5. Program/Course Needs

Additionally to Faculty of Graduate Studies needs and also the Schulich School of Engineering, the Department requires:

Students in most thesis programs must develop a Technical Report Writing course. In consultation using the Supervisor and also the Graduate Director, this requirement could be waived for college students with prior experience and skills in technical report writing.

Master of Engineering (course-based)

See “Engineering Programs.”

Master of Engineering (thesis-based)

a) No less than five half courses, which four or five should be graduate courses.

b) After acceptable progress within the student’s own searching, enrolment within the Geomatics Engineering 605 Research Seminar course.

c) A thesis associated with original engineering analysis or design.

a) No less than five half courses, which four or five should be graduate courses.

b) After acceptable progress within the student’s own searching, enrolment within the Geomatics Engineering 605 Research Seminar course.

c) Attend six workshops (Geomatics Engineering 605. 607. and/or 609 ) as a whole. One page report ought to be posted for every seminar.

d) A thesis associated with original engineering research.

Physician of Philosophy

a) No less than three graduate half courses beyond online resources Science course needs. For college students who transfer from the Master of Science to some doctorate program, no less than two graduate half courses beyond online resources Science course needs.

b) After acceptable progress within the student’s own searching, enrolment within the Geomatics Engineering 607 and 609 Research Seminar courses, normally to not be used within the same term.

c) Attend six workshops (Geomatics Engineering 605. 607.

and/or 609 ) as a whole. One page report ought to be posted for every seminar.

d) An itemized as well as an dental candidacy examination in line with the graduate course work.

e) A thesis associated with advanced original engineering research.

Independent Study Courses

Course-based Master of Engineering students might have a maximum of three independent study courses count towards their degree needs.

Thesis-based Masters students and Physician of Philosophy students might have a maximum of one independent training count towards their degree needs. Students who transfer from online resources Science towards the Physician of Philosophy program might have a maximum of two independent study courses count towards their degree needs.

10. Needed Examinations

Doctorate Candidacy Examination
The candidacy examination includes a written as well as an dental component. The student’s background understanding in the area of Geomatics Engineering as well as in-depth understanding in theOrher selected research specialization is examined.

The written examination is definitely an open book study of no more than 6 cumulative hrs. It includes a comprehensive examination within the candidate’s field of specialization as well as an over-all examination in a minumum of one from the other graduate streams in Geomatics Engineering, known as minor and major parts within the following. The main part will often constitute three hrs duration and can count for just twoOrthree of the mark from the written component. The minor part can last one-and–a-half hrs and can count for 1/three of the mark from the written component.

Passing marks both in the main and also the minor parts are needed to pass through the written examination. A suggested studying list for that written examination is going to be distributed around a student upon request.

The dental examination will further test the candidate’s understanding of his/her field of study particularly, as well as geomatics generally, additionally to supplying an chance to explain, defend and extend solutions within the written examination. Although the objective of the candidacy exam isn’t to look at or approve the student’s research proposal, questions about the study proposal might be incorporated within the dental candidacy exam to evaluate the backdrop understanding and readiness from the student to conduct doctorate research of top quality in theOrher field of study.

11. Research Proposal Needs

Master of Engineering (thesis-based)

An initial thesis proposal, composed of 5 to eight pages, recognized through the supervisor, is needed no after 16 several weeks after initial registration. Items in the thesis, reflecting an applied method of an issue, should contain new aspects of engineering concepts and applications.

The thesis proposal will include the next:

1. Statement from the problem.
2. Research objectives.
3. Literature review.
4. Methodology and operations.
5. Outline of thesis contents.
6. Suggested time schedule.
7. Bibliography and references.

Online resources Science thesis proposal needs, such as the outline from the proposal’s contents, overlap with individuals for online resources Engineering (thesis-based). The thesis subject, however, should cope with original theoretical or practical research in Geomatics Engineering.

Physician of Philosophy

The doctorate thesis proposal needs, such as the outline from the proposal’s contents, overlap with individuals for online resources Engineering (thesis-based). The thesis, however, must demonstrate the candidate’s capability to pursue original research at an advanced and represent a definite advance in understanding about them. The study ought to be from the recognized standard of technical journals requiring critical review. The supervisor and supervisory committee will usually require progress reports every six several weeks throughout the doctorate program.

12. Special Registration Information

GeoGSA (Geography Graduate Student Association) is really a Departmental Student Association for graduated pupils within the Department of Geography. It’s affiliated towards the College of Calgary GSA .

Exactly what do we all do?

GeoGSA may be the representative for those Geography graduated pupils in the department level (we attend Faculty conferences and frequently talk with Department faculty and staff on student’s account), and also at the college level (we attend monthly Graduate Representative Council conferences using the GSA, and communicate towards the GSA along with other college representatives in your account).

We plan occasions to promote a feeling of community and collaboration within the Department, in addition to help make your time here better. We share info on occasions, workshops along with other things happening around campus or even the greater community which you may want to consider.

Have ideas, suggestions, questions, concerns or complaints about anything? From courses, to defense-prep, funding to occasions and much more, provide us with and shout and we’ll do good to assist you! Our email is: geogsa@ucalgary.ca

To see our bylaws along with other administrative documents click the link .

The executives for that 2015-2016 academic year are:

• Elena Favaro. President
• Sarah St. Germain. VP Internal
• Kyle Plotsky. VP Thesis
• Lauren Jewett, VP MGIS
• Mohamed Ahmed, VP Student Existence
• Julie Lovitt, Social Occasions Coordinator

Elena is really a third year PhD student dealing with Dr. Chris Hugenholtz. She attended The College of Western Ontario where she completed a BSc degree in Geography and Planetary Science. She continued to acquire a Master’s degree from Queen’s college in Arctic fluvial geomorphology where her field work required her towards the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory on Melville Island, NU. Elena became a member of the Geography Department at U of C in nov 2014 and presently researches Terrestrial and Martian geomorphology. Her current field jobs are carried out in Northwestern Argentina – a significantly warmer locale than her previous field sites. Elena is part of the lady Guides of Canada, plays varsity squash, loves airports, and it is afraid of wild birds and also the animatronic dinosaurs in the Calgary zoo.

Sarah was created in Yellowknife within the Northwest Territories. She’s always were built with a passion for its northern border. In 2008, she started her BSc. at Carleton College in Ottawa. This is when she developed a desire for geomorphology, cold region hydrology, and permafrost. During her undergrad, Sarah labored for that Geodetic Survey Department of Natural Sources performing high precision Gps navigation measurements throughout Canada. In 2013, Sarah started her MSc. within the Geography Department in the College of Calgary underneath the supervisor of Dr. John Moorman. On her Master’s, she combined her passions from the north, fieldwork, and studied glacial hydrology. Throughout the summer time of 2014, she traveled to Bylot Island, Nunavut on her research and studied a little pulsating supraglacial stream on Fountain Glacier. Sarah is presently another year PhD student ongoing use Dr. John Moorman. Her focus presently has expanded to deeply incised supraglacial streams which have eroded canyons into Fountain Glacier. During a year ago Sarah spent 4 several weeks residing in the artic! She spent 3 several weeks residing in probably the most northern town on the planet, Longyearbyen, Norwegian taking arctic courses in the College Center in Svalbard (UNIS) and 30 days camping on Fountain Glacier, Bylot Island.

Kyle is initially from Medicine Hat, Alberta and attended his first couple of many years of college there. The College of Lethbridge was his next destination where he centered on both human and non-human animal Psychology and graduated having a Bachelor of Arts with Honours this year. Within the final year of his undergraduate degree, Kyle conducted an honours thesis with Dr. Scott Allen about how our affective reactions to some target (i.e. a family member) can subconsciously affect our dart tossing precision. Even though this honour’s thesis would be a fun and fascinating study, his focus grew to become evolution and canine conduct. Soon after his undergraduate degree, Kyle started his Master of Science program with Dr. Came Rendall on canine vocal anatomy. He checked out the chance that modifications in facial shape may affect laryngeal position, a possible reason behind laryngeal alterations in our human ancestors that performed a job in the introduction of language. Most lately, Kyle started his doctorate operate in September of 2014 with Dr. Shelley Alexander on behavioural modification of rural coyotes.

Lauren is really a 2 nd year MGIS student dealing with Dr Stefania Bertazzon. Her MGIS project concentrates on using land use regression models to know black carbon particulate matter in Calgary, and connected health effects. Lauren’s overall research interests are geospatial applications in human health insurance and health service planning research. Lauren comes from Oakville, ON and did her undergrad in GIS at McMaster College. When she’s not making maps, Lauren are available paddle boarding, camping, skiing or on the patio on a sunny day!

Mohamed is initially in the land of effective Pyramids, Egypt. He is another-year Ph.D. student studying carbon cycling within the Arctic Sea underneath the supervision of Dr. Brent Else. Mohamed got his BSc degree in Geology from Beni-Suef College in Egypt. Then, she got hired like a teaching assistant at his Alma mater for 2 years where he was teaching various geological courses of instruction for undergrad students. He completed his master degree in Geomatics from Lund College in Norway where his master’s project centered on the connection between soil moisture and plant life dynamics over the Sahel region in Africa by mixing satellite remote sensing and field measurements. He became a member of the Geography Department like a Ph.D. student on May 2015 after locating the amazing chance with Dr. Brent Else to go toOrresearch the Arctic. During 2016 summer time, he spent seven days onboard from the CCGS Amundsen icebreaker within the Arctic Sea staring at the air-ocean CO2 exchange processes in the water column towards the atmosphere. Presently, Mohamed serving as a VP student existence for GeoGSA so that as a president from the Egyptian student association within the College of Calgary. Besides his passions about Arctic science and remote sensing, he loves hiking, skiing, playing soccer, squash, and volleyball.

Julie is another year MSc student dealing with Dr. Greg McDermid. She completed a BSc in Ecological Science and Natural Resource Management in the College of Guelph this year. Just before joining the College of Calgary like a graduate student, Julie explored several career pathways including: teaching senior high school science classes in The country, monitoring hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) programs like a geophysical analyst, and managing removal and reclamation projects within western Canada being an ecological consultant. Her research in Dr. McDermid’s lab concentrates on using UAVs to model peatland micro-topography in areas disturbed by resource exploration. Precisely mapping certain small-scale surface features might be helpful in explaining localized disturbance impacts, and spatial variations in green house gas fluxes of those environments.

To see the minutes from the general set up meeting please click the link .