• The University of Calgary offers an MEng Chemical and Petroleum Engineering program for a duration of 2 years.
  • It is an on-campus, thesis-based program offered on a full-time basis.
  • The aim of the program is to allow practicing engineers students to expand their knowledge of chemical/petroleum engineering fundamentals.
  • The specialization courses of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering program are:
    • Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering
    • Biomedical Engineering (thesis-based)
    • Energy and Environment (Interdisciplinary)
    • Environmental Engineering (Interdisciplinary)
    • Energy and Environmental Systems (Interdisciplinary, thesis-based)
  • The program is consists of 4 core courses, a minimum of 12 units of graduate courses and the topics may include are mass transfer, chemical reactor design, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and more.
  • The core course of the program includes Reservoir Simulation, Secondary and Tertiary Recovering, Thermal Recovery Methods, and more.
  • Students have to take 2 professional development courses on communication styles, presentation skills, and more.
  • The program consists of a thesis topic that students wish to study and are related to industrial problems.
  • Students are required to submit and defend an original thesis and the MEng degree is usually considered as a final degree and they may participate in an international project outside of Canada for 4 to 6 months. 
  • University provides the flexibility to complete the Engineering program in a maximum of 4 years.
  • The mission of the Faculty of Graduate Studies is to foster excellence, creativity, and innovation in graduate education and research at the University of Calgary.
  • The Faculty of the department provides training to empower students for academic and career success and gets many awards such as Achievement Awards, Federal awards, Indigenous awards, etc.
  • The University of Calgary is a research-oriented university ranks 6th in Canada in terms of sponsored research funding and is Top 5 in Canada for research performance.
  • Job opportunities after the MEng Chemical and Petroleum Engineering are Process Engineer, Petroleum Production Engineer, etc and average salary goes up to 78,682 USD.