One of the most distinguished engineering programs in the world, Engineering Science (EngSci) is designed for students who are looking for an intense academic challenge.
In your first two years, youll be immersed in engineering, math, science, computing and humanities. In your last two years, youll choose from one of eight majors for accelerated, discipline-specific learning. Our students thrive in a close-knit community of exceptional individuals, creating an enriched and unique learning environment.
Through discipline-specific specializations, multidisciplinary minors and certificates, and unique professional opportunities, you can customize your U of T Engineering degree to meet your own developing interests at every stage of your academic journey. Academic flexibility combined with a wide range of optional curricular and co-curricular opportunities means that you graduate equipped with the engineering competencies, professional confidence and global perspective to address complex challenges.
As a part of your U of T Engineering experience, you will gain a minimum of 600 hours of practical experience. This ensures that you obtain significant experience with professional responsibility before graduation. Your 600 hours may be fulfilled at any point during your degree and can include many facets, from working in industry to conducting research. Successful completion of the Professional Experience Year Co-op Program automatically satisfies this requirement.
In EngSci's Energy Systems Engineering major, students learn to tackle urgent technical issues in energy generation, storage, transmission, and distribution, while gaining an understanding of environmental, public policy, and economic impacts. The curriculum focuses on developing experts for the energy sector and beyond through fundamental technical training in multidisciplinary courses. Topics covered include clean energy, sustainability, thermodynamics, control systems, and electric drives.
The major provides the breadth, depth and interdisciplinary knowledge required in the highly complex energy sector. Students learn to evaluate tradeoffs between different traditional and alternative technologies, explore technical aspects within a societal context, examine links to conservation and sustainable development, and gain a rigorous foundation relevant to many energy topics.
