To ensure that civil engineering students at Western obtain training with significant design

experience, as required by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, the Department

offers a compulsory capstone design course, CEE 4441 Civil Engineering Design, in the
fourth-year undergraduate program. This course is conducted for the most part in direct
collaboration with the City of London. Students undertake design projects in teams under the
supervision of faculty and private and public consultants that include consulting engineers,
architects, landscape architects, quantity suppliers and finance experts. Teams work on
projects for the city (e.g. footbridges, a ball park grandstand, wastewater management
facilities), and the City provides funds for artistic renderings and cash prizes for first and
second placed teams. Occasionally, students groups undertake the course by working on
targeted projects in wind engineering or related areas in collaboration with the Boundary
Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory or, in the case of Civil Engineering (with International
Development) students, on projects developed during their overseas summer internship
placement at the completion of the third year. The students present their designs to multi-
disciplinary judging panels drawn from the local community.

Course Outline

2013-2014 Projects
Bridge of the Thames River at Boler/Sanitorium Rd
Clarke Rd Bridge over the Thames River
Improvement of Vauxhall and Pottersburg Wastewater Treatment Plants
Spencer Engineering Building Expansion (not a City of London project)
Geotechnical & Economic Viability of Utilizing Waste Heat (not a City of London
project)
City of London Design Competition Criteria

2012-2013 Projects
Pedestrian Bridge at Talbot Street over the CN Rail
Lake Huron Primary Transmisstion Main Twinning
Municipality of Southwest Middlesex Water Supply
VMP & 401 Interchange Design Project
School in Guatemala (not a City of London project)
STAR Sanitation System (not a City of London project)