Master of Applied Science [M.ASc] [Engineering in Occupational Health and Safety] From School of Higher Technology, University of Quebec

Program Objectives

The program offers students the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and skills to perform specialized professional engineering activities in the field of occupational health and safety and the control of industrial systems, including:

• the design and improvement of processes, standards and technical specifications of industrial systems and equipment with the aim of eliminating, reducing and controlling risks and exposures potentially harmful to human beings,
• the property of others and the environment.

Program Structure

• 1 mandatory 3-hour long workshop (0 credit)
• 1 mandatory activity (3 credits)
• 3 or 4 optional activities (totalling at least 12 credits)
• 1 thesis (30 credits)

The project includes a set of activities carried out under the direction of a professor: bibliographic research, theoretical development and experimental realization, drafting the thesis and making an oral presentation. The completion of all these activities requires at least 1350 hours of work.