Graduate courses

Graduate courses in various departments/units that are of environmental relevance:

School of Architecture

None

Department of Chemical Engineering

CHEE 591 Environmental Bioremediation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Chemical Engineering: The presence and role of microorganisms in the environment, the role of microbes in environmental remediation either through natural or human-mediated processes, the application of microbes in pollution control and the monitoring of environmental pollutants.

Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CHEE 592 Ind. Air Pollution Control 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Chemical Engineering: Air pollution effects, control laws and regulations, measurements; emission estimates, meteorology for air pollution control engineers, dispersion models, nature of particulate pollutants, control of primary particulates, control of volatile organic compounds, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides; air pollutants and global climate.

Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: CHEE 314 or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEE 472.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CHEE 593 Indus Water Pollution Control 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Chemical Engineering: Wastewater constituents of concern; legislation pertinent to wastewater treatment; wastewater sampling and analysis techniques; process analysis and selection; physical, chemical and biological processes; advanced wastewater treatment methods; integration of sciences and engineering principles to design wastewater treatment processes.

Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: CHEE 314 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEE 471.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CHEE 595 Course not available

Department of Civil Engineering

CIVE 519 Sustainable Development Plans 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Civil Engineering: Geared for solving real-world environmental problems related to water at the local, regional and international scale in Barbados. Projects to be designed by instructors in consultation with university, government and NGO partners and to be conducted by teams of two to four students in collaboration with them.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (1-9-8)
- Restriction: Must be enrolled in the Barbados Field Study Semester.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 526 Course not available
CIVE 550 Water Resources Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 323 or equivalent
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 551 Course not available
CIVE 553 Course not available
CIVE 555 Environmental Data Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 302 or permission of instructor
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 574 Fluid Mech of Water Pollution 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 327 or equivalent.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 577 River Engineering 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 428 or permission of the instructor.
- Corequisite (Graduate): CIVE 428
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 584 Mechanics of Groundwater Flow 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-1.5-4.5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 311 or Permission of Instructor.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 651 Theory:Water/Wastewater Trtmnt 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 652 Bioproces for WW Res Recovery 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 660 Chem&Phys Treatment of Waters 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CIVE 684 Course not available
CIVE 686 Site Remediation 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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).

Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MECH 526 Course not available
MECH 534 Air Pollution Engineering 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Pollutants from power production and their effects on the environment. Mechanisms of pollutant formation in combustion. Photochemical pollutants and smog, atmospheric dispersion. Pollutant generation from internal combustion engines and stationary power plants. Methods of pollution control (exhaust gas treatment, absorption, filtration, scrubbers, etc.).

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331, MECH 341.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

School of Urban Planning

PUB1 004 Course not available
URBP 505 Geographic Information Systems 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Urban Planning: An introduction to fundamental geographic information system (GIS) concepts and a range of GIS applications in urban and regional planning.

Offered by: Urban Planning
- (0-2-7)
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
URBP 506 Envrnmntl Policy and Planning 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Urban Planning: Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing environmental issues at various scales; characteristics of environmental issues, science-policy-politics interactions relating to the environment, and implications for policy; sustainability, and the need for and challenges associated with interdisciplinary perspectives; externalities and their regulation; public goods; risk perception and implications; the political-institutional context and policy instruments; cost-benefit analysis; multiple-criteria decision-making approaches; multidimensional life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; conflict resolution; case studies.

Offered by: Urban Planning
- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: This course is open to students in U3 and above
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
URBP 530 Urb Infrastr&Serv in Intl Cont 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Urban Planning: Issues of practical and theoretical importance in relation to urban infrastructure and services in the international context: science and technology, political economy, policy analysis, policy implementation, public finance, and institutions and governance.

Offered by: Urban Planning
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
URBP 619 Land Use & Transport Planning 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Urban Planning: Analysis of transport and land use interactions in urban areas. Study of the impacts of transport systems on travel behaviour, residential and work location decisions, and urban form; discussion of implications for planning practice.

Offered by: Urban Planning
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
URBP 621 Course not available
URBP 629 Pln Thry&Prac in a Glbal World 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Urban Planning: Planning theory, urban policy and planning practices in comparative perspective Topics covered include: global and local processes shaping cities and urban challenges worldwide; contemporary planning theories, including those from the Global South; and the impacts of planning and governance on urban form, economic growth, ecological balance, and equity, among other urban challenges.

Offered by: Urban Planning
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: URBP 622 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
URBP 507 Course not available
URBP 519 Course not available
URBP 520 Course not available

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Graduate courses

Graduate courses

Graduate courses in various departments/units that are of environmental relevance:

School of Architecture

Department of Chemical Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

School of Urban Planning

Department and University Information

Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Engineering