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Fall 2019 Graduate Calendar
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: COURSES
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Courses offered by Civil Engineering at the graduate level are listed below. Students may take courses other than Civil Engineering with permission of the Head of the Department and the advisor.
All courses listed will not necessarily be offered in any given year.
CIVL-8200. Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity
Analysis of stress and strain; elastic and plastic stress-strain relations; general equations of elasticity; yield criteria; applications to elastoplastic problems, including rotating disks, thick-walled tubes, reinforced disks, torsion of various shaped bars; stress concentration. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8210. Finite Element Methods for Solids and Structures
Structural idealization; stress analysis of 2-D and 3-D solids; error estimation and mesh adaptivity; elastic formulations and uses of beam, plate and shell elements; nonlinear formulations; structural stability; introduction to finite element methods in structural design optimization. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8220. Analysis and Design of Shell Structures
General theory of thin shells. Membrane stresses in shells of revolution and shells of double curvature. Bending stresses in shells of revolution, cylindrical shells and folded plates. Design of cylindrical shell roofs. (Prerequisite: CIVL-8000 or equivalent.) (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8250. Theory of Stability
This course is designed to give an insight into the basic phenomenon of structural stability. Elastic and plastic flexural-buckling of columns with axial and eccentric loads is studied. Energy and numerical methods are used. Stability functions are introduced and used to study trusses and rectangular frames, with and without sidesway. Some discussion of torsional and torsional-flexural buckling, lateral buckling of beams. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8310. Prestressed Concrete
Materials, principles of prestressing systems; prestressing losses; analytical treatment of the effect of shrinkage, creep of concrete, and cable friction on stresses; analysis and design of statically determinate and indeterminate structures; design codes; research background; introduction to prefabricated concrete structures. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8330. Structural Dynamics
Formulation of equations of motion; single degree-of-freedom systems: free vibration response and response to harmonic, periodic, impulse, and general dynamic loading; analysis of non-linear structural response; multi degree-of-freedom systems: equations of motion, structural property matrices, undamped free vibration, Raleigh's method, forced vibration response, practical vibration analysis; continuous systems: partial differential equations of motion, analysis of undamped free vibration, analysis of dynamic response, wave propagation analysis. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8340. FRP Reinforced Concrete Structure
Advanced composite materials - constituents and products; structural applications, reinforced concrete members, prestressed concrete members, applications with chopped fibres, repair and rehabilitation; innovative applications. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8390. Advances in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Applications
Consolidation and improvement methods; compressibility of soils and application of new modification techniques; frost action in soils; design of gravity, cantilever and mechanically stabilized retaining walls; recent advances in the bearing capacity of foundations on reinforced soils; pile foundations and pile groups; machine foundations on piles. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8410. Hydrology
Analysis and synthesis of the hydrograph. Streamflow routing. The hydrograph as a function of drainage characteristics; estimation of runoff from meteorological data. Snowmelt. Flow in rivers with an ice cover. Infiltration theory. Sea water intrusion in coastal aquifers. Application of hydrologic techniques including statistical methods. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8420. River Mechanics
Theory and analysis of uniform, gradually varied, rapidly varied and steady and unsteady flow in open channels; fluvial processes; design of channels; design of hydraulic control structures. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8430. Ground Water Contamination
Introduction of Darcy's equation and governing equation; construction of flownets, flow quantification, and ground water resource evaluation; contaminant hydrogeology, mass transport equations, reaction, and adsorption; introduction to biodegradation and natural attenuation; simulation of ground water flow and transport. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8440. Advanced Hydromechanics
Properties of scalar and vector fields; gradiant, divergence and curl. Flow visualization. Flow kinematics: continuity equation, potential flow, stream function. Flow dynamics: transport theorems, integral and differential equations of motion. Boundary-layer theory. Turbulent flow and turbulence models. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8460. Sediment Transport
Regime approach; turbulence theories; suspended sediment; tractive force method; bedforms and bedload transport; the Einstein method; modified Einstein method; reservoir siltation; recent developments; design of mobile bed channels; design of sedimentation basins; channel degradation. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8595. MASc Graduate Seminar
MASc Graduate Seminar is a series of presentations by graduate students, faculty and invited speakers on engineering related topics, including but not limited to research, development, commercialization, management and leadership. All full-time and part-time MASc students are required to complete 36 hours of graduate seminar classes and give one seminar presentation in the MASc Graduate Seminar course during their MASc program in Environmental Engineering. Students who are not able to complete the MASc Graduate Seminar course have to take an additional 3-credit graduate course approved by their graduate coordinator to fulfill the overall credit requirement for the degree. This seminar course will be graded on a pass/fail basis. (1 lecture hour/week) (Also offered as ENVE-8595, CIVL-9595, and ENVE-9595).
CIVL-8900. Special Topics In Civil Engineering
Selected advanced topics in the field of civil engineering. (3 lecture hours a week.)
CIVL-8960. Major Paper
CIVL-8970. Thesis
CIVL-9595. PhD Graduate Seminar
PhD Graduate Seminar is a series of presentations by graduate students, faculty and invited speakers on engineering related topics, including but not limited to research, development, commercialization, management and leadership. All full-time and part-time PhD students are required to complete 36 hours of graduate seminar classes and give two seminar presentations in the PhD Graduate Seminar course during their PhD program in Environmental Engineering. Students who are not able to complete the PhD Graduate Seminar course have to take an additional 3-credit graduate course approved by their graduate coordinator to fulfill the overall credit requirement for the degree. This seminar course will be graded on a pass/fail basis. (1 lecture hour/week) (Also offered as ENVE-9595, CIVL-8595, and ENVE-8595)
CIVL-9980. Dissertation
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Courses offered by Environmental Engineering at the graduate level are listed below. Students may take courses other than Environmental Engineering with permission of the Head of the Department and the advisor.
All courses listed will not necessarily be offered in any given year.
ENVE-8300. Water Pollution Control
Water quality criteria; methods of wastewater disposal and their effects on ecology; theory and design of different unit operations and processes for water purification; theory and design of different design operations and processes of wastewater treatment; reuse and recycling of wastewater. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8310. Advanced Water Pollution Control
Discussion on recent advances in the design of water and wastewater treatment plants and new developments in water pollution control practices. (Prerequisite: ENVE-8300 or equivalent.) (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8330. Solid Waste Management
A study of municipal and industrial solid wastes, quantities, composition, methods of disposal or reclamation; economic viability of the various methods related to the quantities involved. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8340. Environmental Separation Processes
Application of the principles of surface chemistry to separation processes involving phase equilibria, ion exchange, membrane separation, adsorption, absorption, flocculation, spherical agglomeration, sedimentation, filtration, and centrifugation. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8350. Water Quality Management
Water quality criteria; methods of wastewater disposal and their effects on ecology; stoichiometry, reaction kinetics and material balance; movement of contaminants in water bodies; modelling of water quality in natural systems. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8370. Kinetics
Basic concepts of chemical reaction kinetics; characterization of chemical and biochemical systems; reactor flow models and consideration of non-ideality. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8380. Biological Treatment of Wastewater
Wastewater characteristics; biological kinetics; flow and loading variation; wastewater treatment processes; mass balances; aeration; sedimentation; lagoons; fixed-film processes; sludge characteristics. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8390. Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Sources and characteristics of industrial wastewater; pretreatment and primary treatment; physical and chemical treatment; biological treatment; waste minimization; treatment of wastes from various industries. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8400. Numerical Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer and Flow in Porous Media
Introduction to finite difference and finite element approaches for simulation of the diffusion and the advection-dispersion equations; development of finite difference formulation of 1-D and 2-D transient heat transfer, nonlinear conductance and source/sinks; 1-D and 2-D mass transport with reaction; 1-D and 2-D heat transfer with finite element approach. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8410. Air Pollution from Mobile Sources
Air pollutants; emissions from vehicles; testing vehicles for emissions; combustion thermodynamics; thermodynamics and kinetics of pollutant formation; measures to reduce emissions; modeling. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8420.Air Pollution Modelling
Air quality standards; emission inventory, source estimation; development of transport models; models with chemical reactions. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8430
. Occupational Hygiene and Pollution Prevention
This course touches on an area of Environmental Engineering not currently covered in detail by other courses: the indoor environment. As well, students are introduced to the definition and methodology of pollution prevention (P2) in industrial settings. Topics include: environmental stressors, provincial and federal regulations, toxicology of contaminants, surveys of workplaces, measurements of airborne contaminants, engineering controls and steps in pollution prevention. (3 lecture hours a week.)
ENVE-8500.Sustainability: Principles and Practices
This course examines the evaluation, design, and management of products, processes, or projects to achieve sustainability. The main topics include: assessing and scoping environmental effects from engineering and other technical activities; eco-balance approaches; life cycle assessment; design-for-environment principles; and decision making for environmental and sustainability objectives. The course will discuss typical examples (e.g., automobiles, infrastructure, electronics), and also draw upon the industrial and research experience and knowledge of the class attendees. Class-based projects will focus on understanding, interpreting, and implementing the knowledge acquired. (3 lecture hours per week.)
ENVE-8900. Special Topics In Environmental Engineering
Selected advanced topics in the field of environmental engineering. (3 hours a week.)
Current topics include:
Air Pollution Control;
Transport Phenomena;
Environmental Law and Policy
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution.
ENVE-8595
. MASc Graduate Seminar
MASc Graduate Seminar is a series of presentations by graduate students, faculty and invited speakers on engineering related topics, including but not limited to research, development, commercialization, management and leadership. All full-time and part-time MASc students are required to complete 36 hours of graduate seminar classes and give one seminar presentation in the MASc Graduate Seminar course during their MASc program in Environmental Engineering. Students who are not able to complete the MASc Graduate Seminar course have to take an additional 3-credit graduate course approved by their graduate coordinator to fulfill the overall credit requirement for the degree. This seminar course will be graded on a pass/fail basis. (1 lecture hour/week) (Also offered as CIVL-8595, CIVL-9595, and ENVE-9595).
ENVE-8960. Major Paper
ENVE-8970. Thesis
ENVE-9595. PhD Graduate Seminar
PhD Graduate Seminar is a series of presentations by graduate students, faculty and invited speakers on engineering related topics, including but not limited to research, development, commercialization, management and leadership. All full-time and part-time PhD students are required to complete 36 hours of graduate seminar classes and give two seminar presentations in the PhD Graduate Seminar course during their PhD program in Environmental Engineering. Students who are not able to complete the PhD Graduate Seminar course have to take an additional 3-credit graduate course approved by their graduate coordinator to fulfill the overall credit requirement for the degree. This seminar course will be graded on a pass/fail basis. (1 lecture hour/week) (Also offered as CIVL-9595, CIVL-8595, and ENVE-8595)
ENVE-9980. Dissertation