200 Level Courses
MECH 201. Introduction to Mechanical Engineering.
Credits: 2
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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The practice of Mechanical Engineering: its scope and context. The role of Design. Introduction to the Design process. The role of engineering analysis and socio-economic factors in Design. Introduction to the individual mechanical engineering subjects and their role in Design. Case studies.
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MECH 210. Mechanics 1.
Credits: 2
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Static equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Beams, trusses, frames and machines. Concept of work and energy. Static equilibrium and stability.
- (2-1-3)
- Prerequisites: PHYS 101 or PHYS 131 or equivalent.
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MECH 220. Mechanics 2.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. Particle dynamics: force-momentum and work-energy approaches. Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies.
- (4-1-7)
- Prerequisites: MECH 210, MATH 262. Pre-/Co-requisite: MATH 263.
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MECH 240. Thermodynamics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Thermodynamic systems and properties. First law of thermodynamics: energy, work and heat. State principle, p-v-T surfaces, phase equilibrium, ideal gas model. Second law of thermodynamics, entropy, exergy analysis. Energy analysis applied to steady and transient engineering systems including heat engines, refrigerators and heat pumps, air compressors.
- (3-1-5)
- Restrictions: Restricted to students in U1 or above.
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MECH 262. Statistics and Measurement Laboratory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Introduction to probability: conditional probability, binomial and Poisson distributions, random variables, laws of large numbers. Statistical analysis associated with measurements; regression and correlation. Basic experimental laboratory techniques, including the measurement of strain, pressure, force, position, and temperature.
- (3-2-4)
- Corequisite: MATH 263
- Restriction: Open to U1 students or higher.
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MECH 290. Design Graphics for Mechanical Engineering.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Introduction to essential modern engineering design graphics skills. Basic knowledge of design graphics projection theory; perspective projections. Introduction to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software and 3D parametric solid modeling techniques. Design for manufacturing and design for assembly methods. Standard geometric dimensioning and tolerancing techniques and their applications in the engineering drawings and engineering design.
- (2-3-4)
- Restrictions: Only open to U1 (Year 1) Mechanical Engineering students.
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MECH 292. Design 1: Conceptual Design.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Introduction to design. Problem formulation, idea generation, feasibility study, preliminary design, design, analysis, design evaluation, project management, and optimal design.
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MECH 309. Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Numerical techniques for problems commonly encountered in Mechanical Engineering are presented. Chebyshev interpolation, quadrature, roots of equations in one or more variables, matrices, curve fitting, splines and ordinary differential equations. The emphasis is on the analysis and understanding of the problem rather than the details of the actual numerical program.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: MATH 263, MATH 271, COMP 208.
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MECH 314. Dynamics of Mechanisms.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
First principles of analysis; motion; position; displacement; velocity; acceleration; force; inertia and its effects. Kinematic and dynamic analysis of rigid bodies in pure rotation and in pin-connected systems; dynamic balance. Rigid bodies in rolling contact; planetary gear-trains. Bodies in sliding contact; lower and higher sliding pairs.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: MECH 220.
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MECH 315. Intermediate Dynamics
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Single-degree-of-freedom systems; free vibrations; effect of damping; response to harmonic, periodic and arbitrary excitation. Lagrange's equations of motion. Vibrations of multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Continuous systems.
- (4-1-7)
- Prerequisites: MECH 220, MATH 271
- Pre-/Co-requisite: CIVE 207.
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MECH 321. Mechanics of Deformable Solids.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Modern phenomenological theories of the behaviour of engineering materials. Stress and strain concepts and introduction to constitutive theory. Applications of theory of elasticity and thermoelasticity. Introduction to finite element stress analysis method and its application to structural design of a machine element.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 207
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MECH 331. Fluid Mechanics 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Physical properties of fluids. Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: stress in a continuum, rates of strain, rotation. Control volume analysis; conservation of mass, linear momentum and energy; Euler and Bernoulli equations; Flow measurement. Dimensional analysis and dynamical similarity. Laminar and turbulent flow in pipes and boundary layers.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: MECH 210. Pre/Co-requisites: MECH 220, MECH 240, MATH 271.
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MECH 341. Thermodynamics 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Generalized thermodynamics relations. Real gas effects, gas tables, dense gas equations of state and generalized compressibility, enthalpy, and entropy charts. Vapour and gas power cycles (coal/nuclear power plants). Refrigerators and heat pumps. Psychrometry and air conditioning processes. Thermodynamics of reactive gas mixtures.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites:MATH 264 and MECH 240
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MECH 346. Heat Transfer.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
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.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: MECH 240 or BREE 301, MECH 331 or BREE 305, MATH 271 or BREE 319
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MECH 360. Principles of Manufacturing.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Theory and practice of modern manufacturing processes: machining, forming, and casting. Producing parts using computer assisted tools from CAD to CNC machining followed by measurement of part quality. Hands-on machining of parts.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisites: MECH 289 or MECH 290. Pre-/corequisite: CIVE 207.
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MECH 362. Mechanical Laboratory 1.
Credits: 2
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Experiments will be performed in four areas:
MECH 240 Thermodynamics,
MECH 315 Vibrations,
MECH 331 Fluid Mechanics 1, and
MECH 346 Heat Transfer. Students should sign up to do experiments in one or more areas the term following the completion of one or more of the above courses. Students will not formally register for this course until the term in which they will complete all of the experiments.
- (0-3-3)
- Prerequisite: MECH 261 or MECH 262 or BREE 216
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MECH 383. Applied Electronics and Instrumentation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Discrete and integrated components, both analogue and digital. Characteristics of passive elements. Semiconductors, amplifiers, filters, oscillators, modulators, power supplies and nonlinear devices. Introduction to digital electronics. Transducer/signal conditioner interfacing considerations.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites: MECH 261 or MECH 262, MATH 263.
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MECH 393. Design 2: Machine Element Design.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
The design of machine elements for strength requirements in consideration of various methods of manufacture. Synthesis of mechanical systems to fulfill performance requirements, following the engineering design process. Static and fatigue failure prevention. Students form groups to work on a design project.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: (MECH 289 or MECH 290) and CIVE 207. Pre-/co-requisites: MECH 360 and MECH 292 and MECH 314 and MIME 260.
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