Course Calendar Lakehead University

Chemical Engineering 0334 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering

Course content will vary but topics will be of current concern to the chemical engineering industry.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Corequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Chemical Engineering 0335 Air Pollution Control Methods and Analysis

Properties of particulate and gaseous emissions. Principles and sizing of cyclones, electrostatic precipitators, particulate scrubbers, fabric filters, gas absorbers, biofilters, and incinerators for volatile organic compounds. Control of sulfur and nitrogen oxides.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 1554, 2331 and 3070

Corequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Chemical Engineering 0339 Process Optimization

Theories and applications of process optimization to chemical engineering problems. Linear programming (LP), non-linear programming (NLP), mixed-integer programming (MIP), and pinch technology. Heat exchanger network (HEN) and mass exchanger network (MEN) syntheses and designs. Process design optimization using process simulation software.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 1554, 2331, 3070 and 4432

Corequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 4432

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Chemical Engineering 0631 Bioprocess Engineering

Microorganisms, enzymes, plant and animal cell lines used for the production of useful products, metabolic stoichiometry for the determining theoretical (maximum yields) in bioprocesses, enzyme kinetics and applications, comparison of batch and continuous bioreactors for enhanced production of biochemicals, oxygen transfer and uptake rates, power requirements and scale up criteria, fundamentals of downstream processing of the products of bioconversion.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Corequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Chemical Engineering 0653 Fundamentals of Petroleum Recovery

Components of the petroleum production system: classification of reservoirs; properties of rock, gas, crude oil, and reservoir water; oil and gas wells; surface equipment. Calculation of initial hydrocarbon in place and recoveries for single-phase gas reservoirs, gas-condensate reservoirs, undersaturated and saturated oil reservoirs. Single-phase fluid flow in reservoirs: steady-state and transient flow of compressible and incompressible fluids in porous media; radial flow; superposition, pressure drawdown and buildup testing of wells.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 1135, 2330 and 3070

Corequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Chemical Engineering 0671 Pulp and Paper Manufacture

Properties and testing of pulp and paper. Mechanical, sulfite, and kraft pulping. Chemical recovery. Bleaching. Processing of pulp. Paper manufacture: wet and dry end operations.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 1554, 2331 and 3070, Mechanical Engineering 1635, Chemistry 2231

Corequisite(s): Chemical Engineering 3070

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Chemical Engineering 0673 Biological Treatment Processes

Fundamentals and applications of biological processes for water and wastewater treatment, air pollution control, bioremediation of contaminated soils and ground water. Specific topics include basic microbiology, kinetics, bioenergetics, stoichiometry, activated sludge process, fixed-biofilm process, anaerobic treatment and frontiers in biological treatment processes.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Corequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Chemical Engineering 0674 Design and Analysis of Experiments

Introduction to principles and applications of design and analysis of experiments. Hypothesis testing and analysis of variance (ANOVA) to multiple factors. Completely random, randomized block, Latin squares, factorial, and fractional factorial designs. Regression analysis with applications in engineering. Application of statistical software, including Microsoft Excel, to design and analysis of experiments.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Mathematics 2070 or Engineering 3022

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Chemical Engineering 0676 Mineral Processing

Topics to be covered are: ore handling, material balances, comminution theory, crushers and grinding mills, screening, classification, gravity concentration, dense medium separation, froth flotation, dewatering, and tailings disposal.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Corequisite(s):

Chemical Engineering 3070

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0112 Computer-Integrated Construction Management

Topics in computerized systems for planning, monitoring, and control of civil infrastructure projects; Building Information Modelling (BIM); 3-D modeling with Revit; BIM-based cost estimation; 4-D planning and monitoring of buildings in Navisworks; discrete-event simulation; probabilistic issues of construction simulation; construction data collection and data distributions; simulation software for construction processes.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Notes: Students with credit for Engineering 0336 with the title "Computer-Integrated Construction Management" cannot take Civil Engineering 0112 for credit.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0113 Wind Engineering

Atmospheric boundary layer wind characteristics; climate data; modeling of terrain effect; wind aerodynamics and flow mechanisms; wind computational fluid dynamics; wind loads in the National Building Code of Canada; code limitations; design for wind loads.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 3335

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0135 Bridge Engineering

Overview and history of bridge engineering; bridge aesthetics and general design considerations; Bridge Design Codes and Standards; loads on bridges and load combinations; principles and philosophy of structural loading, analysis, modelling, and design of bridges; design of bridge superstructure; bridge load rating; and computer applications.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 3335

Corequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 4135

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0136 Environmental Control

Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water and wastewater. Water quality standards. Surface water quality modeling. Introduction to water and wastewater treatment system design. Characteristics of solid waste and collection.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s): Engineering 3014 or permission of the instructor

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0233 Structural Design Topics

Prestressed concrete design considering flexure, shear, anchorage and prestressing losses. Reinforced concrete two-way slab systems. Plastic and limit load analysis of steel and reinforced concrete beam and frame systems, upper bound, lower bound and step-by-step methods. Other topic(s) selected from yield line methods of ultimate load design for reinforced concrete slabs; highway bridge loadings and specifications; earthquake engineering and structural dynamics.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 3435

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0235 Water Resources and Hydropower Development

The role of hydraulic power as an energy source. Hydrologic analysis of water supply quantities and storage alternatives. Plant capacity, equipment selection and operation procedures. Dams, power-houses, water passages and related civil works. Revenue estimates, costs and project economics. Environmental impact and the regulatory approval process. Hydropower issues in Aboriginal communities.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 3738 and Civil Engineering 4052

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0336 Special Topics in Civil Engineering

Investigation of current civil engineering problems and their solutions.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Notes: Open only to fourth year students in the Civil Engineering program, except with permission of the Chair of the Department.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0510 Rock Engineering

Rock and rock mass; rock classification and index properties; rock strength and failure criteria; initial stresses; planes of weakness; rock deformation; rock slope engineering; rock foundation engineering; rock underground engineering; subsidence and ground control.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 3056

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0534 Construction Engineering

Topics in construction engineering selected from: contract administration and control; control and project network techniques including CPM and PERT; total quality management and ISO9000; excavation in construction projects; dewatering and groundwater control; ground freezing; tunnel design and construction; design of falsework and formwork lifting and rigging; welding techniques, procedures and NDT; Occupational Health & Safety Act.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Notes: Open only to fourth year students in the Civil Engineering program, except with permission of the Chair of the Department.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0553 Traffic Engineering

The fundamentals and concepts of Traffic Engineering are discussed. Topics to be considered include: traffic stream characteristics, traffic flow theory, traffic engineering studies, intersection control, capacity and level of service of freeways and signalized intersections, and the role of traffic engineering in sustainable transportation systems. Basic concepts and applications are presented in different topics of transportation such as highway safety, and travel demand forecasting.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Notes: Open only to fourth year students in the Civil Engineering program, except with permission of the Chair of the Department.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0572 Modeling in Water Resources

Dimensionless formulation of natural laws and similarity theory. Theoretical principles in the formulation of models. Classification of hydrologic and hydraulic models, model construction techniques, calibration and validation procedures. Hands-on experience with current numerical models (HEC1, HEC2, CFA, ILLUDAS, SWMM, etc.) in water resources engineering. Projects and case studies with design for minimum environmental impacts.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 4052

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0637 Geotechnical Engineering Topics

Advanced geotechnical engineering topics selected from the following: geoenvironmental engineering; stability of slopes; constitutive modelling of soil behaviour; laboratory and field testing of soils; geotechnical instrumentation and field monitoring.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 3150 and Civil Engineering 3433

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0638 Computer-Aided Structural Analysis and Design

Analysis and design of framed structures considering three-dimensional behaviors; modeling of member releases, offset connections and semi-rigid joints; second-order analysis; fire as a design load; fire resistance analysis and design; computer applications.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 3452

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Civil Engineering 0652 Wood Structures Design

Properties and classifications of timber as an engineering material; design of sawn timber and glulam elements subjected to tension, compression, flexure, and combined bending and axial forces; design of cross-laminated timber panels subjected to compression and flexure; design of nailed, screwed and bolted connections and the use of timber fasteners in construction.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Civil Engineering 3335

Offering: 3-0; 3-0

Notes: Students who have previously taken Civil Engineering 0652 Timber and Masonry Design cannot use Civil Engineering 0652 Wood Structures Design for credit.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0138 Control Systems III

Continuous-time state space representation for linear time-invariant systems; controllability and observability; feedback control design in state space--pole placement, linear quadratic regulator; linear state observers; observer-based state feedback design; discrete-time state space representation; discrete-time observer and control design; implementation issues; introduction to nonlinear systems; describing functions analysis and limit cycles.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Electrical Engineering 3334 or Electrical Engineering 3314

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0150 Microwave Circuits and Design

Microwave electro-magnetic fields; antennas; hazards and safety precautions; transmission lines and waveguides; design of microwave matching networks; scattering parameters; active microwave circuits; design of microwave amplifiers; power dividers and directional couplers.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0438 Electric Power Systems II

Power system components; load flow analysis; transient and steady-state stability analysis; fault calculations; safety; power system coordination and protection.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Electrical Engineering 2451 and Electrical Engineering 3315

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0531 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

A broad topic selected from one of the areas of Electrical Engineering. The material will cover the theory and design features of the topic at an appropriate detail and depth.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering

Special Topic: Yes

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0550 Optical Communications

Electromagnetic theory applied to optics. Optical waveguide design and characteristics. Design of passive and active optical components. Sources and detectors. Optical fiber systems: Detection and measurement techniques. Modulators and demodulators. Analysis and study of an optical communication system.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Physics 3211

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0554 Power Electronics II

Switching losses and snubbers for semiconductor devices; analysis of uncontrolled and controlled single and three phase rectifiers; design, analysis and control of DC-DC converters; single and three phase inverters; dynamic modeling of DC motor drives; introduction to AC motor drives.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Electrical Engineering 2430 and Electrical Engineering 3315

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0557 Introduction to Robotics

History and description of industrial robot applications; robot kinematics, inverse kinematics, repeatability and accuracy; velocities and static forces in manipulators; motion planning and position control of robots; robot work cell design; selected laboratory excercises.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0573 Fuzzy Logic Expert Systems

Components of expert systems; operations on fuzzy sets; linguistic variables; fuzzy implications; compositional rule of inference; approximate reasoning techniques; inference engines; rule-based learning systems; fuzzy controller design; applications in engineering sciences and consumer electronics.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Electrical Engineering 3334 or Electrical Engineering 3314, or permission of the instructor or Chair of the Department

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0578 Wireless Communications

Basic principles of wireless communications. Topics include characterization of wireless channels, digital modulation and channel coding schemes for wireless systems, spread-spectrum and multiple-access techniques and multicarrier communications. Emerging techniques of wireless communications.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s): For all students: Mathematics 4030 or Engineering 2137 For BEng (Electrical Engineering) (Thunder Bay) students only: Engineering 2439 and Mathematics 4030 For BEng (Electrical Engineering) Lakehead Georgian Partnership students only: Engineering 2137 and Engineering 4053

Corequisite(s): For BEng (Software Engineering) students: Engineering 4557

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0651 Computer Organization

Architecture and performance of processors; performance metrics; instruction sets and their impact on performance; families of processors--CISC, RISC; datapath and controller for single-cycle and pipelined architectures; pipeline hazards; exception handling; integer and floating-point arithmetic units for processors; hardware description language; design and implementation of a single-cycle processor on FPGA; memory hierarchy design and basic cache memory organization; virtual memory and address translation.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Electrical Engineering 1232

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Electrical Engineering 0654 Advanced Electronic Devices

Bipolar transistors, MOSFETs, MESFETs and JFETs; semiconductor lasers and their applications in optoelectronics; light emitting diodes, photo-diodes, and photo-transistors and their applications; tunnel diodes and their applications; devices on semiconductor sandwich multi-structures; integrated circuits on semiconductor compound alloys.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s): For BEng (Electrical Engineering) Lakehead Georgian Partnership students: Electrical Engineering 3313

Corequisite(s): For BEng (Electrical Engineering) (Thunder Bay) students: Electrical Engineering 3313

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Engineering 0536 Heat Exchanger Design and Thermal Radiation

Condensation and boiling heat transfer; design of heat exchangers; shell-and-tube heat exchangers, finned-tube heat exchangers, compact heat exchangers, condensers and evaporators; principles of thermal radiation exchanges between surfaces; combined conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer; computer applications.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s): Engineering 4553 or 4554

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0450 Finite Element Methods in Mechanical Engineering

Introduction to finite element analysis through application to one-dimensional steady-state problems such as elastic deformation, heat and fluid flow, and the bending of beams. Two-dimensional triangular and quadrilateral elements. Plane problems of torsion, thermal and potential flow and stress analysis. Computer applications to one and two-dimensional problems.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0537 Manufacturing Processes and Production Systems

Primary and secondary processes in metal forming, material removal, and fabrication techniques; fundamentals of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM); applications of computer numerical control (CNC); selected field trips and laboratory exercises.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0538 Topics in Mechanical Engineering

Formulation and analysis of current mechanical engineering problems and their solution.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0574 Industrial Noise and Vibration Control

Sound levels, decibels, and directivity. Hearing, hearing loss, and effects of noise. Noise control criteria and regulations. Measurement and instrumentation. Acoustical materials and structures. Vibration control systems. Machine protection and malfunction diagnosis.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0575 Engineering Design Synthesis and Analysis

The engineering enterprise. The design process. Problem solving and decision making. Modeling, simulation and optimization. Cost evaluation and economic decision making. Project planning. Risk, reliability and failure analysis. Sources of information. Written and oral communication.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0579 Computational Methods in Mechanical Engineering

Introduction to computational methods for the analysis and design of mechanical engineering components and systems; fundamentals of finite element method, boundary element method, parametric and geometric optimization; application of finite element codes; application of commercially available finite element and symbolic computation packages.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0656 Analysis and Application of Composite Materials

Introduction to composite materials; micro- and macro-mechanics; stress analysis of composite laminates; maximum stress, Tsai-Hill and Tsai-Wu criteria of failure; delamination and strength of laminates; design of composite structures; fabrication methods of composite materials; computer modeling and computational methods for composite materials.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0657 Energy Conversion Engineering

Classification, conversion, and utilization of energy sources. First and Second law (exergy) analysis of energy conversion systems. Basic aspects of combustion. Conventional thermal power plants and co-generation systems. Basic concepts of renewable energy conversions; including solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0659 Signal Processing for Mechanical Systems

Digital signal processing and its applications to control and machinery condition monitoring; vibration and measurement, signal properties, time and frequency domain signal analysis, digital filtering, input/output relationships between signals, application to controls and the techniques for machinery fault diagnostics (e.g. bearings, gears, and shafts).

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Mechanical Engineering 0670 Combustion and Emissions

Fuels and combustion, combustion in SI, CI and dual-fuel engine, Hydrogen combustion, testing of IC engines, automotive emissions and control.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Offering: 3-1; or 3-1

Notes: May only be taken by fourth year BEng. Mechanical students.

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Software Engineering 0151 Large Scale Data Analytics

Discusses the sources and characteristics of large scale data, i.e., “big data”, large scale data analysis, benefits of large scale data analysis to various industry domains, programming paradigms and middleware technologies for scalable data analysis, algorithms that enable large scale data processing, application of large scale data algorithms in selected application domains. Big data analytics methodologies/platforms and frameworks such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, H2O, will be discussed. The students will be introduced to various machine learning algorithms with examples using the Spark MLlib and H2O frameworks, and visualizations. The students will be introduced to data storage, batch and real-time analysis, and interactive querying frameworks.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Mathematics 4030 and Software Engineering 3675

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Software Engineering 0152 Agile Software Development

Introduces students to Agile methods (eg. Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean, Dynamic Systems Development Method). Emphasis will be on Agile software development methodologies including: Agile practices and design principles, introduction to scrum, scrum-prioritizing, estimating, and planning; Agile modeling, Agile software development tools, team forming, Agile project lifecycle, user stories, release planning, iteration, acceptance testing, Agile and documentation, extreme programming.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Software Engineering 3050

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Software Engineering 0153 Natural Language Processing

Covers a broad range of natural language processing methods and techniques. Topics include linguistic statistics, informational retrieval, probabilistic parsing, semantic structures, text categorization and information retrieval. By implementing and experimenting with the various techniques learned in lectures, students learn the necessary skills to solve complex problems in areas such as text categorization and information retrieval.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Mathematics 4030 and Software Engineering 3251

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Software Engineering 0154 Software Construction and Evolution

Covers the concepts, methods and techniques for supporting the construction, evolution, and maintenance of software systems. Topics include construction of software components identified and described in design documents; code implementation and reuse; formal specification of software; and methods and techniques to allow a software system to evolve and survive.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

4th year level and permission of the Chair of the Department of Software Engineering.

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Software Engineering 0155 Web Engineering

Basic technologies for Web Engineering: client-side scripting and server-side programming languages, software architectures and components for engineering web applications, and web services. Web modeling languages and the Semantic Web: metadata, ontologies, inferencing, Web ontology languages, context-awareness, and adaptive information delivery.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

4th year level and permission from the Chair of the Department of Software Engineering.

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Software Engineering 0655 Special Topics in Software Engineering

Course content will vary but topics will be relevant to the field of Software Engineering.

Credit Weight: 0.5

Prerequisite(s):

Permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department of Software Engineering

Offering: 3-1.5; or 3-1.5

Course Classifications: Type C: Engineering, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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