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.
87-500. 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.)
87-501. 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.)
87-502. 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: 87-500 or equivalent.) (3 lecture hours a week.)
87-505. 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.)
87-511. 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.)
87-513. 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.)
87-514. 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.)
87-519. 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.)
87-521. 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.)
87-522. 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.)
87-523. 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.)
87-524. 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.)
87-526. 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.)
87-590. Special Topics In Civil Engineering
Selected advanced topics in the field of civil engineering. (3 lecture hours a week.)
87-595. Graduate Seminar
Presentations by graduate students, faculty and visiting scientists on current research topics. This course will provide students the opportunity to recognize new developments and technology in the field, to critique others’ findings and to construct and present their ideas and results. Full time graduate students are required to register in every semester offered and give a presentation in the semester prior to thesis defence. All graduate students are expected to attend each and every seminar and no less than 75% of all seminars. This course will be graded on a PASS/FAIL basis (1 lecture hour a week) (Also offered as 93-595)
87-796. Major Paper
87-797. Thesis
87-798. Dissertation
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Courses offered by Environmental Enginneering 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.
93-530. 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.)
93-531. 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: 93-530 or equivalent.) (3 lecture hours a week.)
93-533. 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.)
93-534. 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.)
93-535. 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.)
93-537. 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.)
93-538. 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.)
93-539. 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.)
93-540. 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.)
93-541. 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.)
93-542. Air Pollution Modelling
Air quality standards; emission inventory, source estimation; development of transport models; models with chemical reactions. (3 lecture hours a week.)
93-543 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.)
93-550. 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. (Not open to students who attended 93-532, Engineering and the Environment, since 2002.) (3 lecture hours per week.)
93-590. 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.
93-595. Graduate Seminar
Presentations by graduate students, faculty and visiting scientists on current research topics. This course will provide students the opportunity to recognize new developments and technology in the field, to critique others’ findings and to construct and present their ideas and results. Full time graduate students are required to register in every semester offered and give a presentation in the semester prior to thesis defence. All graduate students are expected to attend each and every seminar and no less than 75% of all seminars. This course will be graded on a PASS/FAIL basis (1 lecture hour a week) (Also offered as 87-595)
93-796. Major Paper
93-797. Thesis
93-798. Dissertation