Course sets for the Program - Total 113 credits
PLEASE NOTE:
For each stream certain courses in complementary course sets B, C, and D are suggested.
Required Courses - 53 credits
AEMA 202
Intermediate Calculus
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci): Partial differentiation; multiple integrals; vector calculus; infinite series; and introduction to the use of computer-based mathematical tools in applications.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Fall
- 3 lectures and 1 conference
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken MATH 222
- Prerequisites: BREE 103 and AEMA 102 or equivalent CEGEP objectives 00UP and 00UQ or permission of instructor
AEMA 305
Differential Equations
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci): First and second order differential equations, Laplace transforms, numerical solutions, systems of differential equations, series solutions, applications to biological, chemical and engineering systems, use of computer-based mathematical tools.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Winter
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken MATH 315
- Prerequisite: AEMA 202 or equivalent
BREE 205
Engineering Design 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Role of the bioresource engineer in society; introduction to engineering analysis and design; kinds of engineering; role and duties of the engineer in the design, construction, and operation of bio-based facilities, industries and the environment. Regulation of the engineering profession; law and liability; engineering ethics; occupational health and safety.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 205.
BREE 210
Mechanical Analysis & Design
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Non-concurrent force systems; analysis of simple trusses and multiforce frames; friction, shearing forces and bending moments in beams and frames; centres of gravity; solution of problems by energy methods.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and 2 hours lab or problems
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 210.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Valerie Orsat, Gopu Raveendran Nair
BREE 216
Bioresource Eng. Materials
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Introduction to the composition and mechanical constitution of materials used in bioresource engineering, including metals, plastics, concrete, wood, composite, plant and food materials. Crystal structure, alloys, phase diagrams, stresses and strains, elasticity, plasticity, yield, fracture, ductility, heat treatments, cold work, corrosion, composite materials, concrete chemistry, polymers.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 2 lectures and one 2-hour lab
BREE 252
Computing for Engineers
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: A user-level computer programming course. Fundamentals of how electronic computers and computer systems work, a disciplined general approach to the solution of engineering problems, and the implementation of these solutions using structured programming methods in a current computational environment.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 252.
BREE 301
Biothermodynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Classical thermodynamic analysis of pure and simple compressible systems. The course covers the first and second laws of thermodynamics. It deals with basic concepts of thermodynamics and thermochemistry in biological systems.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 301.
BREE 305
Fluid Mechanics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Properties of fluids; fluid statics; principles of flow of incompressible and compressible fluids; dimensional analysis boundary layers; conduit and open channel systems; simple applications to turbo machinery.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour lab or problems
- Prerequisites: BREE 210, AEMA 202
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 305.
- This course carries an additional charge of $25 to cover the cost of transportation (bus rental) for local field trips. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
BREE 312
Electric Circuits and Machines
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: General circuit laws and d.c. circuits; electromagnetic circuits; inductance and capacitance, natural and forced response of circuits; analysis of single phase and three phase networks; transformers, AC and DC motors/generators.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour lab or problems
- Prerequisite: AEMA 305 (formerly AEMA 205).
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 312.
BREE 319
Engineering Mathematics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Advanced topics in engineering mathematics, including special functions, orthogonal functions and Fourier series, boundary value problems in various coordinate systems, integral transforms, partial differential equations and introduction to complex variable theory. The use of computer-based mathematical tools will be an integral part of the course.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures, 2-hour lab, conference
- Prerequisite: AEMA 305 or equivalent and BREE 252
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 319.
BREE 327
Bio-Environmental Engineering
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: An introduction to how humans affect the earth's ecosystem and projections for the needs of food, water, air and energy to support the human population. Ecologically-reasonable coping strategies including biofuels, bioprocessing, waste management, and remediation methods.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Restrictions: U2 students and above. Not open to students who have taken ABEN 305.
- This course carries an additional course charge of $9.23 to cover transportation costs for field trips which may include a solar installation site and if registrations permit, a bio-ethanol plant. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
BREE 341
Mechanics of Materials
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Stress, strain, resilience, elastic and plastic properties of materials; bending moment and shear force diagrams; bending and shear stress; deflections; simple, fixed and continuous beams, torsion and helical springs, reinforced concrete beams; columns, bending and direct stress; general case of plane stress; Mohr's circle.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Prerequisite: BREE 210 (formerly ABEN 210)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 341.
BREE 451
UG Seminar 1-Oral Presentation
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Attendance and participation in departmental undergraduate seminars, where each student must present an oral presentation.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Terms
- Instructors
- Valerie Orsat
- Valerie Orsat
BREE 452
UG Seminar 2-Poster Present'n
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Attendance and participation in departmental undergraduate seminars. All students will be required to prepare and present a poster.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Terms
- Instructors
- Valerie Orsat
- Valerie Orsat
BREE 453
UG Seminar 3-ScientificWriting
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Attendance and participation in undergraduate departmental seminars. All students will complete a scientific writing assignment.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Terms
- Instructors
- Valerie Orsat
- Valerie Orsat
BREE 485
Senior Undergrad. Seminar 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Attendance and participation in departmental seminars, and a small written project report.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Terms
- Instructors
- Michael O Ngadi
- Michael O Ngadi
BREE 490
Engineering Design 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: The student is expected to develop a professional design project proposal with due considerations to executive summary, synthesis, methodology, milestones, budget, etc.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
BREE 495
Engineering Design 3
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: The student is expected to implement, physically or virtually, the project proposed in the Design 1 course. The student is expected to present project outcome, in both written and oral forms and learn to be critical about their own work and those of others.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
FACC 300
Engineering Economy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Faculty Course: 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.
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office
- (3-1-5)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 310.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Raad Jassim
- Raad Jassim
- Raad Jassim
FACC 400
Eng Professional Practice
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Faculty Course: 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.
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office
- (1.5-1-0.5)
- Prerequisites: FACC 100 or BREE 205 and at least 60 program credits (B.Eng./B.S.E. students in the Faculty of Engineering) or 45 program credits (B.Eng. Bioresource) students.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 221.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Mihriban Ozden Pekguleryuz
- Subhasis Ghoshal
MECH 289
Design Graphics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: 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.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (2-3-4)
- Restrictions: Students must be in Year 1 (U1) or higher. Not open to students in Mechanical Engineering.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Damiano Pasini, Youki Elizabeth K Cropas
- Richard Walter P Klopp, Damiano Pasini, Richard Edwards
Complementary Courses, set A - Heat and Mass Transfer and Statistics
6 credits
One of:
AEMA 310
Statistical Methods 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci): Measures of central tendency and dispersion; binomial and Poisson distributions; normal, chi-square, Student's t and Fisher-Snedecor F distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of variance for simple experimental designs.
Offered by: Plant Science
- Two 1.5-hour lectures and one 2-hour lab
- Terms
- Instructors
- Pierre R L Dutilleul, Valérie Gravel
- Pierre R L Dutilleul, Valérie Gravel
CIVE 302
Probabilistic Systems
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: An introduction to probability and statistics with applications to Civil Engineering design. Descriptive statistics, common probability models, statistical estimation, regression and correlation, acceptance sampling.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites: MATH 262, COMP 208 (a D grade is acceptable for prerequisite purposes)
MATH 323
Probability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sample space, events, conditional probability, independence of events, Bayes' Theorem. Basic combinatorial probability, random variables, discrete and continuous univariate and multivariate distributions. Independence of random variables. Inequalities, weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 141 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Intended for students in Science, Engineering and related disciplines, who have had differential and integral calculus
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 356
- Terms
- Fall 2014
- Winter 2015
- Summer 2015
- Instructors
- William J Anderson
- Djivede A Kelome
and one of:
CHEE 315
Heat and Mass Transfer
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Chemical Engineering: Transport of heat and mass by diffusion and convection; transport of heat by radiation; diffusion; convective mass transfer; drying; absorption; mathematical formulation of problems and equipment design for heat and mass transfer; laboratory exercises.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
MECH 346
Heat Transfer
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Basic concepts and overview. Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Fin Theory. Convective heat transfer: governing equations; dimensionless parameters; analogy between momentum and heat transfer. Design correlations for forced, natural, and mixed convection. Heat exchangers. Radiative heat transfer: black- and gray-body radiation; shape factors; enclosure theory. Thermal engineering design project.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- Instructors
- Bantwal R Baliga
- Laurent B Mydlarski
Complementary Courses, set B - Natural Sciences and Mathematics
9 credits - At least 3 credits from the following list
AEBI 210
Organisms 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): The biology of plants and plant-based systems in managed and natural terrestrial environments. The interactions between autotrophs and soil organisms and selected groups of animals with close ecological and evolutionary connections with plants (e.g., herbivores and pollinators) will be explored in lecture and laboratory.
Offered by: Plant Science
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PLNT 201 or PLNT 211
- 2 hour lecture and 3 hour lab
- Terms
- Instructors
- Jacqueline C Bede, Kushalappa C Ajjamada, Danielle J Donnelly
AEBI 211
Organisms 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): Introduction to the biology, physiology, structure and function of heterotrophs and their interactions with other organisms. This course will focus on animals in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. Topics include bioenergetics and functional metabolism, adaptations to environments, animal-animal, animal-plant, and animal-pathogen interactions.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Winter
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 200
ENVB 305
Population & Community Ecology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environmental Biology: Interactions between organisms and their environment; historical and current perspectives in applied and theoretical population and community ecology. Principles of population dynamics, feedback loops, and population regulation. Development and structure of communities; competition, predation and food web dynamics. Biodiversity science in theory and practice.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Winter
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 205
ENVB 315
Science of Inland Waters
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environmental Biology: Nature and history of limnology; divisions of inland waters; properties of fresh water; habitats; zones; nutrient cycles; biota; adaptations; seasonal variation; distributions; pollution; succession and evolution of fresh water environments. Includes field excursions.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Fall
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken NRSC 315.
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
LSCI 202
Molecular Cell Biology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Life Sciences: Organization and function of intracellular organelles in eukaryotic cells. Mechanisms of membrane transport. Protein sorting and vesicular transport. Cytoskeleton. DNA and chromosome structure. DNA replication. Mechanisms of RNA and protein synthesis. Control of gene expression. Cell cycle and the control of cell division. Mechanisms of cell communication and signal transduction. Apoptosis. Neuronal signaling.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Prerequisites: LSCI 211 and FDSC 230 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Instructors
- A Paula Ribeiro, Jerry R Aldridge
LSCI 230
Introductory Microbiology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Life Sciences: The occurrence and importance of microorganisms (especially bacteria) in the biosphere. Principles governing growth, death and metabolic activities of microorganisms. An introduction to the microbiology of soil, water, plants, food, man and animals.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Winter
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MICR 230.
MICR 331
Microbial Ecology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Microbiology (Agric&Envir Sc): The ecology of microorganisms, primarily bacteria and archaea, and their roles in biogeochemical cycles will be discussed. Microbial interactions with the environment, plants, animals and other microbes emphasizing the underlying genetics and physiology. Diversity, evolution (microbial phylogenetics) and the application of molecular biology in microbial ecology.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Winter
- Restriction: Not open to students who have successfully completed NRSC 331
Plus 6 credits chosen with the Academic Advisor. These courses may be selected from many programs in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences or in the Faculty of Science. Some suggested courses are:
AGRI 340
Princ of Ecological Agricult
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Agriculture: Focus on low-input, sustainable, and organic agriculture: the farm as an ecosystem; complex system theory; practical examples of soil management, pest control, integrated crop and livestock production, and marketing systems.
Offered by: Plant Science
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour seminar
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken AGRI 250
ANSC 250
Principles of Animal Science
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Animal Science: Introduction to the scientific principles underlying the livestock and poultry industries. Emphasis will be placed on the breeding, physiology and nutrition of animals raised for the production of food and fibre.
Offered by: Animal Science
- Fall
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour lab
ENVB 210
The Biophysical Environment
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environmental Biology: With reference to the ecosystems in the St Lawrence lowlands, the principles and processes governing climate-landform-water-soil-vegetation systems and their interactions will be examined in lecture and laboratory. Emphasis on the natural environment as an integrated system.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Fall
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken SOIL 210
ENVB 301
Meteorology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environmental Biology: The physical processes underlying weather. Topics include: the atmosphere - its properties (structure and motion), and thermodynamics (stability, heat and moisture); clouds and precipitation; air masses and fronts; mid-latitude weather systems and severe weather.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Fall
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken NRSC 201
FDSC 200
Introduction to Food Science
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Food Science: This course enables one to gain an appreciation of the scope of food science as a discipline. Topics include introductions to chemistry, processing, packaging, analysis, microbiology, product development, sensory evaluation and quality control as they relate to food science.
Offered by: Food Science&Agr.Chemistry
- Terms
- Instructors
- Lawrence Goodridge, Jacqueline Sedman
GEOG 203
Environmental Systems
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Geography: An introduction to system-level interactions among climate, hydrology, soils and vegetation at the scale of drainage basins, including the study of the global geographical variability in these land-surface systems. The knowledge acquired is used to study the impact on the environment of various human activities such as deforestation and urbanisation.
Offered by: Geography
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Restriction: Because of quantitative science content of course, not recommended for B.A. and B.Ed. students in their U0 year.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Timothy R Moore, Gail L Chmura
NRSC 333
Pollution and Bioremediation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Natural Resource Sciences: The environmental contaminants which cause pollution; sources, amounts and transport of pollutants in water, air and soil; waste management.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Fall
- 3 lectures
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 333
NRSC 510
Agricultural Micrometeorology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Natural Resource Sciences: Interaction between plant communities and the atmosphere. The physical processes governing the transfer of heat, mass and momentum as they relate to research and production in agricultural and environmental systems. Experimental techniques for measuring fluxes of heat, water-vapour, CO2 and natural and man-made pollutants.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Fall
- 3 lectures
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken AEPH 510
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
PLNT 300
Cropping Systems
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Plant Science: Application of plant science and soil science to production of agronomic and horticultural crops. Use and sustainability of fertilization, weed control, crop rotation, tillage, drainage and irrigation practices.
Offered by: Plant Science
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Prerequisite: AEBI 210
PLNT 312
Urban Horticulture
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Plant Science: Selection, use and care of plants in urban environments for the benefit of urban populations: landscape design, turf and green space management, urban trees, green roofs and walls, design and management of community gardens, urban agriculture.
Offered by: Plant Science
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
PLNT 322
Greenhouse Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Plant Science: The production of major flower and vegetable crops in greenhouses. Includes greenhouse design, heating, ventilation, lighting, hydroponics, irrigation, fertilization, scheduling and integrated pest management.
Offered by: Plant Science
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
SOIL 326
Soils in a Changing Environ
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Soil Science: Soil processes responsible for soil formation will be studied and the impact of changes to the physical and chemical environment will be discussed.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Fall
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Prerequisite: A previous course in soil science, geography, geology or permission of instructor.
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
SOIL 331
Environmental Soil Physics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Soil Science: This course addresses physical properties and processes in soil, state and transport of matter and energy affecting environment and agriculture (State: soil texture, structure, temperature, water; Transport: water flow, chemical transport, heat and gas flow), mass and energy balance in soil, effect of various environmental events on soil physical properties, management of physical properties and processes for various practical agricultural, hydrological and environmental applications including land reclamation.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Winter
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
SOIL 510
Environmental Soil Chemistry
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Soil Science: Soil chemical principles are presented in a series of problem sets covering basic concepts as well as applications to environmental and agricultural situations.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Winter
- Prerequisite: A course in Soil Science or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken SOIL 410.
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
Complementary Courses, set C - Social Sciences, Administrative Studies, Humanities, or Law
9 credits - At least 3 credits from the following list
CHEE 230
Envrnmntl Aspects of Technol
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Chemical Engineering: The impact of urbanization and technology on the environment. Topics include urbanization: causes, effects, land use regulations; transportation technology and environmental implications; environmental impact of energy conversions; energy policy alternatives; formulation of energy and environmental policy; air pollution: sources, effects, control; water pollution: sources, effects, control.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
CIVE 469
Infrastructure & Society
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: Infrastructure systems, historical background and socio-economic impact; planning, organization, communication and decision support systems; budgeting and management; operations, maintenance, rehabilitation and replacement issues; public and private sectors, privatization and governments; infrastructure crisis and new technologies; legal, environmental, socio-economic and political aspects of infrastructure issues; professional ethics and responsibilities; case studies.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
ENVR 201
Society,Environ&Sustainability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.
Offered by: McGill School of Environment
- Fall
- Section 001: Downtown Campus
- Section 051: Macdonald Campus
- Terms
- Instructors
- Kevin B Manaugh, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Nicolas Kosoy, Elena M Bennett
MIME 308
Social Impact of Technology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mining & Materials Engineering: Critical examination of the socio-economic costs and benefits of technology, case studies of old engineering works and new technologies. The integration of applied ethics and engineering practice, analysis of basic concepts of technology assessment, the inter-connected processes of risk assessment, management, and communication.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Enrolment encouraged by students outside the Faculty of Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
SOCI 235
Technology and Society
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Sociology (Arts): An examination of the extent to which technological developments impose constraints on ways of arranging social relationships in bureaucratic organizations and in the wider society: the compatibility of current social structures with the effective utilization of technology.
Offered by: Sociology
Plus 6 credits of social sciences, administrative studies, humanities, or law courses at the U1 undergraduate level or higher with approval of the Academic Advisor. Note: these 6 credits may include one 3-credit language course other than the student’s normal spoken languages. Many set C subjects are available in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, or in the Faculties of Arts, Education, Management and Religious Studies, and the School of Music.
Complementary Courses, set D - Engineering Design
36 credits
Engineering design courses are taught by a registered engineer. Courses may be chosen from the following list. Six credits may also be chosen from appropriate courses in other engineering disciplines in consultation with a Bioresource Engineering program advisor.
BREE 214
Geomatics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: The engineer's level and the theodolite are used to perform benchmark circuits, profile levelling, topographic maps and straight line extensions. A total station, computer programs and use of GPS are introduced.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 214.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 217
Hydrology and Water Resources
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Measurements and analysis of components of the water cycle. Precipitation, evaporation, infiltration and groundwater. Analysis of hydrologic data. Hydrograph theory. Hydrologic estimations for design of water control projects; flood control and reservoir routing. Integrated watershed management and water conservation. Water management systems for environmental protection.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures, one 2-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 217.
- Note: This course carries an additional course charge of $30 to cover transportation costs for two field trips, which may include a visit to a national weather station and a trip to gain hands-on experience on monitoring water flow in streams.
BREE 314
Agri-Food Buildings
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Analysis and design of structures to house animals and plants and to process and store animal and plant products. Introduction to environmental control systems and animal waste management.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and 2-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 314
- This course carries an additional course charge of $51.30 to cover transportation costs for field trips which may include an agri-centre, sugar shack and winery. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 315
Design of Machines
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Design of shafting, bearings, gear, belt and chain drives, clutches, brakes, vibrations, fasteners, welded joints, frames. Principles and practices of Engineering Drawing will be adhered to in laboratory submissions.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures, 2 hours problems
- Prerequisite: BREE 341 (formerly ABEN 341)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 315.
BREE 322
Organic Waste Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: An introduction to engineering aspects of handling, storage and treatment of all biological and food industry wastes. Design criteria will be elaborated and related to characteristics of wastes. Physical, chemical and biological treatment systems.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 2 lectures and one 2-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 322.
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
BREE 325
Food Process Engineering
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Heat and mass transfer, enthalpy and mass balances, sterilizing, freezing, fluid flow, pipes, steam, refrigeration, pumps and valves.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 325.
BREE 412
Machinery Systems Engineering
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Study and analysis of machines for tillage, harvesting, crop processing and handling. Field tests, load studies, design requirements; design of machines and components for agricultural applications.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 412.
- Terms
- Instructors
- G S Vijaya Raghavan, G S Vijaya Raghavan, Viacheslav Adamchuk
BREE 416
Eng for Land Development
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: The engineering aspects of soil and water conservation, irrigation, water conveyance structures and canals, use of geosynthetics for soil protection, seepage and uplift. Students will produce an integrated development project.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour lab or design problems
- Prerequisite: BREE 217 (formerly ABEN 217)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 416.
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
BREE 418
Soil Mechanics & Foundations
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: The exploration of subsoils, strength theories, granular and cohesive soils, foundation design, settlement calculation, consolidation, slope stability, Atterberg limits, triaxial testing, direct shear testing, compaction, soil freezing, frost heaving.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Prerequisite: BREE 341 (formerly ABEN 341)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 418.
BREE 419
Structural Design
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Structural Design in steel and timber; application of complete design procedures to working stress design; plastic design for ultimate loading.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab or design problems
- Prerequisite: BREE 341 (formerly ABEN 341)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 419.
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 420
Eng for Sustainability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Principles and practices of engineering for sustainability. Emphasis on environmental, economic, social, management and policy factors that should be incorporated into sustainable approaches to engineering and design. Topics will include: sustainability metrics, systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, and leading change for sustainability within companies.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Prerequisite: FACC 300 or permission of instructor
BREE 423
Biological Material Properties
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Relationships between composition, structure and properties of biological materials. Measurement methods and use of mechanical, thermal, electromagnetic, chemical and functional properties in the design of new applications and product development.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
BREE 430
GIS for Natural Resource Mgmt
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques to the presentation and analysis of ecological information, including sources and capture of spatial data; characterizing, transforming, displaying spatial data; and spatial analysis to solve resource management problems.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Prerequisite(s): At least one environmental science course and one ecology course or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: U2 students and above. Not open to students who have taken GEOG 201, GEOG 306 or GEOG 307 or NRSC 430. Limited to 32 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Viacheslav Adamchuk, Viacheslav Adamchuk, Jeffrey A Cardille
BREE 497
Bioresource Eng. Project
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Independent study for design and experimental work on a bioresource engineering topic chosen in consultation between the student and departmental staff.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Terms
- Instructors
- Valerie Orsat
- Valerie Orsat, Jan Adamowski, Mark G Lefsrud
BREE 501
Simulation and Modelling
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Mathematical and computational modelling and simulation: linear, nonlinear, and chaotic; deterministic and stochastic; static and dynamic; steady and unsteady state. Verification, validation, sensitivity analysis. Examples emphasize bioengineering applications, e.g. machine design, population dynamics, food processing, biological control, farm management, ecological system design.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
BREE 502
Drainage/Irrigation Eng.
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Benefits and importance of drainage; types of drainage systems; design and construction of main, surface and subsurface drainage systems; drainage materials. Crop water requirements; evapotranspiration models; design and layout of surface, sprinkler and drip irrigation systems; pipe hydraulics; pumps.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 504
Instrumentation and Control
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: An overview of instrumentation and control systems used in bioresource engineering. Hands-on development of data acquisition systems and learning strategies to process and interpret the signal obtained constitute the majority of the course.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lecture hours and one 2-hour lab per week during Fall term every year
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): BREE 312 (formerly ABEN 312) or ECSE 281
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 504.
BREE 506
Adv in Drainage Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Land drainage in relation to soils and crops. Design of regional drainage systems, stability of ditches, ice problems. Design of subsurface drainage systems. Theories of flow into drain tubes. Hydraulics of wells. Drainage of irrigated lands. Water table control.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 weeks intensive course
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 506.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 509
Hydrologic Systems&Modelling
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Use of deterministic and stochastic models to analyze components of the hydrologic cycle on agricultural and forested watersheds, floods frequency analysis, hydrograph analysis, infiltration, runoff, overland flow, flood routing, erosion and sediment transport. Effects of land-use changes and farm and recreational water management systems on the hydrologic regime.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 hour lectures
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 509.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 510
Watershed Systems Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: A holistic examination of methods in watershed management with a focus on integrated water resources management (IWRM). Topics include: integration, participatory management, water resources assessment, modeling, planning, adaptive management, transboundary management, and transition management.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- (3-2-4)
- Restrictions: U3 students or above.
- Note: Case studies and a project.
BREE 512
Soil Cutting and Tillage
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Soil mechanics applied to cutting, tillage and drain installation tools. Soil cutting forces for two and three dimensional implements. Soil loosening, inversion, sorting and manipulation. Selection of traction machines to match soil cutting and tillage requirements. Depth and grade control systems. Analysis of drainage machines, wheel trenchers, chain trenchers and trenchless plows.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 2 lectures and one 2-hour lab
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): BREE 341 (formerly ABEN 341)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 512.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 515
Soil Hydrologic Modelling
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: A review of computer simulation models for designing subsurface drainage systems. Use of CAD systems for designing and drafting drainage plans.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 515.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 518
Bio-Treatment of Wastes
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Special topics concerning control of pollution agents from the agricultural industry; odour control, agricultural waste treatment including biological digestion, flocculants, land disposal and sedimentation, pesticide transport.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- One 3 hour lecture
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 518.
BREE 519
Advanced Food Engineering
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Advanced topics in food engineering. Concepts of mathematical modelling and research methodologies in food engineering. Topics include heat and mass transfer in food systems, packaging and distribution of food products, thermal and non-thermal processing, rheology and kinetics of food transformations.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour lab
- Prerequisites: BREE 325 (formerly ABEN 325) and MECH 426, or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 519.
BREE 520
Food, Fibre and Fuel Elements
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Analysis and design incorporating the four elements required by organisms and biomass for food, fibre and fuel production (air, earth, energy, and water). Special emphasis will be placed on the demands and requirements of engineering systems to control these elements and allow optimal growth in semi-controlled and completely controlled environments.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 525
Climate Control for Buildings
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: The analyses of heat and water vapour transfer through the structure of buildings are used to design heating, ventilation and refrigeration systems. Heat conduction and convection as well as radiation are included in the analysis of heat transfer. Ventilation systems are designed for livestock shelters, produce storages and greenhouses.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Prerequisite: BREE 301 (formerly ABEN 301)
- Restriction: U3 students or above. Not open to students who have taken ABEN 525.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 530
Fermentation Engineering
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Advanced topics in food and fermentation engineering are covered, including brewing, bioreactor design and control and microbial kinetics.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): BREE 325 (formerly ABEN 325) or equivalent
- Graduate courses available to senior undergraduates with permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 530.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 531
Post-Harvest Drying
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Heat and moisture transfer with respect to drying of agricultural commodities; techniques of enhancement of heat and mass transfer; drying efficiency and scale-up problems.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Restrictions: U3 students or above. Not open to students who have taken ABEN 621 or ABEN 531.
BREE 532
Post-Harvest Storage
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Bioresource Engineering: Active, semi-passive and passive storage systems; environmental control systems; post-harvest physiology and pathogenicity; quality assessment and control methodology; economic aspects of long-term storage.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 622 or ABEN 532.
- This course carries an additional charge of $40 to cover the cost of transportation (bus rental) for local field trips. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
- Symbols:
- Taught only in alternate years
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2014 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014 academic year
BREE 533
Water Quality Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken BREE 625 (formerly ABEN 625).
- This course carries an additional charge of $13 to cover the cost of transportation with respect to a field trip. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Zhiming Qi, Chandra A Madramootoo, Asim Biswas
CHEE 474
Biochemical Engineering
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Chemical Engineering: Bioreactor design for biotechnology and environmental applications; microbial growth kinetics; application of transport phenomena and selected chemical engineering unit operations. Bioreactor instrumentation and performance optimization. Air and media sterilization processes. Selected operations of downstream processing and product recovery.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
CIVE 317
Structural Engineering 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: 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.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
CIVE 318
Structural Engineering 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: 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.
Offered by: Civil Engineering