Structure
Students usually start in September and finish by the end of the following August.
Required courses (6 credits)
BREE 651. Departmental Seminar M.Sc. 1.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
To give seminars and participate in discussions.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 651.
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BREE 652. Departmental Seminar M.Sc. 2.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
To give seminars and participate in discussions.
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BREE 600. Project/Internship Proposal.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Preparation of research proposals for
BREE 671 and
BREE 672 research projects and/or preparation of the internship programs with government, non-governmental organizations or private sector, for
BREE 601 and
BREE 602.
- Restriction(s): This course is restricted to graduate students registered in the M.Sc.(A.) in Bioresource Engineering; Non-Thesis - Integrated Food and Bioprocessing.
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BREE 699. Scientific Publication.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Review and critique papers that are published in field of the candidate. Prepare draft paper(s) following the format of leading journals in field of study undertaken.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 699.
- Periodic conferences
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Complementary Courses (39 credits)
Minimum of 3 credits of graduate level statistics in any department
Minimum of 9 credits from courses selected from the following:
BREE 502. Drainage/Irrigation Engineering.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
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.
- Prerequisite: BREE 217
- Restriction: Open to U3 students and above.
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BREE 519. Advanced Food Engineering.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
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.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 519.
- Three lectures and one 2-hour lab per week.
- Prerequisites: BREE 325, or permission of instructor.
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BREE 520. Food, Fibre and Fuel Elements.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
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.
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BREE 530. Fermentation Engineering.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Advanced topics in food and fermentation engineering are covered, including brewing, bioreactor design and control and microbial kinetics.
- 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): BREE 305 or equivalent
- Graduate courses available to senior undergraduates with permission of the instructor
- A fee of $121.94 covers the cost of the fermentation laboratory consumables and transportation costs for field trips which may include a brewery, winery and other fermentation operations
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BREE 531. Post-Harvest Drying.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
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.
- Restriction: Open to U3 students or above.
- This course carries an additional course charge for field trips.
- This course carries an additional course charge of $47.34 to cover transportation costs for two field trips which may include at least two visits to distinctly different drying facilities in the field.
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BREE 532. Post-Harvest Storage.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
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.
- This course carries an additional course charge for field trips.
- Restriction: Open to U3 students or above.
- This course carries an additional charge of $50.87 to cover the cost of transportation (bus rental) for local field trips. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
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BREE 535. Food Safety Engineering.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
The application of engineering principles to address microbial and chemical safety challenges in food processing, including intervention technologies (traditional and novel non-thermal intervention technologies, chemical interventions, and hurdle approach); control, monitoring and identification techniques (biosensors); packaging applications in food safety (active packaging, intelligent or smart packaging); and tracking and traceability systems.
- Prerequisite: BREE 324 or BREE 325 or FDSC 330 or permission of the instructor
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BREE 603. Advanced Properties: Food and Plant Materials.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Advanced topics related the physico-chemical characteristics/properties of biological products: including mechanical, thermal, electromagnetic and functional properties. Emphasis will be on food constituents (nutraceuticals), plants of pharmaco-interest (phytochemicals), new sources of natural fibers and biofuel biomass.
- Prerequisite (s): Permission of instructor
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Minimum of 12 credits selected from the following:
BREE 671. Project 1.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Supervised research project.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 671 or ABEN 671D1/D2.
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BREE 672. Project 2.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Supervised research project.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 672 or ABEN 672D1/D2.
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BREE 601. Integrated Food and Bioprocessing Internship 1.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Placement in a government, non-governmental organization or private sector agency for 6 weeks of full- time work on a bioprocess and food security project (35 hr per week). Students will be responsible for defining a mandate, then performing and reporting on the work/research performed during the internship.
- Prerequisite: BREE 600.
- Restriction: This course is restricted to graduate students registered in the M.Sc.(A.) in Bioresource Engineering; Non-Thesis - Integrated Food and Bioprocessing.
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BREE 602. Integrated Food and Bioprocessing Internship 2.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Placement in a government, non-governmental organization or private sector agency for 6 weeks of full- time work on a bioprocess and food security project (35 hr per week). Students will be responsible for defining a mandate, then performing and reporting on the work/research performed during the internship.
- Prerequisite: BREE 600.
- Restriction: This course is restricted to graduate students registered in the M.Sc.(A.) in Bioresource Engineering; Non-Thesis - Integrated Food and Bioprocessing.
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Minimum of 3 credits selected from the following:
AGRI 510. Professional Practice.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Food Science&Agr.Chemistry (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
The ethical issues that face a professional in the workplace; professional ethics and deontology, professional responsibilities as related to the laws of labour, health, safety and risks to the environment, risk management and communication.
- Restriction: Course restricted to senior undergraduate and graduate students.
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AGEC 630. Food and Agricultural Policy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines the role of government in the agriculture and food industry through the nature and causes of the problems addressed, the instruments and institutions by which policy is implemented and the effects of different policies. Emphasis is placed on the application of economic models to analyze policy problems.
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AGEC 633. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
An advanced course in the theory and problems of environmental and resource economics and in the analytical techniques used to assess environmental and resource use issues.
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AGEC 642. Economics of Agricultural Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course focuses on the role of agriculture in economic development. Topics covered will be - development theories, economic efficiency, employment, technology adoption and structural change in developing countries. Also, agriculture, food and development policies and implications for long term planning will be discussed.
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Minimum of 3 credits selected from the following
BTEC 502. Biotechnology Ethics and Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Parasitology (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Examination of particular social and ethical challenges posed by modern biotechnology such as benefit sharing, informed consent in the research setting, access to medical care worldwide, environmental safety and biodiversity and the ethical challenges posed by patenting life.
- Restriction: U3 and over.
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FDSC 519. Advanced Food Processing.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Food Science&Agr.Chemistry (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
Advanced technologies associated with food processing studied in more detail. Topics include food irradiation, reverse osmosis, super critical fluid extraction and extrusion.
- Winter
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisite: FDSC 330
- Course offered in even years. Check with Graduate Program Supervisor.
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FDSC 538. Food Science in Perspective.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Food Science&Agr.Chemistry (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Food industry, food properties, nutritive aspects, quality factors, and key preservation processes, with self-study linking these elements directly to specific commodities and product groups, their characteristics, chemistry and distinct manufacturing processes.
- Fall
- Restriction: Not open to students with an undergraduate degree in Food Science or currently majoring in Food Science. Open to U3 students and above.
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NUTR 501. Nutrition in the Majority World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Human Nutrition (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Current nutrition-related issues in the Majority World, emphasizing young children and other vulnerable groups. The integration of a life science and social science perspective. The multiple causes, consequences, policies, and interventions related to current nutrition.
- Fall
- One 3-hr lecture
- Prerequisite: A course in nutrition across the lifespan at the intermediate undergraduate level such as NUTR 337, or permission of the instructor.
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GEOG 515. Contemporary Dilemmas of Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analysis of acute geographic dilemmas of international development. Emphasis on 1) rural systems and the problems of agrobiodiversity, land tenure, conflict, food relief, refugees and migration, the peace process, geopolitics and diplomacy; 2) role of development programs and agendas of the international community, the workings of development On the Ground (TM).
- Prerequisite(s): GEOG 310, GEOG 408, or a 400-level course in development
- Restriction(s): Only open to U3 students with permission of instructor.
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9 credits of any relevant graduate-level course chosen in consultation with the program director.