 NSERC Alliance Advantage project. The ground-breaking project explores how mining waste can be transformed into 3D-printed concrete to support affordable housing.
Opportunities outside of the classroom
Your experience goes beyond the classroom, giving you space to connect and grow.
Build research skills through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Undergraduate Student Research Awards (NSERC USRA), the Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA) and Research at York (RAY). Participate in YSpace Lassonde and develop job-ready skills through workshops.
Hands-on learning & lab experiences
CD3 Facility
The Climate-Data-Driven Design Facility is a research space where engineers test how real weather conditions like heat, rain, snow and humidity affect infrastructure materials over time. It stands out by combining outdoor field testing, advanced sensors and full-scale experiments that replicate real-world conditions instead of lab settings.
High Bay Lab
The High Bay Lab is a multi-storey structural testing facility designed for large-scale materials and structural research. Built to withstand earthquake-level forces, the lab features a metre-thick floor, vibration-controlled walls and professional-grade testing and prototyping equipment, including a 12.5-ton overhead crane.
The Sandbox
The Bergeron Sandbox puts students at the center of hands-on creation and collaboration inside the Bergeron Centre. With access to tools like 3D printing, laser cutting and dedicated team spaces, students can quickly prototype, test and refine their ideas. It’s an environment built for experimenting, building and learning.
All the projects that you work on will be related to something tangible. If you’re interested in cities, how they operate and how we can make a positive impact in people’s lives, I think Civil Engineering is the right discipline for you.
— Professor Usman Khan, Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University
Work-integrated learning
Gain industry experience with paid work terms
Through Lassonde’s co-op program, co-op work terms begin after your second year, with students applying in year two. This makes first year an important time to build your academic foundation and technical skills.
From there, you’ll take on paid work terms across technology, finance, public service, research, and other areas where software engineering plays a key role. With flexible 4, 8, or 12-month placements, you can tailor your experience to your goals while building in-demand skills, growing your network, and exploring what excites you most about your future career, all while being supported at every step.
Notable co-op employers
- The Regional Municipality of York
- ART Engineering Inc.
- Ontario Transit Group
- AllRock Consulting Ltd.
- Bantrel Co.
500+
An average of $26/hr
Co-op employers
Work around the world
Launch your career in the Civil Engineering industry
In demand across every industry
Graduates of our program have gone on to build careers across all sectors, including healthcare, finance, government, transportation, manufacturing and tech.
Where our grads work
Amazon
Area manager, project coordinator
Halton Region
Project manager, project coordinator
AMD
Software developer, design engineer
Alliance Verdi Civil
Project engineer, project coordinator
Bruce Power
Project coordinator, project engineer
Toronto Hydro
Electrical engineer, applied machine engineering, project coordinator
Why this career is future-proof
As artificial intelligence continues to transform civil engineering, the discipline is becoming increasingly innovative, data-driven and design-oriented. With routine analysis, modelling and optimization tasks increasingly automated, engineers are able to dedicate more time to addressing complex infrastructure challenges. Allowing them to focus on advanced critical thinking and developing intelligent yet resilient systems.
In this program, you’ll explore areas such as structural systems, geotechnical engineering, transportation, water resources and construction management. You’ll develop the technical skills and adaptability needed to design safe and sustainable infrastructure, work with modern engineering tools and methods and help shape the built environments and communities of the future.
Learn from exceptional faculty
You will learn from faculty working in a variety of dynamic areas, bringing new ideas directly into your courses. You’ll begin to understand not just how systems work, but how they are experienced in the real world.
With top-ranked faculty in AI, research becomes part of your everyday experience. Through projects, mentorship and collaboration, you’ll explore ideas and systems that are actively shaping the future of technology.
Important information for applicants
Course details
Sample First-Year Schedules
Civil Engineering (B.Eng)
Year One Common Core
Fall Term
• Class • Lab • Tutorial
Mon
Applied Linear Algebra
Computational Thinking Through Procedural Programming & Mechatronics
Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Mechanics
Tues
Applied Calculus I
Renaissance Engineer 1: Ethics, Communication & Problem Solving
Wed
Applied Linear Algebra
Computational Thinking Through Procedural Programming & Mechatronics
Engineering Mechanics
Thurs
Applied Calculus I
Computational Thinking Through Procedural Programming & Mechatronics
Renaissance Engineer 1: Ethics, Communication & Problem Solving
Fri
Applied Linear Algebra
Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Mechanics
Civil Engineering (B.Eng)
Year One Common Core
Winter Term
• Class • Lab • Tutorial
Mon
Applied Calculus II
Electricity, Magnetism and Optics for Engineers
Chemistry and Materials Science for Engineers
Discrete Mathematics for Engineers
Tues
Chemistry and Materials Science for Engineers
Renaissance Engineer 2: Engineering Design Principles
Object-Oriented Programming & Telemetry as Engineering Cornerstones
Wed
Applied Calculus II
Electricity, Magnetism and Optics for Engineers
Discrete Mathematics for Engineers
Discrete Mathematics for Engineers
Thurs
Chemistry and Materials Science for Engineers
Electricity, Magnetism and Optics for Engineers
Renaissance Engineer 2: Engineering Design Principles
Fri
Applied Calculus II
Electricity, Magnetism and Optics for Engineers
Electricity, Magnetism and Optics for Engineers
Chemistry and Materials Science for Engineers
Object-Oriented Programming & Telemetry as Engineering Cornerstones
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