A range of final year elective subjects is offered in each of the undergraduate courses, and there is a significant stranding possibility in the Environmental Engineering program, but there is no coursework graduate program. Combined undergraduate degrees are a feature of The Department. Academic staff are committed to their undergraduate teaching role as well as their graduate student supervision role. Department members have students' interest very much at heart, demonstrated by the fact that the Department is one of the few to have gained two national grants for the development of innovative teaching techniques in recent years. As well, an active quality assurance program is in place and exit surveys are conducted for graduating students.
Considerable effort is made to maintain contact with past graduates.
There is an annual newsletter circulated to past graduates. There is also an annual reunion dinner, a popular event to which students about to graduate are also invited and at which various academic prizes are presented.