Civil Engineering students can choose to either broaden their background or attain in-depth coverage of a particular subject by enrolling in a Minor Program. Minors are coherent sequences of courses that may be taken in addition to the courses required for the BEng degree.
Minor programs normally consist of 18 to 24 credits, allowing up to 12 credits of overlap with a degree program. The real credit cost to the students is typically 9 to 15 credits, representing one semester beyond the BEng degree program. All courses in a Minor program must be passed with a grade of C or better.In particular, Civil Engineering students are most inclined to enrol in the following Minor programs:
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Arts (24 Credits)Offered by:Engineering - Dean's OfficeDegree:Bachelor of Engineering
Program Requirement:
Minor Adviser: Faculty Student Adviser in the Engineering Student Centre (Frank Dawson Adams Building, Room 22)
B.Sc.(Arch.), and B.Eng., students may obtain the Arts Minor as part of their B.Eng., or B.Sc.(Arch.) degree by completing 24 credits, as described below.
Students must select courses for this Minor in consultation with one of the Advisers indicated above.
All courses in the Minor must be passed with a grade of C or better.
Requirements
24 credits as follows:
a) At least two areas of concentration in the Faculty of Arts must be chosen, with a minimum of 6 credits in any one area.
b) At least 12 credits must be at the 300 level or higher.
In general, B.Eng. students may use courses from the Complementary Studies lists (Group A and Group B) in their program that are offered by the Faculty of Arts to satisfy some of these requirements. No more than 9 credits of these courses can be credited toward the Arts Minor.
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Computer Science (26 Credits)Offered by:Computer ScienceDegree:Bachelor of Engineering
Program Requirement:
Credit weight: 24-26 credits
This program gives students in Engineering an introduction to core computer science concepts. The Minor is open to B.Eng. and B.Sc.(Arch.) students in Engineering who have already taken ECSE 202, COMP 202, or COMP 208. This program is not open to students in the B.Eng.; Co-op in Software Engineering program. All courses in the Minor must be passed with a grade of C or better. The Minor program may be completed in 24-26 credits, of which no more than 6 credits may overlap with the primary program. Students who are interested in this Minor should consult with the Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the School of Computer Science for administrative matters, and should consult with both the Minor Adviser in Computer Science and with their department adviser for approval of their course selection. Forms must be submitted and approved before the end of the drop/add period of the student's final term.
Required Courses (3 credits)
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COMP 206 Intro to Software Systems 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Comprehensive overview of programming in C, use of system calls and libraries, debugging and testing of code; use of developmental tools like make, version control systems.
Offered by: Computer Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jacob T Errington
- Joseph P Vybihal, Max Kopinsky
Complementary Courses (21-23 credits)
3 credits from the following:
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COMP 250 Intro to Computer Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Mathematical tools (binary numbers, induction,recurrence relations, asymptotic complexity,establishing correctness of programs). Datastructures (arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists,trees, binary trees, binary search trees, heaps,hash tables). Recursive and non-recursivealgorithms (searching and sorting, tree andgraph traversal). Abstract data types. Objectoriented programming in Java (classes andobjects, interfaces, inheritance). Selected topics.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite(s): MATH 140 or equivalent. COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 208 (or equivalent).
- Corequisite(s): MATH 133
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECSE 250.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Giulia Alberini
- Giulia Alberini
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ECSE 250 Fundls of Software Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Electrical Engineering: Software development practices in the context of object-oriented programming. Elementary data structures such as lists, stacks and trees. Recursive and non-recursive algorithms: searching and sorting, tree and graph traversal. Asymptotic notation: Big O. Introduction to tools and practices employed in commercial software development.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- Prerequisite: COMP 202
- (3-2-4)
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Hsiu-Chin Lin
- Lili Wei
3 credits from the following:
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COMP 302 Programming Lang & Paradigms 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Programming language design issues and programming paradigms. Binding and scoping, parameter passing, lambda abstraction, data abstraction, type checking. Functional and logic programming.
Offered by: Computer Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brigitte Pientka
- Jacob T Errington
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COMP 303 Software Design 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Principles, mechanisms, techniques, and tools for object-oriented software design and its implementation, including encapsulation, design patterns, and unit testing.
Offered by: Computer Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Martin Robillard
- Jonathan C Campbell
3-4 credits from the following:
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COMP 273 Intro to Computer Systems 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Number representations, combinational and sequential digital circuits, MIPS instructions and architecture datapath and control, caches, virtual memory, interrupts and exceptions, pipelining.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Corequisite: COMP 206.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mona E Elsaadawy
- Paul Kry
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ECSE 324 Computer Organization 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Electrical Engineering: Basic computer structures; instruction set architecture; assembly language; input/output; memory; software; processor implementation; computer arithmetic. Lab work involving assembly language level programming of single-board computers.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Christophe Dubach
- Christophe Dubach
3-4 credits from the following:
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CHEE 390 Computational Methods:Chem Eng 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemical Engineering: Linear systems of algebraic equations, Gaussian elimination; non-linear algebraic systems: Taylor series, incremental search, bisection method, linear interpolation, Newton-Raphson's method; differentiation and integration; initial value problems: Euler's and Runge Kutta's methods, stiff equations, adaptive solvers; boundary value problems; curve fitting; numerical optimization; probability theory and stochastic simulation: Monte Carlo method.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Phillip Servio
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CIVE 320 Numerical Methods 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Numerical procedures applicable to civil engineering problems: integration, differentiation, solution of initial-value problems, solving linear and non-linear systems of equations, boundary-value problems for ordinary-differential equations, and for partial-differential equations.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mohammad Alobaidi
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COMP 350 Numerical Computing 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Computer representation of numbers, IEEE Standard for Floating Point Representation, computer arithmetic and rounding errors. Numerical stability. Matrix computations and software systems. Polynomial interpolation. Least-squares approximation. Iterative methods for solving a nonlinear equation. Discretization methods for integration and differential equations.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: MATH 222 and MATH 223 and one of: COMP 202, COMP 208, COMP 250; or equivalents.
- Restrictions: Students cannot receive credit for both COMP 350 and MATH 317.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Xiao-Wen Chang
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ECSE 343 Numerical Methods in Eng 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Electrical Engineering: Number representation and numerical error. Symbolic vs. numerical computation. Curve fitting and interpolation. Numerical differentiation and integration. Optimization. Data science pipelines and data-driven approaches. Preliminary machine learning. Solutions of systems of linear equations and nonlinear equations. Solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations. Applications in engineering, physical simulation, CAD, machine learning and digital media.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Roni Khazaka
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MATH 317 Numerical Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Error analysis. Numerical solutions of equations by iteration. Interpolation. Numerical differentiation and integration. Introduction to numerical solutions of differential equations.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisites: MATH 315 or MATH 325 or MATH 263, and COMP 202 or permission of instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken COMP 350
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gabriel William Duchesne
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MECH 309 Numerical Methods in Mech Eng 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mechanical Engineering: 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.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- James R Forbes
- Mathias J Legrand
9 credits from:
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COMP 251 Algorithms and Data Structures 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Introduction to algorithm design and analysis. Graph algorithms, greedy algorithms, data structures, dynamic programming, maximum flows.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: COMP 250; MATH 235 or MATH 240
- COMP 251 uses basic counting techniques (permutations and combinations) that are covered in MATH 240 but not in MATH 235. These techniques will be reviewed for the benefit of MATH 235 students.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 252.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Giulia Alberini, William J Henderson
- David C Becerra
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MATH 240 Discrete Structures 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Introduction to discrete mathematics and applications. Logical reasoning and methods of proof. Elementary number theory and cryptography: prime numbers, modular equations, RSA encryption. Combinatorics: basic enumeration, combinatorial methods, recurrence equations. Graph theory: trees, cycles, planar graphs.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- Corequisite: MATH 133.
- Restriction: For students in any Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering programs. Others only with the instructor's permission. Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 235.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jeremy Macdonald, Marcel K Goh
- Jérôme Fortier
COMP courses at the 300 level or above except COMP 396, COMP 400.
It is strongly recommended that students take COMP 251, as it is a prerequisite of many later computer science courses.
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Construction Engineering and Management (24 Credits)Offered by:Civil EngineeringDegree:Bachelor of Engineering
Program Requirement:
This Minor covers construction project management, law related to construction, labour-management relations, financial accounting and project finance, in addition to topics in other construction-related fields, architecture or mining engineering.
All courses in the Minor must be passed with a grade of C or better.
A maximum of 12 credits of coursework in the student's major may double-count with the Minor.
Minor Adviser: Prof. L. Chouinard, Macdonald Engineering Building, Room 491 (Telephone: 514-398-6446)
Minor program credit weight: 24 credits
Note: This Minor is particularly designed for Civil Engineering students, but is open to all B.Eng. and B.Sc.(Arch.) students.
All courses in the Minor must be passed with a grade of C or better.
Prerequisites
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CIVE 208 Civil Engineering Sys Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Introduction to civil engineering systems; system modelling process; systems approach and optimization techniques; application of linear programming; simplex method; duality theory; sensitivity analysis; transportation problem; assignment problem; network analysis including critical path method; integer linear programming method.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jiangbo Yu
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CIVE 302 Probabilistic Systems 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Luc E Chouinard
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COMP 208 Computer Programming for PS&E 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Programming and problem solving in a high level computer language: variables, expressions, types, functions, conditionals, loops, objects and classes. Introduction to algorithms such as searching and sorting. Modular software design, libraries, file input and output, debugging. Emphasis on applications in Physical Sciences and Engineering, such as root finding, numerical integration, diffusion, Monte Carlo methods.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Corequisite: MATH 133 and MATH 141, or equivalents.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 202, COMP 204, orGEOG 333; not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 206 or COMP 250.
- COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 208 is intended for students with sufficient math background and in (non-life) science or engineering fields.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Michael Langer, Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz
- Chad Zammar, Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz
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FACC 300 Engineering Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Raad Jassim
- Raad Jassim
- Raad Jassim
Required Courses: Management and Law (15 credits)
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CIVE 324 Sustainable Project Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Lifecycle approach to project and construction management. Sustainable practices are introduced at all project stages: Team formation, materials and equipment use, cost estimation and economic valuation, financing, scheduling, quality control and safety, monitoring and performance assessment, decision-making.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sherif K Kamel
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FACC 220 Law for Architects & Engineers 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Faculty Course: Aspects of the law which affect architects and engineers. Definition and branches of law; Federal and Provincial jurisdiction, civil and criminal law and civil and common law; relevance of statutes; partnerships and companies; agreements; types of property, rights of ownership; successions and wills; expropriation; responsibility for negligence; servitudes/easements, privileges/liens, hypothecs/ mortgages; statutes of limitations; strict liability of architect, engineer and builder; patents, trade marks, industrial design and copyright; bankruptcy; labour law; general and expert evidence; court procedure and arbitration.
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office
- (3-0-6)
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Joshua Crowe
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INDR 294 Intro to Labour-Mgmt Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Industrial Relations: An introduction to labour-management relations, the structure, function and government of labour unions, labour legislation, the collective bargaining process, and the public interest in industrial relations.
Offered by: Management
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Chantal Westgate
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MGCR 211 Intro to Financial Accounting 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Jingjing Zhang, Dongyoung Lee, Yin Zhu
- Yongoh Roh, Yin Zhu
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MGCR 341 Introduction to Finance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities.
Offered by: Management
- Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Vadim di Pietro
- Adolfo De Motta, Vadim di Pietro
- Vadim di Pietro
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
3 credits from List A
6 credits from List BList A:
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ARCH 447 Energy, Environ, & Buildings 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Architecture: Advanced exploration of the interrelationships among energy, environment, and building. Topics include energy efficiency, thermal envelopes, life-cycle design, materials selection, fluid mechanics of natural ventilation, thermal science of passive design, adaptive thermal comfort, the 'air-conditioning trap', the 'embodied carbon blindspot,' and the 'timber-carbon sink'.
Offered by: Architecture
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gabrielle Goldman
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ARCH 451 Building Regulations&Safety 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Architecture: The study of building codes with specific emphasis on the National Building and National Fire Codes of Canada. Examples of existing buildings with assignments to illustrate regulations. Development of a systematic approach to the implementation of codes during the preliminary design stage of an architectural project.
Offered by: Architecture
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: ARCH 405
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Marc-André Plourde
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MIME 322 Fragmentation and Comminution 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Principles of drilling, penetration rates, and factors affecting the choice of drilling method. Characteristics of explosives, firing systems and blast patterns. Blasting techniques in surface and underground workings. Special blasting techniques at excavation perimeters. Vibration and noise control. Mechanical and continuous approaches to fragmentation, including longwall shearing and fullface boring. Economics of drill/blast practice, interface with transport and crushing systems, drivers for mine-to-mill integration including energy considerations. Modelling of fragment and particle size distributions; comminution as a transfer function. Comminution technology: crushing, grinding, size classification. Integrated analysis of fragmentation and comminution operations.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- Prerequisites : MIME 209 or MECH 262 or CIVE 302 or CHEE 231 or ECSE 205
- Corequisites: MIME 341
- (3-3-3).
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Alessandro Navarra
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MIME 333 Materials Handling 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Physical and mechanical characteristics of materials related to loading, transport and storage. Dynamics of particles, systems and rigid bodies, mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum. Types and selection of excavation and haulage equipment. Layout of haul roads. Rail transport. Conveyor belts and chain conveyors. Mine hoists. Layout of mine shafts.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: MIME 200
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Agus P Sasmito
List B:
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CIVE 446 Construction Engineering 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Project management principles; construction equipment economics, selection, operation; characteristics of building, heavy, marine, underground and route construction projects; international projects.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sherif K Kamel
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CIVE 527 Renov&Preserv:Infrastructure 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Maintenance, rehabilitation, renovation and preservation of infrastructure; infrastructure degradation mechanisms; mechanical, chemical and biological degradation; corrosion of steel; condition surveys and evaluation of buildings and bridges; repair and preservation of materials, techniques and strategies; codes and guidelines; case studies, sustainable development; group project.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Andrew J Boyd
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ECSE 461 Electric Machinery 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Electrical Engineering: Electric and magnetic circuits. Notions of electromechanical energy conversion applied to electrical machines. Basic electrical machines - transformers, direct-current motors, synchronous motors and generators, three phase and single phase induction machines. Elements of modern electronically controlled electric drive systems.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- (3-1-5)
- Restriction: Not open to students in Electrical Engineering.
- Note: Tutorials assigned by instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Xiaozhe Wang
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FINE 445 Real Estate Finance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Finance: Fundamentals of mortgages from the viewpoint of both consumer and the firm. Emphasis on legal, mathematical and financial structure, provides a micro basis for analysis of the functions and performance of the mortgage market, in conjunction with the housing market.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGCR 341
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Larbi Hammami
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MIME 520 Stability of Rock Slopes 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Properties of structural discontinuities. Influence of geological structures on slope stability. Kinematic analysis. Limit equilibrium methods. Empirical methods. Numerical modelling. Slope stabilization and monitoring. Case studies.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Hani Mitri
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MIME 521 Stability of Undergrd Openings 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: The properties of rock masses and stability classification systems. The influence and properties of geological structural features. Stability related to the design of underground openings and mining systems. Site investigations. Methods of stabilization.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- This course in the Faculty of Engineering is open only to McGill students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Shahe Shnorhokian, Hani Mitri
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MPMC 321 Méc des roches&cont des terrai 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:McGill/Poly Mining Coop: Pressions de terrains au pourtour des excavations: solutions analytiques et numériques. Stabilité des excavations souterraines et à ciel ouvert: analyse des instabilités structurales par projection stéréographique méridienne, analyse des instabilités causées par les excès de contraintes. Soutènement. Surveillance. Études de cas.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-3-3)
- Prérequis : MIME 323
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mustafa Kumral
*Course offered in French at École Polytechnique in Montreal
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Economics (18 Credits)Offered by:EconomicsDegree:Bachelor of Engineering
Program Requirement:
The B.Eng.; Minor in Economics focuses on such economic topics as: how societies decide what to produce, how much of it, what determines prices, exchange rates, interest rates, and levels of inflation. How economies function internally and on a global scale, what drives consumers, and how public policy and global events affect markets. A maximum of 9 credits of coursework in the student's major may be double counted with the Minor.
Required Courses (18 credits)
6 credits from the following:
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ECON 230D1 Microeconomic Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The introductory course for Economics Major students in microeconomic theory. In depth and critical presentation of the theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution, welfare economics and the theory of general equilibrium.
Offered by: Economics
- Students must register for both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Claire Boone, Nicolas Gendron-Carrier
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ECON 230D2 Microeconomic Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): See ECON 230D1 for course description.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 230D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Fernando Saltiel
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ECON 250D1 Intro to Econ Theory: Honours 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): An intermediate level microeconomics course. Includes theory of exchange, theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution; general equilibrium and welfare economics. The assumptions underlying the traditional neo-classical approach to economic theory will be carefully specified.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: MATH 140 and MATH 141 or equivalent
- Students must register for both ECON 250D1 and ECON 250D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 250D1 and ECON 250D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Licun Xue
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ECON 250D2 Intro to Econ Theory: Honours 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): See ECON 250D1 for course description.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 250D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 250D1 and ECON 250D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rohan Dutta
12 credits from:
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ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 295, ECON 330 or ECON 352
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Paul T Dickinson
- Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
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ECON 225 Economics of the Environment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.
Offered by: Economics
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-325 or 154-425
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Hervé Robert Horner
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ECON 303 Canadian Economic Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Major theories of how economic policy is made and goes on to use economic tools of analysis to investigate selected policy problems of current interest.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or those listed under Prerequisites above.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 303D1/D2 or ECON 403.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 304 Financial Instruments & Inst. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Economic analysis of initiating, assembling, pricing and marketing equities of bonds, bills and complex financial instruments; financial innovation; its implications for financial stability and market failure; banks as brokers, underwriters, market makers and international allocators of credit; strategies of private and public agents operating in financial markets, monetary history.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 302D1/D2 (6 credits).
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ling Ling Zhang
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ECON 305 Industrial Organization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The course analyzes the structure, conduct, and performance of industries, particularly but not exclusively in Canada. Topics include effects of mergers, barriers to entry, product line and promotion policies, vertical integration, and R & D policies of firms.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Hassan Benchekroun
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ECON 306 Labour Markets and Wages 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Examination of the implications on wage structures of differences in job conditions, levels and type training, long-term employment relationships, unionization etc. A variety of socioeconomic policy issues including subsidies for higher education, government regulation of workplace safety, and the role and treatment of women in today's labour force are explored.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209, or ECON 230D1/D2, or ECON 250D1/D2
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 306D1/D2.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Paul T Dickinson
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ECON 308 Govt Policy Towards Business 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Covers the major public policies toward business in Canada, such as competition policy, regulation, public ownership and privatization, industrial policies, and trade policies. Includes comparison with policies of other countries, especially the U.S. Readings will include some legal decisions.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Julian V Karaguesian
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ECON 313 Economic Development 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Franque Grimard
- Nicolas Ajzenman
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ECON 314 Economic Development 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 313
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Matthieu Chemin
- Franque Grimard
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ECON 316 The Underground Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The origins, structure and operation of the "underground" sectors of modern economies around the world. Topics include the causes of black marketeering in Western economies; international contraband trade in guns and drugs; money laundering through the world financial system.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Julian V Karaguesian
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ECON 326 Ecological Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Michael Babcock
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ECON 332 Macroeconomic Theory- Majors 1 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A review of basic economic concepts and tools with an in depth and critical presentation of the fundamental areas of macroeconomic theory. Topics include: the measurement of economic aggregates, economic growth, and the consumption-savings decision and other basic elements of a business cycle.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 230D1/2 or ECON 250D1/2.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ECON 330D1/D2.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
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ECON 333 Macroeconomic Theory -Majors 2 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A review of basic economic concepts and tools with an in depth and critical presentation of the fundamental areas of macroeconomic theory. Topics include: money and banking and business cycles, stabilization policy, and international finance.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 332
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 330D1/2.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Markus K Poschke
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ECON 335 The Japanese Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The first part of the course covers the economic institutions in, changing structure of, and public policies employed by the Japanese economy. The second part probes the economic "logic" of the Japanese capitalist system, explores its relationship to the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, and makes comparisons with the American economy.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 336 The Chinese Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Examination of the growth and transformation of the Chinese economy and the domestic and international implications.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 (or ECON 230D1/D2 or 250D1/D2).
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 337 Intro Econometrics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The practical application of quantitative methods in statistical investigations.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: a grade of 65% or better in ECON 227 or ECON 257 or an equivalent qualification in statistics. Familiarity with matrix algebra is highly recommended.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Silvia Goncalves
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ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Robert D Cairns
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ECON 405 Natural Resource Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Topics include: Malthusian and Ricardian Scarcity; optimal depletion of renewable and non-renewable resources; exploration, risk and industry structure, and current resources, rent and taxation. Current public policies applied to the resource industries, particularly those of a regulatory nature.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Robert D Cairns
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ECON 406 Topics in Economic Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Selected policy issues are investigated using economic theory. For details on topics covered in the current year, consult the instructor.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 408 Public Sector Economics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Theoretical and empirical economic analysis of the public sector with an emphasis on public goods and government spending. Study of Canadian institutions in international perspective.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 230D1/D2 or 250D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
- Not open to students who have already completed ECON 408D1/D2.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- James C Engle-Warnick
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ECON 409 Public Sector Economics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Theoretical and empirical economic analysis of the public sector with an emphasis on taxation. Study of Canadian institutions in international perspective.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 408 or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 408D1/D2
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ling Ling Zhang
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ECON 411 Econ Development:A World Area 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 416 Topics in Econ Development 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite(s): ECON 230 or ECON 250 and ECON 227D1/D2 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Francesco Amodio, Franque Grimard
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ECON 420 Topics in Economic Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The course discusses selected topics in micro or macroeconomic theory at an advanced level. Possible topics include welfare economics, general equilibrium, theories of firms, consumer behaviour, intertemporal choice, uncertainty, game theory, etc.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Russell Davidson
- Licun Xue
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ECON 426 Labour Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The determinants of labour supply, demand and the structure of earnings are considered. The economic effects of government policies, such as minimum wage laws, unemployment insurance, welfare and training programs and subsidies to higher education are analyzed. A rigorous theoretical and "hands on'' empirical approach is emphasized.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 230D1/D2 or ECON 250D1/D2 or ECON 306D1/D2.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Fabian Lange
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ECON 440 Health Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The organization and performance of Canada's health care system are examined from an economist's perspective. The system is described and its special features analyzed. Much attention is given to the role of government in the system and to financing arrangements for hospital and medical services. Current financial problems are discussed.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 468 Econometrics 1 - Honours 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The statistical basis of econometric modelling and treatment of the linear regression model; simple time series models; procedures for inference in linear cases; an introduction to methods for dealing with endogeneity and non-constant variance.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite(s): ECON 257D1/D2 or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 467D1/D2
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Saraswata Chaudhuri
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ECON 469 Econometrics 2 - Honours 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Treatment of asymptotic theory and classical inferential procedures, an introduction to the bootstrap, maximum likelihood, non-linear models, mis-specification testing, non-stationarity and limited dependent variable models.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 468
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 467D1/D2
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Silvia Goncalves
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ECON 525 Project Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A course in cost benefit analysis for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
Offered by: Economics
- Restriction: Open to advanced undergraduate students. Prerequisite: ECON 250, ECON 352 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 546 Game Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): This course introduces students to game theory, the branch of the social sciences that focuses on the formal modelling and analysis of human interactions and strategic behaviour. Basic concepts in cooperative and non-cooperative games are applied to economic models.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 446. Open to advanced undergraduate students
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rohan Dutta
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MIME 325 Mineral Industry Economics 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Geographical distribution of mineral resources. Production, consumption and prices of minerals. Market structure of selected minerals. Economic evaluation aspects: grade-tonnage considerations; capital and operating cost estimation; assessment of market conditions; estimation of revenue; taxation; sensitivity and risk analyses; economic optimization of mine development and extraction.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: FACC 300.
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mustafa Kumral
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MIME 526 Mineral Economics 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Mineral project evaluation techniques and applications. Topics covered include grade-tonnage relationships, capital and operating cost estimation techniques, assessment of mineral market conditions, taxation, discounted cash flow analysis, risk analysis, and optimization of project specifications with respect to capacity and cutoff grade.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-2-5)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. (Background in economics required.)
- Not open to students who have taken MIME 325.
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mustafa Kumral
* If chosen, students choose either ECON 209 or ECON 332 and ECON 333.
** Note: Only open to Mining and Materials Engineering students.
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations. -
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Environmental Engineering (21 Credits)Offered by:Civil EngineeringDegree:Bachelor of Engineering
Program Requirement:
The Minor program is designed to focus on the principles of environmental engineering in all engineering disciplines providing a specialization at the undergraduate level.
The Environmental Engineering Minor is offered by the Department of Civil Engineering for all students in Engineering and in the Department of Bioresource Engineering wishing to pursue studies in this area.
Note: Not all courses listed are offered every year. Students should see the "Courses" section of this eCalendar to know if a course is offered.
A maximum of 12 credits of coursework in the student's major may be double-counted with the Minor.
Complementary Courses
21-22 credits
3-4 credits from the following list:-
BREE 327 Bio-Environmental Engineering 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Open to U2 students and above.
- This course carries an additional course charge for field trips.
- This course carries an additional course charge of $12.32 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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Predrag Sunjka
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CIVE 225 Environmental Engineering 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Introduction to environmental chemistry; mass balance analyses in engineered and natural systems; water, soil and air pollution characterization and control; water quality parameters; drinking water and wastewater treatment technologies; global climate change: possible causes and effects; risk assessment for pollutant exposure; solid- and hazardous-waste management.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Pinar Ozcer
18 credits from Stream A or Stream B:
Stream A
15 credits* from the Engineering Course List and 3 credits from the Non-Engineering Course List below
* A minimum of 6 credits must be from outside the student's department. A maximum of 6 credits of research project courses may be counted toward this category, provided the project has sufficient environmental engineering content (project requires approval of project supervisor and coordinator of the Minor).Stream B
9 credits of courses specified from the "Barbados Interdisciplinary Tropical Studies (BITS)" field semester below, provided the project has sufficient environmental engineering content (project requires approval of the Coordinator of the Minor):
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AEBI 425 Tropical Energy and Food 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): Tropical biofuel crops, conversion processes and final products, particularly energy and greenhouse gas balances and bionutraceuticals. Topics include effects of process extraction during refining on biofuel economics, the food versus fuel debate and impact of biofuels and bioproducts on tropical agricultural economics.
Offered by: Plant Science
- Corequisite(s): AEBI 421, AEBI 423 and AEBI 427.
- Restriction: Restricted to students that are participating in the Barbados Interdisciplinary Tropical Studies Field Semester
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.
- Project course AEBI 427 runs concurrently with the other courses (AEBI 421, AEBI 423 & AEBI 425) and the Mondays of each week are dedicated to AEBI 427.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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AEBI 427 Barbados Interdisc Project 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): The planning of projects and research activities related to tropical food, nutrition, or energy at the local, regional, or national scale in Barbados. Projects and activities designed in consultation with university instructors, government, NGO, or private partners, and prepared by teams of 2-3 students working cooperatively with these mentors.
Offered by: Plant Science
- Corequisite(s): AEBI 421, AEBI 423 and AEBI 425
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students that are participating in the Barbados Interdisciplinary Tropical Studies Field Semester
- **Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 18, 2020.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Project course AEBI 427 runs concurrently with the other courses (AEBI 421, AEBI 423 & AEBI 425) and the Mondays of each week are dedicated to AEBI 427.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
9 credits chosen from the Engineering Course List below, excluding CHEE 496.
Engineering Course List
Courses offered at the MacDonald campus:
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BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Bioresource Engineering: Introduction to water resources and hydrologic cycle. Precipitation and hydrologic frequency analysis. Soil water processes, infiltration theory and modeling. Evapotranspiration estimation methods and crop water requirements. Surface runoff estimation as a function of land use modifications. Estimation of peak runoff rates. Unit hydrograph. Design of open channels and vegetated waterways.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Three lectures, one 2-hour lab per week.
- This course carries an additional course charge for field trips.
- This course carries an additional course charge of $20.01 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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Shiv Prasher
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BREE 322 Organic Waste Management 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- A fee of $50.00 is charged to support a field trip to local waste management facilities for guided tour and information-gathering for a course assignment as well as some laboratory supplies for hands-on composting and/or anaerobic digestion lab.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Grant Clark
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BREE 416 Eng for Land Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Bioresource Engineering: Engineering aspects of land stewardship and water resource conservation, including: introduction to the hydrologic cycle and agricultural water use; computation of soil loss by water erosion; conservation farming practices; reservoirs and embankments; water and sediment control structures; stream restoration and water supply; wetlands and wetland design; irrigation principles and design; pumps and pumping; introduction to drainage and water table management.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Prerequisite: BREE 217
- 3 lectures and one 2-hour lab per week or design problems.
- The passing grade for the prerequisite (BREE 217) is B-.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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BREE 518 Ecological Engineering 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Bioresource Engineering: Concepts and practice of ecological engineering: the planned creation or management of a community of organisms, their nonliving surroundings, and technological components to provide services. Survey of applications such as constructed wetlands, aquatic production systems, green infrastructure for urban storm water management, environmental restoration. Taught cooperatively with a parallel course at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Online collaboration with an interdisciplinary, international team is an important component of the course.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- One 3-hour lecture per week.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Grant Clark
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BREE 533 Water Quality Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Bioresource Engineering: The water phases of terrestrial ecological systems and the processes that link them. Physical, chemical, and biological properties of water, and water quality standards. The fate and transport of pollutants in rivers and streams, lakes, and wetlands. Methods to quantify soil carbon and nitrogen cycle to predict nutrient leaching. Impacts of human activities (e.g., agricultural drainage) on water quality and measures to improve drainage water quality. Assess the effectiveness of proposed engineering measures or management practices in improving or maintaining water quality of a real site/water body using numerical methods or a computer modelling approach.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken BREE 625 (formerly ABEN 625).
- 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.
- This course carries an additional charge of $38.81 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
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Shiv Prasher, Zhiming Qi
* Not open to students who have passed CIVE 323.
Courses offered at the Downtown campus:
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ARCH 377 Energy, Environ, & Buildings 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Architecture: Exploration of the interrelationship between energy, environment, and building. Climate analysis and design, daylighting, electrical systems, plumbing and water conservation, and conveyance systems.
Offered by: Architecture
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Conor Sampson
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ARCH 515 Sustainable Design 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
Offered by: Architecture
- (3-0-6)
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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CHEE 351 Separation Processes 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemical Engineering: Concepts underlying equilibrium based separation, design of processes and equipment for distillation, absorption/stripping, liquid extraction, washing, and leaching. Consideration of mass transfer effects.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ali Seifitokaldani
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CHEE 370 Elements of Biotechnology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemical Engineering: Biological macromolecules; cell structure and metabolism; industrially significant microbes; enzyme kinetics; introduction to molecular biology and genetic engineering, laboratory exercises.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite(s): CHEM 212
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Nathalie Tufenkji
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CHEE 496 Environmental Research Project 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemical Engineering: Independent study and experimental work on environmental topic(s) chosen by consultation between the student and professor. Students must find a supervisor amongst department faculty before registering for this course.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- (1-6-2)
- Students are required to complete a written report and a presentation before the end of the semester.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Richard L Leask
- Richard L Leask
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CHEE 591 Environmental Bioremediation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Laleh Yerushalmi
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CHEE 593 Indus Water Pollution Control 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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CIVE 225 Environmental Engineering 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Introduction to environmental chemistry; mass balance analyses in engineered and natural systems; water, soil and air pollution characterization and control; water quality parameters; drinking water and wastewater treatment technologies; global climate change: possible causes and effects; risk assessment for pollutant exposure; solid- and hazardous-waste management.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Pinar Ozcer
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CIVE 323 Hydrology and Water Resources 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Precipitation, evaporation and transpiration. Streamflow, storage reservoirs, flood routing. Groundwater hydrology. Ecohydrology. Statistical analysis in hydrology, stochastic modelling. Simulations using hydrologic models. Case studies in flood damage mitigation, surface and ground water management, and water-energy-food nexus.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 302
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mohammad Alobaidi
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CIVE 421 Municipal Systems 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Design of water-related municipal services; sources of water and intake design; estimation of water demand and wastewater production rates; design, construction and maintenance of water distribution, wastewater and stormwater collection systems; pumps and pumping stations; pipe materials, network analysis and optimization; storage; treatment objectives for water and wastewater.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 327
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Pinar Ozcer
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CIVE 428 Water Resrces & Hydraulic Eng. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Application of continuity, energy and momentum equations to open channel flow; design of channels considering uniform flow and flow resistance, non-uniform flow and longitudinal profiles; design of channel controls and transitions; unsteady flow and flood routing; river ice engineering; sediment transport and river morphology; sustainability in river engineering; industry standard numerical models.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 327
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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CIVE 430 Water Treatment&Pollut Control 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Principles of water and sewage treatment. Water and sewage characteristics; design of conventional unit operations and processes; laboratory analyses of potable and waste waters.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Stephanie Katharine Loeb
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CIVE 520 Groundwater Hydrology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Fundamentals of subsurface hydrological processes. Field data and simulation under parameter uncertainty. Numerical modelling. Quantifying groundwater resources and groundwater flow to wells. Groundwater sustainability from a multidisciplinary perspective including engineering and policy.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Prerequisites: CIVE 311 and CIVE 323; Graduate students: Permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CIVE 546 in Winter 2012.
- Note 1: (3-0-6).
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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CIVE 550 Water Resources Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
CIVE 555 Environmental Data Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Laxmi Sushama
-
CIVE 557 Microbio for Environmental Eng 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Microbiological concepts applied to the practice of environmental engineering and biotechnologies including the following topics: cellular and pathway organizations, evolution, growth, gene expression, horizontal gene transfer, metabolic microbial diversity, ecosystem structures, and quantitative mathematical modelling.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Prerequisite: CIVE 225 or permission of the instructor
- (3-1-5)
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Dominic Frigon
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CIVE 561 Greenhouse Gas Emissions 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Greenhouse gas inventories at various scales from national to institutional. Emission estimation methods including field measurements and engineering calculations for anthropogenic sources including fossil fuel combustion from transportation and energy production, cement production, hydroelectric reservoirs, oil and gas systems, landfills, wastewater treatment and sewer systems, and agriculture. Technical and policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Group project.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Students are expected to have a background in data mining, statistical analysis, e.g. spatiotemporal analysis, and chemistry. WHMIS and other lab training is recommended.
- Prerequisite(s): CIVE 225 and CIVE 302 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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CIVE 572 Computational Hydraulics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Computation of unsteady flows in open channels; abrupt waves, flood waves, tidal propagations; method of characteristics; mathematical modelling of river and coastal currents.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 327 or equivalent
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Vincent H Chu
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CIVE 573 Hydraulic Structures 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Civil Engineering: Hydraulic aspects of the theory and design of hydraulic structures. Storage dams, spillways, outlet works, diversion works, drop structures, stone structures, conveyance and control structures, flow measurement and culverts.
Offered by: Civil Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
CIVE 574 Fluid Mech of Water Pollution 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Vincent H Chu
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CIVE 577 River Engineering 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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CIVE 584 Mechanics of Groundwater Flow 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MECH 447 Combustion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mechanical Engineering: Equilibrium analysis of reacting systems, Hugoniot analysis, flame propagation mechanisms, introduction to chemical kinetics, models for laminar flame propagation, ignition, quenching, flammability limits, turbulent flames, flame instability mechanisms, detonations, solid and liquid combustion.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 240
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jeffrey M Bergthorson
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MECH 534 Air Pollution Engineering 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MECH 535 Turbomachinery and Propulsion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to propulsion: turboprops, turbofans and turbojets. Review of thermodynamic cycles. Euler turbine equation. Velocity triangles. Axial-flow compressors and pumps. Centrifugal compressors and pumps. Axial-flow turbines. Loss mechanisms. Dimensional analysis of turbomachines. Performance maps. 3-D effects. Introduction to numerical methods in turbomachines. Prediction of performance of gas turbines.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Wagdi George Habashi
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MECH 560 Eco-design and Product LCA 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mechanical Engineering: Fundamentals of both product and process engineering with an emphasis on life cycle models and sustainability. Practical and theoretical topics, methodologies, principles, and techniques. Practical methods such as Life Cycle Analysis, eco-design strategies, streamlined Life Cycle Assessment, environmental impact assessment, and Life Cycle Engineering. Introduction to important product development theories and life cycle assessment theories.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 360
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yaoyao F Zhao
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MIME 422 Mine Ventilation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Statutory regulations and engineering design criteria. Occupational health hazards of mine gases, dusts, etc. Ventilation system design. Natural and mechanical ventilation. Measuring and modelling air flow in ventilation networks. Calculation of head losses. Selection of mine ventilation fans. Air heating and cooling. Aspects of economics.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- Terms
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Agus P Sasmito
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MIME 428 Environmental Mining Eng 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Effect of mining on the environment: ecology, legislation, effluents and wastes, environmental impact. Acid mine drainage: prediction, treatment, prevention, control. Mineral processing agents. Solid wastes. Mine site closure, reclamation and monitoring. Economic aspects. Environmental practices.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite(s): MIME 323 and CIVE 205
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.
- Terms
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Alessandro Navarra
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MIME 512 Corrosion&Degradation of Mtls 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Electrochemical theory of metal corrosion, Evans Diagrams, corrosion rate controlling mechanisms, mixed corrodents, alloying effects, passivation. Discussion and analysis of the various forms of corrosion. Corrosion prevention methods. Oxidation of alloys-mechanisms and kinetics. Degradation of ceramics and polymers. Case studies.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-1.5-4.5)
- Prerequisites: MIME 261 and MIME 352 or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 412.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- George Demopoulos
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MIME 556 Sustainable Mtls. Processing 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Sustainability, population and environment impact, environmental impact indicators, materials flows, enthalpy flows, the carbon cycle, materials intensity, energy intensity, global warming potential, acidification potential, FACTOR-Two, -Four and -Ten, life-cycle-inventory/assessment, end-of-pipe strategies, supply-chain and flow-sheet redesign, recycling, waste treatment and materials case studies.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MPMC 328 Env et gest des rejets miniers 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:McGill/Poly Mining Coop: Effets du milieu de travail sur l'homme (hygiène du travail) : législation; contraintes thermiques, problèmes de bruit, de contaminants gazeux et de poussières; techniques de mesures. Effets de l'exploitation d'une mine sur le milieu (environnement et écologie) : législation; études d'impacts; effluents miniers: origine, nature et traitement des effluents; entreposage des résidus; restauration des sites.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-3-3)
- Prérequis : MIME 323 and CIVE 205
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.
- Terms
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Mustafa Kumral
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SEAD 515 Climate Change Adapt&Eng Infra 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sustainability in Eng & Design: Climate resilience and sustainability of engineering systems such as the built environment and engineering infrastructure in the context of a changing climate, possible mitigation and adaptation strategies and associated challenges and opportunities. Review of the basic principles that underpin the science of climate change; the role of global and regional climate models in predicting the behaviour of the climate system in response to different forcing scenarios, and the use of climate model outputs in support of across scale climate-resilience of various engineering systems including infrastructure systems.
Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design
- (3-0-6)
- Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Laxmi Sushama
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SEAD 520 Life Cycle-Based Env Footprint 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sustainability in Eng & Design: Introduction to Life Cycle-Based Environmental Footprinting and the application of basic methods for life-cycle environmental inventory and impacts modeling. LCA theory and quantitative analysis, approaches for assessing and reducing the environmental impacts of product, process, and technology systems. System boundary and functional unit design approaches, process-based and input-output-based methods for modeling mass and energy flows in life-cycle systems. How LCA can facilitate sustainable technology innovation and deployment, behavioural and societal changes, and policies, standards and regulations.
Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design
- (3-0-6)
- Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sarah Jordaan
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SEAD 550 Dec-Making for Sust: Eng & Des 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sustainability in Eng & Design: Role and importance of engineering decisions of environmental, social, and economic problems and the application of decision-making approaches and tools to engineering sustainability. Multi-criteria decision-making, uncertainty analysis, game theory, sustainability metrics, life cycle analysis evaluation and impact assessment methodologies, design problem formulation, stage-dependent strategies, case studies.
Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design
- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Laxmi Sushama
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URBP 506 Envrnmntl Policy and Planning 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Madhav Govind Badami
** Not open to students who have passed BREE 217.
Non-Engineering Course List
Courses offered at the MacDonald campus:
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ENVB 210 The Biophysical Environment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Khosro Mousavi-Torbati, Chih-Yu Hung
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LSCI 230 Introductory Microbiology 3 Credits+
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Life Sciences: The occurrence and importance of microorganisms in the biosphere. Principles governing growth, death and metabolic activities of microorganisms. An introduction to the microbiology of soil, water, plants, food, humans and animals.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Symbols:
- +
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sebastien Faucher
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MICR 331 Microbial Ecology 3 Credits+
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Microbiology (Agric&Envir Sc): The ecology of microorganisms, primarily bacteria and archaea, and their roles in biogeochemical cycles. 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
- Prerequisite(s): LSCI 230 or AEBI 212 or ENVR 202 or permission of the instructor.
- Not recommended for U1 students.
- Symbols:
- +
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brian T Driscoll
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MICR 341 Mechanisms of Pathogenicity 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Microbiology (Agric&Envir Sc): A study of the means by which bacteria cause disease in animals and humans. Includes response of host to invading bacteria, bacterial attachment and penetration processes, and modes of actions of exotoxins and endotoxins.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Prerequisite: LSCI 230
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 270 Religious Ethics & the Environ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Katie Chandler, Gregory Newing
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SOIL 331 Environmental Soil Physics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
+ Not open to students who have passed CHEE 370.
Courses offered at the Downtown campus:
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ANTH 206 Environment and Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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BIOL 205 Functional Biol of Plnts&Anmls 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Biology (Sci): Unified view of form and function in animals and plants. Focus on how the laws of chemistry and physics illuminate biological processes relating to the acquisition of energy and materials and their use in movement, growth, development, reproduction and responses to environmental stress.
Offered by: Biology
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture, optional conference hour
- Prerequisites: BIOL 200 and PHYS 101 or 131 or equivalent
- Corequisite: ANAT 212/BIOC 212 or BIOL 201
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jon Sakata, Rowan Barrett, Fiona M Soper
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BIOL 432 Limnology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Biology (Sci): A study of the physical, chemical and biological properties of lakes and other inland waters, with emphasis on their functioning as systems.
Offered by: Biology
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisites: BIOL 206 and BIOL 215 or permission of instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ENVB 315.
- This course, involving two field weekends, has an additional fee of $353.32, which includes room and board and transportation. The fee is refundable during the period where a student can drop the course with full refund. The Department of Biology subsidizes a portion of the cost for this activity.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Lars Lonsmann Iversen, Irene Gregory-Eaves
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CMPL 580 Environment & the Law 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Comparative Law: Environmental law, with emphasis on ecological, economic, political, and international dimensions.
Offered by: Law
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 225 Economics of the Environment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.
Offered by: Economics
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-325 or 154-425
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Hervé Robert Horner
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ECON 326 Ecological Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Michael Babcock
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ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Robert D Cairns
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EPSC 549 Hydrogeology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Earth & Planetary Sciences: Introduction to groundwater flow through porous media. Notions of fluid potential and hydraulic head. Darcy flux and Darcy's Law. Physical properties of porous media and their measurement. Equation of groundwater flow. Flow systems. Hydraulics of pumping and recharging wells. Notions of hydrology. Groundwater quality and contamination. Physical processes of contaminant transport.
Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Winter
- 3 hours lectures
- Prerequisite: permission of the instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jeffrey M McKenzie
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GEOG 200 Geo Persp:World Env Problems 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Introduction to geography as the study of nature and human beings in a spatial context. An integrated approach to environmental systems and the human organization of them from the viewpoint of spatial relationships and processes. Special attention to environmental problems as a constraint upon Third World development.
Offered by: Geography
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 201 Intro Geo-Information Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.
Offered by: Geography
- Fall
- 3 hours and lab
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tim Elrick
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GEOG 203 Environmental Systems 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gail L Chmura, Graham K MacDonald, Sara H Knox
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GEOG 205 Global Chg:Past, Pres & Future 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: An examination of global change, from the Quaternary Period to the present day involving changes in the physical geography of specific areas. Issues such as climatic change and land degradation will be discussed, with speculations on future environments.
Offered by: Geography
- Winter
- 3 hours
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Gail L Chmura
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GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
Offered by: Geography
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in Geography or MSE or BIOL 308 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sarah M Harris
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GEOG 308 Rem Sens for Earth Observation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: A conceptual view of remote sensing and the underlying physical principles. Covers ground-based, aerial, satellite systems, and the electromagnetic spectrum, from visible to microwave. Emphasis on application of remotely sensed data in geography including land cover change and ecological processes.
Offered by: Geography
- Fall
- 3 hours and laboratory periods
- Corequisite: GEOG 201 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Margaret Kalacska
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GEOG 321 Climatic Environments 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: The earth-atmosphere system, radiation and energy balances. Surface-atmosphere exchange of energy, mass and momentum and related atmospheric processes on a local and regional scale. Introduction to measurement theory and practice in micrometeorology.
Offered by: Geography
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sara H Knox
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GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Practical application of environmental planning, analysis and management techniques with reference to the needs and problems of developing areas. Special challenges posed by cultural differences and traditional resource systems are discussed. This course involves practical field work in a developing area (Kenya or Panama).
Offered by: Geography
- Winter
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 302 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MIMM 211 Introductory Microbiology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Microbiology and Immun (Sci): A general treatment of microbiology bearing specifically on the biological properties of microorganisms. Emphasis will be on procaryotic cells. Basic principles of microbial genetics are also introduced.
Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology
- Fall
- 3 hours of lecture
- Corequisite: BIOL 200
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Benoit Cousineau, Dao Nguyen, Greg J Matlashewski, Samantha Gruenheid, Jasmin K Chahal, Corinne Maurice, Francois A Le Mauff
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations. -
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Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) - Minor Management (For Non-Management Students) (18 Credits)Offered by:Degree:Bachelor of Commerce
Program Requirement:
The Minor Management consists of 18 credits of Management courses and is currently offered to non-Management students in the following Faculties: Arts, Engineering, Science, Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Music, Religious Studies, and Kinesiology.
This Minor is designed to provide non-management students with the opportunity to obtain basic knowledge in various aspects of management.
Complementary Courses (18 credits)
9 credits selected from:
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MGCR 211 Intro to Financial Accounting 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Jingjing Zhang, Dongyoung Lee, Yin Zhu
- Yongoh Roh, Yin Zhu
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MGCR 222 Intro to Org Behaviour 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Amandine Ody, Simon Blanchette, Sarah Gordon
- Diana Dakhlallah, Roman Galperin, Jeraul Mackey, Sylvia Miriyam Findlay
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MGCR 271 Business Statistics 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Statistical concepts and methodology, their application to managerial decision-making, real-life data, problem-solving and spreadsheet modeling. Topics include: descriptive statistics; normal distributions, sampling distributions and estimation, hypothesis testing for one and two populations, goodness of fit, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MATH 122 and MATH 123 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 227D1/D2, ECON 257D1/D2, MATH 203 at McGill, MATH 204, MATH 324, PSYC 204; students with an exemption from High School or CEGEP for MATH 203 will NOT be exempt from MCGR 271.
- You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Gary Ng, Gabriel Frieden, Rob Glew
- Gabriel Frieden, Rob Glew, Setareh Farajollahzadeh
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MGCR 293 Managerial Economics 3 Credits***
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: The course focuses on the application of economic theory to management problems and the economic foundations of marketing, finance, and production. Attention is given to the following topics: price and cost analysis; demand and supply analysis, conditions of competition.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 208, ECON 230D1/D2, or ECON 250D1/D2.
- Symbols:
- ***
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Taweewan Sidthidet
- TARIQ A NIZAMI
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MGCR 331 Information Technology Mgmt 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Introduction to principles and concepts of information systems in organizations. Topics include information technology, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, database and systems development. Students are required to have background preparation on basic micro computer skills including spreadsheet and word-processing.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Sol Tanguay, Matthew Goodman
- Malleswara Talla, Najib Mozahem, Sol Tanguay, Matthew Goodman
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MGCR 341 Introduction to Finance 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities.
Offered by: Management
- Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Vadim di Pietro
- Adolfo De Motta, Vadim di Pietro
- Vadim di Pietro
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MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Hamid Etemad, Fabienne Cyrius, Aviva Aronovitch, Simon Blanchette
- Clarice Zhao, Bruce Doré
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MGCR 372 Operations Management 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Design, planning, establishment, control, and improvement of the activities/processes that create a firm's final products and/or services. The interaction of operations with other business areas will also be discussed. Topics include forecasting, product and process design, waiting lines, capacity planning, inventory management and total quality management.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 472.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Yichuan Daniel Ding, Maxime Cohen
- Rob Glew, Bing Bai, Alys Liang
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MGCR 382 International Business 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
9 credits selected from any Management courses not already chosen from the first list or any 300- or 400-level Management courses for which prerequisites have been met.
* Prerequisite: MGCR 271, Business Statistics, or another equivalent Statistics course approved by the Program Adviser.
** 3 credits of statistics: Students who have taken an equivalent Statistics course in another faculty may not count those credits towards the Minor; an additional 3-credit complementary course must be chosen from the course list above.
*** Students who have taken an equivalent Economics course in another faculty may not count those credits toward the Minor; an additional 3-credit complementary course must be chosen from the course list above.Note: Students should select their Statistics course only after consulting the "Course Overlap" section in the Faculty of Arts, the "Course Overlap" section in the Faculty of Science, and the "Course Overlap" section in the Desautels Faculty of Management to avoid overlapping Statistics courses.
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Materials Engineering (24 Credits)Offered by:Mining & Materials EngineeringDegree:Bachelor of Engineering
Program Requirement:
Minor Adviser: Prof. Richard Chromik (Minor Coordinator), Wong Building, Room 2620
Engineering students may obtain a Materials Engineering Minor by completing 24 credits chosen from the required and complementary courses listed below. By a careful selection of complementary courses, Engineering students may obtain this Minor with a minimum of 15 additional credits.
Required Courses
15 credits
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CHEE 380 Materials Science 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemical Engineering: Structure/property relationship for metals, ceramics, polymers and composite materials. Atomic and molecular structure, bonds, electronic band structure and semi-conductors. Order in solids: crystal structure, disorders, solid phases. Mechanical properties and fracture, physico-chemical properties, design. Laboratory exercises.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Pierre-Luc Girard-Lauriault
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CHEE 484 Materials Engineering 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemical Engineering: Processes for forming and producing engineering materials such as amorphous, semicrystalline, textured and crystal-oriented substances and composites. Phase transformations, nucleation and growth. Effect of processing variables on the properties of the finished article. Process of blending and alloying. Shaping and joining operations. Vessel equipment design for chemical engineering applications.
Offered by: Chemical Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: CHEE 380
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Anne-Marie Kietzig
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MIME 260 Materials Science&Engineering 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Structure properties and fabrication of metals, polymers, ceramics, composites; engineering properties: tensile, fracture, creep, oxidation, corrosion, friction, wear; fabrication and joining methods; principles of materials selection.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (2-2-5)
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Florence Paray, Jinhyuk Lee
- Stephen Yue, Florence Paray
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MIME 345 Applications of Polymers 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Applications of synthetic and natural polymers and composites as engineering materials, e.g. in biomedical, automotive and aerospace applications. Thermoplastics, thermosets and elastomers. Animal and plant origin, degradable and non-degradable polymers. Particulate and fibre reinforced polymer matrix composites. Manufacturing routes, and characterization tools for their physical, thermal, mechanical and chemical properties.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: MIME 261 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Florence Paray, Showan N Nazhat
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MIME 465 Metal & Ceram Powd Proc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Powder metallurgy and ceramic processing. Fabrication, characterization and properties of powders. Powder consolidation techniques. Sintering and densification mechanisms. Properties of porous compacts. Design of fabrication process. Particularities and classification of ceramic systems.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: MIME 360
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mathieu Brochu
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MIME 467 Electronic Properties of Mtls 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Electrons as particles and waves, Schrodinger's Equation, electrical and thermal conductivity, semiconductors, semiconductor devices, fundamentals of magnetism, superconductivity and superconductive materials, dielectric materials, optical properties of materials, LASERs and waveguides. Advanced materials and their technological applications. An introduction to quantum mechanics will be included which will be the foundation upon which energy band diagrams will be built and understood.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (6-1.5-3.5)
- Prerequisites: MATH 263 and MIME 261
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 367
- Terms
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Nathaniel J Quitoriano
* Students choose either CHEE 380 or MIME 260.
Complementary Courses
9 credits from the following:
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MECH 530 Mech of Composite Materials 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Corequisite: MECH 321 or equivalent/instructor's permission.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Larry Lessard
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MIME 360 Phase Transformations:Solids 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Free energy (equilibrium) and kinetic (non-equilibrium) considerations, phase diagrams and TTT diagrams, solid state diffusion, diffusional (nucleation and growth) and shear (martensitic) transformations.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Stephen Yue, Florence Paray
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MIME 512 Corrosion&Degradation of Mtls 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Electrochemical theory of metal corrosion, Evans Diagrams, corrosion rate controlling mechanisms, mixed corrodents, alloying effects, passivation. Discussion and analysis of the various forms of corrosion. Corrosion prevention methods. Oxidation of alloys-mechanisms and kinetics. Degradation of ceramics and polymers. Case studies.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-1.5-4.5)
- Prerequisites: MIME 261 and MIME 352 or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 412.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- George Demopoulos
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MIME 560 Joining Processes 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Physics of joining; interfacial requirements; energy sources, chemical, mechanical and electrical; homogeneous hot-joining, arc-, Mig-, Tig-, gas-, thermite- and Plasma-welding; Autogeneous hot-joining, forge-, pressure-, friction-, explosive-, electron beam- and laser-welding; Heterogeneous hot-joining, brazing, soldering, diffusion bonding; Heterogeneous cold joining, adhesives, mechanical fastening; Filler materials; Joint metallurgy; Heat affected zone, non-metallic systems; joint design and economics; defects and testing methods.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MIME 561 Advanced Materials Design 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Advanced topics in materials design problems. Discussion and laboratory work, supplemented by detailed technical reports. Special attention is given to selection, design and failure problems in various materials systems.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (0-4-5)
- Prerequisite: MIME 362 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MIME 563 Hot Deformation of Metals 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: High temperature deformation processing of metallic materials. Topics include static and dynamic recrystallization, recovery, precipitation; effect of deformation on phase transformations and microstructural evolution during industrial processing. Mathematical modelling of microstructural evolution.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MIME 360 and MIME 362
- Prerequisite (Graduate): MIME 362 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MIME 569 Electron Beam Analysis of Mtls 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mining & Materials Engineering: Emphasis on operation of scanning and transmission electron microscopes. Topics covered are electron/specimen interactions, hardware description; image contrast description; qualitative and quantitative (ZAF) x-ray analysis; electron diffraction pattern analysis.
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering
- (2-3-4)
- Prerequisite: MIME 317
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Raynald Gauvin
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Mathematics (18 Credits)Offered by:Mathematics and StatisticsDegree:Bachelor of Engineering
Program Requirement:
The B.Eng.; Minor in Mathematics provides students with an even stronger foundation in mathematics to further develop their knowledge of this subject. Students enrolled in the B.Eng.; Minor in Mathematics complete a series of mathematics courses offered by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, or other units offering mathematics courses.
Minor Adviser: Faculty Student Adviser in the McGIll Engineering Student Centre (Student Affairs Office) (Frank Dawson Adams Building, Room 22) AND an adviser designated by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. (Please consult the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for the name of this adviser.) Selection of courses must be undertaken in conjunction with the Minor Advisers, normally beginning in the U2 year.
Note: The B.Eng.; Minor in Mathematics is open to all students in the Faculty of Engineering (including students registered in the B.Sc.(Arch.)). A maximum of 9 credits of overlap (double-counting) with the degree program is allowed.
Engineering students must obtain a grade of C or better in courses approved for this Minor.
Required Course (3 credits)
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MATH 242 Analysis 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): A rigorous presentation of sequences and of real numbers and basic properties of continuous and differentiable functions on the real line.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisite: MATH 141
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who are taking or who have taken MATH 254.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Dmitry Jakobson
Complementary Courses (15 credits)
3 credits selected from:
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MATH 223 Linear Algebra 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of matrix algebra, determinants and systems of linear equations. Vector spaces, linear operators and their matrix representations, orthogonality. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of Hermitian matrices. Applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students in Mathematics programs nor to students who have taken or are taking MATH 206, MATH 236, MATH 247, or MATH 251.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Shereen Elaidi, Hugues Bellemare
- Jeremy Macdonald
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MATH 247 Honours Applied Linear Algebra 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Matrix algebra, determinants, systems of linear equations. Abstract vector spaces, inner product spaces, Fourier series. Linear transformations and their matrix representations. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalizable and defective matrices, positive definite and semidefinite matrices. Quadratic and Hermitian forms, generalized eigenvalue problems, simultaneous reduction of quadratic forms. Applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Intended for Honours Physics and Engineering students
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 236, MATH 223 or MATH 251
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tim Hoheisel
6-12 credits selected from:
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ECSE 205 Prob and Stats for Engineers 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Electrical Engineering: Probability: basic probability model, conditional probability, Bayes rule, random variables and vectors, distribution and density functions, common distributions in engineering, expectation, moments, independence, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem. Statistics: descriptive measures of engineering data, sampling distributions, estimation of mean and variance, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, linear regression.
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sindhu Radhakrishnan
- Sindhu Radhakrishnan
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MATH 204 Principles of Statistics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): The concept of degrees of freedom and the analysis of variability. Planning of experiments. Experimental designs. Polynomial and multiple regressions. Statistical computer packages (no previous computing experience is needed). General statistical procedures requiring few assumptions about the probability model.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 203 or equivalent. No calculus prerequisites
- Restriction: This course is intended for students in all disciplines. For extensive course restrictions covering statistics courses see Section 3.6.1 of the Arts and of the Science sections of the calendar regarding course overlaps.
- You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tharshanna Nadarajah
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MATH 240 Discrete Structures 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Introduction to discrete mathematics and applications. Logical reasoning and methods of proof. Elementary number theory and cryptography: prime numbers, modular equations, RSA encryption. Combinatorics: basic enumeration, combinatorial methods, recurrence equations. Graph theory: trees, cycles, planar graphs.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- Corequisite: MATH 133.
- Restriction: For students in any Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering programs. Others only with the instructor's permission. Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 235.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jeremy Macdonald, Marcel K Goh
- Jérôme Fortier
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MATH 243 Analysis 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Definition and properties of Riemann integral, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Taylor's theorem. Infinite series: alternating, telescoping series, rearrangements, conditional and absolute convergence, convergence tests. Power series and Taylor series. Elementary functions. Introduction to metric spaces.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Axel Hundemer
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MATH 264 Adv Calculus for Engineers 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of multiple integrals. Differential and integral calculus of vector fields including the theorems of Gauss, Green, and Stokes. Introduction to partial differential equations, separation of variables, Sturm-Liouville problems, and Fourier series.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: MATH 262 or MATH 151 or MATH 152 or equivalent.
- Corequisite: MATH 263
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 319 or MATH 475.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Charles Roth
- Dmitry Jakobson
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MATH 271 Linear Algebra and PDE's 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Applied Linear Algebra. Linear Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations. Power Series Solutions. Partial Differential Equations. Sturm-Liouville Theory and Applications. Fourier Transforms.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: MATH 263, MATH 264.
- Not open to students who have taken MATH 266.
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Charles Roth
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MATH 316 Complex Variables 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Algebra of complex numbers, Cauchy-Riemann equations, complex integral, Cauchy's theorems. Taylor and Laurent series, residue theory and applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisites: MATH 314 or equivalent and MATH 243.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 249, MATH 366, MATH 381 or MATH 466.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Niky Kamran
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MATH 319 Partial Differential Equations 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): First order equations, geometric theory; second order equations, classification; Laplace, wave and heat equations, Sturm-Liouville theory, Fourier series, boundary and initial value problems.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisites: MATH 223 or MATH 236, MATH 314 or equivalent, MATH 315
- Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 475.
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jessica Lin
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MATH 323 Probability 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Alia Sajjad
- Tharshanna Nadarajah
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MATH 324 Statistics 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, contingency tables, nonparametric inference, regression, Bayesian inference.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 323 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 357
- You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tharshanna Nadarajah
- Masoud Asgharian
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MATH 326 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Linear systems of differential equations, linear stability theory. Nonlinear systems: existence and uniqueness, numerical methods, one and two dimensional flows, phase space, limit cycles, Poincare-Bendixson theorem, bifurcations, Hopf bifurcation, the Lorenz equations and chaos.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisites: MATH 222, MATH 223
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 376
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tony Humphries
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MATH 340 Discrete Mathematics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Discrete Mathematics and applications. Graph Theory: matchings, planarity, and colouring. Discrete probability. Combinatorics: enumeration, combinatorial techniques and proofs.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisites: MATH 235 or MATH 240 or MATH 242.
- Corequisites: MATH 223 or MATH 236.
- Restriction: Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 350.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sergey Norin
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MATH 378 Nonlinear Optimization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Optimization terminology. Convexity. First- and second-order optimality conditions for unconstrained problems. Numerical methods for unconstrained optimization: Gradient methods, Newton-type methods, conjugate gradient methods, trust-region methods. Least squares problems (linear + nonlinear). Optimality conditions for smooth constrained optimization problems (KKT theory). Lagrangian duality. Augmented Lagrangian methods. Active-set method for quadratic programming. SQP methods.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 223 or MATH 247 or MATH 236 or MATH 251. MATH 248 or MATH 314 or MATH 358. MATH 243 or MATH 255.
- Not open to students who have taken MATH 560.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 417 Linear Optimization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): An introduction to linear optimization and its applications: Duality theory, fundamental theorem, sensitivity analysis, convexity, simplex algorithm, interior-point methods, quadratic optimization, applications in game theory.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: COMP 202, and MATH 223 or MATH 236, and MATH 314 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 487 or MATH 517.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tim Hoheisel
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MATH 427 Statistical Quality Control 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Introduction to quality management; variability and productivity. Quality measurement: capability analysis, gauge capability studies. Process control: control charts for variables and attributes. Process improvement: factorial designs, fractional replications, response surface methodology, Taguchi methods. Acceptance sampling: operating characteristic curves; single, multiple and sequential acceptance sampling plans for variables and attributes.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MATH 447 Intro. to Stochastic Processes 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Conditional probability and conditional expectation, generating functions. Branching processes and random walk. Markov chains, transition matrices, classification of states, ergodic theorem, examples. Birth and death processes, queueing theory.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 323
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 547.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Elliot Paquette
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MATH 463 Convex Optimization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Introduction to convex analysis and convex optimization: Convex sets and functions, subdifferential calculus, conjugate functions, Fenchel duality, proximal calculus. Subgradient methods, proximal-based methods. Conditional gradient method, ADMM. Applications including data classification, network-flow problems, image processing, convex feasibility problems, DC optimization, sparse optimization, and compressed sensing.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 223 or MATH 247 or MATH 236 or MATH 251. MATH 248 or MATH 314 or MATH 358. MATH 243 or MATH 255. COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 208 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 563.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Courtney Paquette
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MATH 475 Honours PDE's 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): First order partial differential equations, geometric theory, classification of second order linear equations, Sturm-Liouville problems, orthogonal functions and Fourier series, eigenfunction expansions, separation of variables for heat, wave and Laplace equations, Green's function methods, uniqueness theorems.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 247 or MATH 251 or equivalent, and MATH 248 or MATH 358 or equivalent, MATH 325.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 319.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rustum Choksi
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MATH 478 Comput. Meth. in Applied Math 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Solution to initial value problems: Linear, Nonlinear Finite Difference Methods: accuracy and stability, Lax equivalence theorem, CFL and von Neumann conditions, Fourier analysis: diffusion, dissipation, dispersion, and spectral methods. Solution of large sparse linear systems: iterative methods, preconditioning, incomplete LU, multigrid, Krylov subspaces, conjugate gradient method. Applications to, e.g., weighted least squares, duality, constrained minimization, calculus of variation, inverse problems, regularization, level set methods, Navier-Stokes equations
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 315 or MATH 325 or MATH 263; MATH 317 or MATH 387 or COMP 350 or MECH 309; or permission of the instructor
- This course will be taught in the winter semester.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jean-Christophe Nave
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MATH 563 Honours Convex Optimization 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Honours level introduction to convex analysis and convex optimization: Convex sets and functions, subdifferential calculus, conjugate functions, Fenchel duality, proximal calculus. Subgradient methods, proximal-based methods. Conditional gradient method, ADMM. Applications including data classification, network-flow problems, image processing, convex feasibility problems, DC optimization, sparse optimization, and compressed sensing.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 223 or MATH 247 or MATH 236 or MATH 251. MATH 248 or MATH 314 or MATH 358. MATH 243 or MATH 255. COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 208 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 463.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Courtney Paquette
* Students who take ECSE 205 may not take MATH 323 or MATH 324.
** Students may take MATH 271 or MATH 319 but not both.0-6 credits chosen from (200- to 500-level) Mathematics and Statistics courses approved for the B.Sc. Major Mathematics or B.Sc. Honours Mathematics programs, or from mathematics courses offered in other units. The courses in this category must be chosen in consultation with, and approved by, the Minor Adviser from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Note: MATH 262, MATH 263 (or any course with substantial overlap in content with these two courses) and/or MATH 338 cannot be credited towards this minor.
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) - Minor Technological Entrepreneurship (18 Credits)Offered by:Engineering - Dean's OfficeDegree:Bachelor of Engineering
Program Requirement:
This Minor in Technological Entrepreneurship is a collaboration of the Faculty of Engineering and the Desautels Faculty of Management. The program focusses on an entrepreneurial mindset to see opportunity in the world and provide training in an entrepreneurial method to bring opportunities for change to life. This program takes a democratized approach to entrepreneurship, with exposure to the diverse manifestations of entrepreneurship in the world including but not limited to new ventures, social enterprise, tech start-ups, cooperatives, corporate venturing, side hustles, and passion projects. Up to 6 credits of Complementary Studies (Group B., Humanities, and Social Science courses) and/or elective courses may double-count towards the Minor.
Required Courses (9 credits)
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FACC 500 Tech. Business Plan Design 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Faculty Course: This course combines several management functional areas such as marketing, financial, operations and strategy with the skills of creativity, engineering innovation, leadership and communications. Students learn how to design an effective and winning business plan around a technology or engineering project in small, medium or large enterprises.
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: FACC 300 or permission of instructor.
- Recommended to be taken in combination with FACC 501.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Derrick Wong
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INTG 215 EntrpshpEssntlsforN-MgmtStudts 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Integrated Management: Fundamental concepts, theories, and practices of entrepreneurship. Focus on identifying opportunities, developing business ideas, and understanding key components of starting and managing a business.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 non-Management students. Not open to students in the Desautels Faculty of Management.
- Limited enrolment; priority registration for students in Minors in Entrepreneurship. Note: this course is not part of the Desautels Minor in Management for Non-Management students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Aviva Aronovitch
- Aviva Aronovitch
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MGPO 362 Fundls of Entrepreneurship 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Policy: Study of the key aspects involved in starting and managing a new venture: identifying opportunities and analyzing new venture ideas, identifying common causes of failure and strategies for success, understanding intellectual property systems, comparison of multiple modes of funding. Applies to for-profit and not-for-profit start-ups.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite(s): INTG 201 or INTG 202 or MGCR 211 or MGCR 352.
- Restriction(s): Only open to U2, U3 students.
- Limited enrolment; priority registration to Management students and non-Management students in Minors in Entrepreneurship.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Kwangjun An
- Aviva Aronovitch
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
3 credits from the following:
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MGCR 211 Intro to Financial Accounting 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Jingjing Zhang, Dongyoung Lee, Yin Zhu
- Yongoh Roh, Yin Zhu
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MGCR 222 Intro to Org Behaviour 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Amandine Ody, Simon Blanchette, Sarah Gordon
- Diana Dakhlallah, Roman Galperin, Jeraul Mackey, Sylvia Miriyam Findlay
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MGCR 331 Information Technology Mgmt 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Introduction to principles and concepts of information systems in organizations. Topics include information technology, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, database and systems development. Students are required to have background preparation on basic micro computer skills including spreadsheet and word-processing.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Sol Tanguay, Matthew Goodman
- Malleswara Talla, Najib Mozahem, Sol Tanguay, Matthew Goodman
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MGCR 341 Introduction to Finance 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities.
Offered by: Management
- Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Vadim di Pietro
- Adolfo De Motta, Vadim di Pietro
- Vadim di Pietro
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MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Hamid Etemad, Fabienne Cyrius, Aviva Aronovitch, Simon Blanchette
- Clarice Zhao, Bruce Doré
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MGCR 372 Operations Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Design, planning, establishment, control, and improvement of the activities/processes that create a firm's final products and/or services. The interaction of operations with other business areas will also be discussed. Topics include forecasting, product and process design, waiting lines, capacity planning, inventory management and total quality management.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 472.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Yichuan Daniel Ding, Maxime Cohen
- Rob Glew, Bing Bai, Alys Liang
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MGCR 382 International Business 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
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MGCR 423 Strategic Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: An integrative and interdisciplinary introduction to strategy formation and execution. Concepts, tools, and practical application to understand how firms leverage resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage in dynamic, contemporary industries. Strategic positioning, organizational design, and managerial action for the long-term success of businesses and positive social and ecological outcomes.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Liliya Lyubman, Ghahhar Zavosh, Mitali Banerjee
- Robert David, Karl J Moore, Kwangjun An, Nils Emil Anton Andersson
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MGCR 460 Social Context of Business 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Hervé Robert Horner, Gina G Page, Anicet A Fangwa Nantcho
- Hervé Robert Horner, Lindsay Holmgren, Simon Altmejd, Gina G Page
3-6 credits from the following:
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FACC 501 Tech. Business Plan Project 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Faculty Course: Students work in teams to develop a comprehensive business plan project based on a technological or engineering innovation while utilizing site visits.
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office
- (1-0-8)
- Prerequisite: FACC 300 or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken FACC 480.
- Recommended to be taken in combination with FACC 500.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Derrick Wong
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MGPO 364 Entrepreneurship in Practice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Policy: Provides hands-on experience with the development of an entrepreneurial venture or a contribution to an existing entrepreneurial venture. Involves the creation of a venture development or business plan. Applicable to many kinds of new ventures, both private companies and social enterprises.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGPO 362
- Restriction(s): Open to U2, U3 students only.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Niels Billou
- Jared W Lee
0-3 credits from the following:
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BUSA 465 Technological Entrepreneurship 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Business Admin: Concentrating on entrepreneurship and enterprise development, particular attention is given to the start-up, purchasing and management of small to medium-sized industrial firms. The focal point is in understanding the dilemmas faced by entrepreneurs, resolving them, developing a business plan and the maximum utilization of the financial, marketing and human resources that make for a successful operation.
Offered by: Management
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kwangjun An
- Kwangjun An
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LAWG 570 Innovation for Non-LawStudents 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Law General: This course provides an introduction to the concept of innovation, its role in the economy, the institutions that foster or hinder it, the laws that promote or undermine it, and its historical, psychological and social context. Through a combination of interactive lectures students will explore the complexity of the subject and its connections with law, the economy, history, sciences and technology and government and firm policies. In addition, through small group projects, students will deploy and extend their knowledge by applying it to a particular proposed innovation.
Offered by: Law
- Restrictions: Not open to Law Students
- Not open to students who have taken LAWG 537: Specialized Topics in Law 18 (Innovation)
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Richard Gold
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MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneur&Innovation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Policy: Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Paola Perez-Aleman, Rohini Jalan
- Niels Billou
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ORGB 321 Leadership 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Organizational Behaviour: Leadership theories provide students with opportunities to assess and work on improving their leadership skills. Topics include: the ability to know oneself as a leader, to formulate a vision, to have the courage to lead, to lead creatively, and to lead effectively with others.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGCR 222 or permission of Instructor and approval of the BCom Program Office.
- Restrictions: Restricted to U2 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Chantal Westgate
- Chantal Westgate
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Bachelor of Music (B.Mus.) - Minor Musical Applications of Technology (18 Credits)Offered by:MusicDegree:Bachelor of Music
Program Requirement:
The goal of this Minor is to provide instruction in practical and creative applications of technology for musical purposes. This program will help prepare students for production-oriented jobs in the creative arts.
This program is open to students from any discipline and has no prerequisites other than familiarity with computers. Applications will only be considered for fall admission. Late applications will not be accepted and no students will be admitted to the Minor in January. Registration will be limited to available lab space. To apply, submit an online application through the Music website: .
Students will be selected on the basis of their previous background or experience in music technology and/or sound recording, their computer programming skills, their expressed interest in the program, and their Cumulative Grade Point Average.
Advising for the Minor is available from the Area Chair for the Music Technology Program. Further information on this program is available on the Music Technology website at: .
Required Courses (12 credits)
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MUMT 202 Fundamentals of New Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: A theoretical and practical introduction to selected areas of music technology. Topics include digital audio and sampling theory, MIDI and sequencing, audio editing and mixing, elementary sound recording, score editing software and current areas of research interest.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: none
- Restriction: Open to all students though priority will be given to students in the Music Technology MAT Minor, followed by Schulich School of Music students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Alberto Acquilino, Travis West
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MUMT 250 Music Perception and Cognition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: Basic processes by which the brain transforms sound waves into musical events, dimensions, systems and structures and the processes by which musicians imagine new musical sounds and structures and plan movements that produce music on instruments.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Stephen McAdams
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MUMT 302 New Media Production 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: Techniques for producing and manipulating music and sound for new media applications. Synthesis techniques including FM, granular and physical modeling. Audio effects including delay, reverberation, dynamics processing, and filtering. Audio compression, HCI and MIR concepts.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: MUMT 202
- Restriction: Open only to students in the Music Technology MAT Minor or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ziyue Piao, Champ Darabundit
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PHYS 224 Physics of Music 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Physics: An introduction to the physics of music. Properties of sound and their perception as pitch, loudness, and timbre. Dissonance, consonance, and musical intervals and tuning. Physics of sound propagation and reflection. Resonance. Acoustic properties of pipes, strings, bars, and membranes, and sound production in wind, string, and percussion instruments. The human voice. Room reverberation and acoustics. Directional characteristics of sound sources.
Offered by: Physics
- Fall
- 3 hours lectures
- Designed for students in the Faculty of Music but suitable for students with an interest in music and its physical basis.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 225
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jack C Sankey (Childress)
Complementary Courses (6 credits)
6 credits selected from:
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MUMT 301 Music and the Internet 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: A brief history of Internet technologies (protocols, web servers, web browsers) and their relationship to music and musicians (physical vs. virtual music distribution, digital music formats, streaming services). Locating, retrieving, and working with online music information through Web APIs and coding exercises. Basic static website creation for musicians (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). Technology-enhanced music creation.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: MUMT 202
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUMT 303 New Media Production 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: Advanced audio processing with general considerations of aesthetics in sonic art. Introduction to theory and practice of digital video processing using Jitter.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: MUMT 302
- Restriction: Open only to students in the Music Technology MAT Minor or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPD 204 Production for Digital Media 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Professional Development: Fundamental video production techniques for music and general applications. Professional video camera operation, lighting and shooting techniques. The lab component of the course includes camera setup and operation during Schulich School of Music productions for live internet streaming. Capture and editing of video, audio, text and graphics for use in creating digital media. Basic techniques of recording audio for video.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Enrolment will be limited to 16.
- A Macintosh laptop will be an asset.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jack D Kelly, Seungwoo Han
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MUSR 200 Audio Recording Essentials 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sound Recording: A basic overview of audio recording. Topics include fundamentals of audio; a historical overview of recorded sound; analog and digital signal flow; listening environment design; listening and analysis; simple recording; connecting audio to a video camera; and audio on the web.
Offered by: Music Research
- No experience in audio recording required.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gianluca Grazioli, Mathew Vallejo
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MUSR 232 Introduction to Electronics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sound Recording: Basics of electricity including: Ohm's law, electronic components, DC circuits, block diagram, amplifiers, filters, power supplies, electrical measurements (frequency levels, distortion). Emphasis will be placed on electronics applied to audio.
Offered by: Music Research
- 2 hours lecture plus 2 hours laboratory.
- Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 112. Available as Arts/Science elective in B.Mus. programs.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUMT 232.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Robert E Gaskell
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MUSR 300D1 Intro to Music Recording 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sound Recording: The theory and practice of music recording including a study of recording environments, equipment and studio techniques. The analysis of music scores and recordings with respect to the requirements and possibilities of the recording studio. Studio work will include recording sessions, recording of live concerts, editing, mixing and music p.a.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours lecture plus 4 hours studio time.
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
- It is recommended that all students taking this course register concurrently for PHYS 224 Physics of Music if they do not already have a background in this subject.
- Students must register for both MUSR 300D1 and MUSR 300D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUSR 300D1 and MUSR 300D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUMT 300D1/D2.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jonathan B Cann
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MUSR 300D2 Intro to Music Recording 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sound Recording: See MUSR 300D1 for description.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: MUSR 300D1.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUSR 300D1 and MUSR 300D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jonathan B Cann
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MUSR 339 Intro to Electroacoustics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sound Recording: Basic principles of operation and design of electroacoustical devices and systems; transducers and signal processing devices; magnetic tape sound recording - reproducing systems; disc recording, motion picture sound recording and reproducing systems; practical demonstration of some of these devices and associated measuring, testing and analyzing equipment and techniques.
Offered by: Music Research
- 2 hours lecture plus 2 hours laboratory.
- Prerequisite: MUSR 232 (previously MUMT 232). Available as Arts/Science elective in B.Mus. programs.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUMT 339.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jack D Kelly
*MUSR 300D1/MUSR 300D2 has limited enrollment and should be selected together. This course is generally restricted to students in the Sound Recording Qualifying Year program. Students interested in taking this course should contact the Sound Recording Area Coordinator to seek permission to register.
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Bachelor of Music (B.Mus.) - Minor Musical Science and Technology (18 Credits)Offered by:MusicDegree:Bachelor of Music
Program Requirement:
This Minor focuses on interdisciplinary topics in science and technology as applied to music. The goal of the program is to help prepare students for commercial jobs in the audio technology sector and/or for subsequent graduate research study. This Minor is designed to serve students who already have a good background in the sciences and prior experience with Math and Computer Science courses.
Applications will only be considered for fall admission. Late applications will not be accepted and no students will be admitted to the Minor in January. Registration will be limited to available lab space. Selection is based on previous experience in math, computer programming, and related sciences, expressed interest in the program, and Cumulative Grade Point Average. To apply, submit an online application through the Music website: .
Advising for the Minor is available from the Area Chair for the Music Technology program. Further information on this program is available on the Music Technology website at: .
Required Courses (15 credits)
15 credits, select all of the following:
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MUMT 203 Introduction to Digital Audio 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: An introduction to digital audio and the technologies involved in its practical realization and use in computer music. Topics will include audio signals and systems, sampling & quantization, signal encoding, compression, transmission and storage, filters, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, digital audio effects, sound sampling and synthesis techniques.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Restriction(s): Open only to students in the Music Technology MST Minor or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Julian Neri
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MUMT 250 Music Perception and Cognition 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: Basic processes by which the brain transforms sound waves into musical events, dimensions, systems and structures and the processes by which musicians imagine new musical sounds and structures and plan movements that produce music on instruments.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Stephen McAdams
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MUMT 306 Music & Audio Computing 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: Concepts, algorithms, data structures, and programming techniques for the development of music and audio software, ranging from musical instrument design to interactive music performance systems.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: Previous digital audio and object-oriented programming experience.
- Restriction(s): Open only to students in the Music Technology MST Minor or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Esteban Maestre Gomez
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MUMT 307 Music & Audio Computing 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: Theory and implementation of signal processing techniques for sound synthesis and audio effects processing using Matlab, C++, and Max/MSP.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: MUMT 306
- Restriction(s): Open only to students in the Music Technology MST Minor or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Esteban Maestre Gomez
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MUMT 501 Digital Aud. Signal Processing 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: Discrete-time signal processing concepts and techniques. Discrete-time fourier transform and series, linear time-invariant systems, digital filtering, spectral analysis of discrete-time signals, and the z-transform.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: MUMT 307 and MATH 133 or equivalent
- Music students and students enrolled in the MST Minor will be given priority for this course
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Philippe Depalle
Complementary Courses (3 credits)
3 credits selected from:
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MUMT 502 Senior Proj:Music Technology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music Technology: Independent senior project in Music Technology. Students will design and implement a medium-scale project in consultation with their advisor. Evaluation will be based on concept, background research, implementation, reliability, and documentation.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: MUMT 307 and Honours standing in Music Technology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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PHYS 224 Physics of Music 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Physics: An introduction to the physics of music. Properties of sound and their perception as pitch, loudness, and timbre. Dissonance, consonance, and musical intervals and tuning. Physics of sound propagation and reflection. Resonance. Acoustic properties of pipes, strings, bars, and membranes, and sound production in wind, string, and percussion instruments. The human voice. Room reverberation and acoustics. Directional characteristics of sound sources.
Offered by: Physics
- Fall
- 3 hours lectures
- Designed for students in the Faculty of Music but suitable for students with an interest in music and its physical basis.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 225
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jack C Sankey (Childress)
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The full range of Minor Programs and details offered to engineering students about course requirements can be found in the Faculty of Engineering section of McGill's eCalendar. Students must consult with their academic advisor before registering in a Minor program.