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Program Requirements
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Research Project (6 credits)
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CHEE 695 Project in Chemical Engineering (6 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member, on a problem of industrially-oriented design or research leading to a comprehensive report.
Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022
Instructors: Servio, Phillip (Fall) Servio, Phillip (Winter) Servio, Phillip (Summer)
Required Courses (6 credits)
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CHEE 591 Environmental Bioremediation (3 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : The presence and role of microorganisms in the environment, the role of microbes in environmental remediation either through natural or human-mediated processes, the application of microbes in pollution control and the monitoring of environmental pollutants.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Yerushalmi, Laleh (Fall)
(3-0-6)
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CIVE 615 Environmental Engineering Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : The course will expose the students to various environmental engineering issues. Lectures will be given by faculty and invited speakers from industry. Each student is required to prepare a written technical paper and make oral presentation.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Gehr, Ronald (Fall)
Complementary Courses (22 credits)
Minimum of 22 credits
Data analysis course: (3 credits)
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AEMA 611 Experimental Designs 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci) : General principles of experimental design, split-plot designs, spatial heterogeneity and experimental design, incomplete block designs and unbalanced designs, analysis of repeated measures, multivariate and modified univariate analyses of variance, central composite designs.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2021-2022 academic year.
3 hours lectures and 1 conference
Prerequisite: AEMA 310 or equivalent
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CIVE 555 Environmental Data Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Nguyen, Van-Thanh-Van (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 302 or permission of instructor
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PSYC 650 Advanced Statistics 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Psychology : A course in advanced statistics with specialization in experimental design.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Hwang, Heungsun (Fall)
Toxicology: (3 credits)
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OCCH 612 Principles of Toxicology (3 credits)
Overview
Occupational Health & Hygiene : General principles of toxicology, routes of toxicant entry, human organs as targets of toxic action, adverse effects, time-course of reactions to toxicants. Risk assessment techniques, in vivo-in vitro toxicity models, links between human population observations and animal, cellular and biochemical models.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Heroux, Paul (Fall)
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OCCH 616 Occupational Hygiene (3 credits)
Overview
Occupational Health & Hygiene : An introduction to the principles and practices of industrial hygiene designed to provide the students with the knowledge required to identify health and safety hazards in the workplace.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Gauvin, Jean-Pierre (Fall)
Water pollution engineering: (4 credits)
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CIVE 651 Theory: Water / Wastewater Treatment (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Theoretical aspects of the chemistry of water and wastewater treatment. This will include acid-base and solubility equilibria; redox reactions; reaction kinetics; reactor design; surface and colloid chemistry; gas transfer; mass transfer; stabilization and softening; disinfection; corrosion.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Liu, Jinxia (Winter)
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CIVE 652 Bioprocesses for Wastewater Resource Recovery (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Technologies and design approaches for reclaiming water, nutrients, carbon and energy, while achieving protection of human and environmental health in the context of enhancing sustainability. Unit processes for both wastewater and solids-handling trains. Advanced mathematical modeling to describe suspended-growth and attached-growth multispecies bioreactors for aerobic, anaerobic and phototrophic processes. Microbial diversity in different reactor conditions, and specific population metabolisms explaining important stoichiometries and kinetics. Advanced molecular microbiology techniques to document microbial diversity and dynamics. Bioreactor designs in the context of stakeholder interactions and energy efficiency.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Frigon, Dominic (Fall)
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CIVE 660 Chemical and Physical Treatment of Waters (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Theory and design of specific processes used for the physical and/or chemical purification of waters and wastewaters, including mixing, flocculation, sedimentation, flotation, filtration, disinfection, adsorption, ion exchange, aeration, membrane processes, distillation, removal of specific inorganics and organics, taste and odour control, process control, sludge treatment. Laboratory exercises will complement theoretical aspects.
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Loeb, Stephanie Katharine (Winter)
Air pollution engineering: (3 credits)
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CHEE 592 Industrial Air Pollution Control (3 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Air pollution effects, control laws and regulations, measurements; emission estimates, meteorology for air pollution control engineers, dispersion models, nature of particulate pollutants, control of primary particulates, control of volatile organic compounds, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides; air pollutants and global climate.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2021-2022 academic year.
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MECH 534 Air Pollution Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Pollutants from power production and their effects on the environment. Mechanisms of pollutant formation in combustion. Photochemical pollutants and smog, atmospheric dispersion. Pollutant generation from internal combustion engines and stationary power plants. Methods of pollution control (exhaust gas treatment, absorption, filtration, scrubbers, etc.).
Terms: Winter 2022
Instructors: Frost, David (Winter)
Soil and water quality management: (3 credits)
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BREE 533 Water Quality Management (3 credits)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : Management of water quality for sustainability. Cause of soil degradation, surface and groundwater contamination by agricultural chemicals and toxic pollutants. Screening and mechanistic models. Human health and safety concerns. Water table management. Soil and water conservation techniques will be examined with an emphasis on methods of prediction and best management practices.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Qi, Zhiming (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken BREE 625 (formerly ABEN 625).
Management of water quality for sustainability. Cause of soil degradation, surface and groundwater contamination by agricultural chemicals and toxic pollutants. Screening and mechanistic models. Human health and safety concerns. Water table management. Soil and water conservation techniques will be examined with an emphasis on methods of prediction and best management practices.
This course carries an additional charge of $35.64 to cover the cost of transportation with respect to a field trip. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
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CIVE 686 Site Remediation (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Field investigations; geotechnical and geophysical techniques; hydrogeological conditions; risk assessment; contaminant transport; remedial action plan; containment systems (gas, surface water, and ground water); on-site and off-site treatment techniques (solidification, stabilization, landfilling, and soil washing); In-situ treatment techniques (physical, biological, and chemical).
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Ghoshal, Subhasis (Fall)
Environmental impact: (3 credits)
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GEOG 601 Advanced Environmental Systems Modelling (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Simulation of environmental systems, focusing on problem definition, model development and model validation.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Roulet, Nigel Thomas (Fall)
Restriction: Students taking this course need to have an undergraduate background in an atmospheric, ecological, earth,or environmental science or an undergraduate background in environmental engineering.
or an approved 500-, 600-, or 700-level alternative.
Environmental policy: (3 credits)
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URBP 506 Environmental Policy and Planning (3 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing environmental issues at various scales; characteristics of environmental issues, science-policy-politics interactions relating to the environment, and implications for policy; sustainability, and the need for and challenges associated with interdisciplinary perspectives; externalities and their regulation; public goods; risk perception and implications; the political-institutional context and policy instruments; cost-benefit analysis; multiple-criteria decision-making approaches; multidimensional life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; conflict resolution; case studies.
Terms: Fall 2021
Instructors: Badami, Madhav Govind (Fall)
(3-0-6)
Restriction: This course is open to students in U3 and above
or an approved 500-, 600-, or 700-level alternative.
Elective Courses (11 credits)
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CHEE 696 Extended Project (6 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Extended independent work on a problem of industrially-oriented design or research, leading to a comprehensive project report.
Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022
Instructors: Servio, Phillip (Fall) Servio, Phillip (Winter) Servio, Phillip (Summer)
or another Engineering or non-Engineering 500-, 600-, or 700-level course subject to approval.
Faculty of Engineering—2021-2022 (last updated Nov. 29, 2021) (disclaimer)
