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Winter Admission (Updated December 2024)
Students admitted to the Civil Engineering program from a Quebec CEGEP in Winter 2025 may be admitted to the 7-semester program. A recommended sequence of courses is provided below:
Winter 2025 Academic Curriculum for CEGEP entry - 7 Semester Program
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Fall Admission (Updated October 2024)
Students admitted to the Civil Engineering program from a Quebec CEGEP or with advanced credits in basic sciences and humanities may be admitted to the 7-semester program. Other students may be required to enrol in a pre-engineering year to satisfy these requirements and will be admitted to an 8-semester program.
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2024-2025 Academic Curriculum for CEGEP entry - 7 Semester Program
2024-2025 Academic Curriculum for Non CEGEP entry - 8 Semester Program
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Undergraduate Student Handbook 2023-2024
The courses that must be satisfied to complete a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering are listed below. For a listing of the courses offered by our department, please refer to the Faculty of Engineering section of 涩里番's eCalendar.
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Note that courses must be taken in an appropriate sequence. For details, please download the Student Handbook:
Undergraduate Student Handbook 2023-2024
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7 Semester Program
8 Semester Program
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Notes:
- 1 credit (cr) is equivalent to 50 minutes of lecture time per week during a 13-week semester.
- Not all courses are offered each semester or each year. Please consult听听to establish which courses are offered in a particular semester.
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IMPORTANT:
Students should consult with their academic advisor at the beginning of each school year. This will prevent occurrence of problems that could result in an unnecessary delay in graduation. See听Academic Advisors听on the Civil Engineering Undergraduate Program web page to determine the name of your advisor.
Please note that in the case of discrepancies between this web page and 涩里番's eCalendar, the calendar is considered to be the official source of program information.
Pre-engineering courses (for students admitted to the 8-semester program)*
CHEM 110. General Chemistry 1.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table.
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Fall
- Prerequisites/corequisites: High school mathematics and physics or permission of the instructor; CHEM 120 is not a prerequisite
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
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CHEM 120. General Chemistry 2.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the fundamental principles of physical chemistry.
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Winter
- Prerequisites/corequisites: High school level mathematics and physics, or permission of the instructor; CHEM 110 is not a prerequisite
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
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MATH 140. Calculus 1.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: High School Calculus
- Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken MATH139 or MATH 150 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
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MATH 141. Calculus 2.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series.
- Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122 or MATH 130 or MATH 131, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122 or MATH 130 or MATH 131, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Prerequisites: MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122,except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
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MATH 133. Linear Algebra and Geometry.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.
- Restriction B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Restriction C: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 134.
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
- Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
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PHYS 142. Electromagnetism and Optics.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The basic laws of electricity and magnetism; geometrical optics.
- Winter
- 3 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory in alternate weeks; tutorial sessions
- Prerequisite: PHYS 131.
- Corequisite: MATH 141 or higher level calculus course.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 102, or who have taken CEGEP objective 00US or equivalent.
- Laboratory sections have limited enrolment
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PHYS 131. Mechanics and Waves.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The basic laws and principles of Newtonian mechanics; oscillations, waves, and wave optics.
- Fall
- 3 hours lectures; 1 hour tutorial, 3 hours laboratory in alternate weeks; tutorial sessions
- Corequisite: MATH 139 or higher level calculus course.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 101, or who have taken CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent.
- Laboratory sections have limited enrolment
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FACC 100. Introduction to the Engineering Profession.
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Credits: 1
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to engineering practice; rights and code of conduct for students; professional conduct and ethics; engineer's duty to society and the environment; sustainable development; occupational health and safety; overview of the engineering disciplines taught at 涩里番.
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xxxx xxx Impact of Technology (3 cr)
xxxx xxx Humanities/Social Sciences #1 (3 cr)
Required engineering courses (89 credits)
Non-departmental courses (28 credits)
EPSC 221. General Geology.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introductory course in physical geology designed for majors in civil and mining engineering. Properties of rocks and minerals, major geological processes, together with natural hazards and their effects on engineered structures are emphasized. The laboratory is an integral part of the course which includes rock and mineral identification, basic techniques of airphoto and geological map interpretation, and structural geology.
- Fall
- 2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory
- Restriction: Open to Engineering students only.
- A nominal fee is charged to cover expenses of materials and supplies for identification kits (pen magnet, streak plate, hand lens and acid bottle) used to identify minerals during laboratory exercises.
- Des frais seront prelev茅s pour couvrir l'usage des collections d'enseignement et les accessoires (loupe, aimant, bouteille d'acide chlorhydrique dilu茅, plaque de porcelaine) essentiels 脿 l'identification des min茅raux pendant les travaux pratiques.
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MATH 262. Intermediate Calculus.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Series and power series, including Taylor's theorem. Brief review of vector geometry. Vector functions and curves. Partial differentiation and differential calculus for vector valued functions. Unconstrained and constrained extremal problems. Multiple integrals including surface area and change of variables.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 151, MATH 152, OR MATH 222.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: MATH 141, MATH 133 or equivalent.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 151, MATH 152, OR MATH 222.
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MATH 263. Ordinary Differential Equations for Engineers.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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First order ODEs. Second and higher order linear ODEs. Series solutions at ordinary and regular singular points. Laplace transforms. Linear systems of differential equations with a short review of linear algebra.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 315 or MATH 325.
- (3-1-5)
- Corequisite: MATH 262.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 315 or MATH 325.
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MATH 264. Advanced Calculus for Engineers.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Review of multiple integrals. Differential and integral calculus of vector fields including the theorems of Gauss, Green, and Stokes. Introduction to partial differential equations, separation of variables, Sturm-Liouville problems, and Fourier series.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students taking or having taken MATH 248, MATH 265 or MATH 314.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 319 or MATH 375.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: MATH 262 or MATH 151 or MATH 152 or equivalent.
- Corequisite: MATH 263
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 319 or MATH 475.
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MECH 261. Measurement
Laboratory.
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Credits: 2
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Basic experimental laboratory measurements, such as measurement of strain, pressure, force, position, and temperature.
- (2-2-2)
- Corequisite: MATH 263
- Restriction: Civil Engineering students at U1 or higher level.
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MECH 289. Design Graphics.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The design process, including free-hand sketching; from geometry construction to engineering construction; the technology and standards of engineering graphic communication; designing with CAD software. The role of visualization in the production of engineering designs.
- (3-3-3)
- Restrictions: Students must be in Year 1 (U1) or higher. Not open to students in Mechanical Engineering.
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FACC 300. Engineering Economy.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Introduction to the basic concepts required for the economic assessment of engineering projects. Topics include: accounting methods, marginal analysis, cash flow and time value of money, taxation and depreciation, discounted cash flow analysis techniques, cost of capital, inflation, sensitivity and risk analysis, analysis of R and D, ongoing as well as new investment opportunities.
- (3-1-5)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 310.
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COMP 208. Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and
Engineering
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Programming and problem solving in a high level computer language: variables, expressions, types, functions, conditionals, loops, objects and classes. Introduction to algorithms such as searching and sorting. Modular software design, libraries, file input and output, debugging. Emphasis on applications in Physical Sciences
and Engineering, such as root finding, numerical integration, diffusion, Monte Carlo methods.
- COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 208 is intended for students with sufficient math background and in (non-life) science or engineering fields.
- 3 hours
- Corequisite: MATH 133 and MATH 141, or equivalents.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 202, COMP 204, orGEOG 333; not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 206 or COMP 250.
- COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 208 is intended for students with sufficient math background and in (non-life) science or engineering fields.
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WCOM 206. Communication in Engineering.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: 涩里番 Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Written and oral communication in Engineering (in English): strategies for generating, developing, organizing, and presenting ideas in a technical setting; problem-solving; communicating to different audiences; editing and revising; and public speaking. Course work based on academic, technical, and professional writing in engineering.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CCOM 206. Only open to students in degree programs.
- Limited enrolment.
- Because this course uses a workshop format, attendance at first class is desirable.
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Departmental courses (61 credits)
CIVE 202. Construction Materials.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Classification of materials; atomic bonds; phase diagrams; elementary crystallography;imperfections; engineering properties, uses and durability of metals, concrete, wood, polymers, composites and asphalt; sustainable development; group laboratory projects.
- (4-2-6)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 290
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CIVE 205. Statics.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Systems of forces and couples, resultants, equilibrium. Trusses, frames and beams, reactions, shear forces, bending moments. Centroids, centres of gravity, distributed forces, moments of inertia. Friction, limiting equilibrium, screws, belts.
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CIVE 206. Dynamics.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Kinematics and kinetics of particles, systems, and rigid bodies; mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum. Moving coordinate systems. Lagrange's equations. Vibrations and waves.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 205.
- Corequisites: MATH 262, MATH 263
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CIVE 207. Solid Mechanics.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Stress-strain relationships; elastic and inelastic behaviour; performance criteria. Elementary and compound stress states, Mohr's circle. Shear strains, torsion. Bending and shear stresses in flexural members. Deflections of beams. Statically indeterminate systems under flexural and axial loads. Columns. Dynamic loading.
- (4-2-6)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 205 (a D grade is acceptable for prerequisite purposes) or MECH 210 (under special circumstances, the Department may permit this course to be taken as a corequisite) or equivalent
- Four laboratory sessions and weekly tutorials
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CIVE 208. Civil Engineering System Analysis.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to civil engineering systems; system modelling process; systems approach and optimization techniques; application of linear programming; simplex method; duality theory; sensitivity analysis; transportation problem; assignment problem; network analysis including critical path method; integer linear programming method.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: COMP 208.
- Corequisite: MATH 264.
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CIVE 210. Surveying.
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Credits: 2
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
The construction and use of modern survey instruments; transit, level, etc.; linear and angular measurements and errors; horizontal and vertical curves; error analysis, significance of figures; use of computers and software; recent developments.
- This course in the Faculty of Engineering is open only to 涩里番 students.
- Prerequisite: MECH 289 (formerly MECH 290)
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop, and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.
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CIVE 225. Environmental Engineering.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to environmental chemistry; mass balance analyses in engineered and natural systems; water, soil and air pollution characterization and control; water quality parameters; drinking water and wastewater treatment technologies; global climate change: possible causes and effects; risk assessment for pollutant exposure; solid- and hazardous-waste management.
- (4-2-6)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 290.
- Corequisite: MATH 263.
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CIVE 290. Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Macroscopic vs. microscopic viewpoint; states and processes; energy conservation and transformation; phase equilibrium; equations of state; thermodynamic properties; work and heat interactions; First Law of thermodynamics and applications; internal energy; enthalpy; specific heat; Second Law of thermodynamics; entropy; humidity and air-conditioning processes; introduction to heat transfer and renewable energy.
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CIVE 302. Probabilistic Systems.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to probability and statistics with applications to Civil Engineering design. Descriptive statistics, common probability models, statistical estimation, regression and correlation, acceptance sampling.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites: MATH 262, COMP 208 (a D grade is acceptable for prerequisite purposes)
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CIVE 311. Geotechnical Mechanics.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The origin and formation of soils. Soil classification systems and phase composition in soils. Stress states in geotechnical materials. Total stresses, pore fluid pressures and effective stresses. Terzaghi芒鈧劉s concept of effective stresses. Time-dependent influences of pore pressure development during loading. Water flow in porous media. Darcy芒鈧劉s law. Laboratory and field measurement of hydraulic conductivity. Hydraulic conductivity of soil composites. Deformation of geomaterials. Elastic deformations and consolidation behaviour. Failure of soils. The Mohr-Coulomb criterion. Stress paths. Dilatancy, Taylor芒鈧劉s interpretation of stress dilatancy and applications.
- (4-2-6)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 207
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CIVE 317. Structural Engineering 1.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The design process; loads, sources, classifications, load factors, combinations; limit states design; structural systems and foundations; choice of materials; virtual work and energy methods; statical and kinematic indeterminacy; slope deflection method, introduction to matrix methods; analysis of indeterminate systems; force envelopes.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 202, CIVE 207 and MECH 289 (formerly MECH 290).
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CIVE 318. Structural Engineering 2.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Durability and service life; fire resistance and protection; steel, reinforced concrete and timber; behaviour and design of components in tension, compression, bending and shear; slenderness, global and local instability; axial load and moment interaction; curvature, deflection, ductility; connections; bond and anchorage of reinforcement; simple footings.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 317
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CIVE 319. Transportation Engineering.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to design and operating principles and procedures for surface transportation systems, including vehicle motion and performance, pavements, geometric design of roadbeds, vehicle flow and capacity, traffic control, demand, supply and cost concepts.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 208 and COMP 208.
- Corequisite: CIVE 302
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CIVE 320. Numerical Methods.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Numerical procedures applicable to civil engineering problems: integration, differentiation, solution of initial-value problems, solving linear and non-linear systems of equations, boundary-value problems for ordinary-differential equations, and for partial-differential equations.
- (4-2-6)
- Prerequisites: COMP 208, MATH 264.
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CIVE 323. Hydrology and Water Resources.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Precipitation, evaporation and transpiration. Streamflow, storage reservoirs, flood routing. Groundwater hydrology. Ecohydrology. Statistical analysis in hydrology, stochastic modelling. Simulations using hydrologic models. Case studies in flood damage mitigation, surface and ground water management, and water-energy-food nexus.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 302
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CIVE 324. Sustainable Project Management.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Lifecycle approach to project and construction management. Sustainable practices are introduced at all project stages: Team formation, materials and equipment use, cost estimation and economic valuation, financing, scheduling, quality control and safety, monitoring and performance assessment, decision-making.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 208 and FACC 300.
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CIVE 327. Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fluid properties; hydrostatics; dimensional analysis and similitude, fluxes of mass, momentum and energy; Bemoulli's equation; method of control volume; streamline curvature; potential flow and boundary layers; pipe flow, hydraulic machinery and introduction to open-channel flow.
- (4-2-6)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 206, MATH 264.
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CIVE 418. Design Project.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A team-based capstone design project carried out under the supervision of an experienced engineer. Involves a design project in one or more of the subdisciplines; environmental engineering, water resources engineering, transportation engineering, geotechnical engineering or structural engineering. Includes the definition of the problem, contains an iterative solution-finding process, and results in a final design. Addresses professionalism, as well as, economic, environmental, societal,
safety and regulatory aspects of design. Contains the writing of a technical report and oral presentations. Emphasis is placed on the completion of a project of professional quality replicating the design process commonly implemented by practicing engineers.
- (1-2-6)
- Prerequisite: Completion of an approved set of required and complementary courses; normally restricted to final semester.
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CIVE 432. Technical Paper.
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Credits: 1
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A technical paper, on a suitable topic, is to be prepared in accordance with detailed instructions which are provided by the Department. This paper will normally be written in the U3 year and may be submitted in September or January.
- (0-0-3)
- Prerequisite: CCOM 206 or WCOM 206
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FACC 400. Engineering Professional Practice.
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Credits: 1
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Laws, regulations and codes governing engineering professional practice. Responsibility and liability. Environmental legislation. Project and organization management. Relations between engineer and client. Technical practice - analysis, design, execution and operation.
- (1.5-1-0.5)
- Prerequisites: FACC 250 and [at least 60 program credits for B.Eng./B.S.E. students in the Faculty of Engineering or 45 program credits for B.Eng.(Bioresource) students].
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 221.
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Complementary courses (21 credits)
Technical complementary courses (15 credits)
Fifteen credits (usually 5 courses) of technical complementaries must be completed. A minimum of six credits must be selected from list (a) below and the remaining credits are to be selected from list (a), (b) or other suitable undergraduate or 500 level courses. Courses are usually selected to acquire expertise in an area of specialization. Up to two technical complementary courses may be taken outside the Department, subject to approval by the student's advisor prior to registration.
(a) Design Technical Complementaries (minimum of 6 credits from this group)
CIVE 416. Geotechnical Engineering.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Earth pressure theory, retaining walls, sheet pile walls, braced excavations. Slope stability analysis. 2D flow through isotropic and anisotropic soils. Bearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundations, stress distribution. Deep foundations, single pile, pile groups. Geotechnical investigation and reports.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 311
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CIVE 421. Municipal Systems.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Design of water-related municipal services; sources of water and intake design; estimation of water demand and wastewater production rates; design, construction and maintenance of water distribution, wastewater and stormwater collection systems; pumps and pumping stations; pipe materials, network analysis and optimization; storage; treatment objectives for water and wastewater.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 327
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CIVE 428. Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Application of continuity, energy and momentum equations to open channel flow; design of channels considering uniform flow and flow resistance, non-uniform flow and longitudinal profiles; design of channel controls and transitions; unsteady flow and flood routing; river ice engineering; sediment transport and river morphology; sustainability in river engineering; industry standard numerical models.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 327
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CIVE 462. Design of Steel Structures.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Design of structural steel members: plate girders, members under combined loadings, eccentrically loaded connections, composite floor systems. Design of single-storey concentrically braced frame buildings subjected to gravity, wind and seismic loading. Introduction to design software.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 318
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CIVE 463. Design of Concrete Structures.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Design of reinforced concrete members: beams, one-way slabs, columns, disturbed regions, two-way slabs, shear walls, footings, retaining walls. Aspects of seismic design of columns and shear walls. Introduction to design software and the design of prestressed concrete members.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 318
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CIVE 430. Water Treatment and Pollution Control.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Principles of water and sewage treatment. Water and sewage characteristics; design of conventional unit operations and processes; laboratory analyses of potable and waste waters.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 225 and CIVE 327
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CIVE 440. Traffic Engineering and Simulation.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Driver, vehicle and traffic flow characteristics; origin-destination studies, traffic studies and analysis, queuing theory applications, microsimulation, highway design and capacity analysis, non-motorized facility design, HOV lane design, public transportation priority design, parking analysis, traffic signal design and control, traffic microsimulation with HCS, VISSIM and SYNCHRO.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 319 (a D grade is acceptable for prerequisite purposes)
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(b) General Technical Complementaries (9 credits from list below and/or group) (a)
CIVE 446. Construction Engineering.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Project management principles; construction equipment economics, selection, operation; characteristics of building, heavy, marine, underground and route construction projects; international projects.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 208 and FACC 300
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CIVE 460. Matrix Structural Analysis.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Computer structural analysis, direct stiffness applied to two and three dimensional frames and trusses, matrix force method, nonlinear problems, buckling of trusses and frames, introduction to finite element analysis.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 206 and CIVE 317
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CIVE 470. Undergraduate Research Project.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Independent research project under the supervision of an academic staff member. Selection of a research problem, formulation of hypotheses and objectives, research design, literature review, analysis, discussion, report.
- (0-1-8)
- Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
- Open to U2 students and above, CGPA 鈮� 3.0
- The research project needs to be established with the supervisor before registration.
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CIVE 507. Wind Engineering.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Davenport wind loading chain, wind climate, atmospheric boundary layer and turbulence, wind risk and statistics, bluff body aerodynamics, wind loads and structural responses, aeroelastic effects, building code approaches to estimate design wind loads, wind energy and sustainability, and introduction to wind tunnel tests and computational fluid dynamics.
- Prerequisite(s): CIVE 318 and CIVE 327, or permission of the instructor.
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CIVE 512. Advanced Civil Engineering Materials.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Production, structure and properties of engineering materials; ferrous alloys, treatments, welding, special steels, cast iron; ceramic materials; polymers; composite materials; concrete, admixtures, structure, creep, shrinkage; asphalt and asphaltic materials; clay materials and bricks; impact of environment on material response, durability, quality assessment and control, industrial specifications; recent advances.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 202
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CIVE 520. Groundwater Hydrology.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fundamentals of subsurface hydrological processes. Field data and simulation under parameter uncertainty. Numerical modelling. Quantifying groundwater resources and groundwater flow to wells. Groundwater sustainability from a multidisciplinary perspective including engineering and policy.
- Prerequisites: CIVE 311 and CIVE 323; Graduate students: Permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CIVE 546 in Winter 2012.
- Note 1: (3-0-6).
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CIVE 521. Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Environmental impacts and applications of nanomaterials. Topics: physicochemical characterization of nanoparticles in aquatic media, colloid chemistry for understanding nanoparticle aggregation and mobility in the environment, mechanisms of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production by nanomaterials, nanomaterials for environmental remediation and water treatment, methodologies for assessing nanoparticle toxicity, novel research developments.
- 3-0-6
- Offered each year, one year by the Department of Chemical Engineering and one year by the Department of Civil Engineering
- Prerequisite(s): CHEE 315 or CIVE 225 or MIME 356 or equivalent; CHEE 310 or CIVE 430 or CHEM 233 or equivalent; or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEE 521.
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CIVE 527. Renovation and Preservation: Infrastructure.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Maintenance, rehabilitation, renovation and preservation of infrastructure; infrastructure degradation mechanisms; mechanical, chemical and biological degradation; corrosion of steel; condition surveys and evaluation of buildings and bridges; repair and preservation of materials, techniques and strategies; codes and guidelines; case studies, sustainable development; group project.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 202 and CIVE 318
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CIVE 528. Design of Wood Structures.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Review of wood material properties and grades. Design of sawn lumber and timber tension, bending, compression and beam-column members. Design of engineered wood products, glued-laminated and cross-laminated timber members. Design of connections. Moisture and humidity effects, deterioration and protection, fire performance, prescriptive design versus engineering design.
- Prerequisites: CIVE 318 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor
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CIVE 540. Urban Transportation Planning.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Process and techniques of urban transportation engineering and planning, including demand analysis framework, data collection procedures, travel demand modelling and forecasting, and cost-effectiveness framework for evaluation of project and system alternatives.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 319 or permission of instructor.
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CIVE 542. Transportation Network Analysis.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to transportation network algorithms; analytical frameworks used in traditional transportation network software, including routing algorithms, deterministic equilibrium approach, static traffic assignment, dynamic traffic assignment, vehicle routing algorithms, network reliability and design and several stochastic variants.
- Prerequisite: CIVE 208.
- Note: (3-0-6)
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CIVE 545. Life Cycle Assessment and the Circular Economy
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fundamentals of life cycle assessment (LCA) for civil engineering, focusing on the integration with circular economy and life cycle costing. Circular economy and LCA methods standardized by International Organization for Standardization. Integration of environmental metrics into life cycle costing. Combining LCA, circular economy and life cycle costing methods. Application of LCA in environmental and economic decision-making related to specific civil engineering projects, focused on topics such as buildings and transportation.
- Prerequisites: FACC 300 and CIVE 324 or Permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking SEAD 520.
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CIVE 546. Selected Topics in Civil Engineering 1.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Special topics related to Civil Engineering will be presented by staff and visiting lecturers.
- This course in the Faculty of Engineering is open only to 涩里番 students.
- This course in the Faculty of Engineering is open only to 涩里番 students.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of instructor
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CIVE 550. Water Resources Management.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
State-of-the-art water resources management techniques; case studies of their application to Canadian situations; identification of major issues and problem areas; interprovincial and international river basins; implications of development alternatives; institutional arrangements for planning and development of water resources; and, legal and economic aspects.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 323 or equivalent
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CIVE 555. Environmental Data Analysis.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Application of statistical principles to design of measurement systems and sampling programs. Introduction to experimental design. Graphical data analysis. Description of uncertainty. Hypothesis tests. Model parameter estimation methods: linear and nonlinear regression methods. Trend analysis. Statistical analysis of censored data. Statistics of extremes.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 302 or permission of instructor
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CIVE 557. Microbiology for Environmental Engineering.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Microbiological concepts applied to the practice of environmental engineering and biotechnologies including the following topics: cellular and pathway organizations, evolution, growth, gene expression, horizontal gene transfer, metabolic microbial diversity, ecosystem structures, and quantitative mathematical modelling.
- Prerequisite: CIVE 225 or permission of the instructor
- (3-1-5)
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CIVE 560. Transportation Safety and Design.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fundamental concepts on transportation safety, traffic data collection techniques, crash database management, statistical methods for safety analysis, network screening methods, evaluation and design of treatments, railway safety analysis, surrogate safety methods, intersection safety and engineering countermeasures, non-motorized safety and facilities designs and accident severity analysis.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 319
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CIVE 561. Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Greenhouse gas inventories at various scales from national to institutional. Emission estimation methods including field measurements and engineering calculations for anthropogenic sources including fossil fuel combustion from transportation and energy production, cement production, hydroelectric reservoirs, oil and gas systems, landfills, wastewater treatment and sewer systems, and agriculture. Technical and policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Group project.
- (3-0-6)
- Students are expected to have a background in data mining, statistical analysis, e.g. spatiotemporal analysis, and chemistry. WHMIS and other lab training is recommended.
- Prerequisite(s): CIVE 225 and CIVE 302 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
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CIVE 572. Computational Hydraulics.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Computation of unsteady flows in open channels; abrupt waves, flood waves, tidal propagations; method of characteristics; mathematical modelling of river and coastal currents.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 327 or equivalent
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CIVE 573. Hydraulic Structures.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Hydraulic aspects of the theory and design of hydraulic structures. Storage dams, spillways, outlet works, diversion works, drop structures, stone structures, conveyance and control structures, flow measurement and culverts.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisites: CIVE 323 and CIVE 327
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CIVE 574. Fluid Mechanics of Water Pollution.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Mixing, dilution and dispersion of pollutants discharged into lakes, rivers, estuaries and oceans; salinity intrusion in estuaries and its effects on dispersion; biochemical oxygen demand and dissolved oxygen as water quality indicators; thermal pollution; oil pollution.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 327 or equivalent.
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CIVE 577. River Engineering.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fluvial geomorphology; sediment properties; river turbulence; mechanics of the entrainment, transportation and deposition of solids by fluids; threshold of movement; bed forms; suspended load, bed load and total load equations; stable channel design and regime rivers; river modelling; river engineering; and river management.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 428 or permission of the instructor.
- Corequisite (Graduate): CIVE 428
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CIVE 584. Mechanics of Groundwater Flow.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Origins and types of groundwater; Darcy's law; hydraulic anisotropy; conservation laws; fundamental equations of porous media flow; Laplace's and Poisson's equations: analytical solution of potential flow problems; determination of hydraulic conductivity; flow in unconfined and confined acquifers; seepage modelling; unsaturated flow; transient flows in porous media; introduction to computational methods.
- (3-1.5-4.5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 311 or Permission of Instructor.
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Non-technical complementary courses (6 - 9 credits)
Two additional courses (six credits -- one 3-credit course in humanities and one 3-credit course in impact of technology on society) are to be selected from the Faculty of Engineering section of 涩里番's eCalendar in consultation with the student's academic advisor.
Total credits = 110 (excluding the pre-engineering program)