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Program Requirements
The MEng Non-Thesis program aims to provide a more professional orientation to graduate students. The main features of this degree program are:
A minimum of 15 credits selected from a list of research oriented courses
A maximum of 30 credits with emphasis on expertise (specialty area) for professional practice.
Research Seminar (3 credits)
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CIVE 664 MEng (Non-thesis) Research Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : The course will expose the students to various civil engineering research issues. Lectures will be given by faculty, invited speakers from industry, and graduate students. Each student is required to prepare a written technical paper and make an oral presentation.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Ozcer, Pinar (Fall)
List A: Research Courses
(12-42) credits
A minimum of 12 credits from research courses, from one of the research streams: 1) Infrastructure, 2) Environmental/Hydraulics-Water Resources, and 3) Transportation.
Infrastructure Stream
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CIVE 512 Advanced Civil Engineering Materials (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Shao, Yi (Winter)
(3-2-4)
Prerequisite: CIVE 202
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CIVE 602 Finite Element Analysis (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Development of displacement based simple and high order, one, two and three dimensional elements for linear elastic stress analysis. Variational and other methods for element formulation. Plate bending and shell elements. Finite element programming. Use of package programs in static analysis of structures.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Alobaidi, Mohammad (Fall)
(3-0-9)
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CIVE 603 Structural Dynamics (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Dynamic loads on structures; equations of motion of linear single- and multiple-degree-of-freedom systems and of continuous systems; free and forced vibrations; damping in structures; modal superposition and time-history analysis; earthquake effects; provisions of the National Building Code of Canada for seismic analysis.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Xie, Yazhou (Fall)
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CIVE 609 Risk Engineering (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Quantitative analysis of uncertainty in planning, design, construction, operation and rehabilitation of engineered facilities. Interprets fundamentals of probabilities, random processes, statistics, and decision analysis in the context of engineering applications, in particular description of variability of loads and environmental conditions, material properties performance prediction, system reliability analysis, and risk-based decision analysis.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Chouinard, Luc E (Winter)
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CIVE 623 Durability of Construction Materials
(4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Durability-related deterioration mechanisms relevant to construction materials with an emphasis on promoting sustainability in the construction industry. Portland cement concrete, asphalt cement concrete, masonry, steel, wood, and fibre reinforced composites. Factors affecting durability, service life prediction, diagnosis, remediation, and protective measures. Introduction to relevant standards, specifications, guides, and design codes.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Boyd, Andrew (Winter)
Environmental/Hydraulics-Water Resources
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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 2023
Instructors: Nguyen, Van-Thanh-Van (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 302 or permission of instructor
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CIVE 572 Computational Hydraulics (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Computation of unsteady flows in open channels; abrupt waves, flood waves, tidal propagations; method of characteristics; mathematical modelling of river and coastal currents.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Chu, Vincent H (Fall)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: CIVE 327 or equivalent
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CIVE 584 Mechanics of Groundwater Flow (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
(3-1.5-4.5)
Prerequisite: CIVE 311 or Permission of Instructor.
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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: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 677 Water-Energy Sustainability (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Sustainable water resources management: water requirements and frameworks for allocations for agriculture, urbanization, resource extraction, energy production and the environment. Analysis and modelling of the constraints and implications, within and across sectors, of water allocation and energy production choices and their climate change impacts. Critical assessment of contemporary case studies related to the water-energy nexus
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
Transportation
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CIVE 540 Urban Transportation Planning (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Miranda-Moreno, Luis (Winter)
(3-1-5)
Prerequisite: CIVE 319 or permission of instructor.
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CIVE 542 Transportation Network Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Sun, Lijun (Winter)
Prerequisite: CIVE 208.
Note: (3-0-6)
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CIVE 560 Transportation Safety and Design (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Miranda-Moreno, Luis (Fall)
(3-1-5)
Prerequisite: CIVE 319
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CIVE 609 Risk Engineering (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Quantitative analysis of uncertainty in planning, design, construction, operation and rehabilitation of engineered facilities. Interprets fundamentals of probabilities, random processes, statistics, and decision analysis in the context of engineering applications, in particular description of variability of loads and environmental conditions, material properties performance prediction, system reliability analysis, and risk-based decision analysis.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Chouinard, Luc E (Winter)
List B: Other Complementary Courses from the Department
0-30 credits
Courses from List A that are not used to fulfill the 15 credits requirement of Research Courses can be used also as complementary courses.
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CIVE 520 Groundwater Hydrology (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Kang, Mary (Winter)
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CIVE 521 Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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 (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Boyd, Andrew (Fall)
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CIVE 550 Water Resources Management (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Nguyen, Van-Thanh-Van (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 323 or equivalent
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CIVE 557 Microbiology for Environmental Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Frigon, Dominic (Fall)
Prerequisite: CIVE 225 or permission of the instructor
(3-1-5)
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CIVE 561 Greenhouse Gas Emissions (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Kang, Mary (Winter)
(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.
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CIVE 573 Hydraulic Structures (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 574 Fluid Mechanics of Water Pollution (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Chu, Vincent H (Fall)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: CIVE 327 or equivalent.
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CIVE 577 River Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : 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.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 604 Theory of Plates and Shells (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Analysis of stresses and deformations in plates bent by transverse loads. Circular and rectangular plates. Membrane theory of shells. Axially symmetric bending of cylindrical, conical and spherical shells. Shells of revolution; theory of shallow shells. Use of package programs in the analysis of plate and shell structures.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 605 Stability of Structures (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Buckling of elastic columns by equilibrium analysis. Buckling of inelastic columns. Energy analysis and approximate methods. Stability of frames. Torsional buckling of columns and flexural-torsional buckling of beams. Buckling of plates and axially compressed circular cylindrical shells. Stability analysis using the finite element method.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 607 Advanced Design in Steel (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Design and behaviour of cold formed and hot rolled structural steel members and systems. Lateral load resistance design of steel roof diaphragms, flexural design of composite slabs, bracing requirements and design procedures for steel structures, floor vibration, member torsion, slender members and design procedures for low rise steel frame buildings.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Afifi, Mohamed (Winter)
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CIVE 612 Earthquake-Resistant Design (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Static and dynamic analyses, design codes, effects of local ground conditions, ductility demands on structural components. Inelastic behaviour of beams, columns, joints, shear walls and bracing under cyclic loading of steel concrete and masonry structures. Design applications.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Filiatrault, Andre (Winter)
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CIVE 614 Composites for Construction (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Fibre reinforced plastics (FRP), civil engineering applications; fibre, matrix, processing; plymechanics, strength, rigidity, stability, durability; FRP rebars and tendons for concrete, laminates for strengthening, pultruded beams and columns, FRP stay-in-place formwork for concrete, FRP - glulam beams; design criteria, design project.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 2022
Instructors: Ozcer, Pinar (Fall)
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CIVE 616 Nonlinear Structural Analysis for Buildings (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Methods of geometric and material nonlinear static and dynamic analysis, cumulative damage effects, concentrated and distributed plasticity models, pushover analysis, response modification and performance-based design. The class integrates state-of-the-art simulation models and methods with physical experimentation of structural components and energy dissipation devices for nonlinear analysis and evaluation of buildings.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Malomo, Daniele (Winter)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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CIVE 617 Bridge Engineering (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Bridge components, connections, and constraints; girder bridges; arch bridges; cable-stayed and suspension bridges; probabilistic design; design loads; analysis of superstructures; evaluation, repair, and rehabilitation of bridges; coastal bridge vulnerability; seismic design and retrofit of bridges; case studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 618 Design in Concrete 1 (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Concrete physical properties, creep, shrinkage; review of ultimate strength design; combined loadings; design of frames and flat plates; limit design, yield line theory; prestressed concrete, partial prestressing and load balancing. The course will include group projects.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 622 Prestressed Concrete (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Material properties; prestressing methods and systems; the behaviour and design of members subjected to axial forces, bending, shear and torsion; prestress losses; design of statically determinate and indeterminate structures; composite precast construction; prestressed concrete floor systems. Application to bridge design.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Massa, Rico Joey (Fall)
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CIVE 625 Condition Assessment of Existing Structures (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Procedures and testing techniques for the in situ and laboratory evaluation of existing structures and infrastructure materials. Destructive and nondestructive techniques, forensic analysis, and evaluation and deterioration mechanisms are addressed through lectures and case studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
A group laboratory project is also required.
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CIVE 628 Design of Wood Structures (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Review of wood material properties, grades, and design of sawn lumber and timber tension, bending and compression members. Design of connections. Glulam, engineered wood products and systems, shearwalls and diaphragms. Combined loading design, vibration design, moisture and humidity effects, deterioration and protection, fire performance, prescriptive design versus engineering design.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 637 Discrete Choice Modeling in Transportation (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Data set assembly, multivariate regression analysis, individual choice theory, random utility frameworks, ordered and unordered response models, model estimation using maximum likelihood approaches, review of state of the art and recent advances in the field.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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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 2022
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 2023
Instructors: Ozcer, Pinar (Winter)
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CIVE 661 Modelling of Transportation Emissions (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Interactions between transportation modeling and emissions modeling; models for on-road and non-road emissions; impacts of technology, fuel quality, and driving behaviour on the generation of vehicle emissions. Effects of alternative fuels.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Permission of instructor.
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CIVE 663 Environmental Fate of Organic Chemicals (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Theoretical and applied environmental organic chemistry concerning organic pollutants in aquatic and soil systems. Topics include: vapour pressure; activity coefficient and aqueous solubility; air-liquid phase partitioning; sorption; bioaccumulation and biomagnification; hydrolysis and nucleophilic substitution reactions; redox reactions; legacy pollutants; pollutants of emerging concern; novel research developments.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Liu, Jinxia (Winter)
Offered in alternate years.
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CIVE 683 Advanced Foundation Design (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Earth retaining structures, retaining walls, braced excavations, tie-back anchors. Buried structures, earth loading, arching, embankment loading. Soft ground tunnelling, ground response to tunnelling, surface settlement prediction. Design of shallow foundations, bearing capacity and settlement. Design of deep foundations, single pile, pile groups, laterally loaded piles.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Project Courses
0 or 5-15 credits
Credits for a program may vary, depending on the amount of work involved. Project courses are chosen from the following:
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CIVE 691 Research Project 1 (1 credit)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report.
Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 692 Research Project 2 (2 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report.
Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 693 Research Project 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report.
Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 694 Research Project 4 (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report.
Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 695 Research Project 5 (5 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report.
Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 696 Research Project 6 (6 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report.
Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
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CIVE 697 Research Project 7 (7 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Independent work under the general direction of a full-time staff member on research leading to a comprehensive report.
Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Graduate courses from other 不良研究所 Engineering Departments are also allowed as complementary courses. A maximum of 1/3 of coursework credits can be taken outside 不良研究所. Approval is required from the Department in both cases.
Faculty of Engineering—2022-2023 (last updated Sep. 8, 2022) (disclaimer)
