Courses

For 2020-2021 academic year: The Faculty remains focused on protecting the health and safety of the whole UofT community, and ensuring that an excellent semester is delivered through remote learning with plans to offer meaningful in-person experiences to complement the remote delivery of courses, labs and tutorials. The Faculty continues to take direction from the government and public health agencies, and those guidelines continue to change.

Fall term: All Fall term classes, lectures, and course events will be offered online. We are also making a remote access guarantee, which will allow every one of our students to complete all academic requirements remotely, including final exams/assessments. No student will be required to be on campus in person during the Fall 2020 term.

Winter term: All Winter term classes, lectures, and course events will be offered online. We are also making a remote access guarantee, which will allow every one of our students to complete all academic requirements remotely, including final exams/assessments. No student will be required to be on campus in person during Winter 2021 term.

November 20, 2020: The first day of classes for graduate-level engineering courses will be Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. SGS Sessional Dates remain the same. Research labs will be running as of Jan. 4, 2021. Research-stream graduate students should speak to their supervisors for the plans in their individual groups.  More information here.

View Important Dates & Deadlines (MIE) and SGS Sessional Dates

Fall 2020 dates:

• Most Fall courses start the week of September 7, unless otherwise indicated
• The final date to ADD Fall courses is: Monday, September 21, 2020
• The fall DROP date is: Monday, October 26, 2020

Winter 2021 dates:
• Most Winter courses start the week of January 11, 2021.  Additional information here.
• The final date to ADD Winter courses is: Monday, January 18, 2021
• The final date to DROP Winter courses is: Monday, March 1, 2021

For all Reading Courses (MIE 2002H, 2003H, 2004, 2005H) both the 1) Add/Drop form (signed by the student and their supervisor) and the 2) Reading and/or Research Course form must be submitted to the Graduate Office three days before the SGS deadline.  MASc and PhD students are to submit their forms to jho@mie.utoronto.ca

MEng students who would like to enroll in a MEng Project (MIE 8888Y) are required to complete the Add/Drop form only and must also be submitted to the Graduate Office (aisha@mie.utoronto.ca) three days before the SGS deadline.

APS courses can be found on the Emphasis in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovation and Technology in Engineering (ELITE) website.  For more information ELITE courses, please contact elite.meng@ecf.utoronto.ca.

2020-2021 Delivery Modes of each course is visible in ACORN.

Online Synchronous: A course is considered Online Synchronous if online attendance is expected at a specific time for some or all course activities, and attendance at a specific location is not expected for any activities or exams.

Online Asynchronous: A course is considered Asynchronous if it has no requirement for attendance at a specific time or location for any activities or exams.

In Person: A course is considered In Person if it requires attendance at a specific location and time for some or all course activities. In Person delivery is subject to adjustments imposed by public health requirements for physical distancing.

Although students will see In Person sections alongside online sections of Winter courses, students are not yet able to enroll into Winter term in-person sections of Engineering courses through ACORN. Students will have opportunities to opt into limited, optional, in-person sections of Engineering courses for which they are already registered (not waitlisted) starting early September, provided they can confirm they will be available and in Toronto to attend all in-person sections. Student will be informed if, and once, it is possible to add in-person elements to courses. In-person activities will not be requirements of any course.

For all courses, including those delivered “In Person,” students should be aware of the minimum technical requirements needed for students to access remote/online learning.