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Program Requirements
Students in this concentration take five courses in the area of design, including the completion of an interdisciplinary project.
Students should complete a Course Authorization Form, available from the Student Affairs Office (Engineering Student Centre, Frank Dawson Adams Building, Room 22) or from the Undergraduate Program Coordinator, indicating their intention to take the concentration.
Total concentration credit weight: 15-16 credits
Required Courses
6 credits
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MECH 498 Interdisciplinary Design Project 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Completion of an individual project on an interdisciplinary theme with emphasis on a balanced combination on analysis and synthesis.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Pasini, Damiano (Fall)
- (1-2-6)
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MECH 499 Interdisciplinary Design Project 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : The individual project initiated in MECH 498 is continued and finalized in this course.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Pasini, Damiano (Winter)
- (1-2-6)
- Corequisite: MECH 498.
Complementary Courses
9-10 credits from the following:
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ARCH 515 Sustainable Design (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : This course will address sustainable design theory and applications in the built environment with students from a variety of fields (architecture, urban planning, engineering, sociology, environmental studies, economics, international studies). Architecture will provide the focus for environmental, socio-cultural and economic issues.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Jelaco, Ronald Paul (Winter)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: ARCH 377 or permission of instructor.
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CHEE 453 Process Design (4 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Analysis of design alternatives. Structure of process design systems, degrees of freedom, information flow. Computer-aided process and plant design programs, physical properties, specifications, recycle convergence, optimization, applications, economics. Safety, environmental control in plant design.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Peters, Norman; Bhambhani, Vijay (Fall)
- (3-1-8)
- Prerequisites: CHEE 315; CHEE 351
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MECH 497 Value Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Value Engineering is an in-depth analysis of an industrial product or process with a view to improving its design and/or performance to increase its worth. This is a workshop type of course. Projects will be supplied by industrial firms and students will work in teams with industrial personnel.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Thomson, Vincent (Fall)
- (0-8-1)
- Prerequisites: MECH 393 and completion of 45 credits
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MECH 526 Manufacturing and the Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Course topics include: clean manufacturing, product and process design for minimizing materials and energy use, the product life cycle, impact of technology on the environment, environmental impact assessment, regulatory process, and managing the "political" process.
Terms: Summer 2011
Instructors: Attia, Mahmoud Helmi (Summer)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of the instructor
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MECH 528 Product Design (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : A study of the design issues present in product life cycle demands. Computer-aided systems. Rapid prototyping. Design for manufacturability. Integration of mechanics, electronics and software in products. Effect on design of product cost, maintainability, recycling, marketability.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Segall, Angelo (Fall)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of the instructor
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MECH 530 Mechanics of Composite Materials (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Fiber-reinforced composites. Stress, strain, and strength of composite laminates and honeycomb structures. Failure modes and failure criteria. Environmental effects. Manufacturing processes. Design of composite structures. Computer modelling of composites. Computer techniques are utilized throughout the course.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Lessard, Larry (Fall)
- (3-0-6)
- Corequisite: MECH 321 or equivalent/instructor's permission.
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MECH 541 Kinematic Synthesis (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : The role of kinematic synthesis within the design process. Degree of freedom. Kinematic pairs and bonds. Groups and subgroups of displacements. Applications to the qualitative synthesis of parallel-kinematics machines with three and four degrees of freedom. Function, motion and path generation problems in planar, spherical and spatial four-bar linkages. Extensions to six-bar linkages. Cam mechanisms.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317 or permission of the instructor.
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MECH 543 Design with Composite Materials (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Material systems/selection process. Cost vs. performance. Laminate layup procedures. Theory and application of filament winding of composite cylinders. Regular oven and autoclave oven curing, analysis of resulting material performance. Practical design considerations and tooling. Analysis of environmental considerations. Joining techniques. Analysis of test methods. Theory of repair techniques.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Lessard, Larry (Winter)
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: MECH 530
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MECH 554 Microprocessors for Mechanical Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Digital logic and circuits - asynchronous and synchronous design. Microcontroller architectures, organization and programming - assembly and high-level. Analog/ digital/hybrid sensors and actuators. Sensing and conditioning subsystems. Interfacing issues. Real-time issues. Operator interfaces. Laboratory exercises on digital logic design, interfacing and control of peripherals with a final team project.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (2-3-4)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 383 and COMP 208
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MECH 557 Mechatronic Design (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Team project course on the design, modelling, model validation, and control of complete mechatronic systems, constructed with modern sensors, actuators, real-time operating systems, embedded controllers, and intelligent control.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): ECSE 461, MECH 383 and (MECH 412 or MECH 419)
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MECH 565 Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Equipment (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Pipes and piping systems, pumps, and valves. Fans and building air distribution systems. Basic thermal design methods for fins and heat exchangers. Thermal design of shell-and-tube and compact heat exchangers.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Baliga, Bantwal (Winter)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 240, MECH 309 or MATH 317, MECH 331, MECH 341, MECH 346 or permission of the instructor.
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MECH 576 Geometry in Mechanics (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : Homogeneous vectors related to projective geometry and to linear, vector, matrix and symbolic algebra. Applications in mechanics. Pluecker and dual quaternions in statics and robot kinematics. Reducing systems of polynomials. Camera aided metrology. Case studies of solved and unsolved problems.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites (Undergraduate): MATH 271, MECH 220, MECH 289 and MECH 314 or permission of the instructor.
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MECH 577 Optimum Design (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : The role of optimization within the design process: Design methodology and philosophy. Constrained optimization: The Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Techniques of linear and non-linear programming. The simplex and the complex methods. Sensitivity of the design to manufacturing errors. Robustness of the design to manufacturing and operation errors.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Angeles, Jorge (Fall)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317 or permission of the instructor
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MECH 579 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : A comprehensive introduction to important algorithms in sensitivity analysis and multidisciplinary design optimization of large systems. Topics include: unconstrained and constrained optimization, sensitivity analysis, gradient-free optimization, multi-objective optimization, and various multidisciplinary algorithms and approaches for design optimization.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Nadarajah, Sivakumaran (Winter)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite(s): MECH 309 or MATH 317.
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MECH 593 Design Theory and Methodology (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : The overall design process is scrutinized within a discipline-independent framework. The nature of design as a creative engineering activity. The polarity of design. The role of knowledge in design. Design representation. History of design and design schools. Design trends in the 21st century. Design engineering schools. Design models.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Faculty of Engineering—2010-2011 (last updated Jan. 19, 2011) (disclaimer)