The McClelan School of Engineering was founded at Mount Allison University in 1903, due to the generosity of the Hon. A. R. McClelan, a former Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. Its central purpose is to provide the student with a sound foundation in Mathematics, the Natural Sciences and the Engineering Sciences. At the same time, it is believed that the opportunity to pursue these studies in the environment of a residential college with a varied cultural life and a cosmopolitan student body provides the prospective engineer with a valuable background not readily available elsewhere.

Mount Allison is affiliated with the Technical University of Nova Scotia and with the University of New Brunswick in the offering of alternative programmes leading to a degree in engineering. A student who has received a Certificate of Engineering from Mount Allison is admitted without further examination into the final years, normally three, of the Engineering Degree programme at either TUNS or UNB, where one specializes in a particular branch of engineering by entering that department. As TUNS and the Associated Universities form a unified system of engineering education, all certificate graduates from the Associated Universities are guaranteed admission to TUNS. It is not possible, however, for TUNS to guarantee that students will gain entry to the department of their choice, since all departments are subject to a known maximum number of annual admissions. Thus students are required to specify their choice of at least three departments, in preferential order. At a predetermined date departments will select students for admission, the basis for selection being the academic performance of the applicants. Departments at UNB are not subject to quotas, but visa students may encounter overall university enrolment quota restrictions.

For administrative purposes, the School of Engineering is placed in the Department of Physics, Engineering and Geoscience.

7.60 Certificate In Engineering
Completion of the following courses, shown here in the normal two-year format, qualifies a student for the Certificate in Engineering.

1st Year:

Mathematics 1111, 1121
Physics 1051 and 1551
Chemistry 1001 and 1021
Engineering 1101
Engineering 1201
Non-Science Electives*.

2nd Year:

Mathematics 2111 and 2121
Engineering 2411, 2421, 2961, 3111
Engineering/Physics 3351
Engineering 3501, 3601
Engineering/Physics 3701
Non-Science Electives*.
* To be chosen in consultation with the Engineering Faculty.

B.Sc. Degree With Certificate In Engineering
Students are able to combine the Engineering Certificate with the B.Sc. degree, qualifying for both in four years of study without carrying additional load. Such a combination provides a recognizable technical component in a student's programme and has been used by students in past years as a plateau from which to enter law, computer science, business administration, medicine or careers in business, government or industry.

The courses recommended for the first year of this combined programme are identical to those required for the Certificate programme, thus allowing Certificate students to switch into or out of the combined programme very easily at the end of their first year. In the final three years of the combined programme the second year Certificate courses are integrated with the other courses required to satisfy the B.Sc. requirements.

B. Comm. Degree With Certificate In Engineering
Students are able to combine the Engineering Certificate with a Bachelor of Commerce degree; qualifying for both in four years of study without carrying additional load. This combined programme provides Commerce graduates with a recognizable technical component in their background, a feature which may be of interest to those students planning to function in industry or in a technically-oriented business.

This programme is a demanding one, requiring the ability to work in two diverse professional areas and should only be considered after consultation with the Commerce and Engineering Departments.

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